Captain America: The First Avenger

[ssampier]

Excellent movie. Hugo Weaving is awesome as usual, but one of the few movies where I don't picture him saying, "Mr. Anderson..." while wearing black sunglasses.

I did have one nitpick, however. When

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Zola

was captured

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by the Allies Col. Phillips questions him. They had a fairly memorable scene where Phillips eats a steak in front of him.

However, despite all the time spent they never reference it later or explain why that scene was important.

Other than that, the movie was excellent. I was forced to see it in 3D. The 3D explosions added a lot to the movie. I will admit I flinched a little when the shield was heading toward the camera/screen.

 

[MarkB]

I did have one nitpick, however. When

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Zola

was captured

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by the Allies Col. Phillips questions him. They had a fairly memorable scene where Phillips eats a steak in front of him.

However, despite all the time spent they never reference it later or explain why that scene was important.

Wasn't that how they found out the location and defenses of Hydra's main base, along with Red Skull's gameplan? That was certainly my impression.

 

[Klaus]

Wasn't that how they found out the location and defenses of Hydra's main base, along with Red Skull's gameplan? That was certainly my impression.

You're correct. Gen. Phillips goes so far as to say "according to my new best friend", etc, etc.

 

[Roland55]

Just saw this today. I don’t know yet if I’m prepared to call this the best Marvel movie to date. Need to see it, and some of the others, a few more times.

But I am prepared to say that, in terms of mood/tone/feel/aesthetics, it got absolutely everything right. Seriously. It’s brilliant in that regard alone. My biggest complaint is that it wasn’t about eight hours longer, so we could see a lot more of Cap’s missions during WWII.

Between this and X-Men: First Class, I kind of want at least half of all comic book movies to be period pieces from here on out.

Agreed ... especially with that last point.

But that may be the "old man" in me coming forward and taking over.

I go way back.