freepertoo: I really hated the comic book Civil War series (being an old Spider-man fan) because it ultimately wound up with Peter Parker splitting from his wife. Hated that! In any case, it was boring.
I didn't read the series, but the premise could make a really great movie: the government passes a "registration act" [for superheros & mutants] which leads to Captain America saying Nope!
and rebelling against what he would [correctly] view as both unconstitutional and horrific [being that Nazi Germany to him was literally "a few years ago", and they did people-registration too].
It would be a good way to ask the question what are the legitimate limits of government?
to the audience, if done right.
Considering that Hollywood is overrun with Arbitrary government loving, FDR idolizing, so-called “progressives” I wouldn’t trust their conclusions as far as I could throw Michael Moore.
That’s exactly what the comic series was about. Not so sure how close the movie is.
The whole thing was ridiculous, it put this veneer of reality on something that can’t survive such scrutiny on that level.
“I need to sue/arrest the Hulk! He raged and smacked the earth with his fists for no reason so hard my mother slipped and broke her hip, a tree fell and killed my wife!”
Did the Hulk commit a crime or is he liable or what?
The other thing is that Mutants were always supposed to be stand ins for some type of repressed minority who couldn’t help what they were. But no one really made a big deal about weirdo alien thunder gods being strange and different. Now the two marvel movie camps can’t let mutants ands avengers be in the same room, or at least they haven’t brought up yet that I know of.
Freegards
Good writing, there, IMO.
