Captain America

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If I don't think about it too hard, Captain America was a lot of fun. The idealized 40s look is perfect eye candy, and there are funny lines, with Chris Evans looking pretty, a cool heroine played by someone I'd never seen before and Tommy Lee Jones being Tommy Lee Jones

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[ixquic]

It was OK but I did not enjoy it as much as X-M:FC or Loki (I went to see Thor and ended up seeing Loki and loving it), but TML and Stanley Tucci did very good jobs. And I liked Hayley Atwell who played Peggy.

My nephew was bored, so he kept moving and texting during the film which was distracting. The one thing that freaked me out was a commercial for the Mexican Army. Not a recruiting one (I am used to those) but the type that tries to sell you how great and awesome and patriotic the army is. My brother says that they have being showing them on TV too but I had not seen them before. Weird.

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It didn't have any character that I could really love, like Eric, Charles or Loki, but it seemed to me that they managed to pull off a story that could have come across as laughable or damn boring. I had forgotten about how much I loved Stanley Tucci's character! I can't remember the last time I saw him in anything that he didn't do very well.

Oh, wow, I had not heard of those commercials! I wonder where the impetus for that is coming from. I'm always so careful around patriotic chest pounding, so if I had been in the theater seeing this I might have been uncomfortable.

[ixquic]

With the Army so involved in the war with the drug cartels and the human rigths violations controversies, it makes sense that they are trying to sell the idea that the army is awesome.

I think the last decade has been full of great Stanley Tucci performances, both comedic and dramatic. Confession, I adore his comedic side, when he was nominated for The Lovely Bones I did not want him to win for that, my dream would be for his first Oscar to be for a comedy (yeah, it's all about me, not honoring a great and versatile character actor, LOL)

[logovo]

Yeah, you're right. You know, I sometimes forget what a great image the army used to have when I was growing up. I didn't pay that much attention to it, but now I can hear people speaking of it with some nostalgia and outrage.

Stanley Tucci is amazing, and curiously one of two actors that I first saw giving kickass performances in as villains in Wiseguy. The other one was Kevin Spacey. The writing on that show seemed to attract a certain kind of actor and I remember Tucci giving this amazing performance, specially on his last episode, giving his last piece of dialog through a clenched jaw, because his character had his jaw wired. Can you tell he made an impression on me?

So imagine how much I was surprised by how warm and funny his characters can be. Oh my, in Julie & Julia he was wonderful, I think that was when I realized how much I liked him in lighter roles.

[ixquic]

Oh God! Mel! For years, whenever I saw Kevin Spacey, I would say Mel! It took a while to think of him as someone else. Wiseguy had some great writing, my favorite arc was the MusicBiz one, the image of Tim Curry dancing on the grave of Paul Winfield's character has stayed with me. It is one of my benchmarks for frenemies.

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It took me a long time to not think Mel when I saw Kevin Spacey in anything where he looked like himself. I'm not counting Se7en here, because there was so much going on in the movie!

Oh wow, I remember that scene now! Watching Wiseguy by that time was becoming like a hunting exercise, it went away and came back so many times, it was so frustrating. It got so much praise, but CBS wanted to get rid of it.