Bevendre

ttatsuyamashiro:

things captain america: civil war is being praised for:

• having a greater seriousness to it than other superhero movies
  
• exploring comlex issues and themes
• CGI heavy
• lots of cool characters
• an ending that might be unexpected for comic book fans
• superheroes fighting each other

things batman v superman and x-men apocalypse are being condemned for:

• having a greater seriousness to them than other superhero movies
  
• exploring complex issues and themes
• CGI heavy
• lots of cool characters
• an ending that might be unexpected for comic book fans
• superheroes fighting each other

It’s almost like similar or even identical themes can be employed with different amounts of success by different movies.  I can’t speak for X-Men Apocalypse, but between Civil War and BvS the points here are really night and day.

Civil War is more serious and deals with complex issues surrounding relationships.  BvS is unnecessarily dark where it doesn’t need to be and gets lost in its own attempts to be complex or deep.

Both movies use CGI well, but the shooting of each movie plays to it differently with the cinematography in Civil War being more appealing to the masses and accentuating of the action whereas BvS used slow mo in places to build emotion but not where it was needed to show weight.

Every character in Civil War has their own scenes and moments that build on the characters, as well as previous experiences and movies that people who have followed the series knows of.  There’s less to set up so the few new characters that are there get their chance to shine and the old characters get to grow more.  In BvS there’s only 2 characters in the entire film with previous backing in that world, and a large cast to introduce.  As such there’s a lot of rushing to introduce characters in cameos that cuts away from needed scenes that would have kept some of the subplots coherent instead of muddied and off-screen.

Fans of the comics knew what they were going to see at the end, superheroes fighting for their own ideological reasons.  In Civil War people were disappointed that they didn’t include more characters and kill Cap to more closely match the comics, but understood that there are licensing issues with Marvel characters and more movies to be made so killing a major character would be a waste of time.  In BvS people were thrilled to finally see two iconic characters together on screen, and were disappointed by their motivations for fighting being virtually nonexistent, coupled with the unneeded inclusion of Doomsday which guaranteed the death of Superman in the second movie in the series, thereby killing any sense of major threat or loss should he come back to life (Spoiler alert, he will)

Different movies can do the same thing differently, and have it be met with different responses.  It doesn’t mean that people are saying one thing’s automatically better because they prefer the characters, it means it was done objectively better and people recognize that.

(via the-chibster)