Just finished with Captain America

[venetia_sassy]

Okay, I cried. I am a sap. And sad goodbyes, people having to go on without someone they love? Gets me every time.

However, I never really got attached to Steve. He was just ... bland. Generic. I much preferred Chris Evans as Jensen in The Losers. Jensen was not bland.

Peggy was awesome. Need I say more?

Why didn't they cast Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark all along? He's perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones! "I'm not kissing you." *cackles*

I'm not familiar with comics canon but Bucky's fall had to be a set-up for something, right?

I liked Dr. Erskine. *sadface*

Hugo Weaving is always good at bringing the crazy.

The Howling Commandos ruled. "I'm from Fresno, Ace!"

Overall, it was fun but not great. I have a dislike for 'special' characters who come in and take over without any experience. So all Steve's heroics left me rather cold at first. But the fancy tech and explosions were fun. 

All the movies except Iron Man felt rather thin. But I suspect with all the main characters together? The Avengers will be spectacular.

Comments

[turps]

Now this one I have seen.

Bucky D:

I'll be watching your comments to see if it was a set-up for something.

[venetia_sassy]

Judging by some of the fic I've come across there's definitely further comics canon for Bucky ... I hope that means we'll see him again!

[glitteryv]

I have Captain America sitting in my hd (I rented it from iTunes two weeks ago). For some reason the whole Avengers thing is not pinging me at all? I've got to admit that I'm a little a-typical in getting all pumped up for big fandoms.

From what I know, though, Captain America and Thor were the two movies that were more of a set-up than both Iron Man.

[venetia_sassy]

I'm really bad at getting into fandoms when they start/are most active. Plus, I rarely anticipate things so the build-up doesn't get me. I wasn't expecting to fall for The Avengers but I read a fic ... and another fic ... and suddenly I had to see the movie. After (because this is me) watching all the previous ones.

This explains a lot of my fandoms actually. Including bandom!

*nods* That makes sense. I think they could have done better though.

[gala_apples]

All the canon I learned from fic, but yeah. Bucky is a thing. Which I was happy to read about, because I FREAKED OUT when that happened. *flail*

In my opinion, Captain America was to introduce the character. Thor is a little better in that it set up a lot of the plot. But Ironman 1 and 2 are the best stand alones, I agree.

[venetia_sassy]

I was totally taken by surprise! And I thought it had to be a set-up because Steve didn't need the 'extra impetus' to go after Hydra, he was doing it already. And it was the kind of movie where deaths happen for a reason ... so what were they up to?! Nice to know my instincts were not wrong. *g*

*nods* That makes sense. It'll be interesting to watch them again after seeing The Avengers.