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@TheJamieRamone

16 күн бұрын

Congrats on the spon! And sorry about the view purge. But you're already bouncing back, so that's good. 😊

@craiglortie8483

16 күн бұрын

when she touched his chest; that was a real moment that was unscripted. it was the first time that she saw chris without a shirt on. :)

@PsychoMuffinSDM

16 күн бұрын

Did you watch the whole avengers trailer, or did you turn it off once you knew it was a trailer?

@williambryan3346

16 күн бұрын

Director Joe Johnston worked behind the scenes in the visual effects department of Industrial Light & Magic, which is owned by Lucasfilm, Ltd. He worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. That explains the reference to Adolf searching for trinkets in the desert and the presence of the filming influence from Empire.

@TheJamieRamone

16 күн бұрын

@@williambryan3346 OH! That explains quite a bit of the visuals of this movie!

"How was he asleep?" He crashed into the arctic. He was frozen for 70 years. The serum kept him alive but he was basically frozen until they found him and thawed him out.

@neospock5034

16 күн бұрын

Captain America was frozen for 66 years- as Fury said, "almost 70 ". He went missing in 1945 and was found by SHIELD in 2011.

@mauz4588

16 күн бұрын

And important to note that while the serum makes him stronger and tougher, it does not make him immortal.

@matthewdunham1689

16 күн бұрын

Suspended animation

@armorborgwarclass

16 күн бұрын

Side effect of the unfinished suoer soldier serum that he used turned him into rhe Red Skull

@matthewdunham1689

16 күн бұрын

​@mauz4588 his aging is slowed considerably.

Captain America has the best trilogy in the MCU, I don't care if anyone says something different! Gotg comes second for me.

@SeanHunterMusic

16 күн бұрын

Agreed! Before I got into marvel and the mcu I always thought Captain America was a silly sounding character. Watching the Cap trilogy changed my mind and he became my favourite Marvel character!

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

I would agree with this statement. 1 is the weakest of the bunch, but still a solid movie. IMO Spider-Man has the second best, then Iron Man (yes, really), then Guardians (i think 2 is really weak), then Ant-Man at the bottom (1 and 2 were great, 3 was a dumpster fire).

@mattx449

16 күн бұрын

100 percent agree, and this comes from someone who’s favorite character is Iron Man. 👍

@styles9956

16 күн бұрын

Well I don’t care about your opinion

@Haldurson

16 күн бұрын

​@@RobFMDetroit You skipped Thor (technically not a trilogy... but neither is Captain America... and possibly not Iron Man from what people have been saying).

Howard trying to recreate the power of the tesseract is what led to the creation of the arc reactor

Something that killed me just before this film they released "Man of Steel" and director Zack Snyder says the humble Superman "would not work in the modern day". Then this film showed then EXACTLY how you get that genuine mix of humble and full of optimism and heart. Chris Evans embodied that perfectly.

@Beshuu

15 күн бұрын

Snyder is a tool.

@KneightBauer

15 күн бұрын

Man of Steel came out in 2013, this movie came out in 2011.

@mcgilj1

15 күн бұрын

@@KneightBauer it might have been during the development.. But I do remember his comment..

@KneightBauer

15 күн бұрын

@@mcgilj1 It was probably was. That sounds like something he would say.

@mattp6089

15 күн бұрын

Yep and Henry Cavill could have been such a wholesome Clark and it would have been incredible. But DC had to go and Snyder the whole thing up.

"I'm still super endeared to Iron man" "I'm excited for more Captain Americas" boy are you gonna have a good time moving forward :)

He's not Immortal. He just survived the crash and then his body was frozen into basically a cryosleep.

@DJKuroh

16 күн бұрын

Basically Comic Book Logic. 😅 It's Comic Accurate, but if you think too hard about how cold and cells work, it makes zero sense.

@johnniequinn3215

16 күн бұрын

@@DJKuroh”Actually”, there are several animals that survive hibernation after being in freezing conditions. And there is research into short term cryosleep in humans.

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

True, although without the serum (which was really a retrovirus that changed his DNA throughout his body), he would not have survived being frozen like that.

@FosterTravis1071

15 күн бұрын

Thanks to evolution.... wouldn't work on a human. ​@@johnniequinn3215

@craigmccuistian

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, he just spent some time as a capsicle. ;)

This film is one that often gets overlooked by the fandom for whatever reason, but it really is a great origin story for such an important Marvel character. That emotional moment after all the men he saved cheered for him gets me every time. Just a truly good person

I wasn't expecting this on a rainy afternoon. 'I had a date' is one of the saddest lines in the MCU. I mean, there are other sad moments, but it really pulls at the heart strings.

