The Best MCU Solo Film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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- čas přidán 3. 04. 2024
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier Is STILL Goated TEN YEARS ON! On this day, April 4, a full decade ago... Cap 2 debuted in American theaters - so I thought it was the perfect time to make an ode to the very best Captain America movie and the best solo movie of the entire marvel cinematic universe.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 2014. Directed by the Russo Brothers.
Captain America: Civil War. 2016. Directed by the Russo Brothers.
Avengers: Infinity War. 2018. Directed by the Russo Brothers.
Avengers: Endgame. 2019. Directed by the Russo Brothers.
Deadpool & Wolverine. 2024. Directed by Shawn Levy.
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Random movie goer: "Is this the MCU?"
Former MCU fan: "This is what the MCU is supposed to be."
Fr 😭
So true. I’m a fan of good MCU.
2014 was when the mcu peaked
Random fan: "This is not so bad!"
I understood that reference
Steve roger was just built different in this movie
Thanks to the Russo Brothers
He was in his prime
@redronin7522 nah his prime was endgame, idc what you say this blud was crazy in endgame and either way he still a super soldier
Duilt bifferent
Big 🍑 too, no diddy
2014 is objectively the best MCU year. Two absolute bangers.
Only contested by 2018 or 2017 but I think the consistency of quality for 2014 is the most highest. Plus Days of Future Past is now honourary MCU
Plus two of the best arcs that Agents of SHIELD ever did.
@@Horltum??? What arcs?, hydra and what?
@@boilingman972 Whitehall
Fire
The Winter Soldier is one of the greatest spy trailers made in recent years tbh
An S tier super hero flick
I have to agree. Captain America 2 took the main characters story and the mcu to a whole new level. It was great to see Steve Rogers continue to learn to adapt himself into the modern era. The action in this movie was also top notch.
Top notch!!!! Game changer
In an era where so many heroes had to be some variety of snarky or brooding, I love how we had one who was just good and nice 😊
This is a trend I'm glad to see we're in the early stages of leaving behind. Creatives have begun to realize that characters can be earnest and kind while still being capable and engaging. There are other ways to show intelligence beside snark, quips, and sass. I think My Adventures With Superman was what really made me hopeful we had turned a corner away from the irreverent heroes of the last decade.
While still having that character be willing to back up their honor and morality with the ability to fight for their ideals. Steve is repeatedly tested physically and morally, and in the best of situations his moral sensibilities allow him to inspire and lead others.
However, they also allow him to be flawed, his rigid values occasionally veering into stubbornness and (at least in the first Avengers film), sanctimony, which can contribute towards his failures, especially when working with others that aren’t as rigid as him.
But his grief over his all that he has sacrificed, his desire to keep Bucky in his life, is his greatest vulnerability, the thing that compels him to act selfishly and forget his “mission”, showing that despite all his virtues, he is still a mortal man deep down.
Man of Steel 👀
Yea
I liked seeing a good and nice character be put in a non-so-nice world and having him make tough choices, which is why Winter Soldier was so great
8:23 Secret Invasion Happens: "LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY😢😢"
It’s so annoying because a Nick Fury movie would go so hard
@@FullFatVideos why you’d just cry and make a video about “😭😭😭😭 they replaced Sam Jackson” cause yall don’t think critically.
Just sit back stop acting like yall are not the problem. The state of the MCU now is what it is cause of all this fake crybaby sheep hate. Just so yall get views 🤣
@@mlewisfunny6265 It's not fake. Full Fat Videos has some of the best critique out there, and if Marvel actually listened to it, then they'd be in a better place right now. Just because some people have said ridiculous things doesn't mean that Full Fat is one of them. It's unfair to generalize all CZcamsrs
@@FullFatVideos Man It would...
@@mlewisfunny6265huh?
I think this movie has the best of Natasha Romanoff, Nick Fury, and Steve Rogers across the entire MCU.
And the way that this movie sets up ideas and carries them through the entire duration is great; Nat trying to set Steve up for a date, Fury and Pierce’s mission history, “what is Sitwell doing on a satellite ship,” etc.
