Early review of Capt. America: Favorable

I'd tend to agree, I found that moment to be quite well-done and really encapsulate not only who Cap is as a character but why these guys are giving the super-soldier serum to him instead of someone who might be a better test subject physically. It's one thing to put lines in the character's mouth about nobility and honor, but that scene works better than anything you could have had him say. Even the gruff Tommy Lee Jones character respects him after that, albeit grudgingly.

I get that in the modern era where we're all used to flawed antiheroes and deconstructed sagas that a square-jawed honestly noble hero rings a bit false, but that's a core part of who the character is and I thought the film did an admirable job of portraying a character like that in a way that while not always completely believable (the bully line was a bit over the top, I thought) was completely consistent and managed to be empathetic - something that can be hard to pull off when your hero is almost inhumanly decent.

Wow, great New Pic, isn´t it?

@Redcap

Personally I ate it up like candy, but I've always been a sucker for things like that. Might have something to do with why I've played a superhero MMO for the past 7+ years, now that I think about it...

But I do see how our culture ("our culture" being American popular culture in this instance) might look at something like this as an artifact of another age at best and as untenably false at worst. And that is sad, that we can't seem to just believe in our heroes anymore without trying to find fault with them. I think this movie deserves praise for having the courage to present a hero like this boldly and without the need to make it ironic or wink at the audience to do it.

Saw the movie and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Couple questions - Didn't we get a glimpse of a certain red, white and blue shield in Tony Stark's lab in the first Iron Man movie? I guess that was a prototype or something.

Also, is Marvel not allowed to use the term adamantium in their movies because of Fox owning the rights to the X-Men and Wolverine franchises? 'Cause I could swear Cap's shield is a unique, irreproducable alloy of adamantium and vibranium, not pure vibranium.

Hmmm, maybe that's what the shield is in Tony's lab - a subsequent alloyed version that contains adamantium.

So anyway, Howard Stark is analyzing the tesseract element that Steve obtained from the Hydra base and it blows up on him.....so Howard sees both how volatile it is and how much energy it could theoretically have....but now the sample is gone. They later retrieve the tesseract itself but I wonder....it's revealed in IM2 that Howard was working on a new energy source that would have the arc reactor make the nuclear reactor look like a battery by comparison. But he was limited by the technology of his era and couldn't synthesize the element....

...was Howard trying to create a new energy/element based off his studies of the tesseract fragment that Steve gave him? Upon failing he ends up using paladium instead as a substitute but it still doesn't have the output that Howard was hoping for so the arc reactor was considered a "bust" with no future development until years later when Tony shrinks it down in size and plugs it into his chest for life-support. Then later the palladium is slowly killing Tony until Fury gives him some antidote and his father's notes and Tony is able to figure things out and finish his father's work by synthesizing the new element which outmodes paladium and provides more power for his armor and life-support?

So what do you think?

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Because that's what the Red Skull called it in the movie. Of course we are going to see him again because I don't think he died, he just went somewhere else.

In the comics, didn't Red Skull at one point have a plot involving a Cosmic Cube fail and end up in some hellish dimension? So, in the movie maybe he got transported to Helheim and has been a "guest" of Hel.