Marveling At What They've Done Dept.

Another argument that keeps coming up re: the Marvel movies (yeah, that tired canard again, but bear with me) is that they're not in fact "all the same film". This is something other people have defended pretty vociferously.Winter Soldier is a spy thriller;Guardians of the Galaxyis comic space opera;Thor is cross-universe mythmaking; etc.

But in the end, all of themare the same kind of movie: an action-beat-driven tentpole Hollywood blockbuster with tons of cash and digital effects thrown at t...