10 years damnit! Feels like a lifetime ago. This movie was ahead of its' time and we will never see this amount of genius again. Thanks rat incorporated.
One of my favourite movies ever. I feel myself get legitimately happy when i rewatch this movie. I have always said The winter soldier is the best mcu movie. What's sad to slowly realise now, is that we may never get a solo mcu movie as good as this
I can’t see it happening
Winter Soldier is my favorite stand alone MCU film.
That being said, I'll defend the first Captain America film to the bitter end.
I'd argue that movie HAD to be the way it was and it executed what it set out to do - which was establish Caps back story and prep his character to be pulled forward into the modern era.
hey ya don't gotta tell me brother, I have always had exactly the same pick for "most underrated MCU movie", and that pick is FIRST AVENGER. It's only the most "inferior" of the Cap trilogy by way of the second two simply being that friggin good. It's like trying to compare BTTF 1 and 2.
(edit) in fact now I think about it, it feels like a very similar example to me of THE WOLVERINE and LOGAN. Because I'd probably say THE WOLVERINE is the most underrated of all Fox X-Men flicks, and I think automatically gets looked upon less because the stone cold classic LOGAN is.
I agree! I adore First Avenger and its focus on properly developing Steve and showcasing his personality. Since Captain America started as propaganda, the first issue of his comics have nothing in the way of backstory for him. First Avenger, however, gives great insight into who Steve is and why you should care. Not to mention I love that they made the movie into sort of a period piece too, which stands out in contrast to the other MCU movies (kind of in a way that Winter Soldier stands out as a bit of a spy thriller). It’s definitely an extremely underrated movie.
First cap reminds me of Batman Begins. I think the first half of the film was absolutely brilliant for an origin story.
I think the second half was a bit clunky, particularly with a pretty generic “evil” villain that wasn’t that captivating.
The second and third Caps are awesome and helped by the fact that at various times you had wonderful antagonists: Bucky, Zemo, Tony and even T’Challa for a certain part.
One Marvelous Scene-"Till the end of the line"👍
It seems revisionism has turned its ugly head towards Cap: Winter Soldier, I’ve been seeing on Twitter loads of people saying the action in this film is overly choppy in its editing & you can’t see what’s happening.
It’s not, the action in this film is brilliant, if you want overly choppy editing, watch anything by Paul W.S. Anderson, the editing in his movies is ridiculous, particularly his last Resident Evil movie. You can clearly see what’s happening in the action of Winter Soldier, you don’t have 3 seconds of footage & there’s about 9 cuts in it.
"I’ve been seeing on Twitter loads of people" See, that's your problem. Taking what Twitter users say seriously.
Twitter hates on everything mcu so ignore the hate, the editing isn’t as smooth as like John wick but the action in this movie is better than 90% of action movies lol especially the whole highway sequence is phenomenal, people who think it’s awful compare it to the 10% that had better action instead of all the others it’s better than
people on twitter have nothing better to do than to make up shit to be mad about. captws is nearly the perfect superhero movie and the only thing that lets it down is making everything hydra's fault at the last minute. hydra can still be involved but i think it's a huge cop out to remove all the government surveillence stuff in favour of don't worry it was just the nazis we don't need to have themes. everything else is literally perfect. the action is still some of the best i've ever seen. that first bucky/steve fight where steve loses his shield still hits it's completely perfect. i genuinely think this movie has the best fight choreography of any mcu movie.
@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 yeah but to be fair, for that matter you could say "your problem is taking what CZcams users say seriously", that would be just as valid. You're gonna get your share of poor and/or bad faith arguments for comic book stuff (or really movies in general) across any social media, I'm honestly not sure that twitter is necessarily better or worse in that regard (those being VERY relative terms in this case lol).
I'm not all surprised by the OP's observations, not even just by way of the time on the calendar, but it feels like there's been a certain level of backlash to the Russos in general now the last couple years. And I'm not even sure it's all that unfairly, between both the quality of all of their non-MCU output so far, and some of their opinions on film in general, AI, and other emerging technologies. I've loved them since Arrested Development but I have wondered if it's been a case of them loving the smell of their own farts, so to speak lol
The Winter Soldier is still my #1 favourite movie in all the mcu to this day! Even though Tony Stark is my favourite Avenger, the quality of Winter Soldier was just…thrilling, real, grey, realistically comical, even politically scary at times! Also that elevator fight scene was the most creative setting for a fight and the execution was just god-tier!!
