Alexhead wrote:I have total respect for anyone with good taste who just doesn't dig comic book films. As I'm sure I've said elsewhere, you'd probably get the most fun out of Winter Soldier, although even then it dissolves into a CGI fightfest. Being of our generation I kind of feel bad that you didn't have Marvel and DC in your hip pocket as a kid to get you through the rough spots, but maybe metal did the trick or something.
I guess it is kinda odd I never really jumped into comic books, all things considered. I loved Star Wars and Indy, played with He-Man, GI Joe and Transformers — and now that I think of it, I did have a handful of old-school Transformers comics from the mid-80s. My reading material veered more to stuff about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Metal actually came along much later for me — high school years.
Winter Soldier is OK, but it drags on too long, and yes, it does devolve into an overdone CGI-gasmic epic battle of not much consequence — par for the course in most Marvel movies. The whole idea of an interlocking universe is fun, but they have yet to hit that sweet spot.