re: Captain America: Civil War ***SPOILERS*** and Review Thread

I just got out a bit ago and wow. This movie was great. I took my mom as a Mother's Day deal. She is not a comic book fan, just enjoys movies, and she liked it.

As a comic book nerd, I loved it. I want to see it a dozen more times.

I swore they were going to kill off Cap at the end and that be what causes the Avengers to come back together, but it seems like the team will still be fractured in future movies. It will be interesting to see how they bring them all together to get over their differences.

I hope they make use of Zemo being alive in another movie because I really want to see him mess some shite up. He is a great character but it felt like they wasted him in this. If this is the extent we will see Zemo, than I would have rather they used some other random Cap villain. Now with that said, I don't think the villain was as bad as others have said. He certainly was not throw away. He's the one that kept everything moving in a certain direction. You could see him pulling strings throughout the movie. The main problem is that he is named Zemo and we expect something bigger from one of the bigger comic baddies. While I certainly wanted him to be a more central role in the story, he was primarily a plot device to move the story along in the direction it needed. His scene at the end with the Black Panther was one of the better ones in the movie I feel. It reminded me of the scene between Ultron and Vision at the end of AoU.

I would argue Zemo served the same role as Loki did in the original Avengers movie. We clearly understood his motives for his actions (revenge), he had some really good scenes in the movie, and he is able to be used again later if need be.

Crossbones on the other hand was wasted and was nothing more than a throw away villain. If I had one big complaint about the movie, it was the use of Crossbones.

Random thoughts: I will echo what others have said and Spidey & Black Panther were great, they had good screen time and made the best use of it.

I don't fully understand how Vision nearly killed Rhodes. I get that he said he was distracted, but that seems like a bit of a loose end that could have been handled better. Very minor detail though and someone here might be able to explain it. I might have missed a detail in the movie that answered it.

The reasons for the fights were great and made total sense.

The action scenes were really entertaining.

The humor, to me, did not seem forced. It broke up the darker parts of the film to give the audience a break, which also helped with pacing. The movie probably could have gone at a break-neck pace the entire time but putting lighter parts between the action scenes really helped.

I thought the movie did a great job of making you root against Tony without making him out to be a bad guy. I thought that was a key that would be extremely hard to carry over from the comics. What made Civil War so enjoyable for me was the fact that you could understand Iron Man's actions, but he always seemed to take them pass the limit that you could support him. Captain America's stubbornness made him wrong in a situation he was right. The movie did a great job of translating that to film.

Sorry for the long post, but I really enjoyed the movie and I want to see it again as soon as I can.