@justAman548

16 күн бұрын

It’s Yinsen for me… that one man is responsible for so many things, or basically the whole entire thing

@ShanelleRiccio

16 күн бұрын

Hurts soooo good 😢😢😢

@charleslee8313

16 күн бұрын

There is a *sadder* line in "Captain America: Civil War", but... that's for later.

@MikeWood

16 күн бұрын

@charleslee8313 for sure. But as River Song says, 'Spoilers!!' :)

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

@@charleslee8313 Eh, I don't buy that line. And besides that, even if I did, what would Steve have had to do to live up to the expectations of that line? Nothing he or any man of true integrity could have lived with. Sometimes it's better to say nothing. But that line does sound sad and expresses a very sad sentiment, I'll give you that much. It would be sadder if I felt it were sincere and had meaning behind it. It was supposed to, and I'm supposed to believe that, but in the actual MCU, as executed, it doesn't ring with any truth.

Of all the marvel movies, Captain America is my favorite because he is just wholesome. He is a good man.

@ashleighelizabeth5916

16 күн бұрын

And he pulls off that whole boy scout motif even better than Superman does, maybe because he isn't practically invulnerable.

@liljenborg2517

15 күн бұрын

Whenever I get a hankering for a Marvel movie, Cap is almost always my first choice. I like the _good_ guys. My favorite DC hero is Superman. My favorite X-man is Scott Summers. My favorite turtle is Leo.

@legionaireb

15 күн бұрын

He's worthy of admiration...

@michaelwestmoreland-white4664

15 күн бұрын

I am suspicious of patriotic flag waving as a front for imperialistic militarism--but I still love Steve Rogers because he embodies what America SHOULD be, not blind loyalty to what it is.

@ashleighelizabeth5916

15 күн бұрын

@@michaelwestmoreland-white4664 same, the flag waving in the first movie is a bit heavy handed but that's what makes Cap so good. Because all of that patriotism is turned on it's head in his second and third movies where Cap realizes how corrupt the system is.

Schmidt's line about Hitler "digging for trinkets in the desert" is a reference to Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

@kevinmoore2929

16 күн бұрын

Hitler DID actively search for the Ark of the Covenant and the Spear of Destiny during the war.

@agraan79

16 күн бұрын

The Director of this movie, Joe Johnston, was actually the VFX and Art Director on Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

@MGower4465

16 күн бұрын

​@@kevinmoore2929 He was more after the Spear. Any army marching with the Spear of Destiny at its head cannot be stopped. The Ark was to finish his enemy strongholds once the Spear-led armies drove the enemy back. Redundant, with an unstoppable army, but Hitler seemed so indecisive he probsbly changed his lunch order halfway through eating it.

@DingleJBerry

16 күн бұрын

Good thing he didn’t know about the pick of destiny

@matthewdunham1689

16 күн бұрын

Exactly, Joe Johnson worked on Raiders for Spielberg!

Captain America isn't invulnerable - he was preserved by the ice.

@jaydub8576

15 күн бұрын

Similar to the overheating of JCV in Universal Soldier.

The missed Stan Lee cameo was the guy who said "I thought he would be taller" at the awards ceremony.......

@williambanks2223

16 күн бұрын

There were 2 cameos in that scene. Stan as the General who made that comment and Reb Brown, who played Captain America in two TV movies.

@CoastalNomad

16 күн бұрын

@@williambanks2223 Correct...... Just like in one of the Hulk Movies, Stan and Lou have a cameo together......

Never officially confirmed, but it wasn't just the baseball game that clued Steve in that something was wrong at the end. The SHIELD agent posing as the nurse was not wearing era-appropriate clothes either, so her outfit looked all wrong to Steve. It was like a bad Halloween costume.

It's less that this film reminds you of Star Wars, and more that the original Star Wars films are heavily inspired by World War II propaganda and films, which this film also recreates. And to answer a question, the ice that Captain America crashed in froze his body cryogenically, so that he didn't age during those years.

@Outrider85

16 күн бұрын

Was coming to the comments to say that part about Star Wars being heavily inspired by WWII imagery and propaganda

@Frank-Voight-Kampff

16 күн бұрын

@@Outrider85Same here. Look at us nerds. I just love it. 🥰

@jarrodoakley6911

16 күн бұрын

And things like the pulpy nature of comics . Captain America was actually published during WWII

@gnomesaiyan1680

16 күн бұрын

A worst-case scenario of this concept happened to John Carter. The novel it was based on was mined for material for decades, so when a direct adaptation was finally made, it seemed derivative.

