Yes, while Indian Summer Soldier was sipping apple cider and reading a book in a nearby park.
Yeah, actually I noticed that everybody was driving Chevys , but whenever they were running around in the street being fired upon, they were hiding behind Fords, whatever that may mean.
Saw the film last night and thoroughly enjoyed it, although very little of the plot makes any sense if one gives it even a moment’s thought. No matter, the grafting on of a '70s political-thriller storyline gave it an unexpected weight. That, and it was a hoot to see Redford in something like this, even if his performance wasn’t exactly a standout.
Also, from a personal standpoint, I loved the '60s S.H.I.E.L.D comics, with their endless variations on the machinations of HYDRA, and IMO this film really captured that particular ambience. Also also, helicarriers are my one of my all-time favorite fictional weapons systems and they were really well done here.
In Avengers, Natasha Romanova had an ability to read people that was for all intents and purposes a psychic super power. I’m surprised she was taken by surprise by all these Hydra agents within Shield.
They sort of alluded to that. After she left her Russian agency (she said KGB in the movie but that isn’t really possible) she joined SHIELD. She wanted to believe SHIELD represented something better than the KGB had. So she was willfully blind to the evidence of evil in the organization.
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” 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.)
Thanks!
Well, then, pick digitizing the contents of a man’s brain and turning his mind into an AI using 1970’s technology, a digital-ink face mask that can make your face look like someone else’s with 100% accuracy, a 110-pound woman defeating a gang of 220-pound men in hand-to-hand combat, or any of the countless other technically impossible things presented in this and every other superhero movie.
The Marvel universe is not this universe. They have had advanced tech kicking around for decades (ie see Cap 1).
Included among the documents Natasha released to the Internet was the real date the KGB was dissolved.
“Oh look it’s trending…”
Given that this is Natasha we are talking about, I’ll bet she didn’t do a total upload. She had time enough to sequester certain areas of intel. Like her own files, for example. She’s also not going to dump weapons tech willy-nilly onto the Web. I’d say that Agents of SHIELD/Uprising/Working at Starbucks will adress this in the last 6 episodes of this season, and next season as well.
I liked the movie.
I wanted Black Widow to tell the senate to piss off.
When they were threatening her with prison I don’t understand why she wasn’t like, “Uh, did you forget I’m an Avanger? The Incredible Hulk will pull the doors off of the jail.” or “Last time I checked you won an election, but I saved New York.”
I thought this was a much better movie than the first one (which I just saw for the first time a few days ago).
It amuses me that the bad guys are always trying to psycho out Black Widow (Loki in Avengers, Pierce in this) and it never works. It’s refreshing to get female characters who aren’t blithering idiots or weepy wrecks.
Only two complaints, both minor:
I hated the cgi on Peggy’s face uring the Cap and Peggy scenes. Why not just use makeup? So weird.
And why did they have such heavy makeup on Chris Evans? It flattened his features in a weird, photoshoppy way. He was positively glossy at times.
Maybe she’s from Belarus. 
Seriously though; I don’t think there’s any anything behind it beyond “KGB” being more recognizable than “SVR”.
In Soviet Russia, KGB recognizes you!
Funny, I loved it. I spent the whole scene trying to figure out if they’d cast an older actress who bore an amazing resemblance, or if it were incredible makeup. I didn’t think of CG because … I dunno … because I’m old, I guess.
The reason old-age makeup is so difficult to do convincingly is that as people age, they shrink. Fat deposits in the face disappear, muscles recede, everything gets smaller. To faithfully recreate that, you have to remove stuff from the actor’s face, which most agents balk at putting into a contract. Then, adding makeup layers on top of the young actor’s face makes it bigger, not smaller.
Yes, there have been some incredible and realistic aging jobs done with makeup, but not many.
Huh. I didn’t realize it was CGI. I thought it was pretty good.
Dustin Hoffman’s old-age makeup in Little Big Man is still, I think, the best I’ve ever seen.
Before: http://m5.paperblog.com/i/28/286844/fabulous-filmic-fashion-friday-little-big-man-L-cPJ8gJ.png
After: http://www.fredpahlke.com/uploads/8/5/4/9/8549218/5473322_orig.jpg
I thought that whole scene was just cheap. It really bugged me. I didn’t get any real emotional sense from it or anything. Ugh.
I thought the deleted scenes from The Avengers were much better - him sitting in his apartment looking at files, etc.
Sure but… CGI writhes around. Her face was shifting and unattached. It creeped me out. I instantly knew it was CGI because of the weird disassociation.
I cried.