The Best MCU Solo Film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier 

Thanks to the Russo Brothers

He was in his prime

​@redronin7522 nah his prime was endgame, idc what you say this blud was crazy in endgame and either way he still a super soldier

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Big 🍑 too, no diddy

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So true. I’m a fan of good MCU.

2014 was when the mcu peaked

Random fan: "This is not so bad!"

I understood that reference

Only contested by 2018 or 2017 but I think the consistency of quality for 2014 is the most highest. Plus Days of Future Past is now honourary MCU

Plus two of the best arcs that Agents of SHIELD ever did.

​@@Horltum??? What arcs?, hydra and what?

@@boilingman972 Whitehall

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Top notch!!!! Game changer

This is a trend I'm glad to see we're in the early stages of leaving behind. Creatives have begun to realize that characters can be earnest and kind while still being capable and engaging. There are other ways to show intelligence beside snark, quips, and sass. I think My Adventures With Superman was what really made me hopeful we had turned a corner away from the irreverent heroes of the last decade.

While still having that character be willing to back up their honor and morality with the ability to fight for their ideals. Steve is repeatedly tested physically and morally, and in the best of situations his moral sensibilities allow him to inspire and lead others. However, they also allow him to be flawed, his rigid values occasionally veering into stubbornness and (at least in the first Avengers film), sanctimony, which can contribute towards his failures, especially when working with others that aren’t as rigid as him. But his grief over his all that he has sacrificed, his desire to keep Bucky in his life, is his greatest vulnerability, the thing that compels him to act selfishly and forget his “mission”, showing that despite all his virtues, he is still a mortal man deep down.

Man of Steel 👀

Yea

I liked seeing a good and nice character be put in a non-so-nice world and having him make tough choices, which is why Winter Soldier was so great

hey ya don't gotta tell me brother, I have always had exactly the same pick for "most underrated MCU movie", and that pick is FIRST AVENGER. It's only the most "inferior" of the Cap trilogy by way of the second two simply being that friggin good. It's like trying to compare BTTF 1 and 2. (edit) in fact now I think about it, it feels like a very similar example to me of THE WOLVERINE and LOGAN. Because I'd probably say THE WOLVERINE is the most underrated of all Fox X-Men flicks, and I think automatically gets looked upon less because the stone cold classic LOGAN is.

I agree! I adore First Avenger and its focus on properly developing Steve and showcasing his personality. Since Captain America started as propaganda, the first issue of his comics have nothing in the way of backstory for him. First Avenger, however, gives great insight into who Steve is and why you should care. Not to mention I love that they made the movie into sort of a period piece too, which stands out in contrast to the other MCU movies (kind of in a way that Winter Soldier stands out as a bit of a spy thriller). It’s definitely an extremely underrated movie.

First cap reminds me of Batman Begins. I think the first half of the film was absolutely brilliant for an origin story. I think the second half was a bit clunky, particularly with a pretty generic “evil” villain that wasn’t that captivating. The second and third Caps are awesome and helped by the fact that at various times you had wonderful antagonists: Bucky, Zemo, Tony and even T’Challa for a certain part.

I can’t see it happening

"I’ve been seeing on Twitter loads of people" See, that's your problem. Taking what Twitter users say seriously.

Twitter hates on everything mcu so ignore the hate, the editing isn’t as smooth as like John wick but the action in this movie is better than 90% of action movies lol especially the whole highway sequence is phenomenal, people who think it’s awful compare it to the 10% that had better action instead of all the others it’s better than

people on twitter have nothing better to do than to make up shit to be mad about. captws is nearly the perfect superhero movie and the only thing that lets it down is making everything hydra's fault at the last minute. hydra can still be involved but i think it's a huge cop out to remove all the government surveillence stuff in favour of don't worry it was just the nazis we don't need to have themes. everything else is literally perfect. the action is still some of the best i've ever seen. that first bucky/steve fight where steve loses his shield still hits it's completely perfect. i genuinely think this movie has the best fight choreography of any mcu movie.

@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 yeah but to be fair, for that matter you could say "your problem is taking what RU-vid users say seriously", that would be just as valid. You're gonna get your share of poor and/or bad faith arguments for comic book stuff (or really movies in general) across any social media, I'm honestly not sure that twitter is necessarily better or worse in that regard (those being VERY relative terms in this case lol). I'm not all surprised by the OP's observations, not even just by way of the time on the calendar, but it feels like there's been a certain level of backlash to the Russos in general now the last couple years. And I'm not even sure it's all that unfairly, between both the quality of all of their non-MCU output so far, and some of their opinions on film in general, AI, and other emerging technologies. I've loved them since Arrested Development but I have wondered if it's been a case of them loving the smell of their own farts, so to speak lol

It’s so annoying because a Nick Fury movie would go so hard

@@FullFatVideos why you’d just cry and make a video about “😭😭😭😭 they replaced Sam Jackson” cause yall don’t think critically. Just sit back stop acting like yall are not the problem. The state of the MCU now is what it is cause of all this fake crybaby sheep hate. Just so yall get views 🤣

@@mlewisfunny6265 It's not fake. Full Fat Videos has some of the best critique out there, and if Marvel actually listened to it, then they'd be in a better place right now. Just because some people have said ridiculous things doesn't mean that Full Fat is one of them. It's unfair to generalize all RU-vidrs

@@FullFatVideos Man It would...

