The dialog with Coulson, Garrett, and Fury was great.
I'm going to say something that Joss and Marvel would like to hear.
Not having the time to attend movies as frequently as I once did I usually find myself catching movies on Blu-Ray. My wife and I both love the Marvel films but Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 were viewed on Blu-Ray. Agents of Shield is something we follow and, when the agency blew apart with HYDRA and Ward started killing folks we were compelled to get off our asses and make time to see Winter Soldier. The only opportunity happened to be our wedding anniversary - that's right. We spent our anniversary away from the kids having dinner and going to see The Winter Soldier on IMAX 3D... and it was great. No doubt future tie-ins between the network and Netflix shows will bring folks like us to the theater again just to keep up. Brilliant move, Marvel and Joss.
Had to share this:
I was at the car wash, and in process of paying, rifling through my wallet to pull out my frequent car wash card, the clerk saw the personalized SHIELD Field Agent ID card I keep in my wallet, and freaked out because he thought it meant that agency was actually real.
Sorta of trembling with excitement, he said, "Oh my gosh, I thought it was just a TV show!"
I kept my sunglasses on, slowly nodded and said in deadpan voice, "we're not really supposed to talk about it."
Then he noticed the Ironman T-shirt that I was wearing and gestured toward that. I replied, "yeah, most of us are fans."
I could just about see his geek-meter peg the scale.