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civil war sets itself up as a debate about the conflict between well-informed, impartial, binding oversight and the ability of seasoned professionals to make decisions at runtime. but i think the real question here is about why there is such a lack of transparency on the part of such a powerful agency as the avengers. you know what would have solved the problem quite nicely? auditable telemetry and a culture that not only allows, but *demands* blameless post mortems.
unfortunately for the avengers, they are all about the solitary guilt trips. what they should have been doing instead was proactively collecting as much data as possible, understanding the failures, figuring out how to avoid those failures in the future, and communicating all of that to the rest of the world. taken from that angle, the part of this problem which is actually difficult is how to do that without giving too much information to the enemy.
i read somewhere that this movie underwent significant shifts in direction, and it was too bad that that showed up in the execution, mostly in the form of too many bits and pieces dragging behind or hanging off to the sides. still, i do not see a clear way to have done much better, other than to perhaps cut spider man, ant man, hawkeye, and black panther. i guess is that they needed those characters in this movie to set themselves up for future stuff, but it was disappointing that they could not have been included more cleanly. i am not sure what i expect, though, with like 12 superheros in one movie. that is like 12 minutes each, not even allowing time for any villains or non-superheros, like agent 13. i guess this is not going to get better in the big ensemble movies, which seem more and more to just be connectors for the more focused ones. speaking of which, when are we getting a black widow movie?
anyway, civil war gets three freight cars. it was basically fine, but not really notable in any dimension other than budget.
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