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So I Watched...Captain America: Brave New World
Fresh from the theater, I share my immediate impressions of "Captain America: Brave New World," where surprises abound with the return of characters like Thunderbolt Ross and Samuel Sterns. Anthony Mackie's portrayal of Sam Wilson as Captain America stands out, blending his Falcon roots with the iconic shield-bearing hero. Join me as I unpack the film's thrilling action sequences, especially those aerial combat scenes inspired by Top Gun Maverick, and how they breathe new life into the MCU's action repertoire.
Harrison Ford steps into the shoes of Thunderbolt Ross with a performance that shines brightly, while Carl Lumley delivers a powerful portrayal of Isaiah Bradley, leaving us wanting more of this intriguing character's story. As we speculate on the future of the Avengers with hints of Sam Wilson reforming the team, the film teases exciting multiverse developments in its post-credit scenes. I'll share my thoughts on the balance of character focus, as some side characters feel underused, but the overall film remains a fun watch despite the critical reception, this episode offers a blend of excitement, speculation, and a heartfelt appreciation for this mid to high-tier Marvel experience.
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hello, all you awesome people out there, welcome, or welcome back to geek business entertainment, and I'm your host, as always, hoover and this is the one place dedicated I fucked up my intro already and this is the place dedicated to the big three of visual media, that, of course, being film, video games and television. And this is about. This is actually our first one, because, guess what? So I just saw Captain America, brave New World. I literally just got back into. I was supposed to put that thing down, but I literally just got back in from seeing it in theaters today, sunday the 16th, yes. So yeah, I went and watched that and this is gonna be my I don't really want to say a full a review, it's just my, my thoughts and my impressions of the movie, um, because, like I said, this is gonna be our new way of going about um, reviewing, uh, these things now. So that is what I'm going to be doing here today. So, like I said, not a full, in-depth review, but at the very least, you know it'll be something. Also, I'm trying this way. I don't know why, but I transitioned between two screens and I think it like flips me over. I don't know, I don't know why it does that, but it it does so if it keeps doing it, just bear with me. Actually, you know what? What I'm actually going to do is. I'm actually going to just do it like this and then we'll go back and forth like that.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so I just saw Captain America Brave New World and I got to say it's pretty good, it's a pretty good, it's a it's. It's a pretty good, solid movie. I know this movie has kind of been, you know, the the reviews for it have been the best. Uh, especially among the critics. I have seen a lot of a few people online saying that they didn't like it. But to come in front of fresh out of it, I gotta say I'm fresh out of it. I just saw it could be a little bit of recency bias, but straight up, coming out of it, I enjoyed it. I thought it was a pretty damn good movie. It's not the best thing Marvel has done, but it is definitely not the worst thing to come out of Marvel so far. You know what I mean, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Some of the things coming out of it it I'm very surprised on, uh, how much exactly is coming out of this thing from? Um, uh, spoiler alert if you haven't seen it. I'll try to keep things fairly light, but I don't think this is going to be a too much of a massive surprise and massive spoiler. But I'm very surprised at how much um remnants from the 2008 incredible hulk movie really comes uh into this movie. Um, I'm I was very surprised about that. I welcome it because I don't know if y'all know 2008, the incredible hulk movie is like one of my favorite like underrated um, one of my favorite like underrated marvel movies in the mcu and I understand it was like a bunch of weird shit that went on to um kind of like explain you know why a bunch of it never got followed up all these years after. But, um, I was really cool to see that. We know you got thunderbolt ross returning. Um, we know he's turning to the red hawk. Uh, we know, uh, samuel stearns is back in this one. Uh, fully embracing. Finally, after 14, 16 years, whatever, of payoff damn near 20 years later, uh, we're finally getting payoff and seeing him as the leader. So that is dope, yeah, so I was really surprised about how much of the incredible Hulk stuff was brought over into this movie.