"I'm not going to launch those ships.... Captains Orders."
😭 😭 😭
I’m so glad someone finally pointed out how amazing 2014 was for the MCU, we got this masterpiece and the first Guardians. 2014 was one of the best years of my life, not just for that reason. Times were just better back then
Don't forget X-Men:DOFP, another incredible one, man all 3 were amazing
Banger year for cinema as well, Interstellar, Birdman, whiplash
@@vedantbakshi6546 and Nightcrawler
@@vedantbakshi6546interstellar to this day is my favorite in cinema experience. Sure the big edible I took had something to do with it, but that water planet scene blew my mind in imax.
The Winter Soldier is the movie that solidified Steve Rogers as probably my favorite MCU character. It's far and away the best MCU movie, and Chris Evans is (obviously) no small part of that.
The fact that this year we're as far away from Endgame as Endgame was from The Winter Soldier when it came out, genuinely blows my mind, and makes me a bit sad.
Same here😢
Sad
Really shows how far the MCU has fallen from grace. In the time period between Winter Soldier and Endgame they were putting out consistent bangers every year that all interlinked to serve the overall infinity narrative. In the time period between Endgame and now, we've gotten maybe 3 gems sprinkled in amongst a flood of truly awful mass produced drivel that has no overall cohesion or direction. I'm hopeful for Deadpool 3 but I think it's probably just time to let the superhero genre die
@@muffinman3052I was all aboard to see the superhero genre die, but then I saw The Batman and had my mind changed.
Also dying to see how spiderverse ends.
The thing about the MCU is they still have proven they can do some good stuff. I thought Loki, Wakanda Forever, and No Way Home were so much fun.
The problem was they just produced too much crap. Dr. strange and Thor 4 were the biggest letdowns I’ve experienced in a while in the MCU.
@@thatstheway2429 Don't forget Ant-Man 3. That one was terrible too, but nothing tops Thor 4. That might have been the worst movie I've watched in decades. I couldn't even get through it first time.
Really hoping they can capture the awesome action scenes the winter soldier had in brave new world. Those Cap movies really were the backbone for the MCU in its first 3 phases
It’s gonna be hard without that sweet serum. I wish Cap 2.0 had the wings and strength, he should be the next level
@FullFatVideos I'm glad I'm reading people say this! I love Sam's character but they're going to have to pull it out the bag to stop him feeling underpowered and underwhelming without the serum
Gosh, I still get goosebumps whenever cap asks if anyone wants to leave the elevator before they begin. and the callback in infinity war where he gets out of the situation tactically instead of through force. so cool!
I feel this movie is how you take a "goodie-goodie character" and make him cool and badass without making him morally questionable or edgy or anything like that and while still keeping his morals and values. Still my favorite MCU movie 😊
Winter Soldier will forever be my Favourite MCU movie.
I watched the film twice yesterday, listened to the soundtrack, even watched the trailers took me back like it was yesterday when i first watched it on the big screen for the first time...Still a masterpiece a decade later.
I have spammed the main theme all week, makes me really nostalgic now
I also love how this movie connects to the storyline of Agents of SHIELD. That show makes this movie feel all the more relevant, important and like its part of a bigger world.
16:00 I’m so happy you addressed the Golden Age/Nostalgia issue fandoms have these days. A lot of these stories are good and memorable because they were new and fresh ideas during their time. I’m excited for Brave New World because I want to see where the characters and story go, not because I want Winter Soldier 2.0
Best part of this movie is the "on your left" line when cap is out running sam. That being the call back line when all the heros stepped out of the portals in endgame is the best callback ever.
Agreed
10 years is crazy. It feels like it wasnt that long ago but time truly does fly
Yeah. Also mad to think Spider-Man 2 was ten at that time, doesn’t feel like the same gap now for WS
I re-watched Winter Soldier right before Civil War. Civil War felt like a let down to me. That was how good Winter Soldier was.
