12 Ways Captain America: Civil War Will Be The Exact Same Movie As Batman V Superman
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Films where iconic superheroes come to blows are like animated movies about ants or Die Hard rip-offs set in the White House; you waitdecades for one to come along and then we get two within months of each other.
Isn't that always the way? Caused by a mixture of studio in-fighting (the aforementioned Antz and A Bug's Life) and the results of similar market research (those two live-action adaptations of Snow White from a couple of years back), the idea of "Twin movies" is just one of those odd little quirks of Hollywood. The weird thing is, though, prolific as theymay be, many of those examples only have superficial similarities. Beyond its insect heroes, what does a breezy early Pixar outing have to do with a existential Woody Allen drama? And, taking away thesource, Mirror Mirror and Snow White And The Huntsman couldn't have been more tonally or narratively different.
However, things are a bit different with the case of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Captain America: Civil War. Not just because people actually want both these films (did audiences in 2014 care about oneHercules movie, let alone two?), but because the similarities go further than just vaguely similar pitches. We've now seen DC's entry in the competition and, based on everything weve glimpsed from trailers and what we know about the MCU going forward, Marvel's Iron Man V Captain America is shaping up to be the same story only with the names crossed out.
This isn't saying Captain America: Civil War will be anywhere near as terrible as Batman V Superman, or that both movies are going to be identical to each other. Rather, it's a look at the different factors that lead to such accidentally similar movies. If you don't like it, go watch Deep Impact.