Captain America: The First Avenger

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Paul, Josh, Tyler, Alex, Kyla

This was very enjoyable. Strangely enough the action was my least favourite part about it though, which probably isn't the greatest thing to say. But I enjoyed the in between bits more than the actual sequences, which felt somewhat simple compared to other Marvel films. They were all overshadowed by simple dialogue scenes between characters and a lot of nice period fun.

I especially love The nod to the comics and Captain America being used as propaganda to make people buy war bonds. Those scenes are great and Alan Menken song is delightful too.

Stanley Tucci is so awesome, we all know that though. I was surprised by how funny Tommy Lee Jones was though. I mean, yeah he's been funny before but he's just fantastic in this role. Hugo Weaving is the bad guy looking for some magic cube of power. He get's that role a lot. Hayley Atwell's the girl and Chris Evans is in his 7th comic book movie, so he's got it down now. Although this is a different kind of character to what he normally plays and he does it well.

Let's talk about Skinny Steve, you've got to be endeared to him to buy into the character. Some spooky digital trickery going here and for the most part I'd say they pulled it off, if not for the big deep voice coming out of that impossibly tiny frame.

I love the sound of the shield. That thing is neat. There was a particularly cool placement of the Wilhelm scream too, so be on the look out for that. There was one scene in a tent that had terrible dialogue sound but the rest of the film sounds great and although I didn't notice it much in the film, Alan Silvestri's score over the end credit sequence was great (as was the end credit sequence).

Again I saw this projected digitally although not in 3D. Some of it looked really digital, a lot of that smooth video look, mainly the nighttime stuff, but most of it looks great. Looks like they used a lot of formats on this one.

Joe Johnston does a great job but this never soars to the heights of The Rocketeer. I think the very VFX heavy action has a lot to do with it. I don't think it's the greatest Marvel film (here's hoping that's the Avengers, the tease at the end was okay looking) but it's definitely very enjoyable.