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Did you like it overall? I'm very tempted to rent it due to the cast alone.
Sorry I didn't get back to you. Glad you took the chance, because I thought it was very enjoyable. While I correctly guessed some of the plot, that ending!! Not in a million years. 🤯
As I remember, it filled in a lot of details and is a worthy addition to the Twin Peaks story.
100% this.
I assume because the Hulk looks different that is a new actor playing the Hulk? If that’s true, I assume there’s no mention of it, the character just continues forward with the new actor playing. I won’t see this in the theater. I’ll wait for it to hit streaming at rental prices that are reasonable because the last pack of Marvel films have been stickers, for me at least. I do like the 10 Rings although I disliked it the first time I watched it, lol. ☺️
As far as Disney series I disliked the Falcon and Winter soldier, or whatever it was called because when something starts off as a movie and gets turned into a series, it tends to diminish the story at least for me.. Something like Andor is great, but that started and ended as a series. There are very few Disney series that comes from Star Wars or Marvel that I like. By their mystique, movie source material can only be diminished when turned into a series, there maybe a few exceptions, and obviously that’s my opinion. 🙂Oookay
Captain America: Brave New World ( 2025 )
So, let's start with one thing. Falcon & Winter Soldier is my favorite Disney+ tv series. I also love Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson.
I think this movie should have been another Disney+ series.
I did like the movie, but I think it's a bit all over the place because of rewrites & wanting to use the new Captain America piece as a wrap up & launching point for other things. So it isn't always clearly a Captain America movie, establishing his own world, it's a vehicle to remind people about a forgotten event, and set up a few things like a new political career, maybe a hidden Thunderbolt, etc. The movie also tosses in Marvel stuff to toss in Marvel stuff. The use the now controversial Sabra character, and turn her into a new character with ties to an older character. Why not just make a new character with ties to the older characters?
My biggest complaint is that I never got into the film, the way say you eased in with Winter Soldier. I just felt like an observer. I didn't get into the film until a cameo occurs, but the film tries with an awfully lot of bonding which is fun. The film also wants to recap you on the Incredible Hulk movie, which this is a successor of sorts, but doesn't want to give too much away for free of giving it's "twist" away. I thought Incredible Hulk was a decent film, and this is as close as Marvel is going to get to making one. But it seems silly that it tells you the source material, but doesn't want to tell you too much of it. This is in part because they push that the movie is a sort of spy / espionage film like Winter Soldier, but it isn't. It's a movie with a deepening plot line, but I don't think it trusts it's audience to be smart enough to keep up. Despite the fact that you will predict where it's going five minutes before it gets there, and the only surprises are based on a character's plot power to know things someone wouldn't.
I thought the story because it had been through so many hands feels like a let down. In a series I think there might have been more focused, but I can see why this couldn't be a series. The cost for this Disney wouldn't allow for a series. As a movie it just has things shoved in that don't get time, and things ( like Elijah Bradley or my favorite Bucky's shrink ) missing.
What I do like in the movie. Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, and Carl Lumbly. Harrison looks like he's having a ball, going thru all kind of things with the General Ross character. I do think it's a shame that William Hurt didn't get his time in the sun in the MCU with this. Anthony Mackie just comes across as that great guy. He's like Steve Rogers, but as Ross points out he isn't. It's later on that they clearly define what makes Sam Wilson the right choice to be Captain America. I thought that was a great payoff that they shoe horned in, but it really helps with the character.
After all that, I think what was missing in this film was fun. It wasn't the twisty story that was intimated like Winter Soldier, so it needed to be something else, and it was just... there. It's a Captain America movie that relies on Anthony Mackie & Harrison Ford, and I would have really liked a great Captain America movie that relied on moving Cap's story forward. Not setting up the next MCU chess pieces.
Oh,
There is an ending scene, NOT a mid credits scene.
The ending scene is a let down. It feels like they tacked it on because test audiences weren't thrilled with the movie they saw. So they threw this together as some kind of old style MCU teaser. Only, it doesn't even feel like the people involved were filmed together, that's how slap dash it is. And when they throw it out there you're like.. 🤷♂️
I kind of see this as a Disney throw away, and they are putting all their eggs into Fantastic Four. There's a trailer for FF, and where I saw the film the 10 - 1 countdown to the movie start is Fantastic Four based. I can see in this political culture Captain America Brave New World already is already running into head winds, not counting that isn't the slam it out of the park like past MCU films. This maybe the grist that feeds the Disney hate, while some scream DEI, because Sam is too good a guy that is literally a social counselor, that is also a great super hero. I just see Disney / Marvel eyeing the Fantastic Four as the less offensive film to certain sensibilities, they will treat that as their new jump off point.
The ten rings was awesome and could easily be enjoyed as a regular movie completely disconnected from the MCU (just a few cameos) by people not into superheroes. Maybe that’s why you didn’t like it at first? Clashed with MCU expectations…
But technically Falcon & Winter Soldier is like Andor. It is a spin off series, but made into movie afterwards. While the individual is named Captain America, it isn't the same individual that had the original identity of Captain America. But I get the idea. I for one do enjoy when some properties go from movie to series, because you aren't counting on multiple movies over a decade to flesh out the story. A series when done right adds so much to a property, that I think going back to movie form helps it as it expands the possibilities & spectacle. The movie adds a few new story opportunities that you know are never going to get addressed, because there wouldn't be time for them in any other movie. That's the strength of series.
I love how they sort of handled it with the mustache (disappearance acknowledged in the film).
The Ten Rings movie, it took me time to digest, I don’t know why, but now it resides in my worthy list as a favorite. 🤔