@jerryward3311

15 күн бұрын

But it is also influenced by Star Wars as Joe Johnston, the director, worked on special effects on the Star Wars movies.

The red skull was a side effect of taking an incomplete serum. Captain America sleep was like being cryogenic freezing.

@kateorgera5907

16 күн бұрын

Well, also, the serum brings out your truest self. Red Skull was always awful at his core, the serum just made his madness physical. Steve was at his core a good man with a strong character, the serum made that strength physical. The incomplete serum is part of it, but their characters also made a difference

A shout out to Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, she's one of my fave Marvel girls and characters overall. Peggy and Steve just GET each other, even before Steve took the serum. She sees the strength in him, he sees the strength in her, even though the rest of the world underestimates them for what's on the outside. And Peggy's just such a memorable character beyond the love interest angle, she's got that old fashioned gumption of the Rosie the Riveters of the era. Of course there's a war on, they can't prioritize a relationship, but you see how they look out for each other.

@ashleighelizabeth5916

16 күн бұрын

I loved her Agent Carter series and I've really enjoyed the What If episodes with her as Captain Britain.

@shanedaley6236

15 күн бұрын

​@@ashleighelizabeth5916i still think her as Peggy Carter deserved a main movie

@ashleighelizabeth5916

15 күн бұрын

@@shanedaley6236 given the way some people were whining about her getting more than one What If episode in the second season I can only imagine how bad the incels would lose their mind if she got a whole movie!

@shanedaley6236

15 күн бұрын

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I'm saying that they should have given her a main movie back in 2015 when the show happened in the prime years of the MCU same with black widow but I think if we would have had a completely different movie that whole thing would be better

@dartigens10

6 күн бұрын

On top of that, I remember hearing somewhere in the fandom that Hayley Atwell herself put the effort in to research period-appropriate makeup *and* how to use it correctly, and other little details for her role - might have been for Agent Carter rather than this film, but any actor who puts that kind of work into a role deserves some extra points for the effort.

Captain America debuted during WWII in the comics, the costume and character deliberate symbology to inspire 10 year old boys to do whatever they could for the war effort.

I'd argue it's not that Captain America was Star Wars-coded as much as both Captain America and Star Wars were WW2-coded. Prince of Persia was Star Wars coded; Cap is just WW2. This is my favorite film in the whole MCU. Most people seem to prefer the sequel, and it's not hard to understand why. But this had the classic, idyllic Americana that Johnston also brought to the Rocketeer (which I also love dearly) and I adore films like these. Get ready, though, cause Avengers and Cap 2 are phenomenal experiences. Watching your reviews takes me back to the days when people who weren't comic book fans were FINALLY finding out what I loved about these characters.

"He's not being branded as a superhero, he's being branded as a member of the military" Well, it's more like he's being branded as an inspiring figurehead for the military, in an age before the term "super hero" became what it is today.

This movie went so underrated for so long for far too many people.

@jculver1674

15 күн бұрын

The first 3 phases of the MCU were so good that this movie didn't get the props it deserved. I'm glad that's starting to change, because I really like it.

@maximillianosaben

15 күн бұрын

@@jculver1674 - I loved it from the start, but it definitely took getting to Endgame for a lot of people to appreciate where the whole Saga started for Cap.

Jones' "I'm not kissing ya!" is, in my opinion, the best line in the entire film. That man has timing and delivery down to an absolute art. Also, the first season of Agent Carter is a nice closure to her story. I wouldn't bother with Season 2, personally, but that works because Season 1 sort of acts as its own entity.

Cap was just frozen in ice. It's comic book rules, so he just survived and didn't age because he was "frozen".

@JamailvanWestering

16 күн бұрын

It’s more a cryosleep and thanks to the serum stayed fit

@neospock5034

15 күн бұрын

the serum helped him survive being frozen, but yeah being in the ice is why he didn't age.

You're close Shan - it's not capitalism, it's propaganda - which is precisely what the Captain America comics started as, back in the 40's. I recall when this movie was about to release - I was super skeptic. The whole concept of the character felt outdated and highly cliche, and I couldn't see it working in a modern movie the same way Iron Man worked. But they did a masterful job of juggling the cliches and humor, meeting then defying expectations, and remaining pleasantly self-aware throughout.

