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onemuseleft) wrote2011-07-23 11:29 am
onemuseleft) wrote2011-07-23 11:29 am
Spoiler free!
So, Captain America was awesome. I'm still nervous about The Avengers but that's mostly because Joss Whedon is writing the script and, well. Dollhouse. So there's that.
But the movie was great, and I agree with the reviews I've been reading: It's a war movie that happens to have a super-hero in it. And the super part really isn't the focus.
The casting was great. I was a little skeptical about Chris Evans at first (he just didn't look like Steve Rogers in my head, also Johhny Storm, much?) but he did a great job, as did pretty much everyone else. Bucky was awesome. Tommy Lee Jones was absolutely killer. And holy crap, was I thrilled by Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter. Peggy kicked ass and couldn't be bothered to take names. Her interactions with Steve were brilliantly underplayed and poignant. She was fierce without being a caricature, sentimental without being weak and she had scenes that were full of raw emotion without being overwrought. I loved every scene she was in.
There were other great things as well, including the casting for the villains, and the fact that while, yes, there were no fucking Nazis in a WWII movie, there was at least a reason for why there were no Nazis and one I was able to accept and suspend my disbelief for.
I had a weirdly uncomfortable moment because there was mention of a major attack on Norway, and it was just weird and kind of sad to hear that line on the same day as the Oslo attacks, but obviously it was just a strange coincidence. No one else noticed it until I mentioned it, but it still struck a weird chord with me.
If you're going to go see this, wait till after the credits. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't for a Marvel movie these days, since they always sneak something in there, but the after-credits for Captain America are worth sitting around for a few minutes.
But the movie was great, and I agree with the reviews I've been reading: It's a war movie that happens to have a super-hero in it. And the super part really isn't the focus.
The casting was great. I was a little skeptical about Chris Evans at first (he just didn't look like Steve Rogers in my head, also Johhny Storm, much?) but he did a great job, as did pretty much everyone else. Bucky was awesome. Tommy Lee Jones was absolutely killer. And holy crap, was I thrilled by Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter. Peggy kicked ass and couldn't be bothered to take names. Her interactions with Steve were brilliantly underplayed and poignant. She was fierce without being a caricature, sentimental without being weak and she had scenes that were full of raw emotion without being overwrought. I loved every scene she was in.
There were other great things as well, including the casting for the villains, and the fact that while, yes, there were no fucking Nazis in a WWII movie, there was at least a reason for why there were no Nazis and one I was able to accept and suspend my disbelief for.
I had a weirdly uncomfortable moment because there was mention of a major attack on Norway, and it was just weird and kind of sad to hear that line on the same day as the Oslo attacks, but obviously it was just a strange coincidence. No one else noticed it until I mentioned it, but it still struck a weird chord with me.
If you're going to go see this, wait till after the credits. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't for a Marvel movie these days, since they always sneak something in there, but the after-credits for Captain America are worth sitting around for a few minutes.