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Review: Captain America

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-avenger-or-something dept.

If you have been living under a rock, you might not be aware that the next in the ongoing series of Avengers prequel movies came out this weekend: Captain America follows Steve Rogers origin, and sets him up for next summer's kajillion dollar Whedonesque mega blockbuster. But how is it as a movie in its own right? Hit the link to read my 2 cents. Standard spoiler warnings apply.

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  1. Simply? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 2, Informative

    It sucked. Boring. Waste of time. Save your money. You won't really remember it in five years.

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    1. Re:Simply? by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 4, Informative

      I concur, the movie wasn't great at all. You know its pretty bad when they use a montage for the first real action set that the Captain is in. And not a good montage in the least.

  2. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Did you hear about the blonde who tried to bomb the Norwegian government?

  3. Dieselpunk by tomewilson · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The movie dripped with a cool 40s art style, with enough odd looking modernizations to make it all work. It wasn't steam punk. It wasn't art deco. It wasn't historically accurate. But it was awesome. Every aspect of the world was wonderfully realized to give us a parallel WWII that I totally bought into."

    The style name your looking for is "dieselpunk."

    It's like steampunk, but rooted in the years between WWI and the bombing of Hiroshima.

  4. Re:Agreed by basotl · · Score: 5, Informative

    The quotes that stick out to me were more for displaying the depth of Steve Rogers character.
    Jumps on a grenade and then realizes it doesn't go off:
    Captain America/Steve Rogers: Is this a test?

    Steve Rogers: "Why me?"
    Dr. Abraham Erskine: "...because a weak man knows the value of strength, the value of power..."

    Red Skull: What makes you so special?
    Steve Rogers / Captain America: Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn.

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