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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. saw it this weekend by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    what makes captain america so good is that it is straightforward, honest, and unironic

    it's a throwback to the pulp of the 1940s, and when i say that, i'm not talking about speech and clothing, i'm talking about worldview and attitude and theme

    the world today is cynical and oh-so-knowing. the world back then was uncomplicated: good was good and evil was evil

    now, pleae: don't get me wrong: abandoning modern day wordliness is not be a good idea for your ideological health

    but in order to make an entertaining MOVIE, it works quite effectively

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  2. I like living under my rock by captainpanic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a good rock. Nice and cozy. It's a very selective rock. Blocks all kinds of advertisements, Hollywood spam and MTV rubbish.

    I love my rock.

  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:Yawn. by vlm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still not sure how much I'd enjoy 90 minutes of "Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!".

    That would be an improvement on NASCAR.

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  5. 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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