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Film of the Year- Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Film of the Year 2014


Captain America: The Winter Soldier is both a saviour and a fatal destroyer to the comic book movie. A film that got audiences thinking ‘actually Captain America isn’t the lamest Avenger’ and being so critically and commercially well received that people can finally forget that The First Avenger ever happened.  Excellent direction, more twists than a game of twister and a villain who nearly raises to Joker-level iconicness. Robert Redford and Anthony Mackie are excellent additions to the cast with Sam Jackson, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson all raising their game beyond anything else we’ve seen of them in the MCU.  Seriously exciting to watch action scenes with great choreography and sound editing in particular.
However, this movie did so well, at least partly, because in a time when people are beginning to tire of comic book super hero films, it presented itself as a political thriller, with some superhero make up on top. My prediction is that movies like this and Guardians of the Galaxy (a sci fi western also disguised as a superhero film) will be the next trend as we ease out of the comic book boom. Pure one dimensional comic book films like last year’s Thor: The Dark World, this year’s Amazing Spider-man 2 or even X-Men Days of Future Past, will be those that are forgotten about first.
Captain America: TWS will be the film that forces the studios to evolve their comic book films to become something more and encourage them not to be a slave of the genre.


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