Back when it first came out, I thought the premise and set up for Civil War was fantastic and it can definitely still work as a movie, it just fell flat on its ass when it came to the execution in the comics. The major flaw for me was that we were never presented with a logical path for which Rogers and the anti-registration team could actually "win". They never really gave them one, which I feel is what forced the bad characterizations on both sides.
Simply "freeing" your friends from jail and beating up Stark and his team was just a laughable end game... mainly because, at that point, you were never really fighting Stark, you were pretty much fighting a US Federal Law that was put into effect. That'd be like not agreeing with a future amendment to the constitution and so you decide to beat up the U.S. secretary of defense and free all your friends from the super-maximum security federal penitentiary that they all got placed in as a result of their rebellion.. and thinking somehow that shyt aint about to get 10x worse.
IMO they should've put some loop hole in the story to help Rogers side out, like having something happen where the public starts to turn on Stark and the registration act... have it where when Spiderman got his ass-kicked for bolting from Stark, things spilled into a public area instead where it was video recorded and America witnesses a rodney king style beating of Parker before someone (other than the punisher lol) comes through to save him. Or have the first scene with the kids in the bus dying not be as it seems, and have a major villain manipulating things.
Basically something where, the public, the senate/house, etc start to have second thoughts or start to see the ugly side of it.. and its now Stark's argument versus Rogers, almost debate style. shyt, and that old lay who's kid died in the bus? they should've had her have a little daughter or niece who wasn't in the bus and have Rogers die at the end saving the girl from whatever fukkery was going on. That would've been the kicker that brought everything full circle imo.
Not sayin my suggestions are bulletproof but just i think they could've done a better job of fleshing things out than what they did.
Simply "freeing" your friends from jail and beating up Stark and his team was just a laughable end game... mainly because, at that point, you were never really fighting Stark, you were pretty much fighting a US Federal Law that was put into effect. That'd be like not agreeing with a future amendment to the constitution and so you decide to beat up the U.S. secretary of defense and free all your friends from the super-maximum security federal penitentiary that they all got placed in as a result of their rebellion.. and thinking somehow that shyt aint about to get 10x worse.
IMO they should've put some loop hole in the story to help Rogers side out, like having something happen where the public starts to turn on Stark and the registration act... have it where when Spiderman got his ass-kicked for bolting from Stark, things spilled into a public area instead where it was video recorded and America witnesses a rodney king style beating of Parker before someone (other than the punisher lol) comes through to save him. Or have the first scene with the kids in the bus dying not be as it seems, and have a major villain manipulating things.
Basically something where, the public, the senate/house, etc start to have second thoughts or start to see the ugly side of it.. and its now Stark's argument versus Rogers, almost debate style. shyt, and that old lay who's kid died in the bus? they should've had her have a little daughter or niece who wasn't in the bus and have Rogers die at the end saving the girl from whatever fukkery was going on. That would've been the kicker that brought everything full circle imo.
Not sayin my suggestions are bulletproof but just i think they could've done a better job of fleshing things out than what they did.
