Fiery_Dragon
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Went to a screening of Captain America held in Toronto last night.
Quick, non-spoiler review:
Really fun movie, really great Captain America. I wish it was an hour longer, or that we could get another Cap movie or two before The Avengers 'cause there's a lot of story that gets crammed into montages as they skip across WWII.
The interesting thing about this movie, as compared to Iron Man or Thor (or Incredible Hulk) is that Steve Rogers is a true hero, even before he becomes Captain America and gets his supersoldier abilities. Even though this is probably the most violent of the Marvel movies so far, it's the one that I'm most keen to take my kids to because Captain America demonstrates such great qualities.
Anyway, really enjoyed it, lots of fun, wish it was longer, great set-up for Avengers. Chris Evans is excellent.
Longer review, more spoilers...
I think the trick with this movie was cramming Cap's WWII career into one single movie so that he could get frozen by the end to be thawed for The Avengers next year. We spend a fair amount of time with Rogers pre-Super Soldier serum, so we get a lengthy set-up and origin piece, and we have the finale where he ends up in the ice... leaving not a lot of time to his exploits during WWII.
But - the stuff they do show with Cap and the Howling Commandos is great, if quick. All of the Commandos get a quick moment to shine in their action montage, even if the movie never mentions their names (aside from Bucky Barnes), and Captain America is a great man of action. The shield is cool, and used a bunch of different ways, and is almost its own character. The Bucky in the movie is the Bucky Barnes of a future Winter Soldier story rather than the scrappy young sidekick, and it's well done in the film.
There are a lot of great moments of Steve Rogers being noble and heroic - not stuff where he's awesome at jumping on tanks, but stuff where he demonstrates his willingness to sacrifice himself for others or stand up for what he believes in.
The end comes quick. Like I said, I wish we had another hour or another entire movie to see the ongoing battles between Captain America's Howling Commandos and the Red Skull's Hyrdra organization. The ending was good, but I wish it was even more emotional. Bascially, it's the opening scene from the 2009 Stark Trek movie, where the hero is going to sacrifice himself for the greater good while talking with loved ones on the radio, Star Trek was powerful. With Captain America, I was thinking that surely Cap could figure out another option or there must be some other way to save everyone without giving his life... maybe it seemed that he had more time than he should have, I don't know.
Anyway, great rip-roaring adventure film, with a great hero and filled with lots of cool bits that had me wanted much more.
The didn't play the end-credits button at the screening, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to see it again this weekend and catch that, but I'm already excited for The Avengers next year so that's just icing on the cake. Definately hope they keep WWII stuff in any sequels.
- JB
Quick, non-spoiler review:
Really fun movie, really great Captain America. I wish it was an hour longer, or that we could get another Cap movie or two before The Avengers 'cause there's a lot of story that gets crammed into montages as they skip across WWII.
The interesting thing about this movie, as compared to Iron Man or Thor (or Incredible Hulk) is that Steve Rogers is a true hero, even before he becomes Captain America and gets his supersoldier abilities. Even though this is probably the most violent of the Marvel movies so far, it's the one that I'm most keen to take my kids to because Captain America demonstrates such great qualities.
Anyway, really enjoyed it, lots of fun, wish it was longer, great set-up for Avengers. Chris Evans is excellent.
Longer review, more spoilers...
I think the trick with this movie was cramming Cap's WWII career into one single movie so that he could get frozen by the end to be thawed for The Avengers next year. We spend a fair amount of time with Rogers pre-Super Soldier serum, so we get a lengthy set-up and origin piece, and we have the finale where he ends up in the ice... leaving not a lot of time to his exploits during WWII.
But - the stuff they do show with Cap and the Howling Commandos is great, if quick. All of the Commandos get a quick moment to shine in their action montage, even if the movie never mentions their names (aside from Bucky Barnes), and Captain America is a great man of action. The shield is cool, and used a bunch of different ways, and is almost its own character. The Bucky in the movie is the Bucky Barnes of a future Winter Soldier story rather than the scrappy young sidekick, and it's well done in the film.
There are a lot of great moments of Steve Rogers being noble and heroic - not stuff where he's awesome at jumping on tanks, but stuff where he demonstrates his willingness to sacrifice himself for others or stand up for what he believes in.
The end comes quick. Like I said, I wish we had another hour or another entire movie to see the ongoing battles between Captain America's Howling Commandos and the Red Skull's Hyrdra organization. The ending was good, but I wish it was even more emotional. Bascially, it's the opening scene from the 2009 Stark Trek movie, where the hero is going to sacrifice himself for the greater good while talking with loved ones on the radio, Star Trek was powerful. With Captain America, I was thinking that surely Cap could figure out another option or there must be some other way to save everyone without giving his life... maybe it seemed that he had more time than he should have, I don't know.
Anyway, great rip-roaring adventure film, with a great hero and filled with lots of cool bits that had me wanted much more.
The didn't play the end-credits button at the screening, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to see it again this weekend and catch that, but I'm already excited for The Avengers next year so that's just icing on the cake. Definately hope they keep WWII stuff in any sequels.
- JB
