Day Five - FREE DAY!

Because I get to do what I want, I'm going to post awesome clips/pictures of my favourite scenes from each of the MCU movies. (Since Ant-Man appeared in Civil War, he is added to the roster.)

Technically, Captain America should be the first of the films to watch, but I'm going to treat it as a "flashback" movie and stick it before the Avengers, because when Cap wakes up, a lot of the events in the first two Iron Man movies, the Hulk, and Thor have already taken place.

(Because I tend to love ALL the scenes from the movies, I'll limit myself to a total of five per movie - I'll aim for three, but I can go up to five. Does that seem fair? Thank you s' much.)


Iron Man 1:

When he's freakin' blacksmithing in captivity!!!

Since I've already fangirled over the part when Yinsen saves Tony, I'm not going to post that. Instead, I'll skip forward to the entire Gulmira scene, where Tony takes out a fleet of bad guys.

This scene, where Pepper has to replace the Arc Reactor...

When Dummy saves Tony...

When his arc reactor flickers back on after Pepper calls his name...

Iron Man 2:

When he tries to be sweet and brings Pepper

strawberries, forgetting she's allergic to them.

When he rediscovers the Vibranium element that will not only make his
arc reactor more powerful, but will also stop it from poisoning him...

When Pepper finds out he was dying...

Tony and Rhodey's Bro Battle against the Hammer-Drones. :)

The Incredible Hulk:
(I have only watched The Incredible Hulk once, and this was after I'd seen The Avengers and had embraced Mark Ruffalo in the role of the Hulk. So, I didn't much care for Ed Norton as the Hulk, but he had some cute vulnerable scenes, and the movie overall had some good parts.)

The way he tries to control his blood pressure, so he doesn't go critical...

This pretty epic chase scene...

And that's really about it. (It wasn't my most favouritest Marvel movie in the whole wide world.)

Thor:

When Darcy Tazes Thor...

This entire scene. :)

When Thor breaks the Bifrost to stop Loki from destroying Jotunheim...

Captain America: The First Avenger:

When Steve Rogers leaps on that grenade!!!

When Steve gives zero cares about orders and goes on an op

that saves hundreds of POWs - including Bucky...

This scene after he loses Bucky and he's trying to get drunk...

When he gives zero cares about Red Skull...

When he has to put the ship in the water. :(

The Avengers:

Ugh! There are too many good scenes in the Avengers! I'll do my best to only choose five of the best... even though I could pretty much post the entire movie and say, "I loved it all!" But the best scenes, IMHO:

When this old man refused to kneel to Loki...

When Natasha "re-calibrates" Hawkeye...

When Coulson DIES!!!

THIS SCENE!!!

When Tony flies the nuke into the portal...:'(

Iron Man 3:

Every time Tony has a panic attack :(

This totally sweet scene...

When he loses Jarvis...

When he demonstrates some pretty sick moves in this fight...

When he saves Pepper and calls her "Honey." :)

Thor: The Dark World:

Frigga's Funeral.

THIS SCENE! :)

Followed closely by THIS SCENE!!

Thor's grief at Loki's death...

THIS:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier:

This start to a beautiful friendship...

Pretty much every time Steve speaks...

This entire fight scene, but especially that knife flip. :)

BUCKY! :(

This Steve epicness...

Avengers: Age of Ultron:

Adorable Steve Rogers being adorable...

Tony, reminding me so much of myself here... :)

When Bruce and Natasha were suddenly PERFECT together...

Clint in this scene: "Nobody would know."

When Quicksilver saves Hawkeye...

Ant-Man:

When Scott gets out of prison...

When he introduces himself to the Falcon...

When these guys come roaring to Scott's aid,

only to be faced with a phalanx of cops...

When he goes subatomic to save his daughter...

Captain America:  Civil War:

 This movie had more scenes that broke my heart than probably any other MCU movie out there. I think it's because Steve and Tony are my GUYS, and having them angry at each other was the hardest thing in the world. Steve is the man who is already on the moral high ground and who we aspire to become, and Tony is the man who gives us the hope of attaining that moral high ground by conquering ourselves more and more each day. I couldn't stand to see them fighting.

So this is more a collection of favourite bro scenes/scenes that broke my heart (there are more pictures here because there were too many good ones NOT to post...):

This scene, when Tony and Steve were still BESTIES!! :(

Peggy's funeral...

When freakin' Zemo reactivates Bucky, and he goes on a rampage...

When lines are drawn...

"I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart!"

"You did that when you signed."

Bucky not believing his worth...

THIS. FREAKING. SCENE. x-(

When Rhodey gets hurt...:(

When Steve and Bucky take cover behind the shield. :)

When Tony sees this footage...

 Which understandably incenses him...

...Which leads to this awful scene, where Steve is forced to fight a friend to save a friend.

This very epic, but very heartbreaking moment...

And finally, the last scene, where hopefully the healing has

started and they can find a way back to their friendship.

And that's all for now, folks! I hope that put you back in the mood to rewatch all the Avengers movies (in order, of course!) and get totally caught up in the character development again.

Until next time, that's a wrap!

God bless!

Cat

Day Four - Opposite Team Character

Day Four: Pick a character from the opposite team that you like. Talk about him and/or defend him.

Day Four of Bella's Blog Party is to pick a character from the opposite team I like and talk about him/her and/or defend him/her.

