@dookie_213: Check out the movie "Labyrinth". It's on Xbox video and PS Store. Go watch it now. No, right now. Whatever you're doing will be there when you get back.
Affleck: Do you bleed? I vant to know. Because I vant to bite your neck. Blah! Whaddayamean cut? That's my bat man voice. Just like Bela Lugosi. Whaddayamean that's the wrong bat man? Well, too bad, I ain't doin' another take.
So, basically, Snyder's DC universe is Bizarro-verse, where every character is the exact opposite of their mainstream comic book incarnations? By far the most plausible explanation I've seen so far.
@Ovirew: Sure, in the comics, but they didn't reveal or use any of that in the movie. There's a lot of interesting things they could have done with the character and might do with her in the future, but just within the context of "Winter Soldier", she felt like a remnant of an early version of the script where they weren't sure whether they'd get ScarJo to play Black Widow and needed another female character as a fallback. She was in this weird limbo where she had too many lines and too much screen time to be a background/cameo character, but not enough influence on the plot to be considered a main or supporting character. I hope she gets to do more in Civil War, but like I said, that's just one more thing to cram into an already very crowded picture.
Marvel Studios has an undeniable track record of making good superhero movies, and even "Iron Man 3", which I think was by far their worst so far, was still quite fun. But even their best films lately, ones I really liked or loved overall like "Winter Soldier", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and "Age of Ultron", felt like they could have benefitted from more running time to better establish all of the characters, motivations, and relationships and flesh out the plots a little better.
I do worry that Civil War is biting off too much material to handle properly in a single film, unless it ends up running 4+ hours. Not only is it a sequel continuing the Cap/Bucky story from Winter Soldier, but then you've also got the Cap/Iron Man conflict, almost every Avenger showing up, Ant-Man returning, introducing brand new heroes like Black Panther and Spider-Man, and presumably an actual villain or two in the picture manipulating things from behind the scenes. They had trouble finding enough to do for all the characters they had in Winter Soldier (seriously, what was the point of Agent 13? She did absolutely nothing.), and Civil War has at least twice as many. Still looking forward to it, but it is a cause for trepidation.
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