•I finally saw Captain America: Brave New World this past week. I would have tried to see it opening weekend, when I suppose the studios and other stakeholders would have preferred I see it, but, unfortunately, my hometown no longer has a movie theater in it, so I had to wait until I was in a city with one and had a few hours to kill (We had two movie theaters when I was growing up here!).
•It was fine, like the vast majority of Marvel movies, neither one of the better ones, nor one of the worst ones. As I've said before, they've really rather perfected the process of making perfectly fine superhero movies.
•I was pleasantly surprised that I was perfectly able to follow the film's plot, despite not having seen two of the three previous Marvel productions that seem to have fed into this one (The Eternals and The Falcon and Winter Soldier, both from 2021).
•I did wonder what viewers who haven't long read Marvel comics might have made of some of it. For example, even though there are some brief lines of dialogue dedicated to explaining, I only really knew and understood one particular character's whole deal because I happened to read a particular comic book series 22 years ago.
•I was really happy for that one particular actor, who has probably been waiting to perform this particular character (and collect this particular paycheck) for over 15 years now.
•They explained the absence of one moustache, but not the other.
•I preferred the first suit Sam wore to the second one. The first was brighter, with lots of white in it, and seemed to better resemble what I remember his Captain America suit looking like in the comics. The second one was much darker and more drab looking.
•I don't like when comic book movies use superhero characters, but then never use their superhero or supervillain names, instead just using their civilian identities.
•It was great to see and hear Liv Tyler again after so long (The last movie I saw her in was 2014's Space Station 76). Marvel needs to get her Betty Ross back together with Bruce Banner, who is now Mark Ruffalo rather than Edward Norton, in the movies. I think they would make a cute couple.
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