Saw the new Captain America

So its bad, goes without saying. It feels bad in a new way where the last couple of films suffered from being at the tail end of a glut of MCU movies and being too weighed down by simply being part of the MCU, this movie introduces an entirely new problem of feeling like the people making it fully no longer care. It genuinely has the vibe and aesthetics of a straight to Netflix film. The laziness on show is kind of shocking given the budget, theres a location they reuse throughout thats meant to be a high security prison which consists entirely of a whitewashed hallway in what honestly looks like an old school.

It kind of made me slightly sad watching it, its been a while since I watched an MCU film full stop and the first one Ive watched in a cinema in years, not counting Deadpool & Wolverine. I was thinking nostalgically about the early MCU films being these massive cheesy events with all the buzz around them. Now the MCU feels like going to see a old rock star you used to love listening to, but they're over the hill now and they've got to keep a packed schedule just to keep solvent, and the whole experience feels a bit sad and desperate.