The Winter Soldier

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When I was young and VCRs were first a thing, my dad kind of randomly bought me a couple of movies (Princess Bride and Roxanne), and I really loved The Lost Boys and bought it for myself, and I watched those movies several times, often just as background, because you know, I never liked Roxanne that much. Still, I owned it, so I watched it.

In my twenties, I owned several movies people gave to me. (Why yes, now that you ask, I pretty much only own movies people gift or hand down to me. I'm just not that into movies, generally.) Despite several of them being truly great movies, the only one I watched multiple times was Thelma and Louise, because when I was going through a really rough period, I could watch it and think, well, at least my life is better than that! Plus, it's just such a great movie. Patty and I still do lines from that one. (Are we the only people in the world who do lines from Thelma and Louise? Probably.) So many of them are just so great, though! "I ain't apologizin' fer shit!" "I bet you called us 'beavers' on your c.b. radio, didn'tcha?" "Yeah! Sure did!" (The way he says it is just so priceless--good for anytime you want to say rudely, "Yeah! Sure did!".) And, "Do you love me?" "Uh ... yeah!" But that was the only movie I've really rewatched since I was about 17, and I've still only seen it maybe ten times in my life.

I guess I've watched most SPN episodes at least twice, some several times, but y'all already know about (and relate to) my obsession with that.

And then Captain America: Winter Soldier came along. I've seen it probably 20 times this year. (Just watched it again tonight.) It's the best-made movie I've ever seen in my life. Every detail is perfect. I can hardly conceive of the work that had to have gone into making it so good. (I AM incredibly excited for CA: Civil War ... but trepidatious. Very trepidatious, especially since Marvel movies have imo taken a big dip in quality ever since CA: WS. Agents of Shield is great, though, what I've seen of it.) If only WS were a series I could anticipate new episodes of, instead of a movie I can only get more of by watching it over and over. On the other hand, I get to watch it over and over!

And gah, Bucky. (I just may have dug deep into Sebastian Stan's filmography, so impressed was I by his performance in WS. He is universally great in every role I've ever seen him in, one of those actors who really disappears into a role.) What a character the like of which you scarcely ever get to see, and what an actor bringing him to such vivid life. (I may have done a couple of paintings inspired by him as well. I needed an outlet!) BUUUCKYYY .... Sometimes when I watch WS, I just watch his parts, which are all! so! good! I mean, look at them!







He's just amazing. Also, he is not bad-looking. Just my opinion. Let me look at those gifs again just to make sure ...

I'm not generally one for fight scenes, but this one is incredible. Massive spoilers, if you haven't already seen it:

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When I was a little person movies were a life line to a world outside of the crap going on with my parents, so I tended to just dive in and stay there. I used to become quite obsessed with certain films and watch them over and over again!

We had a VHS player, and I almost wore out Fantasia, and I used to *shhhh don't laugh I was really little* play the parts of the people/characters on screen. So the pegasus and unicorns, I used to dance around the room like them, and then the dancing mops all trying to attack Mickey, I used to sit and stamp my feet in time, lol.

I have a healthy (okay maybe unhealthy) love of film, there's something about being able to disappear into another person's world for two hours, and with great story telling comes the ability to imagine yourself in their shoes!

The Winter Soldier is a fabulous film, actually I adore all the MCU films, but then again that's probably because comics were an escape as a child and teenager as well. I'm looking forward to seeing how they play out the Civil War plot, I'm intrigued to see if they stick to the original comic book plot, and slightly afraid at the same time!

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Wow, Fantasia! That one kind of scared me, the way he tried to kill the mops, and they just divided and increased in number, and the scary wizard. Also, I always had an aversion to movies from the '40s and '50s, go figure. So I never really connected to that one, but I think it's adorable that you did! (And you're not the only one--now that I'm obsessed with what inspires fanfic and what doesn't, I see that there are some Fantasia fics on AO3!)

I've really liked all the MCU films, as well, except Dark World was a little lackluster ... but then just last week I saw Ant-Man and did not like it one bit, I'm afraid. The rest, though, YES, and Winter Soldier, guh, amazing!

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I haven't seen Ant Man yet, bad fangirl, but I was waiting til DVD/TV so, hmmm, you aren't the only one who's said that about it. We'll wait and see what my MCU freakazoid loving brain makes of it ;)

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We must be fairly close in age. My younger brothers had Roxanne on VHS and I think we have all the insults committed to memory along with bits about the ladder being up and 'chief, we can't get it started.' There are days when I find myself saying things like the pigs are refusing to find any truffles until you leave. They had Princess Bride too and Moonstruck as well as some weird overdubbed chinese spy movie done by Woody Allen of all people. SPN used the title for What's Up Tiger Mommy.

I loved the Winter Soldier and think Sebastian did amazing things with a role where he had almost no dialog. I'm looking forward to Civil War with equal parts excitement and dread. At least the Russo brothers are doing that one.

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The 20 something-betters! That was my great. We must indeed be close to the same age.

I do lines from all kinds of stuff, and almost no one ever gets them. When they do, though, you know you've found a true friend. Oddly, it seems to be the most obscure lines I do that get recognized! I did one from an old Matt Groening comic, and the guy next to me was so excited!

Yes, thank heaven about the Russo brothers!

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