Speaker 1:Um, the action and the fight choreography in this movie is very well done. Uh, you can tell that they were just really being creative in, um, in Sam Wilson's fight style and what he could do with the shield. That's different from Steve Mostly due to the fact that he has the flight capabilities with his wings and his jetpack. Also, he also has the adamantium wings, so it has the little purple energy absorption and redirection that the Black Panther suit has. Uh, so that was really cool. So seeing all that stuff was super dope, um, and I really liked all of it.
Speaker 1:Um, anthony mackie is really cool and is, I will say, um, I loved how, despite the fact that sam wilson is now stepping up into the mantle of Captain America, he never, he's never, they never wrote him or he, they never play him to be anything more than Sam Wilson. He's still Sam Wilson within all of it, like, he's still his, uh, you know he's, you know, still like it's pretty, pretty cocky he, you know he's very confident within himself he, but he still, like, knows his limits. And it's really cool because clearly, if you, you know, if he got transit to be a captain america, it could be so easy to try to write him as too much of trying to be like steve uh, but he is really still very much himself. He still cracks his jokes, uh, you know he's still.
Speaker 1:I just really like the fact that they really wrote him to still be sam wilson within all of this, instead of being, um, you know, uh, uh, trying to have him be more like captain america-esque uh, even though he's not the falcon, he's captain america now. So I really like that. He still felt the same steve roger he's been from the days of when he was falcon to the days of now him being Captain America, all that stuff. Why is this a fucking Captain America and Winter Soldier clip? I don't know why. So, yeah, I really liked that aspect of his character.
Speaker 1:Another thing I like is I like the relationship between Sam and Joaquin, between sam and joaquin, um, I think this is the first time we're seeing this within the realm of the mcu of having somebody who was virtually a sidekick himself now stepping up to be a hero and them now having a sidekick themselves, uh. But yeah, I really like the. The chemistry between, um, uh, danny ramirez and anthony mackie is is great, especially considering that they are very they are very much like the two sides of the same coin. Y'all know I gotta hide with my chair a little bit. They very much are like two sides of the same coin. They are very much, you know I I see why he took a liking to him. He's very much reminiscent of of sam himself, so that that was really dope.
Speaker 1:Um, harrison ford was kills it as thunderbolt ross. I really liked his performance. Um, still very sad. William hurt uh didn't make it to get to this massive payoff point of staying with that character for all this time. Uh, but harrison ford steps into that role and he he does it extremely well. I really enjoyed his interpretation of Thunderbolt Ross.
Speaker 1:Who else did I read? Oh, isaiah Bradley. I mentioned it. Like I really hope when they did this movie that they would still be pretty like heavy handed on, like Isaiah Bradley stuff and and going with that. And they really were. And Carl Lumley just did a phenomenal job in this movie. Like, like he was great. I don't even know how very much more to like explain it, but he was, he was really good in this movie. Like I can't deny it, like at all he was. He was phenomenal movie, like I I can't deny it, like at all he was, he was phenomenal. Uh, I feel like I felt his performance the most of everybody in the movie. Uh, overall was his performance, uh, and it was just really great, um. So, yeah, he was good in this.
Speaker 1:I'm very sad we didn't get the uh, the grandson in this one. I felt like that had been a dope opportunity to have him and and joaquin uh falcon cross paths for the first time, because I feel like he would have been a dope opportunity to have him and Joaquin Falcon cross paths for the first time, because I feel like he's another character who's going to be popping up in the future for this Young Avengers thing that might be going with. So he was cool too, um, so yeah, those are some things I like. We finally got a follow-up to the eternal stuff with the celestial island stuff. We're finally getting adamantium in there, so that's gonna. That's a first big step into what the future of the mcu could possibly be.
Speaker 1:Um, oh, also, all the dog fight stuff was really cool too, like that whole the last act um, not the last act, but like the second to last act, but like the end of the second act was really cool. The dogfight with Cap and Falcon going up against those fighter jets over Celestial Island was done extremely well and I feel like I feel like it's one of those things that I'm really I personally am really hankering for within the MCU now going forward. It's like what the? It's been around for so long and we've had so many movies that my whole thing is just like what does what do these properties now introduce to the MCU as a whole that we haven't gotten too much before and for, like them to really focus in on? Like the dog fighting aspect and the aerial combat stuff, for this Captain America movie I figure was really cool and it was really dope to see that for the first time. Clearly they were drew a lot of inspiration from Top Gun Maverick on that one, but I don't blame them because that was pretty cool too. All right, so that's for some good stuff.
