Captain America: Brave New World Is Everything A Marvel Movie Shouldn't Be

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Captain America: Brave New World is a soulless movie that is the cinematic equivalent of eating fast food. It's a chore to get through and very forgettable for a $185 million dollar movie. It's a perfect example of all the worst things about Marvel in one movie.

It's overly CGI'd. It's hard to give a shit when it's constant computer animation fighting computer animation to save a computer animated world. It also looks fake as fuck. The White House getting attacked looked better and more realistic in Independence Day (and that was made in 1996).

Marvel has leaned on shabby CGI for a long time now. It's one reason why I don't think these movies will age well. You'd think with these huge budgets, they'd have better effects. But groundbreaking filmmaking was never a priority for Marvel. Having many stories connect was always the focus. The actual moviemaking has been secondary for some time.

A bad script with worse dialogue. FIVE (!!!) people were credited as screenwriters for Brave New World. It's typical Marvel schlock with poor/bizarre jokes. Who are these jokes even for? When Harrison Ford becomes Red Hulk, someone in the Rose Garden says "They come in red now?"

No one in that situation would say that. It also minimizes what is happening on screen. If the characters in the movie aren't taking it seriously, why should we? I've never understood why Marvel tries so hard to shoe-horn comedy into these movies. I'm not talking Deadpool or even Iron Man (which was written by Jon Favreau who is very funny). But instead this weird ham-fisted one liners in otherwise serious movies.

This also has the badly forced dramatic scenes that try to force a message down your throat at the end of this movie. Of course, this movie went through multiple re-writes so the point of this movie is all muddled. I think it tries to tell us that family is important, you should try to do the right thing and cherry blossoms are very good (even if they are CGI'd badly).

Lame villain. I'll avoid spoilers but there is a main bad guy that basically has green paint on his face. He looks like he came from a high school production of Wicked. It would look cheap if it was in a movie 25 years ago. 

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Marvel movies have lousy bad guys because there are usually few (if any) ramifications to these movies. They are just a bridge to the next movie which will be as pointless as the last. It wasn't always this way with Marvel and they've shown that when major events happen, these are movies worth seeing. I'm hoping that once Phase 5 is over with Thunderbolts*, the next 4 movies should all be major movies with real stakes (Fantastic Four, an Avengers movie, Spider-Man and then another Avengers movie).

All that being said, this isn't a horrific movie. We're not talking Love Hurts or Wolf Man here. Harrison Ford actually tries and gives a good performance. Anthony Mackie is OK enough but this script lets him down. I know this got a B- Cinemascore which is the worst rating for a Marvel movie yet (Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania also got a B-). Cinemascore is when they ask people to grade the movie right when they walk out of the theater. A B- doesn't sound bad but it's actually terrible. People typically give most movies at least a B+. For example, Paddington In Peru got an A.

Marvel and Kevin Feige have got to figure this out. If these movies don't get better soon, Marvel could be in trouble. This puts even more pressure on Thunderbolts* to be good. This one sure wasn't.

Captain America: Brave New World: D+

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