Calling the ruckus between Iron Man and Captain America a “civil war” might be a bit grandiose, but I’m with you. And then there’s me, somewhere in the middle, wondering how everyone is getting so worked up over an argument between two blokes called Tony and Steve. Enough cultural cache to cleave a great divide between film critics – the high-minded purists of yesteryear on one front, lamenting the death of originality, and the coffee-soaked Millennial know-it-all’s on the other, asking who needs it. Ten billion dollars – the GDP of Malta – at the box office an endless river of merchandise and DVD dinero weaving tributaries across the globe. Thirteen movies across almost a decade, not a single one of them legitimately bad, and many of them genuinely excellent. Captain America: Civil War is as purely enjoyable and satisfying in basic cinematic terms as it is an admirably efficient component in the greater Marvel machinery.Īt this point, I honestly don’t know how you measure the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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