@kateorgera5907

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, and propaganda is def not exclusive to capitalism or America. But... US is pretty good at it, won't lie

@almag4571

16 күн бұрын

@@kateorgera5907 As one redheaded villain nicely put it - "Not a uniquely American trait, but etc."

@notmee2388

15 күн бұрын

Indeed. Captain America was the hardest to adapt; they really had a hard needle to thread, trying to be true to the comic while not being corny. And if Cap had failed, since he is the front man of The Avengers, the whole of the MCU would’ve been in trouble. Captain America TFA is the cornerstone on which the MCU rests. Also, it is additionally impressive that no one ever labels Cap as being on any particular political party or ideology; he is equally admired by both liberals and conservatives.

@sashmiel6566

15 күн бұрын

@@kateorgera5907 Yeah, that was the nail on the chalkboard for me, but I get it. Actor.

@jculver1674

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, it was pretty funny that she saw Steve selling bonds for the government and immediately blamed capitalism.

"The element" as you keep calling it isn't the same element that Tony discovered as a replacement chest piece in Iron Man 2. They're both blue and glow but beyond that, two different things. The cube has its own name as you'll soon find out. No, he's not immortal. The crash and ice put him in a state of cryo-sleep--basically a coma. But as far as his powers go, you've actually seen them before. Remember the soldier Emil Blonsky (aka Abomination) from the Incredible Hulk? Remember how General Ross gave him an injection to increase his speed, strength, stamina, etc so he could go toe-to-toe with Hulk? This serum Ross gave him was a manned attempt at recreating Dr. Erskine's formula that made Captain America and Red Skull. In Marvel lore, it's called the "Super Soldier Serum". This serum heightens normal human abilities to superhuman levels. This is what you saw from Blonsky, Captain America, and Red Skull. It makes you stronger, faster, allows you to heal quicker (hence Cap said he can't get drunk), gives you enhanced reflexes, etc. And as far as "How did the Hydra guy turn red?", it was a negative side effect from when he took Dr. Erskine's Super Soldier Serum. Not only was the serum incomplete at the time, but you'll recall that "good becomes great while bad becomes worse". It was that combination that turned Schmidt into Red Skull.

“Now he has a chance with her.” He always did. You’ll see.

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

She already liked, as in really liked, him as a person before the serum. Having more of a physical attraction in addition to that sure doesn't hurt, but it's telling that the picture that she looked at after he had made his sacrifice was of scrawny Steve. That's who she really loved: the man behind the muscles. Dr. Erskine favored him for the project, too, for many of the same reasons.

Joe Johnston has a great run of pulp or pulp-adjacent movies. The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Hidalgo, and First Avenger all have a lot of pulp adventure elements and are fantastic. When he's in his oeuvre, he's outstanding. When he's not, he's still pretty darn good 👍

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

I would add that he also directed the second best Jurassic Park movie, and he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which is a way better and funnier movie than people give it credit for.

@LordVolkov

16 күн бұрын

@@RobFMDetroit For sure👍 and there are even pulpy elements in those (giant insects, lost islands) etc.

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

@@LordVolkov 100%. And Honey, I Shrunk the Kids holds up surprisingly well because of all the practical effects.

@sharkey25uk

16 күн бұрын

Also, not forgetting that he was one of the designers on the original Star Wars trilogy and responsible for designing Boba Fett's Mandalorian armour

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

@@sharkey25uk I did not know that. It doesn't surprise me, tho - he definitely has an eye for set decoration and themes. He's a good, solid Hollywood director with a way above-average body of work. He seems like the kind of guy you could hand almost any project to and he'd make it work.

I can imagine that if you were in a New York theater when Cap says "I'm just a kid from Brooklyn" the place must've gone fucking NUTS.

There was a running joke during the height of the MCU to gets the numerous Chriss confused. Like RDJ post a Happy Birthday message to Chris Hemsworth on Chris Evans birthday.

The Red Skull has been Cap's nemesis since their very first appearance, in Captain America Comics #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).

@ScreamingScallop

16 күн бұрын

Red Skull's always been weird. Originally, the whole image was itself a mask worn by an unnamed rando Hitler picked to "transform into the perfect agent," but throughout the years the mask was frequently drawn as if it was his actual head, with sunken eyes and an impossible jaw devoid of musculature. The MCU's Johann Schmidt appears to be inspired in part by the version of Red Skull in Albert Pyun's awful 1990 Cap movie, who was an Italian child orphaned by the fascist regime and experimented upon with what would eventually become the Super-Soldier Serum, disfigured by it but made super-strong.

