Captain America: The First Avenger
I saw it! And there was much rejoicing.
It was good - certainly I walked away happier than I had thought I would be, since I hadn't read anything about him and never seen any cartoons (if there even are any?) I like Steve Rogers a lot, and I liked his origin story.
Plot wise, there were only a few bumps. I don't think that how the Odin's Thingamajig worked was ever actually explained, so I just sat through the movie thinking of it as the "power-making MacGuffin". It made things glow blue? It teleported RedSkull away into space (where I'm SURE he's dead)? IDK. Rebecca, my new flatmate and nerd of equal proportions, said later that she thought it was something well known in the Marvel verse or at least for Captain America. It didn't detract from the story, though.
I thought that the doctor who picked Steve to be the test subject was the same one who helped Tony Stark out of his cave, adding this whole delicious flavour to their bromance and a whole "I created one hero and now I'm creating another", so when he died I was VERY CONFUSED. But then I got over it. Different guy, I guess. Maybe it was the same actor?
Why was Steve deciding the battle plan at the end. WHY. He is not a military genius. He does not have years of experience. I mean, his plan WORKED and all, but still. Wouldn't/Couldn't they have had someone actually trained in strategy make up the plan? Oh wait, Steve was all driven by vengeance, it needed to be him to be emotionally satisfying.
Speaking of vengeance, I was not happy when his friend died. Not happy at all. Bring back the cute one! But Rebecca says that when that happened that was such a Big Deal that his friend is like, the ONE person that Marvel CANNOT revive. Nooooo!
Edit for remembering something - 'course, there's something good to be said about his death as well: Captain America, his best friend, and a black guy zip-line onto a train that the audience, at least, suspect is a trap. It is. And the black dude doesn't die.
Oh, and they couldn't find the crashed ship after the climax until now? Really? That was a HUGE ship, and they would have had it on radar until it went down, and it had all that crazy technology - certainly during the Cold War you'd think America would have been Very Interested in finding some crazy high-tech gadgets. Apparently not.
I would have liked to see a proper suit-up of Captain America's improved armour. That whole scene cut was very strange to me - he tells Old!Stark that he has ideas, then it cuts to him and his new team taking out Nazis Hydra goons in the forest. Not only do they move like a well-oiled, known-each-other-for-years team machine without any training together, but the cut was so sudden that I thought it was Steve's imagination at first.
Every time Hugo Weaving spoke I added "Mr. Anderson" to the end of his sentences. EVERY TIME. Despite the (I thought, rather good) German accent. It just made me add "Herr Anderson" in German instead of American. For a moment I thought that would happen to HW in all the films he plays, ever again, but it didn't happen in V for Vendetta. Maybe it's the face. Nope, it still happened when he was done pretending to be human and took off his face and ran around Germany as Red Skull proper. Which, ew.
OMFG THE PREVIEW OF THE AVENGERS. It will be SOOOO GOOOOOOOODD I super look forward to team bonding scenes and the idea of Tony Stark teaching Steve and Thor about teh wimmins FILLS ME WITH JOY. Want now plzkthnx.
This sounded a lot more negative than I meant. The movie is awesome, and you should all go see it.
Oh man, this spring/summer: first Thor, then X-Men, then Green Lantern, now this. In December Sherlock Holmes 2 comes out, the Bilbo movie is on its way, and The Avengers comes next summer, and so does STAR TREK OMGGGG.
There needs to be a Hawk Girl movie, though. And a Question movie.
DC should just assemble the Justice League, really.
It was good - certainly I walked away happier than I had thought I would be, since I hadn't read anything about him and never seen any cartoons (if there even are any?) I like Steve Rogers a lot, and I liked his origin story.
Plot wise, there were only a few bumps. I don't think that how the Odin's Thingamajig worked was ever actually explained, so I just sat through the movie thinking of it as the "power-making MacGuffin". It made things glow blue? It teleported RedSkull away into space (where I'm SURE he's dead)? IDK. Rebecca, my new flatmate and nerd of equal proportions, said later that she thought it was something well known in the Marvel verse or at least for Captain America. It didn't detract from the story, though.
I thought that the doctor who picked Steve to be the test subject was the same one who helped Tony Stark out of his cave, adding this whole delicious flavour to their bromance and a whole "I created one hero and now I'm creating another", so when he died I was VERY CONFUSED. But then I got over it. Different guy, I guess. Maybe it was the same actor?
Why was Steve deciding the battle plan at the end. WHY. He is not a military genius. He does not have years of experience. I mean, his plan WORKED and all, but still. Wouldn't/Couldn't they have had someone actually trained in strategy make up the plan? Oh wait, Steve was all driven by vengeance, it needed to be him to be emotionally satisfying.
Speaking of vengeance, I was not happy when his friend died. Not happy at all. Bring back the cute one! But Rebecca says that when that happened that was such a Big Deal that his friend is like, the ONE person that Marvel CANNOT revive. Nooooo!
Edit for remembering something - 'course, there's something good to be said about his death as well: Captain America, his best friend, and a black guy zip-line onto a train that the audience, at least, suspect is a trap. It is. And the black dude doesn't die.
Oh, and they couldn't find the crashed ship after the climax until now? Really? That was a HUGE ship, and they would have had it on radar until it went down, and it had all that crazy technology - certainly during the Cold War you'd think America would have been Very Interested in finding some crazy high-tech gadgets. Apparently not.
I would have liked to see a proper suit-up of Captain America's improved armour. That whole scene cut was very strange to me - he tells Old!Stark that he has ideas, then it cuts to him and his new team taking out Nazis Hydra goons in the forest. Not only do they move like a well-oiled, known-each-other-for-years team machine without any training together, but the cut was so sudden that I thought it was Steve's imagination at first.
Every time Hugo Weaving spoke I added "Mr. Anderson" to the end of his sentences. EVERY TIME. Despite the (I thought, rather good) German accent. It just made me add "Herr Anderson" in German instead of American. For a moment I thought that would happen to HW in all the films he plays, ever again, but it didn't happen in V for Vendetta. Maybe it's the face. Nope, it still happened when he was done pretending to be human and took off his face and ran around Germany as Red Skull proper. Which, ew.
OMFG THE PREVIEW OF THE AVENGERS. It will be SOOOO GOOOOOOOODD I super look forward to team bonding scenes and the idea of Tony Stark teaching Steve and Thor about teh wimmins FILLS ME WITH JOY. Want now plzkthnx.
This sounded a lot more negative than I meant. The movie is awesome, and you should all go see it.
Oh man, this spring/summer: first Thor, then X-Men, then Green Lantern, now this. In December Sherlock Holmes 2 comes out, the Bilbo movie is on its way, and The Avengers comes next summer, and so does STAR TREK OMGGGG.
There needs to be a Hawk Girl movie, though. And a Question movie.
DC should just assemble the Justice League, really.