Captain America: The First Avenger

[Ginaz]

Doesn't want to admit it's his mom.

Friendzoned.

It does smell of a certain odd insecurity, doesn't it? I mean I went to see Iron Man a few years ago with a female friend AND my dad, but I never described them to anyone as "the people with whom I saw the movie".

To satisfy your inexplicable interest regarding who I went with, it was a woman from work.  I got a free pass for two so I asked her if she would like to go.  It wasn't a date because she's married.  Makes sense now?

As for the movie, it was much better than I thought it was going to be.    Not as good as the Dark Knight series, Spiderman 1 or Ironman 1, but I would put it up there with Thor and the last X-Men movie.  Everyone seemed to like it and my fears that Chris Evans would drag it down didn't happen.  A nice way to wrap things up before the Avengers is released (next year?).

[WindupAtheist]

Still weird. Why wouldn't you just say friend? She is your friend, right? You're socializing together outside of work. I bet you dearly want to bang her and that's why you subconsciously don't want to call her your friend, leaving her as "the person you took with you".

ADMIT. REVEAL YOURSELF. 

[Teleku]

Why not just say "my friend"...

Why not just say "the person I was with"...

[Sheepherder]

He's secretly a sexist and is objectifying the poor woman by identifying her only in relation to the movie the two were watching, the bastard.

[lamaros]

I'm with WUA.

[UnSub]

I'm with WUA.

Why would you say "with"?

[Merusk]

I want to say it doesn't bode well for this movie that you all are more interested in dissecting the turn of a phrase than relaying tales of seeing it or other such speculations.

[CmdrSlack]

I am taking the family to see this tomorrow. My 5 year old daughter loves Cap, and has seen other PG 13 superhero movies ( Iron Man 1 & 2' all 3 spiderman flicks, X-Men up thru Origins, and the first of the new Batman franchise -- Dark Knight is too scary, IMO), are there any bits to this that should keep her home?

[Ginaz]

I am taking the family to see this tomorrow. My 5 year old daughter loves Cap, and has seen other PG 13 superhero movies ( Iron Man 1 & 2' all 3 spiderman flicks, X-Men up thru Origins, and the first of the new Batman franchise -- Dark Knight is too scary, IMO), are there any bits to this that should keep her home?

I don't think so.  There wasn't much foul language and the violence wasn't too graphic except for a few people who were disintegrated from one of Red Skull's fancy weapons.  If your girl had no problem with Iron Man 1/2 and the X-men series then she should be ok with this film.

[Ginaz]

I want to say it doesn't bode well for this movie that you all are more interested in dissecting the turn of a phrase than relaying tales of seeing it or other such speculations.

Its actually pretty good and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys comic movies.  Its certainly at the higher end of the quality spectrum for the genre.

[CmdrSlack]

I am taking the family to see this tomorrow. My 5 year old daughter loves Cap, and has seen other PG 13 superhero movies ( Iron Man 1 & 2' all 3 spiderman flicks, X-Men up thru Origins, and the first of the new Batman franchise -- Dark Knight is too scary, IMO), are there any bits to this that should keep her home?

I don't think so.  There wasn't much foul language and the violence wasn't too graphic except for a few people who were disintegrated from one of Red Skull's fancy weapons.  If your girl had no problem with Iron Man 1/2 and the X-men series then she should be ok with this film.

Thanks for the assessment. She makes me buy every Cap-related book out there, and I would hate for her to have a bad experience.

[WindupAtheist]

I'm with WUA.

Why would you say "with"?

Does this mean I'm "allowed" to say faggot now?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Just got back, I would put this above iron man2 and thor, easily on par with the first iron man.  Some of the action scenes suffered from a bit of green-screen-itis but the story itself was solid and set up the character well.

[Khaldun]

Very solid, a lot of fun. Actually some of the best stuff is the middle section of the film, when Cap is initially used just as a propaganda tool, lots of clever meta-commentary. They can't really avoid the blandness of Steve Rogers' post-transformation personality, but that's kind of the point, he's just a solid all-American guy, which is what lets everybody like him.

Howling Commandoes actually have a pretty prominent role in the film. I love that a few film reviewers are snarking about how they're all multicultural and politically correct and shit like it's some corporate calculation when this was pretty much the way they were when they debuted in 1963. (Gabe Jones has become Nick Fury Sr. in order to create the bridge to Jackson's Nick Fury Jr., and there's an Asian-American member who I don't think was on the original team.)

Hugo Weaving is very good as the Red Skull.

