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Speaking of comic book films, here's the biggest comic book film of the year and in my opinion the best.
Honestly this movie would have had to have been complete dogsh*t for me not to love it. For it to appear on my top 50 let along this high? Well that required a lot more, and it had a lot more. It was a fantastic film. The Russo Brothers did a great job both in balancing all the characters and giving them all a decent amount of development and time to shine, and in striking just the right tone where things were still dire but not without levity (this was the big issue both with Batman v Superman, which didn't have enough levity, and with Avengers: Age of Ultron, which didn't commit to the dire circumstances enough and ended up feeling tonally inconsistent).
Following a mission in a foreign country for the avengers that goes awry, the UN determines that leaving the Avengers to operate unchecked, unilaterally, and of their own discretion is not something they can allow anmore. The governments of the world then create the Sokovia Accords, which give the UN authority to dispense the avengers as they deem necessary rather than letting the Avengers act of their own volition. Some members of the team are in support of this and some are against it, those against it led by Captain America and those for it led by Iron Man, who is partially motivated by guilt he is feeling after meeting the mother of someone who died as collateral damage at Sokovia (the site of the attack in Age of Ultron).
This is the beginning of the divide between the team, however things get worse when the UN building is bombed at the signing of the Accords, and the likely suspect is Bucky Barnes, the winter soldier. Steve, who is skeptical and doesn't believe Bucky would do it, chooses to go after Bucky behind the UN's back to figure out what happened. It's not long before he finds Bucky and then ends up apprehended, by the King of Wakanda, T'Challa, the Black Panther, and things only get worse from there as more conflict builds between team members and it is revealed that there is a greater threat pulling the strings behind it all. it's actually even more complex than that but that's a fairly comprehensive synopsis without getting into spoilers.
The action in this film is the best action in any of the Marvel films to date, and it's also probably the darkest and most emotionally compelling of the films, as you could argue that they're really isn't a happy ending. The philosophical conflict between Tony and Steve is also really interesting, and it's easy to be on either character's side during the film. Personally I was team Cap (well really I was team Bucky, which makes me by default team cap, Bucky is the real victim in all of the hullabaloo that goes on in the film).
A smart and complex thrilling story with high flying action and great characters, Captain America: Civil War is one of the best superhero films of all time without a doubt in my opinion.
19. Captain America: Civil War
Speaking of comic book films, here's the biggest comic book film of the year and in my opinion the best.
Honestly this movie would have had to have been complete dogsh*t for me not to love it. For it to appear on my top 50 let along this high? Well that required a lot more, and it had a lot more. It was a fantastic film. The Russo Brothers did a great job both in balancing all the characters and giving them all a decent amount of development and time to shine, and in striking just the right tone where things were still dire but not without levity (this was the big issue both with Batman v Superman, which didn't have enough levity, and with Avengers: Age of Ultron, which didn't commit to the dire circumstances enough and ended up feeling tonally inconsistent).
Following a mission in a foreign country for the avengers that goes awry, the UN determines that leaving the Avengers to operate unchecked, unilaterally, and of their own discretion is not something they can allow anmore. The governments of the world then create the Sokovia Accords, which give the UN authority to dispense the avengers as they deem necessary rather than letting the Avengers act of their own volition. Some members of the team are in support of this and some are against it, those against it led by Captain America and those for it led by Iron Man, who is partially motivated by guilt he is feeling after meeting the mother of someone who died as collateral damage at Sokovia (the site of the attack in Age of Ultron).
This is the beginning of the divide between the team, however things get worse when the UN building is bombed at the signing of the Accords, and the likely suspect is Bucky Barnes, the winter soldier. Steve, who is skeptical and doesn't believe Bucky would do it, chooses to go after Bucky behind the UN's back to figure out what happened. It's not long before he finds Bucky and then ends up apprehended, by the King of Wakanda, T'Challa, the Black Panther, and things only get worse from there as more conflict builds between team members and it is revealed that there is a greater threat pulling the strings behind it all. it's actually even more complex than that but that's a fairly comprehensive synopsis without getting into spoilers.
The action in this film is the best action in any of the Marvel films to date, and it's also probably the darkest and most emotionally compelling of the films, as you could argue that they're really isn't a happy ending. The philosophical conflict between Tony and Steve is also really interesting, and it's easy to be on either character's side during the film. Personally I was team Cap (well really I was team Bucky, which makes me by default team cap, Bucky is the real victim in all of the hullabaloo that goes on in the film).
A smart and complex thrilling story with high flying action and great characters, Captain America: Civil War is one of the best superhero films of all time without a doubt in my opinion.