He was frozen for 70 years. The beginning scene was them finding him present day. Stan was in a scene, when Capt was suppose to get some award or medal, but didn't show, Stan says I thought he would be taller. Sitting next to him was the actor who portrayed Captain America in a couple late 70s made for TV movies

Interesting thing about Evan's Cap is the scene when he comes out of the Vita Ray device is the only time you see Steve Rogers without a shirt on. This is famously contrasted with Chris Hemsworth's Thor who has a shirtless scene in almost every movie.

FYI the element Tony recreated in Iron Man 2 was a different substance. But its discovery was certainly assisted by Howards Stark's research on the Tesseract, which isn't from Earth.

Agent Carter touching Cap's "boob" was a sudden thing. A blooper, in a sense. Hayley Atwell was asked about it, and the actress said she was so impressed with his chest that she just had to touch it. It was never part of the script. 😂

@godmagnus

15 күн бұрын

So the exact thing she said in this video.

@Pecos1

15 күн бұрын

@@godmagnus I didn't see that part.

The original Captain America comic book was from the 1930s and he was used heavily as a patriotic symbol during the war. In the comic he fought Nazis and if memory serves there is a cover where cap is punching hitler.

@neospock5034

16 күн бұрын

1940s, not 1930s... and yes on the cover of the first issue Cap was punching out ol' Adolf!

@mbpoblet

16 күн бұрын

_1940s._ Cap's first appearance was in _Captain America Comics_ #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).

@marketsquareus

16 күн бұрын

@@neospock5034 i thought it was late 30s maybe 39, eh i was close

All 3 Captain America films are top-tier MCU

Stan Lee was in the audience when Steve was supposed to get an award and said, "I thought he'd be taller". "I had a date" is one of the saddest lines in the MCU.

In the comics Cap punched Hitler, several times.

@ScreamingScallop

16 күн бұрын

He and Bucky also phone-pranked Adolf at least once.

Fun fact: The chest touch was totally improvised by Haley Atwell (Agent Carter) But the director liked it and kept it in the movie 🎥😊👍

Shanelle - the reason "Incredible Hulk" didn't show how Banner became Hulk is that the movie was at once both a soft-reboot and sorta-sequel to Ang Lee's "Hulk" that came out in 2003, and that movie DID do the whole story. It's not technically part of MCU canon (and it has a different actor in the part, Eric Bana), but i think with the whole story just having been explained 5 years earlier, they didn't want to do it all over again.

@BulldogMack700rs

16 күн бұрын

A much better film imo Hulk seemed watered down to me after seeing Bana.

@OsSas3

16 күн бұрын

@@BulldogMack700rs How? Boring story, awful villain, Bana was mid as Bruce Banner.

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

@@BulldogMack700rs Agreed. "Hulk" took a lot of shit, but I thought it was a pretty good movie.

@RobFMDetroit

16 күн бұрын

@@OsSas3 Disagree. Maybe it wasn't a 4 star movie, but for the time (2003) I thought it was pretty good, and I think the critics were too hard on it.

@spencerbookman2523

16 күн бұрын

@@RobFMDetroit I'll double down and say that no MCU movie ever did Hulk better than Ang Lee. The Avengers may have scratched the surface a little. but that's it.

The Captain America movies are my favorite in the entire MCU

44:02 Yep you missed it. When they were presenting Steve Rogers with the medal, some random guy comes out and Stan Lee as a military General in the audience says "I thought he'd be taller."

"they put the actor's head on like a different body via CGI?" Yes Leander Deeny was the actor who you see when Captain America was small and they put Chris Evans face onto his

I think what I appreciate about this movie is the conversation about being a good soldier vs a good man. Even after the transformation, Steve isn't the ideal soldier - he doesn't just obey orders blindly, he's not nationalistic ("I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."), he doesn't have all this bravado. A lot of military training is about beating people into submission, but through it all, Steve doesn't let the war change him. (spoilers for MCU below) . . . . . Which is why it still kind of bugs me that he gets stereotyped as "The Soldier Out of Time" in universe and out of universe sometimes. The films sometimes counter this characterization, but sometimes don't (depending on the writer). Steve isn't exactly a renegade like Tony, sure, and he accepts his duty with SHIELD for Peggy's and Howard's sake, but not because he's a good little soldier boy. Because he tries to do what's right, and the minute he thinks the powers that be aren't doing what's right, he fights HARD. That's my two cents, anyway

Captain America is described in the comics as "Peak Human". IOW he's as strong, fast, durable, etc. as a human can theoretically be, which no actual human ever is. So he can lift more, run faster, hit harder, and take more punishment than a normal person, He can't do things that a normal person couldn't do, but he can do almost anything better than a normal person would.

