CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR: Reviews and discussion of the movie WITH spoilers...

[C.H.O.A.M.]

I really liked it.
The opening action was spectacular, overall the film makers (thankfully) stayed away from shaky cam or CGI/Transformers overload and let human eyes actually follow the fast paced scenes.
A few spots seemed a little slooooooow and talky, but luckily they were the exception.
Black Panther was awesome, love the scratches on Cap's shield.
Giant-Man was amazing!! really well done scene at the airport.
Spidey was the best on screen depiction so far IMO, my only (small) gripe was his young voice wasn't muffled/altered by his mask. and as hot as Tomei is, I think she's just too young to be Aunt May. just seems wrong to me.
as far as Stark providing his suit etc, maybe they will inspire Pete to improve them? at this point anyway, it seems we will never get a 100% comic accurate Spidey, but this one came the closest.
Vision was used a lot more effectively, I still think he should look more "android" and less like a guy with red skin.
I will definitely be getting it on bluray!

[jimbutsu]

Marissa Tomei is 51 years old. If Peter Parker is 16 years old in the film, she'd have been 35 when he was born. Not unreasonable at all.

Although, I thought exactly the same thing you did, went and looked it up, and was confronted with the fact that I, too, have aged.

[Gorn Captain]

I still feel they should have used an older(-looking) actress. It just doesn't feel right.
A Santa that looks 35 doesn't feel right, either...

[hedrap]

Tomei makes sense to me. Stan has even commented on how they screwed up the Aunt part by making her more of an "Auntie" which is a connotation for an older female, not-grandma, does not have to be related.

All that Superman swiping without thinking it through. A younger Aunt May in the Silver Age would have been a huge story trove for Stan. A Sue Storm without Reed's baggage.

[PNGwynne]

Good point. 1962 working-class "51" is also very different from 2016 Hollywood "51."

When I was a kid, reading Spidey, I thought May was Peter's great-aunt. But I always loved her, and Rosemary Harris was wonderful.

Marissa Tomei is 51 years old. If Peter Parker is 16 years old in the film, she'd have been 35 when he was born. Not unreasonable at all.

Although, I thought exactly the same thing you did, went and looked it up, and was confronted with the fact that I, too, have aged.

[hedrap]

^yep. Great-Aunt falls into that same Auntie vaguery.

Stan talked a lot about the idiosyncricities during the first two Raimi's films. The plausibility of web-shooters and the recognition that Parker and May really didn't fit in NYC but we're more Tri-State. Since Spidey couldn't fly, they had to keep them in the vicinity.

[cjefferys]

I finally caught this yesterday with a bunch of 10 year olds (my son's birthday party). What a great film, the action sequences were top notch, and Spider-man and Giant-man were the highlights for me (Black Panther was pretty darn cool too!). Ten year old me never in my wildest imaginations could predict that a film like this would ever be made, we are living in magical times.