Early review of Capt. America: Favorable

Looking forward to seeing this.

http://news.yahoo.com/review-captain...190139529.html

Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes currently has it at 59% Fresh. Most of the negative reviews just seem to find it on the dull side.

64 at metacritic, but reviews tend to be on the higher side until the actual release date. Reviews being that it's dull isn't encouraging though. Say what you will about how flawed Bay movies are, but at least they try to be entertaining. A super hero movie needs to be entertaining more than anything.

Ebert likes it, putting it on a par with Iron Man and ahead of Thor.

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I got to see the movie last night at a sneak peak. I really enjoyed the film, it was on par with Thor and the first Iron Man, much better then Green lantern. I have always been a DC guy and Captain American isn't my favorite hero but I still loved it. I think your non-comic book fans will like the movie a lot as well.

It had a lot of good action and it kept a pretty good pace, a few slow spots but not enough to drag the film down. What really helped to make this move was great acting, I wasn't really sold on Chris Evans but he did a decent job. Tommy Lee Jones (has some great lines) and Hugo are really good, Marvel has done really good with the villains in this movie and Thor, I hope we see Red skull and Loki in Avengers.

It was the 3d version as well and it wasn't too distracting as Green Lantern was. Had some Marvel easter eggs in it and made good use of the Marvel universe.

I don't know if the bonus scene will be after the credits or if it wasn't attached to the sneak peak. We did have a extra scene after the main story and before the credits, but I don't know if there is another or it will be moved to after, I have heard of a few sneak peaks in the past that didn't have the special part attached.

A guy I work with is a huge Cap fan and saw it via sneak peak last night (his wife works in the media). He said he liked it a lot. We talked about it for about 30 minutes this morning and from his convo I think I will enjoy it. He did mention they stayed after the credits and didn't have an extra scene and he was disappointed in that. But I've seen lots of internet chat about an extra scene that possibly didn't get played at the sneak peaks just like previews aren't played at sneak peaks.

All in all I will be seeing it first thing Saturday morning with the family and friends.

Metacritic numbers are actual averages, Rotten Tomatoes is a Pass/Fail percentage.

For instance if all the reviews of a movie have a individual rating of 59/100, Metacritic would be 59 while RT would be 0. If all the individual ratings were 60/100, Metacritic would be 60 while RT would be 100.

Now whose amalgamated ratings method would you rather use?

So I just got back from the film. Overal I'll say it was a nice and effective origin story. The character interactions were good and I liked the characters themselves.

On the down side, once you get towards the end you end up with just a big jumble montage of action sequences without much grounding in the film or context and I think that's to the film's detriment. It's just cool scenes of fighting (look everyone, a giant tank) until you get to a fight on a train where the plot starts in again. I get that it was just a montage meant to show the passage of time leading up to the climax and showing the accomplishments of Captain America, but it just didn't work for me in that regard. It really felt somewhat separated from the rest of the film somehow.

Still though, that was just a small section of the movie and hardly enough of a reason to dislike it. I do have to wonder though at all the people who got up and left just as the credits started to roll. Have none of them seen any of the other Marvel movies before? Heck, not only was there a short scene at the end of the credits this time, but there was an actual trailer for next summer's The Avengers after that was done.

Boy is this a good movie. Moves along nicely, plenty of action and Tommy Lee Jones gets most of the good one liners. Unlike Thor or Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers doesn't really have any ego problems and maybe that makes him too much of a goodie two shoes for some people/reviewers. His biggest problem is girls.

I'm forecast a lot of shield defense characters being rolled up this weekend. And of course stay to after the credits for the Avengers preview.

However what made me smile was an Army Sergent who had strangers walk up to him as we were all filing out to thank him. He didn't seem to understand why numerous people were asking to shake his hand.

Just got back myself.

Had people walking out BEFORE the end of the film due to the way the denouement happens. WHOOPSIE!

Then had people walk out as the credits rolled. WHOOPSIE! No Avengers trailer (an honest-to-Stan TRAILER!) for them.

All in all, I actually agree with Roger Ebert (faints in disbelief).

It's a good movie. It has all the problems of being an origin story (trying to shoehorn the mythos into a 2 hour movie and NOT having scenes go buy as if John Moschita's mouth was setting the pace or turning it into a 5 hour extravaganza). But, it's still a good movie.

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I want to see this...not bootleg, but actually go to the theater and see it.

Just saw this: pretty darned good movie, overall. The plot offered no surprises but I knew the comics, so that doesn't help, but the overall character arc was a bit predictable. Not in a dumb way, though. The characters were well acted, the actors gave them decent depth and feeling. Evans made a cap you could admire and empathize with, and the love interest had good chemistry. Side characters had good moments to stand out, making their existence more than just simple background/plot devices. (Wel, Bucky was a bit on the plot-devicey side) Weaving was an interesting villain, and made what could be a flat *insert evil laugh* "I am evil nazi!" into a believable individual. The tech looks both advanced and era correct in most cases, not something that is easy to pull off. The flow was such that the hours flew by, and left me wanting more.

Stay for after the credits, as per usual.