Captain America: Civil War Improbablities
June 2, 2016
In the movie Captain America: Civil War there are many factors that make the movie believable or possible could exist in the real world. Yet those are drowned out by the multiple impossibilities shown throughout the film. The movie franchise of the Avengers is a high grossing one and one of the more realistic movie series to watch due to their excellent use of CG I. But they have overstepped their boundaries when making this movie.
*Warning some spoilers are coming up*
A prime example of the movies flaws are the scenes of Black Panther in action. In one scene he is chasing down Captain America on a busy highway. Now Black Panthers suit is made out of Adamantium, the strongest metal on Earth, but that suit does not have the power to enhance one’s physical abilities. Black Panther was able to outrun cars just like Captain America and seemed to have a lot of the same powers as the Captain himself. Captain America is a super enhanced soldier with extreme natural abilities that allowed him to be much stronger and faster than the average human being. Black Panther is a normal African man with no extraordinary powers. The only thing that makes him special is that his suit is indestructible. He cannot possibly run faster than a speeding car, yet they make it seem like its a jog in the park for Black Panther. Black Panther does have many riches, being a king, yet his riches do not buy him the luxury of superhuman abilities like that of Spider-man or Captain America. Marvel tried to make Black Panther some kind of super powered hero with strength and speed equal to the Capt or Iron Man. He is just a man in an expensive suit who is very athletic for a human, but he is just that a human with no real powers.
When Iron man captures many of Captain America’s team and puts them in an underwater super prison it is easy to see some flaws in the design. The jail comes up way to fast for being about three times bigger than a hover-carrier. Statistically, the amount of pressure from the ocean would crush anything deeper than 1,000 feet, and the prison had multiple layers that suggest that it goes well under one thousand feet deep.
Marvel movies have spectacular CG-I that makes their movies seem like real life events. They make their movies as real as possible while keeping to the comic book names. Of course not all their effects or “Hollywood magic” can relate to real world situations when trying to re-enact old comic book legends. So it is no real surprise that Captain America Civil War produced one fantastic film that put fiction and reality together as one. To make a cinematic experience like no one has ever seen, it just makes sense that some oversized mistakes in realistic or believable are going to show up. But do the people watching really care about believability? Or do they just want to be amazed and stunned by the impossible? I think most would choose to just watch and enjoy.