I imagine it “sold out” pretty quickly once Black Widow saw it back there.
I loved Black Widow’s arrow necklace; it made all the conflicting emotion scenes with Cap more interesting, in that he’s firmly in the “friend zone” and she wants to help, but more than that? Not really gonna happen.
I was a bit annoyed that Nick Fury called Maria Hill and summoned her to DC in ultimate stealth mode, and the first time we see her, she’s standing right there in the hospital. She didn’t even bother to change out of her SHIELD uniform.
Besides, Spacey’s villain is DC.
Maybe I’m just gullible, but when the Councilwoman cut loose on the Hydra agents at the end, I totally bought the idea that Jenny Agutter’s character had been a SHIELD agent in the 70’s or so and still had a few moves left in her.
Seemed to work pretty well for Bruce Banner and Rhodey.
I thought I read somewhere that the US Military was going to support the movie until they read the scene about nuking New York. I don’t see that in IMDB’s trivia page on the movie though. It may be out there somewhere.
There was a time when filmmakers wanted the Pentagon to back them. The Navy backed Top Gun and the movie got to use Tomcats and other official stuff. The DOD did not cooperate with the filmmakers of Courage Under Fire so they used Chieftain tanks goosed up to look like Abrams. I suppose nowadays it doesn’t matter so much as effects teams can make official-looking equipment via CGI.
I thought the same thing–at the least she was a former agent of some kind and had some moves.
I assumed Widow had snuck aboard one of the helicarriers and that’s why the “assault team” was only Cap and Falcon. They’d draw all the attention while Widow quietly took out one of the carriers’ systems and then escaped on a quinjet.
For a split second, I was expecting that they’d reveal that she was Peggy Carter’s daughter…different surname, of course, since she’d gotten married after Cap disappeared. Rather quickly gotten married, at that…
Personally, I was expecting some flippant, irrelevant explanation: Something like “What? I took a few self defense for women classes last year.”. Finding out that it was Black Widow in disguise was disappointing on multiple levels. In addition to what others have said, it raises the question of why Mystique is a big deal if anyone with a gadget can do the same thing (yeah, I know Mystique isn’t yet in the Marvel cinematic universe, but she should be). And what else has SHIELD accomplished with these magic disguises?
Yeah, it would have been a better “F*** Yeah!” moment had it actually been the WSC member instead of Black Widow in disguise, but I think BW needed to be in that scene so it was a bit of a shorthand. Maybe BW could have crashed through the window instead or something.
I, too, remember a brief, shining moment of “Dayum! She’s kicking some ass!” And then it was Black Widow and not nearly as fun (even though I like Black Widow).
It’s funny that people thought it was so strange seeing Jenny Agutter having a fight scene at the age of 61. But nobody questions Samuel L. Jackson doing fight scenes at 65 or Robert Redford doing them at 77.
I think its more than it’s Jenny Agutter. She holds a special place in the hearts of many men of a certain age, due to her habit of doing topless scenes when she was younger.
That, and it plays against expectations of the way the character is presented. With Fury, he’s got an eyepatch, he’s worked his way to the top of an elite badass organization, and he’s played by Samuel L. Jackson: We expect butt-kicking. With Jenny Agutter’s character, though, we expect a boring old bureaucrat, and so butt-kicking comes as a surprise.
Just saw this last night, and I was completely satisfied.
Well, almost completely. I was really hoping for a new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer. Ah well.
Loved the opening hand-to-hand scene between Cap and Batroc, played by none other than UFC Welterweight legend and proud Canadian Georges St. Pierre. No doubt GSP performed his own stunts. Also cool that one of the characters later suggested to Steve Rogers that he could join the UFC as a career, were he to “retire” from being Captain America.
Excellent film, and I was a bit worried going in that my having watched Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. last week might have detracted from the movie, but on the contrary I was fairly convinced that Fury had indeed died because of the AoS episode.
Dr. Doom should not be posting in a Captain America thread, as his movie character is owned by Fox and if you start crossing the streams, you might implode the known universe. Also, considering the general quality difference between Disney/Marvel Studios productions and the others, we don’t want your kind polluting this universe.
