Ok boyos, incoming. I thought the movie was....fantastic. It's very heavily a comic book movie, but with a villain I think most people can get. The movie moves - a lot- looking back on the earlier scenes seems almost like a different movie, so if you prefer a movie to move from A to B to C exactly as intended, this isn't really the movie.

Evans does a wonderful job portraying Cap, in particular Cap's struggle with modern-day amoral government actions as well as Cap's friendly sense of humor.

Johansson shines in this- bar none her best performance in the Marvel films.

Anthony Mackie, while he doesn't quite feel like Falcon to me, still performs wonderfully and is a likable character none-the-less.

The Batroc fight is great; probably the closest you'd get to it being like the comics without defying physics.

The plot is very much a whodunnit in the beginning and really keeps you guessing. When the heroes find out what's going on, so do you. There's no focusing on the villains' point of view until you really figure out who the villains are. I can understand how some people might not like this, but I do.

There's plenty of action, but it's a lot more serious than I think we've come to expect from Marvel; in fact, the movie is considerably dark at times (for PG-13) and deals with some rather deep issues; there's actually one rather heartbreaking moment that happens pretty early in the movie. As for the fighting itself, the battles in this movie do not feel like the battles in the Avengers, and that's good.

Negatives? I'm gonna have to say Crossbones. Other than the name Brock Grumlow, he just isn't Crossbones. He seems more along the lines of the secondary antagonists in the Indiana Jones movies. However,

All in all, I think this is one of the better Marvel Films, and I can say without any doubt in my mind the best sequel. Some people are saying it's better than the Avengers, but I wouldn't go that far. I would say that if you're a Cap fan, it will be your #2 Marvelverse movie, if you're not then #3.

NOW ONTO DA SPOILAS! If for some reason you like those....

The main villain is

Alexander Pierce is actually...

Featuring a special appearance by

And who can forget the time that guy mentioned

And what about that mid-credit scene where we see

And then we see that they are

Oh my god it sounds glorious.

That movie fucking rocked.

- 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Secrets: The Cast Weighs In

As far as spoilers go, it's not exactly going to radically alter anyone's perceptions. If you're concerned about that sort of thing, you won't want to venture too deep, though.

- 11 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

I don't know about may have missed, but useful for the uninitiated.

Meanwhile; over in the Avengers: Age of Ultron thread -- the Captain has new clothes.

My favorite parts of Marvel movies are when during the post credits-scenes you can hear people whispering to their friends "Who is that?"

Pretty much this. I've heard them every time.

Looking forward to see this movie in comfy lounge chairs that this one theater placed in. They just need to install a massage function and I'll be set.

I loved this movie. What I especially enjoy is that, despite having read the comics, the films still pull surprises. Things I expect to happen either don't or they do happen but in new ways.

- 5 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Spin-Offs We Gotta See

Sounds fair. What do folks who've seen it think?

- OFFICIAL: "Captain America 3" to Challenge "Man of Steel 2" on May 6, 2016

Interesting sequel development. Gotta think someone (coughWARNERcough) will choke and shift the date before May 6th. With so many damned superhero movies, it's almost a wonder this hasn't been an issue before. I guess it took the second horse in the race to actually get running -- and even then, there's got to be a bit of the House of Assholes at play here. Of course, the way the Superman sequel is bloating by the day, they might actually need to push things back. Lucky them.

See also; Man of Steel 2 Superthread (Superman vs Batman)

It's almost redundant to say Winter Soldier was amazing, but what really has me excited is...

I've been thinking he looks like some chump kid, but I was clearly wrong.

I cannot agree more with your spoiler. That would just ruin it.

I finally got around to seeing the movie earlier this week. Definitely amazing. I think it might be Marvel's best movie yet. I know we all say this with each new movie in their cinematic universe, but I really believe it was better than the Avengers. I think the size and scope of the movie actually seemed bigger. With The Avengers, the setting seemed to be localized to one area, while with the Avengers, it seemed to shift around a bit and they didn't really re-use a lot of the same areas like the Avengers seemed too. The plot and character development where also really well done. The movie felt like an old spy thriller, rather than comic book movie.

I also thought they did a great job setting up The Avengers 2 with the post scenes credits.

I can't help but get the sneaking suspension that it might carry over to Captain America 3 as well and not just Avengers 2.

- Where Will The Red Skull Appear Next? [SPOILERS]

Fun speculative article about the long term film future of Cap's arch-nemesis. A couple of quotes there from [Hugo] Weaving I don't remember coming across.

So I finally saw Cap 2. Now I could say a bunch of stuff about how great it was, but this sums it up pretty nicely.

- No Marvel One-Shot with "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Blu-ray

That's a little disappointing. You just get the sense that a lot of little things are starting to add up. They seem like they're getting comfortable; corporate.

Check out the full list of bonus features for the "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Blu-ray, courtesy Marvel.com below:

Digital 3D, HD, & SD*, 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray bonus materials include:

-Making-of Featurettes
-Audio Commentary
-Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
-Bloopers
-And More
*Digital bonus offerings will vary per retailer

1-Disc DVD bonus materials inclue:
-Making-of Featurette
-Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scene

- ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Almost Had Another Avenger Cameo

There was, however, one Avenger cameo that didn’t make the final cut.

Spoilers: (Highlight to reveal)
On the Blu-ray for “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” it’s mentioned that one of the deleted scenes originally featured Hawkeye. It was later rewritten without Clint Barton and then dropped from the film altogether.

According to the director, when Steve Rogers became a fugitive from S.H.I.E.L.D., the Hydra shell organization sent Hawkeye after Cap, but not everything was how it would seem.

“There was an awesome sequence where [Cap and Hawkeye] confronted each other in a ravine on the outskirts of D.C., and Hawkeye was shooting a series of arrows closing in on Cap.... And then Cap took him down,” Russo said. “[Cap] realized for the first time that Hawkeye was trying to trick S.H.I.E.L.D.... [Hawkeye] whispered something into Cap’s ear that Cap had a tracker on his suit and to punch Hawkeye to make it look real, because there was a Quinjet hovering above where they were watching the feedback back at S.H.I.E.L.D.”

It wasn't filmed, so in terms of spoilers... You have to be avoiding hypotheticals, but there you go. If you don't wanna know who was almost in the mix, you don't have to. Pretty interesting, but fine without it, I'm sure.

- ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ is the 8-bit game we all want [YouTube]

As fun as it is to watch 8-Bit Cinema’s reimagining of Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a classic side-scrolling action game, it’s probably for the best that it’s not really. Because, seriously, if there were an actual old-school adventure-spy game like this, in which you could play as Captain America, Black Widow, Nick Fury or the Falcon, we’d never get anything else done. Hydra knows I fed enough quarters into Elevator Action when I was a kid...

This is glorious!