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Inviso 02/09/21 12:18:40 PM #428:	TomNook This is a good movie. I like the Captain as a character, but I don't think his storylines are always amazing. He's one of the only that I actually prefer in overlapping Avenger films, as opposed to his own movies. HanOfTheNekos This movie is just so standard. Out of all the MCU movies, it is the most typical and kind of boring. I like the Red Skull. I think hes a great villain. One of the best. Hugo Weaving is good like that. Most of what happens in the movie is solid, its just not spectacular. And the movie just seems to go on for too long. Things get drawn out too much. Its a lot of story to tell for just clearing up the whole backstory business. But alas, so it be. Sheep007 This is a perfectly acceptable movie. Steve is already just a wonderful human being, then he becomes an uber chad and saves some men from Nazis and theres some fights and stuff. Cool. This is a film that I watched. It doesnt feel badly done, and I like Steve, Peggy and Bucky. But theres not anything in this movie that makes me feel much of anything, and it ends up just being very bland. I was never really bored or annoyed, and I enjoy the sequence of Steve as a mascot as well as the segue into the original Avengers, but other than that I cant think of much I would praise about this film. I dont think its bad, but Steve is just not an interesting enough character to carry this movie, especially so early in the MCU. Jesse Custer I confess Ive never been a fan of Captain Americas origin. Hes supposed to be this relatable kid from Brooklyn who anyone that ever got bullied can relate to. And hes supposed to show that anyone can become a hero. All it takes is some magical steroids. And theres the problem. At least Peter Parker still looks like a normal kid after he gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the transformation of Steve Rogers takes him completely outside the realm of relatability. Of course, this movie tries its best to convince us hes still the same kid from Brooklyn, with the same heart. But its awfully tough to see him as anything other than a super soldier cooked up as a science experiment. And Id rather watch a movie like The Winter Soldier that goes all in on making him a badass who does stuff normal people never could than a movie like The First Avenger that keeps trying to tell us theres a bit of Steve Rogers in all of us. That being said, I cant really fault this movie for telling the story they had to tell with the first Captain America movie. And The First Avenger does a decent enough job of building the foundation for the character before they actually made him interesting. XIII Rocks I was a bit surprised at how low I ended up placing this. Maybe I just didn't love the period setting, or because it's the most "American" of all the MCU movies so it lacks a little bit of the universal appeal the other movies have. Hayley Atwell does nail it, though. And there's something really cool about this and Thor having these...hints at connectivity before the MCU became more obviously connected post-Avengers. Like I was so excited when that guy turned out to be Tony Stark's dad, and the mention of Odin early on. Johnbobb I will never get over Chris Evans goofy lookin fuckin bobblehead in the first third of the movie. Also, Captain America has never really stood out to me as a hero on his own, and you really see that in his series to come. Captain America works for the way he serves as a leader and plays off of others, but as a hero required to sell the movie from start to finish... meh? Lopen Something about this movie doesn't feel 1940s enough. It checks all the boxes and really tries to be, and I'm not really sure what it is but it rubs me the wrong way. It's like you fired up your Super Year Fighter Turbo video game, grabbed the 2011 character and you picked the 1940s alternate costume to try and beat final boss 2020-- it looks right at a glance but it's just off somehow. Aside from that Hugo Weaving is thoroughly wasted as Red Skull here. I dunno. It's fine and something I'd recommend anyone interested in going hard on the MCU see, but a bit boring for me and is quite skippable. We all know Captain America's origin story anyway, just watch Winter Soldier instead. --- Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier. Inviso <cite>Inviso posted [p:950451084] in Board 8 Ra... [t:79272506]...</cite> <quote>TomNook This is a good movie. I like the Captain as a character, but I don't think his storylines are always amazing. He's one of the only that I actually prefer in overlapping Avenger films, as opposed to his own movies. HanOfTheNekos This movie is just so standard. Out of all the MCU movies, it is the most typical and kind of boring. I like the Red Skull. I think hes a great villain. One of the best. Hugo Weaving is good like that. Most of what happens in the movie is solid, its just not spectacular. And the movie just seems to go on for too long. Things get drawn out too much. Its a lot of story to tell for just clearing up the whole backstory business. But alas, so it be. Sheep007 This is a perfectly acceptable movie. Steve is already just a wonderful human being, then he becomes an uber chad and saves some men from Nazis and theres some fights and stuff. Cool. This is a film that I watched. It doesnt feel badly done, and I like Steve, Peggy and Bucky. But theres not anything in this movie that makes me feel much of anything, and it ends up just being very bland. I was never really bored or annoyed, and I enjoy the sequence of Steve as a mascot as well as the segue into the original Avengers, but other than that I cant think of much I would praise about this film. I dont think its bad, but Steve is just not an interesting enough character to carry this movie, especially so early in the MCU. Jesse Custer I confess Ive never been a fan of Captain Americas origin. Hes supposed to be this relatable kid from Brooklyn who anyone that ever got bullied can relate to. And hes supposed to show that anyone can become a hero. All it takes is some magical steroids. And theres the problem. At least Peter Parker still looks like a normal kid after he gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the transformation of Steve Rogers takes him completely outside the realm of relatability. Of course, this movie tries its best to convince us hes still the same kid from Brooklyn, with the same heart. But its awfully tough to see him as anything other than a super soldier cooked up as a science experiment. And Id rather watch a movie like The Winter Soldier that goes all in on making him a badass who does stuff normal people never could than a movie like The First Avenger that keeps trying to tell us theres a bit of Steve Rogers in all of us. That being said, I cant really fault this movie for telling the story they had to tell with the first Captain America movie. And The First Avenger does a decent enough job of building the foundation for the character before they actually made him interesting. XIII Rocks I was a bit surprised at how low I ended up placing this. Maybe I just didn't love the period setting, or because it's the most "American" of all the MCU movies so it lacks a little bit of the universal appeal the other movies have. Hayley Atwell does nail it, though. And there's something really cool about this and Thor having these...hints at connectivity before the MCU became more obviously connected post-Avengers. Like I was so excited when that guy turned out to be Tony Stark's dad, and the mention of Odin early on. Johnbobb I will never get over Chris Evans goofy lookin fuckin bobblehead in the first third of the movie. Also, Captain America has never really stood out to me as a hero on his own, and you really see that in his series to come. Captain America works for the way he serves as a leader and plays off of others, but as a hero required to sell the movie from start to finish... meh? Lopen Something about this movie doesn't feel 1940s enough. It checks all the boxes and really tries to be, and I'm not really sure what it is but it rubs me the wrong way. It's like you fired up your Super Year Fighter Turbo video game, grabbed the 2011 character and you picked the 1940s alternate costume to try and beat final boss 2020-- it looks right at a glance but it's just off somehow. Aside from that Hugo Weaving is thoroughly wasted as Red Skull here. I dunno. It's fine and something I'd recommend anyone interested in going hard on the MCU see, but a bit boring for me and is quite skippable. We all know Captain America's origin story anyway, just watch Winter Soldier instead. --- Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier. Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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