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Captain America: Civil War Review

6 May

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Let me preface this by saying that superhero movies usually aren’t my thing. I used to look forward to them and still find some to be extremely well done–Iron Man 3 is way underrated–but I just cannot muster up any excitement anymore for this bloated assembly line of a franchise. The thing is, at least Marvel’s got the formula down pat; DC’s assembly line right now probably consists of a bunch of shitty workers standing around some plastic table praying to their Lord and Savior Zack Snyder. Anyway, I’ve nevertheless grown tired of that (albeit efficient) Marvel formula, especially after enduring the terrible Age of Ultron and really feeling like my life was slowly slipping away with each passing scene. Then came a formula-breaking attempt in Deadpool, a movie that ended up just expediting the disintegration of my life by tearing my soul out of my body and smashing it to pieces with a sledgehammer. Then came Civil War, and I thought it’d just be a huge, overstuffed mess that was more of the same. Well, I might’ve been wrong on that last one.

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