[CmdrSlack]

Just got back 2 hours ago. Damn good. A bit too long for my daughter, but she's 5 and you'll have that. She got really upset towards the end  but that blew over quickly.

My wife also thought it was long. Then again, they had to do a lot of origin story exposition, which she agreed was probably necessary.

Now I need to see if Marvel has any of the Howling Commandos stuff on their digital download app. It's one aspect of Cap that I've never fully read. I'm a bit pissed that they didn't provide names for the characters as part of the dialogue. You'd think that would be useful, as these were Steve's "super group" of soldiers as far as the movie's plot was concerned.

[Evildrider]

They are still in the middle of filming Avengers.  It's the reason they didn't have a Comic-Con Panel this year.

[CmdrSlack]

Well, that explains it.

[Ratman_tf]

Saw it yesterday. I loved it, but the last half was paced pretty badly. I could actually feel the movie slip the rails.

[MuffinMan]

Is this reboot better than the original 1990 Captain America movie?

[Sir T]

Is this reboot better than the original 1990 Captain America movie?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8rFsmhNTc

[Sir T]

Of course that does not come close to the 1979 version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzE4Hv6Z-yk

Phear the motorcycle helmet of JUSTICE!

[Evildrider]

Such a great movie   

Now we have to wait a damn year for Avengers.

[Surlyboi]

(Gabe Jones has become Nick Fury Sr. in order to create the bridge to Jackson's Nick Fury Jr., and there's an Asian-American member who I don't think was on the original team.)

The Japanese guy's line, "I'm from Fresno, Ace" was the one thing that upset the missus about this movie. Partially because her family's from the Fresno area and pretty much the only choices the men had those days was to end up in an internment camp or go to war. I told her on the upside, that could've been her grandfather. 

[Tannhauser]

Saw it, enjoyed it, but I think I still like Thor better.  CA was a lot of fun and Chris Evans did a good job.  I farking loved the USO tour!  Totally didn't see that coming. 


Looks like the movie is doing very well and The Avengers are setup about was well as can be.  I really do want to see these guys in a movie together.

[Khaldun]

Avengers clip:

 

[CmdrSlack]

Avengers clip:

 

[Khaldun]

Just saw the teeny bit of the teaser they've put up online. Stark says to Thor, "You've got a mean swing".

[HaemishM]

I saw this today and loved it. The pacing was perfect. Two hours felt like nothing, not once did I check my watch. The thing was full of nods to the comics, from Arnim Zola's first on-screen appearance being through a distorted TV picture to the Human Torch's body at the World Expo, the Howling Commandos, Bucky's abilities as a sniper, the whole kitten kaboodle. It could easily have been another half hour and I wouldn't have minded, especially if that time was spent with more Howling Commandos. They didn't get nearly enough screen time. I'd put it right below the two Iron Man movies on the scale of the Marvel flicks, right above Thor.

[Thrawn]

Went and saw this today, thought the whole opening with Voldemort and then Snape at Hogwarts was really confusing. 



They played the wrong movie until we went out and said something. 

[Evildrider]

Went and saw this today, thought the whole opening with Voldemort and then Snape at Hogwarts was really confusing. 



They played the wrong movie until we went out and said something. 

Haha that's awesome..

[rk47]

Felt quite average to me. The factory destruction montage is a wtf moment in the movie.
Yawn. I guess it'll do. Quite easy to pick apart this movie...but hey, it's comic book logic!

[shiznitz]

I thought this movie was well done.  It was actually not an over the top comic book movie, but a very solid story where the protagonist happened to be Captain America.  The movie even de-emphasized his "super" powers to a large extent.

[Sand]

Saw it tonight.
Better than Thor but worse than Ironman movies.
My non-comic buddy went with me, and at the end kept saying "why the fuck didnt he just pull it up and slide in for a landing on the ice?"

[Speedy Cerviche]

The one thing that really annoyed me was the "starship troopers" style battle scenes where you have a veteren infantry regiment running like idiots charging fortified positions whilst shooting full auto from the hip and all killing happens at about 10-20 feet distance. No heavy weapon support, no taking cover, no grenades even. I mean cmon you dont even see shit that stupid in star wars or james bond movies.

[Ratman_tf]

My non-comic buddy went with me, and at the end kept saying "why the fuck didnt he just pull it up and slide in for a landing on the ice?"

If I tried to land a 747 with no training or coaching, I'd probably lawn-dart it. I bet your buddy couldn't land a crazy Nazi superretrotech fortress bomber.