@@mlewisfunny6265huh?

Don't forget X-Men:DOFP, another incredible one, man all 3 were amazing

Banger year for cinema as well, Interstellar, Birdman, whiplash

@@vedantbakshi6546 and Nightcrawler

@@vedantbakshi6546interstellar to this day is my favorite in cinema experience. Sure the big edible I took had something to do with it, but that water planet scene blew my mind in imax.

It’s gonna be hard without that sweet serum. I wish Cap 2.0 had the wings and strength, he should be the next level

​@FullFatVideos I'm glad I'm reading people say this! I love Sam's character but they're going to have to pull it out the bag to stop him feeling underpowered and underwhelming without the serum

Yeah they could’ve name avengers civil war.

it's annoying cause they used Captain America franchise for Civil War. Like the trilogy of Cap 1-3 doesn't even make sense, it's really not a trilogy. At least, that #3 does not fit in the most.

Yes, I mean if they say it's an avengers movie, I'd say it's great. But it's not. The title is Captain America Civil War, and somehow, the movie didn't mainly focus on steve(at least that's what I felt when Iwaswatching). That's a bit disappointing.

@@WhatEver-10292 The movie's main protagonist was steve....He drives the entire plot ....

@@aaronjohnson1286 The movie is about captain America and bucky barnes ....Why would it be an avengers film?

Same here😢

Sad

Really shows how far the MCU has fallen from grace. In the time period between Winter Soldier and Endgame they were putting out consistent bangers every year that all interlinked to serve the overall infinity narrative. In the time period between Endgame and now, we've gotten maybe 3 gems sprinkled in amongst a flood of truly awful mass produced drivel that has no overall cohesion or direction. I'm hopeful for Deadpool 3 but I think it's probably just time to let the superhero genre die

@@muffinman3052I was all aboard to see the superhero genre die, but then I saw The Batman and had my mind changed. Also dying to see how spiderverse ends. The thing about the MCU is they still have proven they can do some good stuff. I thought Loki, Wakanda Forever, and No Way Home were so much fun. The problem was they just produced too much crap. Dr. strange and Thor 4 were the biggest letdowns I’ve experienced in a while in the MCU.

@@thatstheway2429 Don't forget Ant-Man 3. That one was terrible too, but nothing tops Thor 4. That might have been the worst movie I've watched in decades. I couldn't even get through it first time.

Thank you. The support from people like you makes it worth it!!!!

The dark knight showed the possibility of using comic book characters and mixing them with other genres. No one has had the guts to try and they succeeded when they did. It was a watershed moment. If TDK was a failure. I doubt we could had seen a masterpiece like this that places Cap in an espionage thriller. Remarkable what the Russos did here.

@@bonifaceonyekaba8849 I just don’t see what’s special about that movie. The action scenes totally take me out because Christian bale was soo stiff. It was a nice movie but wasn’t a good Batman movie. What did TDK do that X-men 2 or Spiderman 2 didn’t do?

Idk why people call The Dark Knight the best comic book movie when it's not even accurate to the comics lmao

Both are some of the best cbms but dark knight has better writing and cap ws has better action

The Dark Knight ran so Captain America: The Winter Soldier could say "on your left" action wise.

I have spammed the main theme all week, makes me really nostalgic now

The best!

I think Infinity War is my fave but this and Guardians 2 are very close

@FullFatVideos oh yeah, definitely! Guardians 3 is up there for me. Hits me in the feels everytime I watch it

Same!

I just want to see them allow Bucky to become a hero in his own right, which he should be able to do with or without the shield. He has all the makings of one, its just the lazy writers are scared of him overshadowing other characters.

Agreed

It's tied for me with Guardians 1 but in terms of a raw action superhero movie Winter Soldier takes it easy for sure.

Yeah. Also mad to think Spider-Man 2 was ten at that time, doesn’t feel like the same gap now for WS

"Taking a stand " is my phone's ring tone. 🤘😎

Yeah I think it’s defo needed now!

It’s long since passed

Thank goodness!!!

So well paced!

Steve protecting Bucky was a personal stake. Steve witnessed the loss of Peggy Carter and Bucky is his best friend the only person he knows from his past life that is still alive.

Captain America: Civil War is also a commentary on that too, in that Tony basically is prepared to exchange freedom for security. The trouble is that people have problems understanding how that is wrong in the context of the movie. In TWS its more obvious because the antagonist Pierce is HYDRA whereas Ross is not known to be so antagonistic unless you watch other MCU material.