Captain America: The Winter Soldier

I was never a Marvel Comic's addict.  I know garbage when I see it.  Most Marvel material is just that - poorly thought out garbage.  I am glad they can finance movies based on their character set from Stan Lee's brain, such as it is.  Everyone makes millions, everyone is happy, and the world's IQ takes another dip.

However, the movies have not been all that bad so far.  Entertaining, sometimes a decent performance, always with so many plot holes you could drive an Oscar contender through it.  So tension must exist between the script writers and the cartoonists.  Because it is so obvious that cartoonist inept vision often triumphs over good film making / story telling.

The Winter Soldier ... well, is one of those really poorly thought out script ideas.  It might look good in a comic book but utterly fails when you try to make something like a movie out of it.  And apparently I am not alone in the thought - there were under 30 people in the audience Saturday night! 

Okay, so believability aside:

It is a dark movie.
The Captain America character was done well.
Nick Fury, well he is always fun in a dark way since we are talking a politically driven visionary.
Robert Redford?  Never saw that one coming but it was good to see him again, not like he ever acted.
Scarlett Johansson was well done in the beginning and then acting died somewhat towards the end.

Scarlett is the good example of the problem with this movie.  Most of the audience is going to be female, they understand females, they expect a female to react as a female.  And she is the male embodiment of what a female should be and act like if she is so terribly talented - and then in the end she completes negates that model she has faithfully served in the movie and becomes ..... ?  Call that a disappearing act.  Maybe she got called away to another film because she flat disappeared from this movie except for some one liners and all acting was over.  Go figure.

And the Winter Soldier.  Really Stan Lee?  This is the best quality of dung you could come up with?  How desperate were you that day?  Much less to actually think this would translate well into a movie?  Supreme ego there dude.

And the technology ... I was working in data processing in 1972, on the largest computing system in existence at the time.   It would have taken so little effort to have used the internet to correct computing errors they created in this movie.  Just another bad example of either bad research, sloppy script writing or another agenda driving the script from a comic book.

In the end:
It was a fun film.  The audience, not just me, were roaring with laughter at the situations and they obviously had not been intended as humorous.  Which actually made them all the more humorous.

Acting uneven and you are not exactly sure whom to cheer for.

Settings were not bad if not completely laughable.  Physics has nothing to do with reality in this film.