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Post by Krall on May 4, 2016 17:29:09 GMT
I just saw this film with my sibling today, and I loved it! Especially the new superheroes they introduced - I'm a big fan of Black Panther, and seeing him in this movie has got me hyped up for his own. Spiderman was great too, making him a young, nerdy doofus instead of the bland, male power fantasy he's been in other movies was brilliant. Has anyone else seen CA: CW yet? What did you think of it?
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on May 5, 2016 16:33:35 GMT
You bastard, you made me think is out in my own country already, but it isn't!
Why is Captain America premiering in Europe first before, I don't know, America?
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Post by Krall on May 5, 2016 18:28:59 GMT
You bastard, you made me think is out in my own country already, but it isn't! Why is Captain America premiering in Europe first before, I don't know, America? Heh, sorry. I completely forgot it's coming out here before it does in the USA! At the very least you don't have long to wait - it comes out there on the 6th!
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Post by eDGT on May 7, 2016 17:50:48 GMT
I liked it, but the only strong feelings I had regarding the cast is that I now think that Scarlet Witch is hotter than Black Widow. So that's all good.
Other points I liked: The UN is now housed in Vienna, I assume since New York got trashed.
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Post by Mathuen on May 7, 2016 18:08:07 GMT
People are gushing about the Wakandans speaking an actual African language (Xhosa) in the Civil War film and I'm just sitting here wondering why they're speaking a Bantuoid language when the Wakandans live in the Nilotic Linguistic Area and according to canon would have had an isolationist civilization before the Urewe phase of the Bantu migrations even happened.
Fun movie though. Go watch it.
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Post by Chicxulub on May 12, 2016 20:38:18 GMT
I loved the movie, and I thought it was one of the best Marvel movies so far.
Side-note: Civil War has now surpassed Deadpool in its worldwide box office gross.
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Post by Gog3451 on May 13, 2016 0:53:57 GMT
I thought it was really good, liked the whole "no one is completely right part of it"
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Post by lightninglynx89 on May 13, 2016 18:44:59 GMT
I could write a large essay on why I think this movie is amazing, but I think the movie just speaks for itself for how good it truly is.
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Post by CaliBoy1990 on May 14, 2016 2:45:50 GMT
I've heard of the Civil War 'verse, but I'm not quite familiar with the movie; is it really good?
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Post by ToixStory on May 14, 2016 3:09:44 GMT
People are gushing about the Wakandans speaking an actual African language (Xhosa) in the Civil War film and I'm just sitting here wondering why they're speaking a Bantuoid language when the Wakandans live in the Nilotic Linguistic Area and according to canon would have had an isolationist civilization before the Urewe phase of the Bantu migrations even happened. Fun movie though. Go watch it. To be fair, wouldn't it be somewhat hard to get people to speak the correct language of the area? After all, the recent Beowulf movie, as I remember, had everyone speak English instead of Anglo-Saxon Germanic-English. Overall, I thought the movie was fantastic. I think that the only problem I really had was that Iron Man was much more obviously in the right due to the nonexistence of the X-Men in the MCU. Still, really great film that I liked as an actual film, not just a superhero film. You know, one with actual character arcs and an ending that wasn't just a dumb action scene. Oh, and I liked that, in contrast to Man of Steel, people's lives actually matter in the MCU. Kind of nice when just like 10 people dying gets an international tribune called when compared to Superman's impromptu demolition. Great movie, and finally washed out all the gunk Batman vs. Superman left me with.
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Post by Chicxulub on May 14, 2016 9:34:20 GMT
People are gushing about the Wakandans speaking an actual African language (Xhosa) in the Civil War film and I'm just sitting here wondering why they're speaking a Bantuoid language when the Wakandans live in the Nilotic Linguistic Area and according to canon would have had an isolationist civilization before the Urewe phase of the Bantu migrations even happened. Fun movie though. Go watch it. To be fair, wouldn't it be somewhat hard to get people to speak the correct language of the area? After all, the recent Beowulf movie, as I remember, had everyone speak English instead of Anglo-Saxon Germanic-English. Overall, I thought the movie was fantastic. I think that the only problem I really had was that Iron Man was much more obviously in the right due to the nonexistence of the X-Men in the MCU. Still, really great film that I liked as an actual film, not just a superhero film. You know, one with actual character arcs and an ending that wasn't just a dumb action scene. Oh, and I liked that, in contrast to Man of Steel, people's lives actually matter in the MCU. Kind of nice when just like 10 people dying gets an international tribune called when compared to Superman's impromptu demolition. Great movie, and finally washed out all the gunk Batman vs. Superman left me with. They only included that language because the actor playing T'Chaka happened to speak it, and taught it to Chadwick Boseman.
