Captain America: Civil War – BIG RANT and many plot spoilers inside (you should save your time and money and not see it now)

[DonFerrari]

Final-Fan said:

DonFerrari said:

The discussion I was doing is that the government isn't to be trusted with "infinite power" and you seems to agree... anyway the point was against people that are merry thinking about the great father that is the state and the angelical politicians.

I can agree with that sentiment.  But I do have one question:  how is defending the internment camps an example of NOT trusting the government with more power? 

I'm not defending. I'm saying I understand why it was necessary and justifiable at the time (and war is ugly) and is a consequence of government extreme power (citizens use to subsize when in face of danger and let government roll over them). And my point was more on the side of politicians of the XIX century were more thrustworthy than the ones from the XXI, just that.

d21lewis said:

Runa216 said:

yes, it made a lot of money, but for what it is it should have made double that.  Batman and Superman are not just comic book icons but also pop culture icons.  Based on the opening day and worldwide opening, it should have been on par with The Avengers, at least. 

Instead, once word got out, its dailies dropped like a rock, giving it one of the biggest friday to sunday drops of all time, with one of the worst first to second weekend drops of the superhero genre.  People hated it, and the box office patterns prove it.  The 870 million it made was really the floor for this movie, once it was all said and done.  

Yeah. They hated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2, too. That movie had the bigger drop off, right? In fact:http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/drops.htm

Batman and Superman are iconic. They've both been in great movies in the past. How do their great movies compare to the total gross of the horrible BvS? I mean box office is the metric, right? BvS was just a front loaded movie. Nothing wrong with that, is it? I'd say they did okay considering, by comparison, Civil War had almost every MCU hero in it besides Hulk, Thor, and Nick Fury. More characters automatically means more money?

Just to add one small tidbit. Most HP fan would say the movies are very bad compared to the books, but they watch in droves because they love the universe.