12 Upcoming Movies Nerds Should Be Most Thankful For

2. Captain America: Civil War

Release Date: May 6th 2016 Of course it€™s not a true adaptation of the comics (that would have been legitimately impossible whether you care to admit it or not), but the Avengers 2.5 stand-in is still going to be a major event. We€™ll get to see the resolution of The Winter Soldier story, some seriously heated ructions among the Avengers and a three-headed dust-up between Iron Man, Bucky and Captain America that looks set to dethrone Daredevil€™s corridor punch-out as the best ever MCU fight. Why Should You Be Thankful? As George Lucas would tell you, nothing adds more to a big fun blockbuster than a heavy focus on legislation and bureaucracy. Nope, kidding: the best thing about Civil War is that it completely changes the dynamic we€™ve seen so far in Avengers movies. Not only will there be proper in-fighting and more threat of death (an odd thing to be excited about, but shut up), but the cast has been expanded to bring in Ant-Man, Black Panther, Spider-Man, Baron Zemo and Martin Freeman being himself probably. And they€™re all reason enough to be excited without the rest of the story even comes into it. Plus the Russos doing an almost full Avengers movie is a hugely exciting prospect after they handled The Winter Soldier so sublimely.
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