Yeah they could’ve name avengers civil war.
Lemme get that GotG video. The Guardians comics during the DNA run were some of my favorite superhero comics and i lost my mind when they were announced all those years ago. The fact that people know who those characters are now and actually like them still makes me extremely happy cuz they were pretty niche back then.
THANK YOU! Finally someone said it out loud. Winter Soldier was literally the Dark Knight counterpart for Marvel. There has never been a better Marvel movie and never will be, imo.
This movie is the reason I love the MCU so much. It was absolute perfection.
Everything about this movie is top notch, I thought “this is what Captian America would be if he was real”
It's depressing to see just how far the MCU has fallen. Back when Winter Soldier came out, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that wasn't 100% on board with the MCU and actively excited and theorizing about where everything would go next. That excitement is now all but completely gone. Sad. Makes me miss the days of The Winter Soldier.
No matter where i go, what i do or what i become, i can always rely on you to make an amazing video about winter soldier which i will always thoroughly enjoy. It was your first cap video that got me to subscribe to you all those years ago. I'm glad to have been on this mcu ride with you, through the good and the bad. Though i cant support you financially there is not a day that goes bye that I wont be rooting and cheering for you. I'm with you to the end of the line. 😁
Thank you. The support from people like you makes it worth it!!!!
CA-2 Winter Soilder was definitely one of the best from the mcu no doubt , his solos period were all great despite the 3rd movie was basically a Avengers team-up movie
Winter Soldier is just a solid movie. One of my personal favorites.
Winter soldier is EVEN better if you watch it alongside Agents of Shield, showing the Shield/Hydra collapse from a different perspective, making the world feel broader
God it’s been too long since I sat down with this movie. Gotta get back to it at some point.
God I miss the old MCU, the connection everyone had with the characters and the way the audience was a hundred percent invested in their stories. It was a good time.
This doesn't even mention the absolute banger of a soundtrack that the movie had. The track 'Taking a stand' still gets me going every time I hear it.
2:30 Ahh the non initiated not knowing that 616 Cap Would actually Dogwalk his Edgy Ultimate Version and Way More People from different verses then most think but Yes, THANK GOD he didin't have his Ultimate Verse Personality, but there was No Way The Russos or even Whedon were ever going to make a Mistake Like THAT.
Cap taking on a Quinn Jet. Like John McLean taking down a JSF with a car. Nothing outlandish at all
Yes!! By far and large still the best MCU film 👏🏽
When I saw the first Cap America movie, I thought it was good - but that's about it. So when I headed into the theatre to watch this, I didn't have much expectations. I think that's the biggest reason why I was completely blown away by it:it definitely is Marvel's Dark Knight
I also don't think people understand the significance of cap lifting Thor's hammer, the level of honor one must achieve in order to lift the hammer is literally a level of honor that was set by a god and the king of Asgard, just that phrase alone......"he who so ever wields this hammer...if he be worthy...shall possess the power of Thor" says everything
The fact that we also got a direct follow-up to the events of this movie and changed the entire tone of a TV show forever and made it one of if not the best comicbook TV show ever is why Cap 2 is my favorite MCU movie
You have a point about Steve definitely got the upper hand in some of his fights before 2014
In general I consider 2014 to be one of the best years for modern movies with 2 all time great MCU movies, Interstellar, Godzilla, X-Men, Edge of Tomorrow, John Wick, The Lego Movie and many more. It could just be nostalgia but honestly I still watch many of these movies regularly and think they are better than a lot of stuff today. If anyone is not interested in the movies coming out right now go do a watch party of movies from 2014 you won’t be disappointed.
Steve was an absolute machine in The Winter Soldier 🔥🔥
Put some respect on Shang Chi too, that movie had probably the best hand to hand stuff ever
Honestly 2012 to 2019 was such peak mcu, i really wish and hope they manage to bring that magic back again
For me, the fact that he was the least super powered in Assemble, but still threw himself in first was what sold him to me…
People also really under appreciate or overlook the fantastic score by Henry Jackman for the Captain America films
"Taking a stand " is my phone's ring tone. 🤘😎
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is still the best solo movie since Iron Man. And nothing else since has been able to keep me on the edge of my seat in the MCU.