Obviously the character I choose from the opposite team is Bucky.

I mean, I love Steve. Duh. Who wouldn't? But if we are just choosing a member that's NOT Steve, it would be Bucky. Think about this. He is Steve's friend from way back. He always had Steve's back. Even after he was rescued in CAFA, he immediately deferred to Captain America, and literally followed him into death. He didn't choose to become the Winter Soldier. The Russians messed with his brain and made him a dangerous weapon, but it was never something he chose. In fact, once he remembered who Steve was, and who he was, he went into hiding. He didn't "do that anymore."  The only reason he came out of hiding was because THIS man...

 

...Baron Zemo, lost his family in Sokovia and, blaming the Avengers for their deaths, was determined to destroy them from the inside out. So he framed Bucky for killing the king of Wakanda, which brought hordes of policemen swarming to find and capture the Winter Soldier, thus making Steve lose his normally cool-headed perspective to ignore the law in order to protect his best friend.

Bucky has a really tragic story. He's left for dead in the Alps after falling from an impossible height in CAFA, but apparently due to whatever the Russians did to him while he was in their prison, the fall did not kill him. Instead, he is found and apprehended by HYDRA agents, and programmed to become their assassin. He is transformed from the good old Brooklyn kid Steve knew, into a mindless killer who's only job was to comply.

Steve - "What you did all those years, it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice."
Bucky - "I know. But I did it."

The thing I like best about Bucky, he knows fate has dealt him a cruel hand, but he never complains. Even while Steve is trying to keep him safe, Bucky takes each obstacle step and step and accepts it for what it is.

"I don't know if I'm worth all this, Steve." - Bucky Barnes

Even at the end, when Zemo plays footage revealing Bucky was the assassin who killed Tony's parents, Bucky never tries to shift the blame. He just stands there as the video plays, watching Tony slowly losing it, quietly ready to take whatever violence Tony throws at him (which, by the way, I totally get. I dare you to stand and watch your parents get viciously murdered by the best friend of your friend, and just shrug it off).

Tony - "Do you even remember them?"
Bucky - "I remember all of them."

And then, after all is said and done, Bucky chooses to go back into cryostasis, because he is still programmed to be dangerous. He would rather be put on ice indefinitely than to be the cause of any other problems for Steve. And I think that was the most heroic thing done in the movie.

That's a wrap, until tomorrow!

God Bless!

Cat

 

Day Three - Supporting Character

Day Three, I get to talk about a supporting character from my team - which, since I decided I probably agreed more with Tony's logic than Steve's for a change, makes that Team Iron Man.

(For those of you jumping in to participate, you can find the Blog Party rules on Bella's blog.)

The character I became unexpectedly fond of was Spiderman. 

I didn't expect to like him at all. My favourite Spiderman of all times is the first one I ever saw -Toby McGuire. Yes, the effects were terrible. Yes, those movies could have used some work, and I despised MJ. But Toby McGuire was such a cute, sympathetic character as Peter Parker. He was the kind of superhero I could admire. I liked him a lot. (I didn't care too much for the Andrew Garfield remake, and I confess I did not watch the sequel to the Amazing Spiderman. It was mostly that part, where the teacher tells him not to make promises he can't keep, and Peter whispers to Gwen, "But those are the best kind," which completely ruined him for me. I mean, what? You promised a dying man to leave his daughter out of your escapades, and now you're freakin' saying broken promises are the best kind?! That's not cool at all, Bro!)

So, to watch Civil War and realize that, hey, you know what, I kinda like this Peter Parker... well, let's just say I went from violently disliking the idea of Spiderman, to feeling pretty glad he was on Tony's side. (Also, the fact that he's from Queens - that Tony found another kid from Brooklyn to join his team - is cool.)

Plus, he's so genuinely nice. I mean, the first time we even meet Peter, he comes into his house and finds Iron Man having tea and some kind of bread (was it walnut date bread? I think it was walnut date bread) with his aunt, and he's so adorably awkward in that scene. Tony pretends Peter had won some kind of scholarship, and Peter is just terrible at acting along, and I was over there going, well Marvel, I can't believe you have managed to introduce yet ANOTHER Spiderman, and somehow make him someone I might actually like more than Toby McGuire.

Also, during the fight between the teams that I loved/hated (loved because the dialogue was FUNNY, hated because it was friends against friends, and then RHODEY...) it was mostly Spiderman (and Ant-Man) who made the scene less horrible than it could have been.

I liked the freshness Peter brought to the team, the constant geeking out over peoples' suits, armour and abilities, and his overall ingenuousness.

Spiderman - "Are those carbon fiber wings?"
Falcon - "I don't know if you've been in a fight before, but there's usually not this much talking." 
Spiderman - "All right, sorry. My bad."

He was so young, and I liked that we got to skip over the whole "how Spiderman came to be" backstory and went straight to where he had had these abilities for six months, and was now able to apply them. I also liked the little nods to previous movies, like where he says something to Tony that's akin to Uncle Ben's famous line, "With great power comes great responsibility," and how he feels a personal obligation to use his powers to help the "little guy."

I'm glad they cast him younger, too. I almost felt like it was a way for Tony to reconcile his conscience with the boy killed in Sokovia - that by taking this young boy and making him one of his team members, he could make a small restitution. I thought it worked really well, and I'm interested to see how this Peter Parker grows up.

Until next time, that's a wrap!

God bless!

Cat