Speaker 1:For some maybe some negative stuff, I felt like some of the side characters were very much underutilized. Giancarlo Esposito's Sidewinder, he was cool, but he definitely he definitely didn't fulfill uh very much in this, which I might be saying might not be saying too much, because his character I feel like was kind of made to just kind of be of a small time play. He was uh drama in the movie. Um, the two in this guy, the two female actors the one who acted as his uh, like on his security detail, and the one who was like his, his chief security officer I feel like they were also kind of underutilized as well. Like I can't remember I honestly cannot even remember their names too much and I know one of them is like an actual, is like somebody from the comics. Um, it was diamond back or something. No, diamond bank is the one from luke cage or something, but yeah, but like they talked about it. Uh, you know she was in there. She was like a, maybe a slight spoiler, if y'all will care about that. Uh, she was like a former widow, uh, but like she kind of. She was there but she wasn't really too much. Um, the leader in this was really good, though. I liked him. Uh, I feel like he needed more screen time though, uh, but he, he was cool in this. I feel like he's he.
Speaker 1:This movie is, of course, going to get compared a lot to, um, uh, the winter soldier, captain america the winter soldier. So I feel like comparing him to um, baron zemo is kind of a a good comparison. Uh, his was, he wasn't, as I feel like he wasn't as prominent as baron zemo was in the winter soldier but if y'all remember, his plans felt at least more plausible than uh, than baron zemo's did, and it was also like explaining like it's like his abilities, with the fact that he's just extremely smart and he sees different variables and shit like that. So that is why his plan worked out so extremely well as opposed to Barry Zemo's. It was was like his plans were so much based on like this gotta happen. If it don't, I don't know what I'm gonna do. It was very it was very convenient happenstance for Barry Zemo's but at least uh, the leaders was like it was. It was explained that this was planned and plotted out from the very jump and from the get-go.
Speaker 1:Um, as much as I did like the um hangovers from like eternals and the incredible hulk movie. Being in this movie I do. I do kind of feel like sam himself kind of got pushed to the back a little bit, like this definitely felt like sometimes it felt more of like a Ross movie, like a Thunderbolt Ross movie, like this was his movie and like Cap was just a character who was just kind of getting drawn into everything, as opposed to him being in like epicenter of all of it, if that makes sense, like his whole thing was more um is reactive than active, like he, like his place in a lot of this movie just seemed like he just had to react to other things going on, as opposed to him being active in, uh, in a lot of it. Um, they do a pretty good job of still keeping the underlining uh thing of sam feeling that pressure of having to take the mantle from steve in this movie and it's one of those difficult things, uh, because you don't want to overtrade it too much, because he did go through that in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier show, um, but they at least they at least kept that as an underlining motivation and character for him.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately it it doesn't really equate out to an actual character arc for him because clearly, like the big thing would have been him finally accepting the mantle as Captain America. But, like I said, we've already been through that in the falcon and the winter soldier um, yeah. So that's why I'm like he, he doesn't really have too much of a character arc and it's kind of one of those things marvel is still really trying. I feel like marvel is still really trying to figure out because, uh, it was like the same problem with chad bick in Black Panther. He already had a character arc in Civil War. So once he actually got a standalone movie, he kind of didn't really have one uh, because he kind of he already had his big character dynamic change, um.
