Emmett and I saw Winter Soldier today. Really enjoyed it as an action movie, but also appreciated the time it spent on the characters to make more than a Transformers spectacle of exploderation.

Particularly loved Steve going back to aged Peggy and spending time with her.

Thought Scarlett was great. Loved the Cap/Bucky stuff.

Emmett laughed out loud when he read Fury's tombstone.

Also really liked the direct way it engaged the post-Snowden /Wikileaks world and the surveillance world and the NSA.

I like my Captain America "on your left."

Also really liked the direct way it engaged the post-Snowden /Wikileaks world and the surveillance world and the NSA.

I was impressed with how strong that message was presented without coming off as heavy handed...at least not to me.

In William Goldman's "Adventures in the Screen Trade", one of my all-time favorite books, he talks about Robert Reford's career choices...specifically in The Great Waldo Pepper. He intimates that Redford would never play a bad guy...ever . So much for that!

David, your comment about Steve going back to see Peggy reminded me that, in the theatre, I was reminded of Highlander, of all things. Connor and Duncan were the first characters 'out of time' characters I saw do that. I was touched then, I was touched this time too .

I typically don't care much about getting spoiled, but I'm trying to avoid it for this movie, which is making the whitefont quite entertaining.

I like my Captain America "on your left."

He was one of my favourite superheroes growing up, despite the fact that the only superhero more obviously connected to a particular kind of American mythmaking was Super President. (Actually, I also quite liked Super President.) Perhaps this is why, because it's actually fairly easy to align him with a more Niebuhresque vision of American exceptionalism.

I saw the movie in 3D and liked it, but it's not necessary. I saw Captain America in 3D and wanted to see Winter Solider the same way.

With Jenny Agutter I thought omigod! who is this woman kicking ass! She's a sleeper agent. Has she been given some kind of serum, what's her backstory. And then it was Natasha which makes sense but still it would have been cool. Like Helen Mirren in RED and REDS. Now I want Helen Mirren in a Marvel movie.

Marvel schedules Captain America 3 to open the weekend as Batman v Superman: [link]

AKA Marvel tells DC "Neener neener neener".

I thought I read somewhere (io9, maybe?) that one of them will end up moving their date. (Or that may have been speculation that someone posted. But it sounds right to me. I can't imagine them both opening the same weekend.)

Oh man...wait a second, didn't Marvel already do something like this? I thought they'd already scheduled something on top of Batman vs. Superman, or did that already happen, and then they moved their release date, and Marvel scheduled on top of them again?

I suppose Marvel might move their date at a later point to avoid conflict and maximize profits. But with the trend of decisions publicly announced about the Man of Steel sequel so far, DC might just double down by following the Cap movie to the new date and revealing that Shaq, Olivia DeHavilland, and Gilbert Gottfried have been cast as Marvin, Wendy, and Wonderdog.

Ha, the movie has inspired a (spoilery) meme.