Welcome to a little something new, DATMoviers. You know what I’ve been thinking about recently? Movie reviews are long. If you’re doing them right, you’re spending as much time writing as you did watching the movie. Obviously we believe there’s a place for that here. Buzzfeed and I also believe there’s a place for LISTS, and right now I want to give you my list for the Top 4 Reasons to watch The Winter Soldier.
We like action movies around here, we LOVE superheroes movies, and we’re in an unhealthy, abusive – nay, cult-like – relationship with Marvel movies, which means you should be seeing quite a few Phase 2 reviews around here lately. Liberally click those bookmark, follow, and comment buttons, kids.
Here are my Top 4 Reasons to watch our Superhero Summer opener, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Samual L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, and Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff.
1. Best action movie I’ve seen this year. (It’s April and I can make that claim. Let’s not even mention the summer action movie roster 2014 is workin’ with.) Fight scenes beautifully choreographed and surprising. Story focused on the espionage, secrets, and development of the characters and institutions, rather than the destruction of New York City.
2. What’s that, you say? A setting OTHER THAN NYC? Oh, so that’s what the Potomac looks like on film. Washington D.C. is a nice break from the norm, and no historical monuments were harmed in the making of this film.
3. Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief that Black Widow is getting her own movie, instead of ScarJo just running circles around everyone else’s movies and being the awesomest.
4. Why did this movie make me the saddest amount of sad when they bring it back to a prominent character from the first film (SPOILER: Peggy)? Why does that only intensify the moment when the Cap comes face to face with the Winter Soldier and discovers it’s someone else from his past, and we very acutely feel how he missed out on his entire life with the people he cared about? Could it be because this movie did character development and exposition so very, very well without compromising the explodey parts? It could.
Go see the movie, and I’ll see you in two weeks when the next Amazing Spiderman comes out and I’m just throwing my money at Marvel and weeping. DATMovies contributors, feel free to tap dat “EDIT” button and add a response below.
Cheers to a blog-worthy summer,
Alisa
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