This is in my top 5 mcu movies. Everything from the writing, character arcs and action was perfect, and its criminal we have never had choreography on the same level since
Thumbnail is fire 🔥
Thank goodness!!!
This movie really was a wake up call for me towards Cap as a character and its still my favorite MCU film to this date 🙌🏾
YES!. yes.
This is what I am always telling my wife. Captain America should always be a hero in a 90's Tom Clancy movie.
Personally I wanted Bucky to get the shield. He CAN become his own person outside of Steve’s shadow, just needs the good writing to do first.
And not……. “You got to do better senator, you’ve got to step up.”
Gave a like before even watching. My favorite movie in the entire MCU
2014 also gave rise to Agents of Shield. Even though it wasn't technically MCU, it was still an incredible show, and was a great supplement to the great movies coming out.
the end credit still hits hard even now...
This is still the best MCU film to date.
One of the things I love about this movie is the time it was released and the perception of the character at that time.
Before "The First Avenger" I was not such a fan of Cap (16 yo at the time) mostly out of ignorance, I was more into Deadpool. I started to read Cap's comics and got a better idea of him. In "The Avengers" everyone loved Stark and his snarky lines, while Steve, as Honest Trailers puts it, was "nobody's favorite Avenger", but he was my favorite already. I knew that Cap had more to offer, that he wasn't just a stiff, boring self-righteous dude throwing around a shield.
CA:TWS arrived. And boy did Cap shut some mouths. It gave me so much pleasure to see the character in all of his glory. It was what I always knew it could be. Honest Trailers said at the end of their TWS video "He's Cool now". He always was, you just didn't know that.
I still consider Captain America's second film as a documentary.
2013-2014 was great for superhero movies all together
It really was the best mcu movie
The fight sequence just before Bucky’s mask came off was just perfection, I go back to watch that regularly!
Also shout out to George St-Pierre for getting a badass fight sequence in Captain America whilst being the best fighter in the world at the time in real life!
Winter soldier is personally my favorite MCU movie. The whole movie, from start to finish, is fantastic. The opening when they are raiding the ship is one of the greatest MCU scenes IMo.
The biggest video edit (by far) that I've ever done was in the following year when I took the entirety of WINTER SOLDIER and mixed all throughout it different bits of the last 7 episodes of AGENTS OF SHIELD season 1 to render a 4hr film of it with everything in chronological order. In fact the uploading of it in 2015 was the purpose of me creating my Reddit account lol It got enough exposure that the entertainment blog The Daily Dot actually interviewed me about doing it and one other site talked a lot about it in an article about fan edits and Marvel continuity. The craziest part is I did the original version of it on nothing more advanced than Windows Movie Maker on my ancient desktop PC lol I've been rocking on Wondershare Filmora for the last few years now and did a whole revamped, cleaner version of it a couple years ago.
Excellet review. I always thought the Winter Soldier and Cival War were underrated.
Love it. This movie had INERTIA and just didn't fucking let up. Masterful. Top of the class.
So well paced!
Dark Knight and Winter Soldier , the standard bearers in superhero action flicks
That highway scene vs winter sildier is still some of the greatest shit Iv ever seen. That scene and daredevil hallway scene are the best fight scenes in mcu . They should have probably kept winter soldier bad for at least 3 more movies.
Btw,nice tshirt bro
The scene in the lift lives in my head rent-free. How he uses it to his advantage in Endgame by saying 'Hail Hydra' gives me goosebumps every time.
And it's so novel to see Cap and Nat bond as close friends, love the small quirky jokes in-between, every now and then.
Excellent video! This film still stands out as being top tier MCU even 10 years later so its always good to see it get the praise it thoroughly deserves, this film has aged like a fine wine
Please do the GOTG video for August as well! I would love to see your thoughts on that film and the completed Guardians Saga
Yeah I think it’s defo needed now!
You remarked the Cap vs Quinjet but you forgot to praise that awesome landing with the star spangled shield front point.
