Captain America - what a flop

[dastari]

I've been so excited about the Avengers films and by and large they've been good. Even Hulk which didn't wow me was ok. However, Captain America I found flat and boring. The whole film felt like it was just marking time until the Avengers. A LOT of the movie was wasted in just setting up Cap before he gets the super soldier serum. I really think

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[valmora]

I think my favorite part of the Captain America movie is where he assembles his Ragtag Band Of Heroes:

- the British dude
- the French and/or Belgian resistance dude
- his Friend
- the Black Guy (who, for the record, is probably the most-educated one among them)
- the Asian dude "from Frisco" whose family name in the credits is "Morita", that being a Japanese last name, meaning he would have been in the 442nd. Uh. Yes, they served in Europe.

Uh.

Slight historical nonthinking.

[dastari]

That's actually supposed to be some incarnation of the Howling Commandos from Marvel's Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos. The tipoff to me was the presence of Dum Dum Dugan (the red haired Irish guy. That was a 60's comic set in World War 2. This is what popularized the Nick Fury character (who is white in Marvel) and later lead to his being in modern comics. They explain this away with the nazis apparently inventing an infinity formula that stops the aging process. Nick stole it and drank it thus meaning that he never ages. I'm pretty sure that the "black guy" in the movie was supposed to be a young Nick Fuy (Samuel L Jackson's character) and it was a nod to that without actually saying out loud that he's Nick and having to explain the Infinity Formula. After all, the way that Nick talks to Cap at the end of the movie seems more familiar than someone who has only ever read of someone and meeting them for the first time