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Post by Mathuen on May 14, 2016 21:29:59 GMT
People are gushing about the Wakandans speaking an actual African language (Xhosa) in the Civil War film and I'm just sitting here wondering why they're speaking a Bantuoid language when the Wakandans live in the Nilotic Linguistic Area and according to canon would have had an isolationist civilization before the Urewe phase of the Bantu migrations even happened. Fun movie though. Go watch it. To be fair, wouldn't it be somewhat hard to get people to speak the correct language of the area? After all, the recent Beowulf movie, as I remember, had everyone speak English instead of Anglo-Saxon Germanic-English. Overall, I thought the movie was fantastic. I think that the only problem I really had was that Iron Man was much more obviously in the right due to the nonexistence of the X-Men in the MCU. Still, really great film that I liked as an actual film, not just a superhero film. You know, one with actual character arcs and an ending that wasn't just a dumb action scene. Oh, and I liked that, in contrast to Man of Steel, people's lives actually matter in the MCU. Kind of nice when just like 10 people dying gets an international tribune called when compared to Superman's impromptu demolition. Great movie, and finally washed out all the gunk Batman vs. Superman left me with. But Toiiiiiiiiiix I wanna be a pedantic asshole! And yeah, that's partly why I think they focused a good deal more on Captain America. Iron Man seems to be so much more clearly in the right and we can't use the mutants as the obvious counterpoint so Captain America's side has to be given a bit more time and development to level them out for the audience. It was a good compromise in the writing all in all. Also Sketchy that makes a lot of sense, and from a historical point of view Wakanda is in many ways drawn from a lot of the Black Power Fantasy that centered around Zulu mythologism in the African-American community, which was of course a lot more prominent when Wakanda was first written. If one had to choose a language for the Wakandans to speak in order to callback to the roots of their story it would have to be Xhosa. I just like to be a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD.
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Post by Krall on May 14, 2016 22:12:10 GMT
Also Sketchy that makes a lot of sense, and from a historical point of view Wakanda is in many ways drawn from a lot of the Black Power Fantasy that centered around Zulu mythologism in the African-American community, which was of course a lot more prominent when Wakanda was first written. If one had to choose a language for the Wakandans to speak in order to callback to the roots of their story it would have to be Xhosa. I just like to be a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD. Surely if you wanted to call back to Wakanda's Zulu-inspired origins the language you would have them speak would be Zulu, not Xhosa?
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Post by Mathuen on May 14, 2016 22:19:40 GMT
Also Sketchy that makes a lot of sense, and from a historical point of view Wakanda is in many ways drawn from a lot of the Black Power Fantasy that centered around Zulu mythologism in the African-American community, which was of course a lot more prominent when Wakanda was first written. If one had to choose a language for the Wakandans to speak in order to callback to the roots of their story it would have to be Xhosa. I just like to be a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD. Surely if you wanted to call back to Wakanda's Zulu-inspired origins the language you would have them speak would be Zulu, not Xhosa? Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, that was a massive brain fart on my part. I'm honestly amazed that obvious error went by me, thanks.
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Post by petros on May 15, 2016 1:11:40 GMT
They get credit for using an actual African language, spoken like natives. I understand the actor who played T'Chaka is fluent and taught some Xhosa to the T'Challa actor. Would have been one step better if they dug up some endangered Central African language and just declared it Wakandan, adding some neologisms for modern technology that we know Wakanda uses. This would have sounded cool, and it would be a public service; people learn Klingon and Quenya, and the MCU is approaching the popularity of those franchises, maybe exceeded them. And Zemo was perfect. He didn't care about Hydra, he didn't care about anything but getting the guy who was proximately (the Avengers, in defending the city, presumably didn't save his family, and he blames them for this) and ultimately (Stark did build Ultron, and Ultron was doing what he was programmed to do... look up confabulation) responsible for his families death. He did it. There were a few stretches, but by action and superhero movie standards, his plan was pretty realistic... and worked. There is no more Avengers. Stark and Rogers don't work together. Romanov is probably out of both teams. The Accords mean that legally Stark has to prevent Rogers from helping anyone. And Zemo gets to watch it from a cell, in the custody of people who seem to respect human rights, and the humane treatment of prisoners (yes it's a super-cell, but it could be a lot worse).
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on May 15, 2016 1:11:50 GMT
Watching it tomorrow with my family, let's see how long I can go without major spoilers
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Post by Chicxulub on May 16, 2016 11:27:27 GMT
If CA: CW makes $60 million today, it will break the record for fastest time to $1 billion.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on May 16, 2016 15:16:22 GMT
Finally got to see Civil War yesterday.
Meh
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Post by Krall on May 16, 2016 15:32:14 GMT
Finally got to see Civil War yesterday. Meh You didn't like it? I thought it was really good.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on May 16, 2016 15:39:26 GMT
Finally got to see Civil War yesterday. Meh You didn't like it? I thought it was really good. I don't know why I didn't like it, I just don't. Well, that's not entirely true, I know some reasons why I didn't like it. Firstly, it went on forever. It was only 2 and half hours long, but it felt like 4 hours. Most of the Harry Potter movies felt shorter. It didn't help that I was super tired throughout all of yesterday, and throughout the second half of the movie I needed to pee. Everything else, I don't know why I don't like it. At least it's not Avengers 2. edit: Completely unrelated, American Civil War captain:
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