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, But 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 dont, because they were so boring that your brain has taken the liberty of ensuring you cant remember anything about it to protect you.
Thats the trap that Civil War could fall into if its not careful: a movie that thinks its being very, very clever while making the stupidest mistake of all in omitting to include anything even vaguely interesting to look at.