Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160417172653

(I previously said this on a blog but it hasn't been showing up. This will be spoiler-free)

I knew for a while that Captain America: Civil War would be a fight between Iron Man and Captain America, but was sure everything would turn out by the end once Helmut Zemo was defeated and they get back together. From the summaries I've read, this film is going to be darker, like the Dark Knight trilogy, rather than the fun type of action adventure movie the previous films were. I read that things don't end well for the Avengers, especially two of them (not saying which two), and we won't even be seeing any of them again except Black Panther in later films. (Thor is getting his third film, but I read he wasn't in Civil War so he doesn't count)

I mean, I like horror movies, but they're supposed to be dark, it's a different genre. Even Game of Thrones was always dark. This series, while still full of language, death, and destruction, and having many serious situations, has been lighthearted as well and overall fun to watch (the two darkest villains appeared in a movie that was full of comedy to balance this out) and always saw the conflict resolved at the end, but now it sounds like it's going grimdark in a way that doesn't seem to be resolved, and this might be the point where Marvel loses me.

Of course everyone else loves this movie because everyone who isn't in the pony fandom loves their shows to be dark, gloomy, and/or ultraviolent. (I don't mind most levels of ultraviolence, and in any event Civil War doesn't seem to exceed the violence of previous ones coz it's still rated PG-13 and not 14A or R, but still not what I expected for a superhero movie, especially Marvel) 