Speaker 1:But yeah, and like I feel like in in situations like this, I don't know like kind kind of comparing them yet again, when you look at Captain America, the winter soldier, um, you know Steve's big character arc and it was one of those things that I always wondered, like how could they make this work, uh, steve Rogers Captain America movie work long-term? Uh, because he's so set in his ways and who he is. He doesn't really have many character changes and much character dynamic to change up. Uh, but I liked it in order soldier because they made it like okay, now it's not steve, um, his character dynamic. Isn't him changing in the wake of all this? Now, his character dynamic is him trying to stay resolute in who he is and what he's done in this entirely new world and how things work and things operate. And that's what was one of the wonderful things about the Winter Soldier. Even in Civil War it was also the same, um, but yeah, so, yeah, he kind of gets pushed to the background, uh, a little bit I feel, and you know it's just kind of a small little problem I have in there, um, but other than that, I still really like the movie.
Speaker 1:This movie is still very much enjoyable and I know there's like a this big discourse on the internet which you know and like my whole thing was like we're getting to a weird point where it's like you need to just find a few solid, reputable people whose opinions you actually hold weight to and kind of follow and like look at them and even look if it's somebody you've been following for a long time or somebody just discovered, just look into them. Because we all know the new meta on the internet is to hate on shit just for the sake of hating on it. And I went into this movie. I went into this movie very much expecting this to be like not the best, uh, but I don't think it was the worst and it very much was not that and and it was that and I still very much enjoyed the movie for what it was and I and like that's kind of like where we are where we're at now, which is like you gotta, you know, find a few people who you, whose opinion you actually put some weight into, who you know have an actually solid track record or some stuff, and follow them. But but most importantly, above all and everything else, is you just gotta, you just have to form opinions of your own. And I know like nobody really wants to take the time or spend money on a movie ticket.
Speaker 1:Go out to the movies to see something. So if you, if you don't want to see it because what you heard is fine, but I'm saying I wanted to go see it and I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I actually have been seeing quite a discourse of people who actually have enjoyed the movie. If you look at the score, like the critics and the audiences definitely seem to be on two opposite spectrums of what they think of this movie. But I think it's a very solid movie. It's a good movie. It's not the worst thing Marvel's done. It's not the best thing Marvel's done. I would say it sits between like a six and a seven. I might. It's not the best thing marvel's done. I would say it sits between like a six and a seven. I might have to see the movie a couple more times, I actually see which way of that side I'm actually pulling, but I do think it exists between somewhere between a six and a seven. Um, yeah, only if there's anything else I want to talk about.
Speaker 1:Oh, um, ross's red hulk was dope to see. I've very much been a staunt person that I I feel like um bruce banner's hulk and what they've done with him throughout the mcu so far. I feel like it has been faced a lot of unfair scrutiny. Um, because a lot of people don't like what they've done with bruce banner and the hulk so far and I've been the person who's been like I think it's kind of unfair. I see where they're going with it. I've just been taking it for what it was, but I can't lie, seeing it was. It felt really good to see just a savage OP, savage OP, wild Hulk in the MCU again and I can't lie, it felt good just to see that once again within the mcu. Um and the cgi on. It was extremely well done like. It reminded me of seeing the hulk in the first avengers film and how much it resembled mark ruffalo. Uh, the resemblance of uh, harrison ford in there is just crazy, but it looks really good. I really enjoyed the red hulk and all the red hulk sections. So yeah, that's what I gotta say about that.
Speaker 1:Um, trying to think of anything else I want to put out, oh, there is a cameo in the movie. There's a nice surprise cameo that honestly caught me way off guard but I I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought it was a nice little cameo and it was really cool to see and kind of um really hammering home some character dynamics and character relationships that were established in the falcon and the winter soldier that honestly, see seeing it on screen again it actually kind of makes me excited and a little giddy to see how much more of this we get and seeing it expanded upon um later, um for any. So I think the biggest thing with the MCU and the multiverse saga so far has been the fact that everything has really kind of felt so very disconnected and that there hasn't really been much connecting uh everybody so far. Clearly, we know we're in the multiverse thing. We're no, we're heading to secret wars. We know we're in the multiverse thing. We know we're heading to Secret Wars. We know we're heading to Battleworld. We know we got Doom on the horizon. It's just, unfortunately, everything has kind of not felt synchronized in that that is actually the direction that we're going. Captain America at least which is kind of wild to say this late into the game so far it it seems like this one is trying to reset things back into uh, uh, um, reset things back into a clearly concise thing of like this is where we're going and this is what we're trying to do and this is how we're going to do it. So, if you don't know, it's been shown in clips and shit. This ain't a massive spoiler.
