Steve Rogers was a character that was easy to admire, and seeing his life before getting the serum made it incredibly satisfying to see him in action afterward. Then there were the final moments of Red Skull and Captain America in the movie, which both could have been handled better.įortunately, I thought the movie's strengths mostly outweighed its issues. The other came after we sat through over an hour of waiting to see Captain America in action, and when it finally came time to deliver, the filmmakers instead just whipped together a montage of various action sequences, which was kind of disappointing. One was just the filmmakers way of unnecessarily trying to explain how Steve got the costume and the name "Captain America". To start, I thought both the Captain America play and the montage action sequence were pretty dumb. I liked this movie, but I was not without my issues with it.
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Steve's story and his journey to becoming Captain America and taking on Hydra was great, but the movie was certainly elevated by its strong cast of supporting characters. His straight-man, dry humor is always entertaining, and this movie was no exception. Colonel Phillips was really Tommy Lee Jones playing Tommy Lee Jones. Stanley Tucci brought his on screen charisma and humor to the role, and made for one of the movie's more memorable characters, despite the relatively minor screen time he got. Erskine and Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones). Only one of these characters was very memorable-Bucky (Sebastian Stan)-but the team still felt like a unit that had each other's backs, and I enjoyed watching them on their missions. Upon joining the war, Steve needed a team. On one hand, I did not like the message that this told, as it was saying that Steve only really got the girl because of his transformation, but I found myself enjoying their romance in spite of this. Then Steve transformed into Captain America, and the relationship between these two characters changed as well. I liked their dynamic when Steve was still his scrawny self, as she admired his character. She was more than capable of handling things on her own, she was a commanding officer in the military, and she quickly took a liking to Steve Rogers. Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) was another romantic interest that I thought the MCU did well-the other being Pepper Potts. It made no sense to use a super-soldier in this way, it added very little to Steve's story, and it took up an unnecessary amount of screentime-especially when considering the montage we got later, but I will get into that later.ĥ Reasons to Not Get Too Worked Up About Your Job Pro: Peggy Carter & Supporting Characters (+6pts) The military's-really the writer's-genius idea was to have Steve traveling and performing a live, musical show, with the hopes of getting the general public to buy bonds and help fund the war. Why on earth would the military, who had just seen Steve in his super-human action, leave Steve on the sidelines? The serum worked, why not use him, even if they were unable to replicate the serum? If they had said they wanted him in a lab to test him, with the hopes of reverse engineering the serum, that would have made sense, but that was not what happened. It was clearly the filmmaker's way of explaining how Steve got the ideas for the costume, shield, and superhero name, but I did not think it worked. I thought the show that Steve performed in after getting his super-human abilities made no sense.