Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Bucky is though.
You sure he didn't "get better"?
Captain America: The First Avenger
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You sure he didn't "get better"?
Welverin
First Post
Depends, does getting rescued/kidnapped by the russians giving a mechanical arm and being brainwashed into a spy/assassin count as getting better?
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Only if he doesn't eventually get the arm ripped off by the Red Skull's daughter in a cross over written by Matt Fraction.
Couple of points:
1. Capt America rocked. My favorite of the Marvel crop.
2. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, I'd like to have seen some Nazis getting beat upon rather than just Hydra. That said, I liked the Red Skull-Hydra set-up and it was obvious that it was still the Nazis who the Allies were fighting in WWII. (In the Avengers cartoon, for example, it's the Allies figthting Hydra -- the Nazis are effectively retconned out of existence.)
3. An interview of Chris Evans that I saw said that his contract contains the options for 6 movies: 3 Avengers; 3 Captain America. The studio doesn't have to make them, but if they do, Evans is wearing the Cap uniform. This is important because...
3a. When the cube does its thing on the Skull, the stream has a very rainbow-esque appearance to it. If they go with Cap 2 or 3, chances are good the Red Skull will reappear (having be transported somewhere via the cube ala the Rainbow Bridge).
3b. Bucky falling and being lost from sight is largely in sync with the comic-character's history. I'm not saying Bucky will be back, but if they wanted to go the Winter Soldier route, they set it up so that the Winter Soldier origin wouldn't have to deviate too far from the comic version.
1. Capt America rocked. My favorite of the Marvel crop.
2. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, I'd like to have seen some Nazis getting beat upon rather than just Hydra. That said, I liked the Red Skull-Hydra set-up and it was obvious that it was still the Nazis who the Allies were fighting in WWII. (In the Avengers cartoon, for example, it's the Allies figthting Hydra -- the Nazis are effectively retconned out of existence.)
3. An interview of Chris Evans that I saw said that his contract contains the options for 6 movies: 3 Avengers; 3 Captain America. The studio doesn't have to make them, but if they do, Evans is wearing the Cap uniform. This is important because...
3a. When the cube does its thing on the Skull, the stream has a very rainbow-esque appearance to it. If they go with Cap 2 or 3, chances are good the Red Skull will reappear (having be transported somewhere via the cube ala the Rainbow Bridge).
3b. Bucky falling and being lost from sight is largely in sync with the comic-character's history. I'm not saying Bucky will be back, but if they wanted to go the Winter Soldier route, they set it up so that the Winter Soldier origin wouldn't have to deviate too far from the comic version.
As an aside, the biggest "what if" I took from the movie was will a Sharon Carter show up in either Avengers or a Cap2? -- and will Haley play that role as well? I'm certainly hoping so -- she was great as Peggy Carter. [And my wife's a sucker for the whole reincarnation/descendant looking like an ancestor/relative thing... This is one of the few instances I'd agree.]
Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
[sblock]On IMDB, Amanda Righetti (who played the SHIELD agent that greeted Cap as he awoke in the modern era) is listed as playing Sharon Carter in The Avengers film.[/sblock]
Bullgrit
Adventurer
Something that struck me as funny both times I saw this movie:
Stark (paraphrased): "It's made of vibranium. It doesn't vibrate." At that moment and a couple more times in that scene, you hear the shield vibrating.
Then several times throughout the rest of the movie, you hear the shield vibrating.
If the sound effects guys couldn't just leave the shield sounds out, then at least the editors could have taken out the "It doesn't vibrate," line.
Bullgrit
Stark (paraphrased): "It's made of vibranium. It doesn't vibrate." At that moment and a couple more times in that scene, you hear the shield vibrating.
Then several times throughout the rest of the movie, you hear the shield vibrating.
If the sound effects guys couldn't just leave the shield sounds out, then at least the editors could have taken out the "It doesn't vibrate," line.
Bullgrit
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
On that matter, the fact that it absorbs impact yet gets bowled over by dual-machine-gun-man in the train... so what was the point of vibranium again?
Welverin
First Post
It's nigh indestructible.
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
I finally saw this the other day and was very pleased. I don't know why so many people are put out about Cap fighting Hydra. As far as anyone knows (until near the end of the movie) they are Nazis, like the SS and the Gestapo. In fact, its possible that the Nazis think they're still Nazis. With the allies straffing everything in sight and all the destruction going on (and the only Nazi officers who knew better being dead), they might have just assumed that Schmit never got the memo.
And, despite the fact that I'm usually a real nitpicker, there was only one thing that grated on me. That was HA calling herself Agent Carter while in uniform. I'm no expert on military protocol, but that just seemed wrong to me! Otherwise she was excellent in the role. And that probably wasn't her fault anyway.
And, despite the fact that I'm usually a real nitpicker, there was only one thing that grated on me. That was HA calling herself Agent Carter while in uniform. I'm no expert on military protocol, but that just seemed wrong to me! Otherwise she was excellent in the role. And that probably wasn't her fault anyway.
