Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]

[Mannahnin]

I was really disappointed in Captain America: Brave New World. Some charisma from the leads and some decent action, but damn the writing was bad.

 

[Kromanjon]

I was really disappointed in Captain America: Brave New World. Some charisma from the leads and some decent action, but damn the writing was bad.

I found it pretty dull for the most part and then it just ended. I feels like the MCU movies have gotten a bit too comfortable holding off on the major climaxes and pushing them into later movies.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I found it pretty dull for the most part and then it just ended. I feels like the MCU movies have gotten a bit too comfortable holding off on the major climaxes and pushing them into later movies.

Yet Thunderbolts was incredible.

 

[Mannahnin]

I found it pretty dull for the most part and then it just ended. I feels like the MCU movies have gotten a bit too comfortable holding off on the major climaxes and pushing them into later movies.

I don't even mind the ending, really. I get the concept and I like how they tried not to just resolve it with a CGI punch-up.

Yet Thunderbolts was incredible.

Thunderbolts was quite good, yeah. It helps that they had some time invested in establishing several of the characters beforehand.

 

[overgeeked]

I found it pretty dull for the most part and then it just ended. I feels like the MCU movies have gotten a bit too comfortable holding off on the major climaxes and pushing them into later movies.

The movies have been doing the summer crossover logic from the comic books for awhile now. Once that started I checked out. Hated it in the comics and hate it here.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I was really disappointed in Captain America: Brave New World. Some charisma from the leads and some decent action, but damn the writing was bad.

Yeah it's a very disappointing film. The writing comes alive briefly a handful of times in the movie, but for the most part it was turgid and clunky. And god so many of the fight scenes and action scenes were utterly terrible, like badly edited, looked fake as hell even by superhero movie standards (which is a product of a lot of factors, but in the end usually comes down to directing, editing, and sound design) and just drained energy out of the film. I've seen Mackie do better fight scenes in Netflix B-movies so I know it's not on him. The only even decent action scene was the aerial combat one, which wasn't perfect but it was fine. The vs. Red Hulk one was also less bad than the rest, but still not good (also hilariously anime-esque in that this giant point-blank partially-inside-the-body explosion leaves everyone mildly battered but essentially unharmed) - very interesting that the two action scenes they got to kinda work were absolute CGI-fests - normally its the reverse.

(I did appreciate the "I shoulda taken the damn serum" line, which had "I'm getting too old for this" vibes)