No, of course not. But I did see Captain America: Civil War this afternoon, & my only comment here, since this isn't a movie review, is that it was the Marvel movie I have enjoyed most since the first Avengers movie. (Well, not counting Deadpool, but that didn't feel like it took place in the same universe.)
Instead of a movie review, here's a movie experience review, sort of like I wrote here. The experience today was nowhere near as unpleasant as that, but I was surrounded by (all male) geeky types whose (mostly happy) comments I could hear as they whispered to each other about different things in the movie. To my direct right were two young men who, before the movie & during the credits, talked about the comic series from which Civil War was drawn, how exciting certain comic book movies were on cable ("Dude! Fantastic Four is on HBO Go!" "Dude! Is it any good?" "Dude! The first half is!"), & random comments about how the various preceding movies related to one another.
Not to suggest this hindered my enjoyment of the movie - they weren't rude or anything. I was just bemused by it all, as if I were somehow better. & then - sigh - during one of the scenes with the Scarlet Witch & the Vision, I leaned over to my wife & said, "In the comics, those two get married."
My wife couldn't have cared less. But I thought to myself, Oh no! Me too!
Look: I knew it all along. I was just amazed at how, in middle of my eye-rolling, I so quickly, in that element, reverted to my core geek mode.
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