Captain America (1990) Matt Salinger, Ronnit Cox, Ned Beatty

[DWF]

And BTW - this movie isn't being judged as bad in hindsight. It bombed in 1990 because it was bad, and the perspective of time has worked no miracles for it.

I don't know how a movie that was only in limited release could bomb.

Why, because you think that a movie like this achieves only a limited release because of the enormous confidence the studio and exhibitors had in it?

It was a popcorn flick that couldn't make it in the distribution system. The equivalent now would be a movie intended to be released theatrically that wound up going straight to DVD.

As cheap as it was it might've cost more to advertise the movie than just bring it out on tape.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Ten million dollars in 1990? That's a modestly budgeted film, not a low-budget flick.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I always like to tell kids that they're lucky to have all these super hero movies (even the bad ones). When I was a kid the pickings were much, much slimmer when it came to live-action stuff.

I saw this movie entirely too many times as a kid. I completely forgot Ronnie Cox was in it. What a great actor.

Also I always found it weird for some reason that Captain America was played by J.D. Salinger's kid.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ The Captain in the Rye.

 

[barnaclelapse]

(Giggles)

 

[Turtletrekker]

Rubber ears...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Damn, forget the ears - it's a good thing they deep-sixed the dorky little wings on the new costume.

 

[Aldo]

^^^Really? That's one of the reasons I don't like the new costume as much as I could.

Oh well, different strokes...and all that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Watching the movie I couldn't tell if the costume on the guy was rubber or that spray-on latex fetishists use, or the fruit-rollup-based material that the Keaton Batman made his mask out of.

 

[Brikar99]

Damn, forget the ears - it's a good thing they deep-sixed the dorky little wings on the new costume.

guh, yeah. Those would be the first thing to go if I were ever designing a Captain America costume.

 

[Admiral2]

Those wings were created by JACK KIRBY! Thou shalt not diss the designs of The King.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Fuck Jack Kirby's little white wings.

 

[Skywalker]

Those wings were created by JACK KIRBY! Thou shalt not diss the designs of The King.

The United States Constitution was created by some of the greatest minds in recorded history, and even that needed a few corrections.