Captain America: The First Avenger-Review, Discuss, Grade, Sequel, DVD

[Saxman1]

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I saw the movie today. I gave it a C. I'm not big on the Marvel Universe films outside of Ironman 1 and 2, which I thought were amazing, but a lot of that I chalk up to Robert Downey, Jr. However, it was nice to see Samuel L. Jackson at the end as Nick Fury: he's awesome!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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A friend of mine went to see the movie on Wednesday and, knowing where his and my tastes are similar, I suggested that he'd be happier with the movie if he just left after the kids playing Captain America in the streets.

To my surprise, he told me the next day that he'd done just that. So I told him what he'd missed, and he agreed that it had been a good call, for him.

He's too young to have read Captain America in his original appearances, but was just past the age when most kids stopped reading comics - in those days - when Marvel started to build their little empire. So he's got no investment in Avengers, Justice League, Nick Fury - or Green Lantern, Flash, etc. He just likes movies a great deal.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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Plus, outside of the very random appearance, the character has been gone from the comics since the Golden Age.

Not true. He was a regular in the WWII-era Cap adventures that ran for a spell in Tales of Suspense in the '60s, which is how I knew of him in the first place. Are you telling me that this Phillips turns up all the time now? Wasn't the case back in the day, but I haven't actively followed new comics for well over a decade. In my reading experience, Phillips = origin retelling character, Duffy = regular supporting cast member in WWII-era adventures.

Yes. Over the past twenty or so years since I've been reading, when they do flashbacks to the WWII era or have WWII era adventures, Phillips is usually involved as Cap's direct superior. Duffy, not so much.

Not sure how complete or up to date this info is, but from what I can tell Philiips mostly appears in the Origin story. Chester Phillips.

 

[stj]

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By far the freshest part of the movie was the dance number. I don't think I want any WWI sequels.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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A WWI sequel, now there's an intriguing idea! Maybe they can start working their way backwards via time travel.

 

[stj]

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^^^Good idea! Congratulations!

 

[Skywalker]

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Captain America meets Quantum Leap? It could work.

 

[TemporalFlux]

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A WWI sequel, now there's an intriguing idea! Maybe they can start working their way backwards via time travel.

By the fourth movie, we may have "Captain Colonies" running around. For the fifth movie, maybe "Kick'em White Man".

 

[DWF]

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If they did a WWI prequel maybe they'd introdruce Union Jack and his team Freedom's Five.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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A WWI sequel, now there's an intriguing idea! Maybe they can start working their way backwards via time travel.

By the fourth movie, we may have "Captain Colonies" running around. For the fifth movie, maybe "Kick'em White Man".

Too late

Much too late

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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They could do the 1950s Captain America and have him smashing Communists.

Those stories were later retconned, after Marvel revived Cap, as having been about a replacement Captain America rather than Rogers.

 

[Anwar]

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Fits, we've already seen in "Incredible Hulk" what later attempts at the Super-Soldier process did to people.

 

[Noname Given]

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A WWI sequel, now there's an intriguing idea! Maybe they can start working their way backwards via time travel.

By the fourth movie, we may have "Captain Colonies" running around. For the fifth movie, maybe "Kick'em White Man".

Too late

And the 'Villain' is called The Red Man I'll bet.

 

[Anwar]

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1776? He'd be "The Red Coat" and be British.

Or maybe "The Redder Coat"? "The Reddest Coat"?

They did do the "American Civil War" Captain America thing with him being a Union Soldier imbued with spiritual powers by Native Americans, the "Essence of the Land" or something. His archenemy was a crazed Union Commander also affected by the mystical power who became "The White Skull" and founder of the KKK.

 

[Ruaidhri]

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Too late

Much too late

The Red Skull is....the Hessianazi!

 

[Frodo Lives]

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Too late

Much too late

The Red Skull is....the Hessianazi!

Pope Benedict Arnold?

 

[Scout101]

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Fits, we've already seen in "Incredible Hulk" what later attempts at the Super-Soldier process did to people.

It worked by itself, he just went too far trying to match the Hulk...

 

[Anwar]

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He was already kind of becoming unstable even before he got the gamma radiation treatment that turned him into the Abomination. This actually fits with imperfect Super Soldier experiments: They always forget to give the subject the vita-ray treatment after the serum.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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I think one can also argue that Blonsky was not a suitable candidate, because he was too ambitious. I don't think Dr. Erskine would have ever selected someone like Blonsky for the super-soldier project. Certainly, he would have preferred not to.

 

[Frontier]

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I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this film. I really didn't expect to as much as I did. I think the WW2 setting really helped though. It had the right quantities of the right stuff, and didn't lather on the patriotism with a shovel or in an overt (web-slinging landing on a flag pole) way.

I wonder if a modern-set Captain America 2 will do as well, post-Avengers.