Captain America: Civil War - 8 Ways It Could Ruin Everything

5. Necessary But Completely Tedious Scenes In Offices Illustrating Complex Plot Points

The main plot point of Civil War is likely to revolve not around a super-dangerous McGuffin like the Infinity Stones, but a governmental department registering superheroes. As motivations go, it's a lot less cinematically alluring than a glowing bit of rock which can explode stuff.

This set-up implies there'll be at least a few scenes where all that happens is people sit round a table talking about the intricacies of this very important plot point while occasionally a minor character chips in with, €œBut what does that mean?€ so that a particularly tricky part can be explained twice.

Basically, do you remember all those trade negotiation scenes in The Phantom Menace? No, you don€™t, because they were so boring that your brain has taken the liberty of ensuring you can€™t remember anything about it to protect you.

That€™s the trap that Civil War could fall into if it€™s not careful: a movie that thinks it€™s being very, very clever while making the stupidest mistake of all in omitting to include anything even vaguely interesting to look at.

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