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mark_asphodelCaptain America: The First Avenger is a superhero movie for those who want to see their heroes fucked over. If he'd had a dog, the Nazis would've steamrolled it.
1) First off, I had a good time. But I do have some caveats.
2) Integrated US troops in World War II, huh? Nice try, Hollywood.
3) I did like the Japanese-American soldier's "I'm from Fresno" line, though.
4) Decent love interest. Props for that. Props deducted for the rote contrived misunderstanding.
5) What's worse than regular Nazis? Super-power Nazis! They're a bigger threat than Hitler! Yeah! :/
6) Bucky Barnes was surprisingly likable here.
7) Oh, look, they played the "lovable Nazi scientist" card! :/
8) I don't see why Red Skull is considered crazy for believing he's harnessed godlike powers. He's a nasty piece of work and a sociopath to boot, but he pretty obviously DOES have super-powers at his disposal.
9) Skilled, drilled, armored troops get mowed down by ragtag heroes. Yup. On the bright side, I guess the ragtaggers did build the super-weapons and therefore know how to use 'em.
10) Since when did Captain Prettyboy's training include flying experimental equipment designed by the enemy? Yeah no.
11) Howard Stark was cool. Like Howard Hughes without the paranoia and bottles of piss.
12) Existential downer ending, man. Like getting jagged shards of Kafka in your superheroic fluff.
All in all, it was a good opening arc and the usual bullshit at the end, but it was tolerable bullshit. I enjoyed it. It didn't feel as long as it actually was, and for a superhero flick, that's a good thing.
1) First off, I had a good time. But I do have some caveats.
2) Integrated US troops in World War II, huh? Nice try, Hollywood.
3) I did like the Japanese-American soldier's "I'm from Fresno" line, though.
4) Decent love interest. Props for that. Props deducted for the rote contrived misunderstanding.
5) What's worse than regular Nazis? Super-power Nazis! They're a bigger threat than Hitler! Yeah! :/
6) Bucky Barnes was surprisingly likable here.
7) Oh, look, they played the "lovable Nazi scientist" card! :/
8) I don't see why Red Skull is considered crazy for believing he's harnessed godlike powers. He's a nasty piece of work and a sociopath to boot, but he pretty obviously DOES have super-powers at his disposal.
9) Skilled, drilled, armored troops get mowed down by ragtag heroes. Yup. On the bright side, I guess the ragtaggers did build the super-weapons and therefore know how to use 'em.
10) Since when did Captain Prettyboy's training include flying experimental equipment designed by the enemy? Yeah no.
11) Howard Stark was cool. Like Howard Hughes without the paranoia and bottles of piss.
12) Existential downer ending, man. Like getting jagged shards of Kafka in your superheroic fluff.
All in all, it was a good opening arc and the usual bullshit at the end, but it was tolerable bullshit. I enjoyed it. It didn't feel as long as it actually was, and for a superhero flick, that's a good thing.
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Date: 2011-08-05 07:56 am (UTC)Hnnnnnnnnnn, Kafka. So much hate.
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Date: 2011-08-05 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-05 04:53 pm (UTC)And Zola is anything but lovable, IMO. Granted, he seems less than threatening in this movie, but that is because he still has a human body. If he turns up in the present (e.g. Avengers), he will be a Hell of a lot scarier (case in point (http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Zola_3.jpg)).
That the Red Skull is also true to the comics here ties in to what you say: He is not insane. Quite the contrary. He is coldly rational, and Hugo Weaving pulls that off wonderfully. Of all the Nazi villains (and goodness knows Marvel has a ton of those; I was surprised that the movie had no references to the Strucker or Zemo families), he comes closest to realizing his ambitions, and that is retained in the movie. (Is he dead? Oh, no. Far from it. I firmly believe we will see him again.)
*chuckles* Forgive me, I blather. This movie did a great job of scratching my comic book itch.
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Date: 2011-08-05 05:39 pm (UTC)Hugo Weaving pulls that off wonderfully.
He nailed it, yeah. A different actor would have been unbearable in the role.
This movie did a great job of scratching my comic book itch.
Good and great comic book movies make me interested in comic books, and then I look into the byzantine stupidity of comic-book plotting and just curl up in a corner with Watchmen. Just reading the backstory on the character of Bucky made me want to hit something.
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Date: 2011-08-07 12:02 am (UTC)Comic books are one of my oldest fandom affiliations, and I have been reading them for so long now (twenty years or more, by my reckoning) that the wacky plotting, far-out ideas, and goofy inconsistencies barely register on my radar any more.
Yet it is those very things that give comic book 'fic such a rich, delectable flavor ....