sergebroom: (Captain America)
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I recently figured out why I liked "Winter Soldier", but didn't love it. I kept wondering why, and came up with some explanations, but I finally realized that the main reason is that I felt *cheated*. The ads told us that it'd be about America struggling with its soul's dark shadows, but it took that struggle away and gave my country a free pass. It said "It's not that America has a dark soul, it's that it was seduced by foul deceivers."

Date: Apr. 21st, 2014 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
That's a great point that I hadn't considered. The switcheroo was done via the speech by Redford, which was employed to quite different effect in the trailer.

Date: Apr. 21st, 2014 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I wrote that. --Bill Preston