Speaker 1:Ross offered he wants Sam to reform the Avengers. It was just a small mention in this. Unfortunately it kind of got pushed way in the back once the drama of the movie started going and getting rolling. But it seems like at least on this side, the earth-based side, that might be the next big step is kind of reforming the avengers, even trying to figure out who the fucking avengers even are at this point, because, like, who's all left to to even form the avengers at this point? Uh, we know kamala's doing like a young aven thing, her and Kate, bishop, hawkeye there's a bunch of people who fit the bill to fit within that team. We know we got Billy Wiccan, we got. What the heck is Cassie from Stacks, cassie, ant-man's daughter. We know there's her as well, so we'll see who else could possibly fit. That bill doesn't seem like falcon is going to be in it. Uh, joaquin seemed like um cap might be saving him to be a part of his next avengers team. Um, but yeah, like who? Who the heck is even left to form the avengers in the future? We know, like I said, we got cats in america.
Speaker 1:Dr strange is still around, of course. Um, I don't know. Carol is probably off in space somewhere yet again. Captain marvel, um, thor is all thor's raising daughter now, so I don't know how available he is. He's also in space doing his thing. Peter's on earth. Again, I don't know if he's, if he, like, has connected with any of the heroes on earth, but he's on earth now. So I, I don't know if he's, if he, like, has connected with any of the heroes on earth, but he's on earth now. So I I don't know where he could fit within all this.
Speaker 1:Uh, of course there's shang chi. There's that whole shang chi's post-credit scene which is still, to this day, not been followed up on. So we don't know what that all entails, but we know he's around, so it's. It'll be interesting to see what they go with in that, uh aspect. Um, and there is a post-credit scene. Uh, I'm not gonna spoil it here. Uh, it's a. It's a very small post-credit scene. It doesn't do anything major uh, within the aspect of the mcu or anything like that. Uh, it kind of just reaffirms where we're going and what we know we're about to get and things of that nature. So there, so there is one post-credit scene is at the very end, if you, if you don't know if you're interested, so you gotta stay to the end of the credits to see it. There's no mid-credit scene, uh, so there's just the one at the very end and it's very much just teasing, more of like the multiverse stuff. So there you go, but yeah, but that is my opinion.
Speaker 1:On captain america brave new world. I I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it was a pretty. I think it's a pretty dope movie, um, does it? Is it? Is it the best of the best? No, but it's definitely not the worst of the worst. Um, like I said, I said somewhere between a six and a seven.
Speaker 1:Um, I have to give it another view, or another view or two to fully determine where I go in terms of that. Like I said, the first time I see movies I'm just I'm in the movie, I'm just interested in the movie and where the plot's going and the drama and the action. It's not until I watch a movie again that I'm like really kind of trying to figure out. Like OK, does this plot point make sense? That this was this plot point left in the wayside? Did it actually get followed up on fully? Was this villain actually fully realized?
Speaker 1:Fortunately, I can tell you right now the villains in this movie. They're hit and miss, some of them pretty good, some of them not so much of Captain America Brave New World. Um, if you're interested, I would say it's definitely worth a view. At the very least it's worth seeing for yourself. And I feel like there, I feel like there is some good stuff you can get out of this. Um, but hey, if you still on the fence and you don't want to commit the money to it or whatever, hey, I understand that one too. I'm gonna say I enjoyed it. I think it's a good movie. Um, I think it exists into like the mid, the high mid tier of the Marvel movies. Um, yeah, we, I mean, come on, though y'all already know y'all seen some mid Marvel movies in your time. Some of them even got gassed up a little bit more than they should have been, but hey, this is how it goes.
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