Captain America: Civil War is one of the best comic book movies of 2016, but the man who wrote the original Civil War arc doesn’t feel the same way as most fans. Mark Millar, who penned the 7-issue crossover event, describes the movie adaptation as underwhelming. And he uses much harsher words to describe his distaste for the film that currently sits #1 worldwide in the box office for 2016.
“Civil War had a good opening twenty mins, but then I honestly can't remember what the movie was about,” Millar wrote on his personal blog.
Millar felt the movie lacked the lighter tone that made the first Avengers movie great and went so far to describe the adaptation as “bleak.”
“It's interesting the Russos have a background in comedy because it's really missing in these otherwise well-made pictures and very, very missed,” he wrote.
Wow. Those are strong words. And they don’t get any nicer as you read farther into his post. Looking forward to future Marvel installments, Millar hopes they won’t turn out as “lost” as Civil War.
“I really hope this bleakness doesn't extend into their two Avengers pictures because what made that first Avengers work was the light as well as shade and I'll be sad if that's all lost like it was in this picture.”
Millar also gave fans a taste of what movies he did like. The only comic book movie in his top 10 list was Doctor Strange, which still sat at number 10.
“This was a nice hark back to before they went a little too dark and serious and had lots of nice jokes and asshole-learning-to-be-a-hero leads.”
Deadpool didn’t make Millar’s cut, but he said he loved the action sequences and called the third act “especially impressive.” He surprisingly didn’t have any hate for X-Men: Apocalypse, simply calling it “good.”
Batman Vs Superman, on the other hand, Millar said, “I think we should just leave alone.” Same with Suicide Squad.
“I never thought a movie where Superman and Batman met Wonder Woman wouldn't be in my top ten and was so bleak I couldn't take my Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman obsessed children,” he said. “WB has just decided to go a certain way with these movies and their logic is that they don't want to look like Marvel films.”
Millar’s views on 2016’s comic book movies rival most fans’, who would put Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool at the top. It’s easy to be awestruck by Civil War ’s slew of heroes and million-dollar action scenes, but at the same time hard to deny the fact the plot lagged and lacked freshness. If Millar hated Civil War, it’s most surprising he enjoyed Apocalypse. The film had a lot of potential, which made it more of a disappointment to me than an outright bad movie. While Suicide Squad was probably the most terrible comic book movie in recent history, the star studded cast still made one of the most popular of the year.
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