re: Where do you rank the first Captain America in the Marvel Movie Series?

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Winter Soldier actually made it better IMO

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I agree. I wasn't high on it at first, but I liked it a lot more after Winter Soldier.

I didn't like it.

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Man, I'll go against the tide, too. I think it is a terrific film and one of the best things Marvel has ever done. It's like a genre film within a genre film.

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Exactly.

Its extremely well done and captures the time period pretty well.

Near, but not at, the bottom, where Winter Soldier is at or near the top.

The evolution of Cap throughout the MCU has been extraordinary IMO. His story has been the most intriguing of all the heroes.

I forget how many movies they have made.

better than Thor 2 (don't remember anything abut that one), Ironman 2 & 3, Dr. Strange, 2nd Avengers

on a par with Thor 1

rest I can rmember I liked better

guess that puts it around the top of the lower 3rd

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I loved it. Absolutely loved it. It came out when most comic book movies had to change the characters to make them modern and edgy, Cap stayed true to his character and his comics.

There is so many amazing scenes in that movie that doesn't include any real action because the movie was so much more than merely an action flick (unlike most comic book movies). The grenade scene is my absolute favorite in the MCU. Him talking with the doctor for the first time about why he wants to join the army and serve.

It is significantly underrated. It is a top 5 movie for me, and I love the MCU and comic book movies in general.

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Yep. It had heart and was a great vehicle for transitioning to the modern day. The best comic book film of the Marvel Universe IMO. I think The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy are the best movies in general- with Ant-Man bringing up the rear. Can't wait for GOTG 2, Black Panther, and Ant-Man 2.

I don't get the love for TWS. Won't rehash my arguments elsewhere but TWS is just a poor villain.

Just got done rewatching it on broadcast TV and it doesn't sway my opinion. The final helicarrier battle/crash was awful CGI. (Unsolicited by me my wife said to me during this sequence, "That looks pretty fake.") I've always felt if TWS was a DC product it would get ravaged on this board.

It also contains one of the old tried and true standards of Hollywood tropes "Establish character/villain as elite marksman/killer...up until he is aiming at the hero then can't hit the broadside of a barn."

Just have never understood the unbridled adoration for it.

I love First Avenger. But I am a sucker for that kind of nostalgia (really like The Rocketeer [Johnston as well]).

The Cap series is absolutely the best in the MCU (including Avengers).

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Where do you rank the first Captain America in the Marvel Movie Series?

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Marvel Movie Series?

It's probably a Top 5 Comic book film all time.

Much like Superman 78, and they are very similar heroes anyways, the movie is embedded in the character itself. It isn't ashamed of the source material, and celebrates Cap not only as a hero, but as a person. To do that successfully, while keeping the core of the character intact, is rare in comic book films.

Johnston was also maybe the perfect director that kind of film. It shows that Feige probably rewatched Rocketeer and said "Yep." They expertly balanced the tone, the setting and period, the characters, and the comic book.

It also has an extremely underrated score, and probably the best score of all Marvel films. Fact.