![]() ![]() Watching the MCU in chronological order is sacrilegious, but I don’t think it’s without merit. Even going through Halloween is like reading a choose-your-own-adventure series. Some would argue to skip the first Evil Dead movie and let the sequel do all the work. ![]() Star Wars has the famous “Machete Order” that mixes the original trilogy with the prequels. It’s not like varying a movie series’ viewing order is a new thing. It’s the kind of controversial suggestion that would have Wong yelling at me before just wandering off into a portal, never to be heard from again. There’s the option of starting with Captain America: The First Avenger and watching the movies in chronological order. You keep going in order of release date, burning through the various MCU phases. After all, it came out first, back in 2008. When it comes to starting out, most would tell you to start with Iron Man. Maybe somebody just wants to revisit the expanded universe. Maybe it’s somebody watching it for the first time. With so many movies and shows, there comes a time when somebody just wants to watch a whole bunch of Marvel from beginning to end. We wouldn’t be on year 15 of this mega-franchise flourishing if it wasn’t for a lot of people loving it. Politics might seem like a boring thing to build a franchise on, but when the Big Conversations are interspersed with set pieces that are a dozen heroes deep-and when one of your politicians is Black Panther-it ain’t so bad.This article contains some major MCU spoilers.Įverybody loves the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Well, maybe not everyone. ![]() It’s the level of the Marvel universe that lives somewhere between Jessica Jones dealing with cops in Hell’s Kitchen and Gamora scheduling a meeting with Thanos. The Captain America movies have always been at some level about bureaucracy, about the briefings and string-pullings taking place behind the alien invasions and evil AI. (See: Bucky asking-rightfully-if he’s actually worth all the trouble, and/or Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow playing double-agent on both teams.) The draw here isn't Steve Rogers' stance-it's how people respond to his unshakeable belief. And when the mysterious Zemo (Daniel Brühl) shows up and reactivates Bucky's dormant assassin mode, Cap is forced to protect his old friend instead of his new ones. The Winter Soldier may or may not have done a Very Bad Thing, but Cap’s belief that a good person remains inside his brainwashed mind-and that authority figures are wrong about him-fuel his desire to not sign the Accords. ![]() In many ways, the catalyst for Cap's opposition to the Accords is the return of his old friend Bucky (Sebastian Stan). Civil War, on the other hand, backgrounds the bad guy (more on him later), and lets its Avengers fight amongst themselves. The need to set up and knock down a big bad in one movie sucked all the narrative air out of the room, and sacrificed time that could have been spent hanging out with the Avengers-which is the reason we go to Marvel movies in the first place. Ultron just focused too much on, well, Ultron. It is, in short, the Avengers sequel that Age of Ultron just wasn’t.Īnd that’s not a dig at Joss Whedon’s movie, which was enjoyable, flaws and all. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent, and how unlikely it is for a group of superheroes to remain united. This has never been more true than in Captain America: Civil War, a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. But like Gatsby before you, when you’re surrounded by people who are actually interesting, you can put on a helluva show. You're as basic and predictable as a tank top during spring break. ![]()
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