Tag: captain america

Well put together, good origin story, decent feel for the period, good actors who understood their jobs, appropriate appreciation of the tech involved, and a refreshing lack of modern political shibboleths.  Cap was there to kick a ferocious amount of Hydra ass, and much Hydra ass was accordingly kicked.

Overall: between Iron Man and Iron Man 2 in quality*.

Continue reading Captain America is good.

I hear that the deeper ideological message on this one is Hey, isn’t it great to watch Nazis get smacked around in a variety of new and exciting ways? – which frankly suits me right down to the ground.  Plus, air-conditioning.  There might even be an opportunity for a cold beer.

Moe Lane

PS: CAP WAS RIGHT.

One thousand, three hundred and twenty-four words; that’s how many words it took for Salon’s Bob Calhoun to make the case (including, I expect, to himself) that it’s OK for liberals to be into Captain America*.  It’s kind of sad, really: can’t the stone-cold hardcore Lefties just like Cap for what he is? Yup: rhetorical question: if they did, they wouldn’t have tried, I don’t know, shooting him in the back or something.

Which reminds me: “Cap was right.”

Moe Lane

*The answer to the question “Whose side would he be on?” is, by the way: America’s.  That’s sort of the point of Captain America, really: we’re all expected to work out what he’s a symbol of on our own and stop bugging him while he’s out fighting Nazis.

…that I’d rather put up instead of the latest Captain America trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjVXKohO8Q

Nice of them to suddenly notice the damn noun in that title, let me tell you…

Moe Lane

PS: I probably shouldn’t get this.

 

I distinctly remember that Marvel shot Captain America in the back.  After mocking him, as I recall, for not having a MySpace page.

MySpace.

(pause)

Yeah, that reference aged well.

But now Cap’s back.

Moe Lane

(Via @kevinbinversie)

PS: Yes, Captain America’s been back for a while.  I just wanted to mock the MySpace thing.

 

Only thirty seconds, but that’s OK.  So:

• 1940’s look? Check.
• Red Skull? Check.
• Patriotic motif for Cap? Check.
• Nazi flying wing aircraft?  Check.
• General Nazi-punching?  Check.

OK, those are all reasonably good signs… wait a second: is that Adolf Hitler about to get punched in his own experimental one-man submarine?

Because if so… Awwww yeah, baby.  Just keep bringing more helpings of that to the table.

Moe Lane

PS: I am ready to believe that it is not, but I am not eager to.