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The line is meant to really cut deep.
Sam worries that he wont measure up to the legacy of Rogers, the former Captain America.
Steve gave them something to believe in, Sam is told.
(Evans himself didcome backinDeadpool and Wolverine, because nothing in these movies ever stays gone.)
(Dont worry: As is traditional, the phony sincerity is then undercut with a lame joke.
Did your speechwriters help you with that?
Sam asks Bucky.)
The notion of the self-doubting hero is nothing new.
But amazingly, hes been left in the lurch by his own movie.
The script pays lip service to Sams anxieties, but does little to explore or dramatize them.
Like I said: Nothing stays gone in this universe.)
At their best, superhero stories can make solid vessels to explore such ideas.
But dear god, not like this not with such shallowness and obsequiousness.
Ideas stop being ideas when they become excuses.
Even at the level of base genre pleasures,Brave New Worldfeels more obligatory than exciting.
That film succeeded by poking fun at its very existence.
So, uh, what do the other films do now?
(In the comics, he has a hugely elongated and, lets face it, goofy-looking forehead.)
One of his powers is the ability to predict what will happen by calculating the statistical odds of things.
How is anyone supposed to care about a guy like that in a world where Dr. That wouldnt have beena particularly original idea but it would have been something.
Victims of their own success, theyve somehow turned their vaunted production enterprise into a giant slop machine.
