The Good: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer 1

The first Captain America trailer was released last October 25. The first movie took a blast from the past showing the origins of Captain America and his adventures from Word War II. After 70 years frozen in the ice, Captain America struggles to keep up with the modern times. After the events in New York with the Avengers, Captain America joins S.H.I.E.L.D. yet he is confused who to trust. 

Here are the good things we loved from the trailer:

• Captain America's new suit

After two movies, Captain America finally got a suit upgrade and it's an awesome one! Cap finally ditched the star-spangled outfit. Since he joined S.H.I.E.L.D., he must have asked them to make a new suit for him. This is time when Bruce Wayne says, "Does it come in black?".

• Old school

Cap may have a modern outfit in a modern world but he always keeps his sentimental side. Always going for the old school: the bike and the clothes.

We can also see Captain America wearing his old suit from the first movie.

• Black Widow! 

Who doesn't like Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow? We will be seeing more of her in this movie. We saw how she has grown from Iron Man2 to the Avengers and looks like this time we'll get to know here better. One thing we obviously know about her, she loves to change her hair styles. She started with the long curly hair in Iron Man 2 then cut it short in the Avengers. This time she straightened it out and she now looks more red head.

• The Falcon 

When I heard that the Falcon will be finally joining Cap, I didn't expect much. When the trailer landed, my jaw dropped when Falcon unleashed his wings. They did a great job with it just like Hawkeye's bow/arrows and Black Widow's bracelet that discharges the Widow's Bite.

Good thing they didn't went with Falcon's red/white feathery costume in the comics. 

• Cap and Black Widow relationship?

Captain America and Black Widow's relationship have grown from fighting side by side in the Avengers to their missions together in S.H.I.E.L.D.

This must be too early for spoilers but Cap and Nat shared a kiss. But we all know in comics that Black Widow ends up with Bucky and Cap with Sharon Carter.

• More Helicarriers 

In the Avengers we got to see one helicarrier. This time around we can see a lot of them. Is S.H.I.E.L.D. preparing for a war having all those helicarriers? 

The helicarrier used in the Avengers almost fell from the sky. Now, we can see it going down in flames.

• Politics

Kevin Feige, Marvel's president, described this movie as a "political thriller". There is just a new authority S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pierce, who is played by Robert Redford. The question here is that, is he someone who can be trusted by Cap or is he one of the villains? There are rumors that he is the Red Skull. In the comics, Alexander Pierce was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who worked against HYDRA.

Captain America even argues with Nick Fury on how S.H.I.E.L.D. operates. Cap is a man of ideals and S.H.I.E.L.D. is contradicting on his ideals.

• The shield stomp

These guys should have gone out when Cap gave them a chance. They thought their numbers will outlast a supersoldier. The best part is Cap stomping his shield and it just automatically slid into his hands.

• WINTER SOLDIER!

The Winter Soldier definitely looked bad ass. Marvel has done a great job on how the villains look in their Cinematic Universe Phase 2 (The Mandarin and Malekith). The villains was supposed to be a strong character just like in the comics yet they didn't quite shown in the movies. We're all disappointed that the Mandarin was just a homeless psycho and Malekith was not that challenging for Thor. They should make the Winter Soldier a villain to be feared.

The Winter Soldier is Captain America's best friend, Bucky Barnes who is played by Sebastian Stan. In the first movie, Bucky fell off the train in an icy mountain and was presumed dead. In the comcs he was found frozen and missing his left arm by the Russians. He was then revived and gave him a bionic arm that granted him superhuman strength. He was brainwashed and trained to be super assassin for the Soviet with a code name of "Winter Soldier". 

Will Captain America bring his best friend back to his consciousness and will Black Widow be knowledgeable of the Winter Soldier since both of them have have been trained by the Russians.

• The shield catch

There's no need to explain this. Just like the shield stomp, this is self-explanatory. Pure awesomeness.

Captan America: The Winter soldier will be showing on April 4, 2014 and is directed by the brothers Anthony and Joe Russo. Hopefully get more trailers and clips by the end of the year.

