# Captain America 2 - Open Spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-2-open-spoilers/685289 "2014-04-03T21:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 165
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-2-open-spoilers/685289/165 "2014-04-08T05:21:20Z")
> [@Captain America 2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-2/672131/81): > > Saw it Saturday with a military audience, which was fun. Is it just me or did the movie not put nearly enough thought into the repercussions of the ending? > > [spoiler]What about all the undercover agents who just got un-undercovered? The other agencies whose secrets just all got blown? The other _countries_ whose secrets just all got blown? Sorry, honey, but Black Widow wouldn’t be alive long enough to testify after this shitstorm! And then everybody just… goes to work for other people? Like the CIA isn’t full of Hydra, Sharon? I know we just had a “who watches the watchmen” problem but the answer is not to take a job in Stark HR, Maria! > > Kind of felt all along that the movie thought it was raising Important Questions but really just shouting platitudes past itself (most notably in that scene between Cap and Fury with The Plan) and certainly didn’t offer up any proposed solutions, by any character. > > I mean, it was fun and all, but.[/spoiler] I gotta say…I agree. I probably would take it farther than that. Don’t get me wrong, this was an _entertaining_ movie. _Beautifully_ produced… [spoiler]…and I was getting X-Files flashbacks about halfway through. And not in the good way. I thought it was increasingly preachy, hamfisted, not nearly as smart as it thought it was—frankly, outright Godwinny—and quite eager to throw a big chunk of movie universe under the bus to score some story points, logic or long-term planning be damned. …actually it reminded me a bit of the “[Superman At Earth’s End](http://blip.tv/at4w/at4w-superman-at-earth-s-end-1613752)” comic. Where Adolf Hitler’s twin post-apocalyptic clones (!) are apparently blamed for all of humanity’s ills and wars. All of them. No, they’re not time travelers or wizards or anything. Assuming some subtle nuance didn’t escape the transition from page to video, that particular comic makes Bay’s _Pearl Harbor_ look like _World at War_.[/spoiler] Bah…maybe I just needed to vent, a little. Like a cranky little teapot. But this (breathtaking to watch) movie irritated me. And I can’t help but wonder how well it’s going to age…but then, I’m sure I’m in the grotesque minority, on both viewpoints, worldwide. ☹ (Maybe we can all get together, to commiserate, like when this movie rakes in it’s first billion. We could probably split one of those little frozen cheesecakes, one slice per continent.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-america-2-open-spoilers/685289)._