I Went For The Head

Sideblog dedicated to the Marvel Cinematic Universe//Still shook over Endgame//Peter Parker is my son//Bucky Barnes deserved better.

[rogers-carter]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 2011 | dir. Joe Johnston

[buckygrayson]

can you move your seat up? - captain america: civil war (2016) | directed by joe & anthony Russo

[rogers-carter]

buckynat + similar fighting styles because he trained her

[emcheeseman]

another character in the new comic

[rylandsgrace]

“Putting the suit on… it feels different this time. I’m just going to do my best. Hopefully get it right. No pressure”

[marblethickets]

And I would say I love you, but saying it out loud is hard So I won't say it at all

[boyd-stevens]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 2011, dir. Joe Johnston

[comicbookfilms]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 2014 | dir. Anthony & Joe Russo

[stealingpotatoes]

making bucky a politician is one of the most insane choices the MCU has ever made but you know what. sure. i'm here for it

(commission info // tip jar!)

[lookcaitlin]

[cressidascowper]

@pscentral event 26: minimalism

Promises oceans deep, but never to keep.

[yourbuckies]

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

[marisatomay]

Still really funny that Marvel named a movie “Endgame” and sold it as the final culmination of the MCU where they killed off two main characters and retired a third and then were shocked when people started losing interest in the MCU after that

[hardcandyfilmclub]

#like... it's not even that the dead characters were my faves! it's also that the movies have been going on for about 15 years now#people were getting bored and just hanging on for the big 'event' movies#and there has *never been a better time* to jump ship and feel like it came to a semi-satisfying ~ending#everything after that has been not necessarily *worse* than the original phases but... superfluous and disappointing in a way that's much#easier to just ignore and not feel obligated to consume just because it's ~marvel~

tags from @nicoleanell I also feel like the quality of the movies goes down over time, the scripting becomes less coherent, the visuals are more noticeably disconcerting as they use more cgi and pay fewer people to make it for them (Cap 1 notwithstanding, I feel like that was more them Making a Choice and less them undervaluing dynamic visuals), the movies no longer feel like discrete stories with intersections in a connected world, they feel like something episodic where the writers don't, perhaps can't know the full series arc and are undermined in the story arc of each individual instillation, something that works a lot better in the medium of big 2 comics than it does in popular films. I'm a big nerd who loves superhero shit, exactly the kind of person you think these movies are aimed at, but I've been catching progressively fewer of these flicks over the years, and waiting longer to see the ones I do. I can't speak for anyone who is tired of the genre, but as a superhero nerd I don't want these movies to be made in the "house style" anymore. I think the most interesting things that have been put on screen by either marvel or dc are these more auteurial, if I may call them that, movies like Birds of Prey or Thor Ragnarok. Nerds also like movies that get intensely deep into the source material. That get into crossover territory or pull from the well of quirkiness that is comic canon. I'm thinking No Way Home for the former. The Spider Verse movies or The Suicide Squad come to mind for the other two.

Also I personally really enjoy street level heroes, and I think comic adaptations really thrive with that framework. Again, Birds of Prey, but also the Ms Marvel series, the Daredevil series, SEASON ONE of Jessica Jones. Let superheroes hang out in neighborhoods again, people! I think the X-Men would thrive in a primarily street level series, with some room for the Lila Cheneys and Illyanas of the Marvelverse. I hear X-Men 97 is going superbly so maybe there's more to be done in animation with these characters again. oh, and I really liked Blue Beetle

[ninjathrowingstork]

I think it was as far back as Age of Ultron, I started seeing how they were unwilling to let characters actually grow, movie-to-movie, and one director could come in and reset character development. The beautiful, subtle and nuanced relationship between Cap and Natasha from TWS with their teamwork and respect got thrown out, along with any hints of her feelings for Hawkeye, because Joss Whedon couldn't accept anyone else playing in his sandbox and taking characters in directions he couldn't write. Something changed starting around then, with movies getting, idk, more generic? Overloaded? We never got the quiet thoughtfulness of TWS again, and in F&WS which should have been Bucky learning to be a human again, they fumbled the nuance of his character.

They speedran comics, jumping right into the crossover overload. I'm not going to read half a dozen different character runs for the context to understand the couple of issues the one character I care about shows up in. As much as people say Wandavision was good, I just don't give a shit about Wanda, and now they're setting up movies based on events from that one series. Was The Marvels good? I don't know, I'm not watching two other shows to understand the new characters, so I don't care about the movie. And with so much getting pushed to Disney + instead of theaters, it's not a big exciting event anymore.

They started pumping out content. Content, not movies, not a major event that's the next piece in a giant web of events setting up a massive crossover movie, just more and more mediocre series that take too much time plodding around characters that can't find a real direction, because they're all rushed out and overly focus-tested and trying to be new and quirky. I'm just tired. It's too much and too late and everyone's worn out now. (Also FaTWS got its message so twisted up and I can't forgive them for writing Bucky's therapist that way. Let me boy forgive himself and get some rest already.)

[xxbluandorangexx]

hey so you wanna write MCU pre-serum Steve Rogers

you should totally rewatch the first movie and pay close attention to what Steve’s face does. Or doesn’t do. Because Steve is not a puppy dog, Steve does not wear his heart on his sleeve, Steve is still and steady and tries so very hard not to be easy to read because Steve’s life is pain he cannot share for fear of having his personhood literally revoked. Steve is stand-offish. Steve sees that you’re angry with him and flatly makes light of what he’s doing that’s pissing you off. Steve will give one-word answers to shut you down. Steve doesn’t meet your eyes until he’s finished speaking. Steve rarely smiles and when he does, they’re rarely bright—they’re small and mostly in the crinkle of his eyes and god forbid you make him smile when you’re arguing with him because then they’re sharp and bitter just like his laughter. 

Steve Rogers starts fights. Steve Rogers lies to your face. Steve Rogers stands as straight as he can with his crooked spine because he refuses to let you assume he can’t. Steve Rogers is not a golden retriever, he is a sickly, pissy little cat who will bite the shit out of you for trying to pet him. 

have fun writing MCU pre-serum Steve Rogers.

[lilbitofmac]

boyfriends boyfriends boyfriends

[meidui]

💍 + "I do."

[ktrew]

I think Tony likes to kiss Stefan out of the blue.