The Best Moments of Thor: The Dark World

I just saw Thor: The Dark World last October 30 and just what I expected, it was awesome! It is far better than the first. It had a much serious and dark theme but it didn't neglect humor in between. Here are the best moments:

WARNING: SPOILERS!

• Odin, as usual, giving an introductory history lesson

In the first movie, Odin narrated the story of the Frost Giants. This time around, he explained how his father defeated Malekith and the dark elves from unleashing the Aether to put darkness in the universe.

• Odin giving the sentence to Loki

Loki who is shackeled, was being escorted by the guards and brings him to Odin. Odin talked to him of his crimes and sentenced him to be imprisoned in the dungeons.

• Jane Foster on a date

Jane having a terrible date in order to move-on with Thor. Then Darcy came to save her from her date.

• Playing with the portal

Darcy hired an intern making an intern's intern. They discovered a some kind of portal. They played with it by putting different stuff and it keeps coming back. However somethings just doesn't come back. Then the new intern dropped the car keys which didn't came back.

• Jane getting the Aether

Jane went into a dimension where the Aether was being hidden. When she touched the Aether, it so what possed her with it. That's why Malekith went after her.

• Thor joining the battle against the Marauders

• Thor swinging the hammer on the stone giant

• Odin giving a fatherly advice to Thor 

Odin appreciated how much Thor has grown and matured and he got weary of Thor thinking about Jane. He told him that there are other who are far better in which he is referring to Sif.

• Thor leaving the celebration early

It was pretty unusual for Thor to leave the celebration early. He then talks to Sif and she said that he usually celebrates for weeks. They then talk about how Thor misses Jane.

• Frigga trying to talking sense into Loki

Frigga visited Loki in his prison and tries to comfort him. Loki then gets mad when Frigga mentioned about Odin and shouting: "He's not my father!". She then told him, "And I'm not your mother?". There was just this sadness in Frigga's face when looked into Loki.

• Malekith's awakening

• Thor coming back to Earth and brings Jane to Asgard

Heimdall can't see see Jane when Thor talked to him to check on her status. When Jane woke up, Darcy told her that she was gone for 5 hours and she called the police. It suddenly rains and with a few roars of thunder and after two years, Jane and Thor are finally reunited. Thor explained why he was gone for so long. The Aether within Jane releases a force when Jane is threatened. So Thor brought Jane to Asgard to be examined.

• Heimdall jumping over the dark elf ship

I don't get it why Heimdall didn't saw the dark elf ships coming. He has the power to foresee events even on other worlds. He senses the dark elf ship and he came running on the rainbow bridge and jumps over the ship and destroys it. He looks back and see more ships coming.

• Thor jump-and-fly sequence

This was just awesome. Thor showing off his flying skills with Mjolnir.

• Sif's glare over Jane

• Frigga bringing the fight to Malekith

Frigga hides Jane from Malekith since she has the Aethe within her. Frigga fights Malekith and disarms him but Kurse grabs her and stabs her from the back. We can also see where Loki got his magic when Frigga creates an illusion of Jane.

• Frigga's funeral

It was a dreadful death yet Frigga's funeral was a wonderful sight. Alan Taylor did bring some of "Game of Thrones" into this movie with arrows being shot at boats to burn the body. This was the same with what happened in Game of Thrones Season 3 when Catelyn Stark's father died.

• Thor asking for Loki's help

• Captain America cameo!

One of the funniest scenes is when Thor got Loki out of the dungeon then Loki was being playful with his magic. He first turn into of the guards to avoid getting caught. Then he turned Thor into Sif. Then the unexpected, Loki turned into Captain America giving a Chris Evans cameo.

It's good to see two of the prominent Avengers reunite even it was just a few seconds.

• Jane slapping Loki 

Jane does a lot of slapping in this movie. He slaps Loki for the damage that he and the Chitauri did to New York.

