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aunt_zeldaI mean, I had a few minor issues with things, certain scenes, the way it was put together at times. But as one movie for his complete backstory, I thought it did a great job. Great actors, mostly very good effects, and I loooooooooved the 40s style.
P.S. Agent Peggy Carter was absolutely gorgeous and kickass. Why couldn't she have gotten frozen in the ice too?! I want her in the 21st century kicking ass and rocking that haircut! : (
Thoughts typed as I watched:
This movie either has a higher budget or a better team than the team that did Thor. It's just immediately apparent, in everything from the lighting to the camera work to the costumes.
*squees over all the 40s stuff* THE HATS!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!
Also, can I just say that I LOVE Agent Carter? Like, immediately? Though it's odd to see her like this since the last time I saw her was in Pillars of the Earth as Aliena, and seeing her with a gun just looks so weird that my brain didn't recognize her at first.
Oh god, Steve, baby, must you be the most adorkable selfless perfect dude ever? Am I going to cry buckets when all your friends die in the war and you get frozen in ice and wake up to find pretty much everyone is dead?
Stanley Tucci is brilliant in this role, btw. I have quite the soft spot for him as an actor and seeing him here was a real treat.
A man who looks suspiciously like Richard Armitage steals the last vial of serum, suddenly shoots Stanley Tucci, and then races away, causing a pretty damn good car chase/foot chase sequence. Then he gets into a submarine that looks like one of those yellow Naboo ships and tries to escape via the ocean, but Steve just leaps into the water, punches through the glass, and yanks him out. The agent commits suicide via cyanide capsule in a tooth and says "Heil Hydra." I don't know WTF I just watched, but I liked it! Well, except the nasty death, of course. Seeing someone's tooth popping out isn't something I ever want to see.
Couldn't someone have gotten better accent coaches for these guys?
Also, lol, that last death was seriously narmy.
Is it just me, but is Howard Stark kinda sexy in this retro-1940s kind of way?
Awwww, he's adorable as the stage-shy public speaker. And then it's also sad. Very sad. Because he's not fighting and the soldiers he visits make fun of him.
Oh dear, now I'm shipping Carter/Stark/Steve. Somebody stop me. Fondue. Oh dear lord.
Ahahahahaa, I love how Steve just knocked on the door and the agent let him in! (Makes sense, I mean, they're deep in the base, who would knock if they were an enemy?)
Loving the quirky characters. Especially the dude with the Nice Hat. And yay, they all have rayguns now! EPIC! That's a recipe for instant success in my book: quirky characters + rayguns.
Hugo Weaving is making his INTENSE FACE, I want to go hide under the bed now.
I love Steve's adorkably casual dialogue.
Oh god, he punched him so hard his face started to slip. EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Oh gods, now he's pulling his face off … eeeeeeuuuuuuuugghhh … wait, oh, he looks … kinda stupid now. When deciding on the exact color for Red Skull's head, maybe don't make him the exact shade of a Maraschino Cherry? Just a suggestion.
Woooooot! Rescue mission! All kinds of soldiers coming back! YAAAAAAAAY! (Usually I don't get into war films. But that scene made me smile.)
Lol, Stan Lee, I love your cameos.
Whoa, Natalie Dormer?! What are you doing there?! Considering the last two times I've seen you on my laptop you got naked and tried to share your husband (The Tudors, Game of Thrones, seriously she's the same character on both), I'm kind of nervous about your plans for Steve!
I love the two soldiers speaking French to each other. In fact, I love their whole little group. I wish we'd get to spend more time with them.
Awwwwww, Bucky and Steve, it ships itself … why I want to make Steve the fandom bicycle I have no idea, maybe it's because he's such a sweetheart and gets picked on so much in this movie, so I want him to have lots and lots of sex with lots and lots of nice, attractive, adventurous people? Or maybe I'm just a perv. My friends seem to think it's the latter.
Yep! Natalie Dormer exists solely to be sexually aggressive and lead to a misunderstanding between Steve and Carter. I'm not really amused here.
(He was so cute when he was flustered!)
AHAHAHHAAA she shot him a bunch of times to "test" the shield! I shouldn't find that funny but it is, it really is.
Awwwww, the epic Captain America adventures are mostly a montage … I know they gotta cram in a lot but still … I mean, it's an EPIC montage, and I like it, but I wish there was more of it in the movie.
Seriously, Howard Stark, stop being so gorram sexy.
Nooooooo, Bucky … I'm sure this would be sadder if I hadn't known you were gonna die before I even watched the movie …
Nice interrogation scene.
Hugo Weaving, I want to take you seriously but I just can't with that ridiculous shade of red plastic all over your face.
Auuuuuuuuuwwwww, Steve can't get drunk … and he wants to drink, because Bucky is dead and he blames himself.
Thrilling final battle to do … something. There's lots of running, and shooting, and epic music, and explosions, and rayguns. So I know it's epic. I think they're trying to shut down the Hydra facility where they make the raygun things?
Also, tie your hair back, Agent Carter, please. You're in battle, your hair's gonna get in your face and be really annoying.
I think the blatant spaceships are a bit much. Just a bit. Starting to look dangerously Star Wars: Attack of the Clones here. Too much GCI … too much shooting GCI …
Poorly-timed kiss! HURRAY!
"I'm not kissing you!" Lol, I like that guy. He was kind of a dick earlier but now I kinda like him.
Oh jesus, are they even mimicking the Star Wars Prequel music and sound effects too? Stop that, Captain American Movie, stop that right now. You've racked up a lot of brownie points in the past 90 minutes, don't lose them all now!
So, Red Skull is defeated by a glowing box. It's … not really explained. Whatever. Maybe it can't be explained.
Steve and Peggy's final conversation made me tear up. Nooooooooooo …
Great camera work, Peggy crying alone in the control room as the camera slowly drifts away.
Oh, lovely, they're gaslighting Steve. Because that's nicer than, I dunno, letting him wake up in a bed in a plain room with no tv or computer and calmly explaining to him that he was asleep for almost 70 years in ice?
Oh, right, that wouldn't be as dramatic.
I think the main reason I enjoyed this movie was because it did the right thing: took a guy who could have easily become a Boring Invincible Hero and made sure to humanize him and make him interesting and meaningful to the audience by showing all the supporting characters in his life. We know Steve is pretty much gonna kick ass in every fight, but his teammates could get shot, exploded, or fall off of a cliff into a bad green screen effect. And he cares about them, so we care about battles even though Steve isn't in much real danger in almost all of them. This is Steve's story, yes, but it's got a kickass ensemble to surround him so he doesn't get boring, he gets interesting.