I agree with everything you've said about this movie, definitely in my top 5, just cant get enough!👍
It’s insane that it’s been 10 years… I actually started my MCU journey with Guardians, so I just missed this one in theaters. I then went back and started from the beginning. This movie is definitely my favorite from the MCU for a multitude of reasons, but especially because it literally made me fall in love with Cap. I literally disliked First Avenger the first time I watched it. Now Cap is my favourite character of all time, and all thanks to this movie. Of course, I now love First Avenger too, but it’s crazy for me to think that I might not have, were Winter Soldier any different.
Anyway, great video!!
2014 is the year the MCU went from a pretty good franchise to an unstoppable juggernaut. It secured good faith for the entirety of the Infinity Saga, ensuring everyone would allow Marvel to cook. That's how good The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy are.
This movie is still the gold standard for MCU fare. A decade after this movie is out, I have a Captain America stealth suit hoodie in my rotation.
watching catws back in the day alongside agents of shield had me buzzing out of my skin with excitement. this is still hands down the best mcu film imo. part of it, i think, is that none of the characters feel like theyre forced into being funny or snarky for no reason
Idk why people call The Dark Night the greatest comic book movie ever when this masterpiece exist, the action alone makes this better
The dark knight showed the possibility of using comic book characters and mixing them with other genres. No one has had the guts to try and they succeeded when they did. It was a watershed moment. If TDK was a failure. I doubt we could had seen a masterpiece like this that places Cap in an espionage thriller. Remarkable what the Russos did here.
@@bonifaceonyekaba8849 I just don’t see what’s special about that movie. The action scenes totally take me out because Christian bale was soo stiff. It was a nice movie but wasn’t a good Batman movie. What did TDK do that X-men 2 or Spiderman 2 didn’t do?
Idk why people call The Dark Knight the best comic book movie when it's not even accurate to the comics lmao
Both are some of the best cbms but dark knight has better writing and cap ws has better action
The Dark Knight ran so Captain America: The Winter Soldier could say "on your left" action wise.
This movie was also partly adapting the zeitgeist of the time - the Edward Snowdon saga. The paranoia of is the govt shady and are we truly doing the right thing as an individual and as a nation were high. Hydra infiltration coming to light invoked the same feeling. That genuinely resonated and made the film more relatable. This is an often overlooked take.
Totally agree, 2014 is my favorite year, not just for the MCU but movies in general.
I remember when Winter Soldier came out, I watched it with a friend and it was so good I told him he van go home first as I watched it a second time that night.
Besides Winter Soldier and GotG though, notable movies I remember from then are Days of Futures Past and Edge of Tomorrow, The Lego Movie and Kingsman.
Still stands as my fav movie.
Same!
Great video. Well done 👏
Thank you! 👍
I don’t think anyone can argue about this movie!!!
I was thinking of it the other Day when my Parents where watching Robert Redford in something, and I remembered, man he was great in Winter Soldier...Man, that was an impressive Marvel movie, everything was crazy impressive about it!!!
Yo, this breakdown was really well done. 👏🏽
Subscribed 👍🏽
Appreciate it!
10:56 that was captain falcon levels of awesomness
Was not expecting to see Krispy Kreme lol (that's how it's spelled right? I forget)
But yes you are correct
Cant believe its been 10 years😁
Another thing you totally forgot to mention is the commentary that the movie provides on the theme of freedom vs. security in an increasingly digital age.
Love that stealth suit.
The best!
never gets old!!
Winter soldier is on the same level as dark knight.
I'm not a MCU hater at all. Hell, I loved literally everything MCU put out till Endgame. But the movie that I've went back to re-watch multiple times has only been this one!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier!
Crisp action, gripping story plus Cap'n is just kicking some straight ass man! Love it!
Also, the idea of seeing him visit Peggy in her older years battling Alzheimer’s was heartbreaking. Off screen he certainly had to relive Peggy realizing he was alive so many times. It was his last familiar connection to the life he had before fighting Winter Soldier.
Maybe it's not that important, but I appreciate that you took the time to shout out the stunt actors by full name.
Great video!! MCU at it's best!! I still look forward to great things from the franchise but this movie will always be a highlight. Thank you for a great, positive piece!
Cheers!