• Sif, Volstagg and Fandrall threatening Loki

During the escape of Thor, Loki and Jane, there are sequences of threats from Sif, Volstagg and Fandral with the phrase: "If you betray him..."

Sif making the first threat putting her sword on Loki's throat

Volstagg going for the second threat

• Thor and Loki's escape on Asgard

• The inevitable Stan Lee cameo

We see Dr. Erik Selvig explaining the convergence in a room from a home of the aged. He explained that two worlds are aligned with two different shoes then we see Stan Lee and he asks if he can get his shoe back.

• Loki cutting off Thor's hand

When Loki and Thor landed on Svartalfheim and had a sight of Malekith, Loki pushes Thor down the ravine and kicks him. Thor tries to get Mjolnir and Loki instantly cuts Thor's hand. Loki told Malekith that he brings a gift, the Aether within Jane. He has one condition, a sure seat to watch Asgard burn.

• Loki was helping after all

After the Aether was extracted from Jane and thinking that Loki finally betrayed Thor, Loki removes the illusion of Thor's amputated hands. Thor immediately struck lightning to the Aether in an attempt to destroy it.

• Thor vs Kurse

Malekith finally have the Aether and he left Kurse to finish of Thor. Kurse who is like a super soldier of the dark elves, gave Thor a difficult time.

• Loki dies

Just when Kurse is pounding Thor, Loki stabs him with one of the dark elf blades. As soon as you think the fight is finished, Kurse dragged Loki into him and got stabbed. However Loki implanted one of those black hole grenades into Kurse's back leading to his demise.

We see this precious face of Thor when Loki was stabbed by Kurse. We can see that Loki was turning into his natural blueish frost giant skin. He told Thor that he didn't do it for Odin.

• Jane and Thor's journey back to Earth

Jane discovered a portal that leads Svartalfheim to Earth, when her phone rings when his date earlier in the movie called her. She then finds the keys that the intern lost. They were back on Earth and Thor hardly fit in Jane's car. When they arrived, Thor hanged Mjolnir and it didn't fall.

• Erik Selvig happy about Loki's death and apologizes

Erik Selvig was happy to see Thor again but he was worried that Loki was back on Earth.

Selvig: "Is your brother here?"Thor: "He's dead"Selvig: "Oh, thank God

• Final battle between Thor and Malekith

With the convergence taking place, the battle between Thor and Malekith reached new heights by taking place in Greenwich and into to other worlds. Thor countering Malekith's Aether with his Mjolnir.

• Thor riding the subway

With the Mjolnir on the other dimension, Thor don't have a mode to fly. So he had no choice but to take the subway back to Greenwich.

• Odin turns into Loki

After the battle, Odin and Thor talked about the throne and Loki's sacrifice. Thor told Odin that He would rather be a better man than a better king and swore to protect the 9 realms. As soon as Thor walked out, Odin turned into Loki. This was the greatest twist in the movie, knowing that Loki didn't actually die. Loki must have killed the guard who checked the events that happened in Svartalfheim then he transformed into that guard and reported to Odin what happened. With this big revelation, we must expect a Thor 3 for the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3.

• The Guardians of the Galaxy mid-credits reference

Sif and Volstagg bring the Aether to the intergalactic museum of none other than The Collector, played by Benicio del Toro . The reason for this is that the Tesseract is already on Asgard and they should have no two Infinity Stones in their possession.

The collector then said, "One down, five to go". This is a reference to the gems that can be found in Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos was featured in the Avenger's end credits and will have some part in Marvel's upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy which will be released on July 2014.

• Thor going back to Earth in the end-credits

Thor returns to Earth and into the arms of Jane Foster and they share a passionate kiss. Then we can see the beast from Jotunheim, who came to Earth through the portal in the convergence. 

Over all it was a great movie. For me, I think it has the same level with Iron Man 3. Chris Hemsworth did a great job portraying Thor but I gotta say that Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, carried the movie from his hatred to his playful side. I strongly believe that there will be Thor 3 but I'm not sure with Loki's stand alone movie. We'll see more of Thor in the Avengers: Age of Ultron.