I've been wanting to catch-up on both the Marvel and the DC cinematic universes for a while... a long while now. Before watching the movie, there was one thing (person) that I thought of: Bucky Barnes. I had no idea who he was other than the fact that he is the Winter Soldier and Tumblr's favourite broody superhero(?) For one thing, though, Tumblr LOVES shipping him and Captain America together. And so with all that mentioned, I watched the movie expectantly because Captain America is my second favourite Marvel hero after Iron Man. In terms of ratings, I would rate the movie an 7.5/10. The story was easy to follow. I believe that the ending laid out a smooth transition into the next movies in the Marvel cinematic universe. And, most importantly, I liked the fact that the characters actually got scratched, bled, and became greasy due which SHOULD be the case considering the action that they get into. (I'm looking at you, Superman and female lead from the 3rd Transformers movie whose white dress and blowout hair remained as perfect as ever despite everything that happens.) However, I have been asking one thing ever since watching the movie... is that all there was to Bucky Barnes? Seriously, after getting hyped by Tumblr about this hero who looked like he just jumped out of an MCR video, he appeared in like, 4 scenes in the movie. To add, his only lines (excluding the ones in Captain America's flashback) could be summarised to "I remember him", a few grunts, and a few groans. Seriously?
Despite my disappointment, I do kind-of get Bucky's lack of exposure in the movie though. Instead of the movie being about the Winter Soldier, it was instead just an introduction for a future problem (the corruption inside S.H.I.E,L.D caused by Hydra) and a chance for later character development(?) for Captain America through Bucky? I have no idea. I honestly haven't watched most of the movies that succeeded this one. Overall, as I said, it was a pretty good movie. Other than that, I have nothing else to say, so, byeee! . . . . . P.S. If you've noticed, this review had not been quite like the previous ones I did. Well, the truth is that, I thought about this area of my blog again and having thought that since I don't really have a large following yet nor credibility for doing reviews, it may be useless and too time-consuming to do reviews in the style that many others are already doing. And so, I thought that instead of trying to do what everybody else has already been doing, I'll just do a little bit of a commentary-style review where I lend readers some of my personal thoughts regarding the movie I just watched. Having said that, sometimes reviews could be as short as this one but that's okay because I decided that I'd only write about the points about each movie that particularly grabbed my attention, no matter how silly they are. As with the rest of the blog, I don't really know how this direction is going to take me from here but I hope that you enjoy my content, nonetheless. Thank you for reading!
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