re: Captain America...

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The Hulk was worse. I hated how his strike team had to include every ethnicity, and it wasnt reallu the Nazis he was fighting.

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I will have to admit, this posting in the forum is one of the first I have seen where seemingly an overwhelming percentage of people hated Captain America. On a number of comic book/comic book movie forums, Captain America was considered a high point of comic book movies from summer 2011 and I personally loved it, more so than Green Lantern, which I really wanted to be a better movie, being that I am a major DC fan. In regards to this above quote, flat out, if you hated the movie version of the Howling Commandos, then you must hate the work of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Those two created the H.C., and when they were created back in the 1960s, guess what, they were a multi-cultural melting pot of soldiers. The Cap movie pretty much translated the Commandos verbatim, so I really can't understand your complaint, because that means you dislike the source material, and if you dislike the source material, then you shouldn't be watching a film adapted from it.

Sorry if that sounds like me being an a-hole. It's just that, as a true, 25+ year comic book fan, when a filmmaker actually adapts something to the screen correctly from its comic book source, it irritates me when people shite on it. Case in point: people, even reviewers like Roger Evert, crapping on the concept of the Green Lantern Corps in the Green Lantern movie. Hate the film for its actual flaws, but don't hate on something the film did RIGHT!

Anyway, back to Captain America. Like I said, for me, I really didn't see any major flaws in this film, especially not ones that would make me want to walk out of the theater. For one, yes, this was a first movie in a potential series of films (not including The Avengers). The first half needed to be spent setting up Steve Rogers and his becoming Cap. The second half, which a lot of people seemed to hate, well, it didn't flow any worse than any second half of any first Superhero film. Hero is set up as Hero, film zips through a montage of action sequences, then gets to the final fight with the bad guy of the film. Superman: The Movie did the EXACT same thing and people still consider that film one of if not THE pinnacle of comic book films.

Cap fighting Hydra instead of Nazis? Well aside from the fact that Hydra IS an offshoot of the Nazis, this works well enough for a film not telling an actual historical WWII story. And Hydra has looooooong been foes of Captain America. Plus, and I think some of the filmmakers have stated this, the montage allows for any potential sequel to flash back to some WWII stories, which would allow a sequel to have Cap and the Howling Commandos fighting actual Nazis.

Ok, enough ranting.