Winter Soldier

[woodwardiocom]

Mostly, I thought Captain America: The Winter Solider was a lot of fun. Two complaints do arise: One, I wish Sam had taken out at least one named bad guy. He was very cool, but not as effective as I would have liked. Two, I'm getting very tired of Captain America condoning war crimes like torture (or, in a recent comics story, sending Thor to a parley with instructions to assassinate the other party, which is also a war crime). He's supposed to represent America at its best, not its worst. Still, if they made superheroes stop dangling people off of buildings to get information, a lot of plots would collapse.

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[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Still, if they made superheroes stop dangling people off of buildings to get information, a lot of plots would collapse.

Well, yeah. Though I thought that scene was great.

Sam is Awesome with Awesome Sauce. I hope we see lots more of him.

[phil-masters.livejournal.com]

(Duplicate post because I didn't mean to be anonymous - Jon, please do delete the other instance.)

There's a peculiar disconnect between fiction and reality. The most ethical of heroes, who wouldn't dream of physically maltreating an enemy prisoner, will routinely employ psychological methods that could earn a real-world soldier a trip to a war crimes tribunal. (The only exception I can think of off-hand is Captain Carrot, and he has his own methods.) The use of the edges of tall buildings for the purpose is probably related to the general superheroic fetish for tall buildings.