Captain America: The Winter Soldier does its best work when it keeps things relatively simple.
Do superhero movies need to get smaller?
This article contains spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Captain America: The Winter Soldieris currently the subject ofconsiderable praiseandunprecedented April box office success.
In that regard, they have achieved somewhat mixed results.
Batmanwas quickly followed by 1990sDick Tracy.
But while Batmans production design recalled Fritz Lang and even hints of H.R.
For one thing, these franchises allowed their characters to function in actual daylight for a change.
At least here, things dont work out the way they usually do, and choicesdohave consequences.
At this point, the only real surprises would be if citiesarentdestroyed in the course of these superhero slugfests.
How much ofCaptain America 2s $170 million budget went into that final thirty minutes?
That money could have been better spent shoring up a few other less-impressive CGI sequences earlier in the film.
Its not like theres any shortage of action in the first place.
It takes up all of three seconds of screen time, and for Captain America purists, its unforgettable.
All feel more special than any of the CGI spectacle of that last act.
The Spider-Man films continue to face this problem, as well.
Yet somehow, the Spider-Man franchise continues to try and top itself with each new installment.
WithMarvel planning on releasing films through (at least!)
It may be best to do it before this formula fails them.
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