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puppetmakerA Review with Spoilers behind the cut and possibly in the comments
Yesterday Caroline and I went into the city for a couple of reasons but the impetus was the Marvel Screen of Captain America for Marvel Staff and assorted others. I ended up talking in line to Dan Slott about various and sundry things. I swear he has an almost photographic memory for people he has met during his career and where they are now. Before the movie I got to spend some time talking to Chris Claremont about all kinds of things but that is usually how conversations with Chris go.
Overall I enjoyed it a lot. It is the perfect summer popcorn flick with a heroic Hero and Bad Baddies to Boo.
They had some nice 3-D tricks but nothing that made me go “must see in 3-D” but there are some good wow moments.
The cast was uniformly good. The visuals were stunning. It did feel like an old style war movie with a healthy dose of jingoism.
And the number of nods they got in for what has been done with Cap in the past was truly amazing. You could tell who knew their Captain America and who didn’t by where some of the laughs fell. It was a Marvel screening so we probably were laughing harder at some stuff than a regular audience would but you could still tell.
There is a really good Stan “the man” Lee cameo and you really really need to stay through the credits on this one.
I am grateful that we made the time to go in and see Captain America.
Chris Evans did a great job as Cap. He was totally different from the way he played Johnny Storm in the FF movies. He plays it as a patriot with his heart on his sleeve that keeps getting punched. Once he becomes a Super Soldier, he keeps that heart on his sleeve but stops people from punching him.
I didn’t recognized Stanley Tucci at all until the credits. He is the master of the underplay that shines.
I believe that Hugo Weaving can play just about any twisted character and make it interesting. His Red Skull is just the right amount of sturm und drang without going so far over that he becomes a cartoon which is hard when you have a Red Skull for a head.
This film has an element that so ties into the end of Thor.
Tommy Lee Jones needs to do more War Films. He is the perfect gruff leader.
The fact that they managed to get both shields into the mix along with a serious nodded to the Captain America movie serial was amazing. There were lots of nods to the whole history of Captain America.
I also liked how they played out Steve’s transformation first in body and then in spirit.
Of course Bucky died. Bucky always dies. But I don’t mind that they made him a friend of Steve’s that defending him. Besides he was a nice piece of eye candy.
And I don’t know about you but I am SO there for the Avengers film. It already looks kick-ass.
Yesterday Caroline and I went into the city for a couple of reasons but the impetus was the Marvel Screen of Captain America for Marvel Staff and assorted others. I ended up talking in line to Dan Slott about various and sundry things. I swear he has an almost photographic memory for people he has met during his career and where they are now. Before the movie I got to spend some time talking to Chris Claremont about all kinds of things but that is usually how conversations with Chris go.
Overall I enjoyed it a lot. It is the perfect summer popcorn flick with a heroic Hero and Bad Baddies to Boo.
They had some nice 3-D tricks but nothing that made me go “must see in 3-D” but there are some good wow moments.
The cast was uniformly good. The visuals were stunning. It did feel like an old style war movie with a healthy dose of jingoism.
And the number of nods they got in for what has been done with Cap in the past was truly amazing. You could tell who knew their Captain America and who didn’t by where some of the laughs fell. It was a Marvel screening so we probably were laughing harder at some stuff than a regular audience would but you could still tell.
There is a really good Stan “the man” Lee cameo and you really really need to stay through the credits on this one.
I am grateful that we made the time to go in and see Captain America.
Chris Evans did a great job as Cap. He was totally different from the way he played Johnny Storm in the FF movies. He plays it as a patriot with his heart on his sleeve that keeps getting punched. Once he becomes a Super Soldier, he keeps that heart on his sleeve but stops people from punching him.
I didn’t recognized Stanley Tucci at all until the credits. He is the master of the underplay that shines.
I believe that Hugo Weaving can play just about any twisted character and make it interesting. His Red Skull is just the right amount of sturm und drang without going so far over that he becomes a cartoon which is hard when you have a Red Skull for a head.
This film has an element that so ties into the end of Thor.
Tommy Lee Jones needs to do more War Films. He is the perfect gruff leader.
The fact that they managed to get both shields into the mix along with a serious nodded to the Captain America movie serial was amazing. There were lots of nods to the whole history of Captain America.
I also liked how they played out Steve’s transformation first in body and then in spirit.
Of course Bucky died. Bucky always dies. But I don’t mind that they made him a friend of Steve’s that defending him. Besides he was a nice piece of eye candy.
And I don’t know about you but I am SO there for the Avengers film. It already looks kick-ass.
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Date: 2011-07-21 07:08 pm (UTC)The villain of the piece is a thing of beauty.