Frozen in the ice = “sleeping”. Same thing happens in the comic, but he was discovered in the 1960s.

@paulp9274

16 күн бұрын

It would have been hilarious if they did the comic story, where Sub-Mariner finds the frozen Cap being worshipped as a god, gets pissed and sets him on fire.

the movie starts with them finding Cap after 70 years. he was frozen in the ice, not literally asleep

Stan Lee was the officer at the medal award ceremony that thought he would be taller 😊

Oh man. Another reason to look forward to Saturdays 🤓🤙 this is definitely my favorite out of the first wave before “The Avengers”. There’s just so many good lines. “A weak man knows the value of strength” and “I don’t want to kill anyone; I just don’t like bullies” are just so solid.

@kingjellybean9795

16 күн бұрын

It's Sunday lol

@EmoDragracer

16 күн бұрын

@@kingjellybean9795 Welp. That'll tell ya how MY week's been hahaha

@kingjellybean9795

16 күн бұрын

@@EmoDragracer lolol yeah, kinda figured. Next week will be a solid one👍

Star Wars was inspired by 30's-40's serials (action/adventure/sci-fi theater shows), and the original Captain America comics came around the same time and had the same ideas. Makes sense that this would make you think of Star Wars. I've always thought the Captain America movies were the best of the core films. 2 is even better!

"I feel like that guy is good" That is the scientist behind creating all the super-weapons for Hydra lol

As usual, a great reaction! The reason Captain America gets a WW2 origin story is that the original comic book Captain America was actually published during WW2. All of the other characters -- Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, etc. -- came up in the comics nearly 20 years later. In the comics, Cap was literally frozen in an iceberg for (back then) 20 years, and the Avengers found him and thawed him out. I wouldn't call Captain America "immortal" (because then, where's your risk of loss and drama?), but he's incredibly resilient (remember, the doctor said his cells changed) -- the hypothermia that would have killed an ordinary human just put him into suspended animation. The Red Skull was Cap's enemy throughout the WW2 comics. If you look at the action scenes in the Marvel Comics of the 60s, plus the old Captain America comics of the 40s, you'll see where Lucas got his inspiration for the aesthetic of Star Wars. It isn't that this film is giving you Star Wars vibes, it's that Star Wars is full of Captain America vibes! (I mean, Lucas stole from friggin' everybody, but its the synthesis he created from all those stolen things that's so brilliant.)

If you want to see some more period piece superhero films, I suggest "The Rocketeer" (1991), which shares a director with this film, and "The Shadow" (1994).

I like the Red Skull’s line “not a scratch doctor, not a scratch” when handing the doctor the keys to his fancy car. Also, I know Shanelle just do movies but I really liked the Agent Carter spin-off Hayley Atwell showing what Peggy got up to after the war with the occasional appearance by young Howard Stark. We also get to meet the original Jarvis which presumably is Tony’s inspiration for his A.I butler Jarvis.

First,like and comment!!! I love the fact "Steve Rogers before the super solider serum a kid from Brooklyn New York was willing and able to through himself literally on top of a live grenade.. yet Tony wouldn't said something stupid with a bunch of laid out algorithms theories and questions. "No time like the present eh Tony stank."

When that Senator was trying to give Captain America a medal of valor and he was not there to receive it, the old guy who said I thought he would be taller was Stan Lee

Not just "Norway 1942" but Tonsberg Norway... the same town attacked by Frost Giants in Thor. Keep the town in mind moving forward.

"Digging for trinkets in the dessert". Like the lost Ark, maybe? ;)

@MGower4465

16 күн бұрын

The Spear of Destiny. Hitler wanted the Spear. Except in RotLA.

@Daveyboy100880

16 күн бұрын

Yup. Joe Johnston got an Oscar for his work on Raiders of the Lost Ark (he was VFX art director), so it’s a little inside joke!

The SHIELD guy who picked the baseball broadcast had tons of archives, yet he picked a game from before Steve became Cap. I want to see him explain that screw up to Fury.

It is WELL worth watching season 1 of the Agent Carter tv show (only 8 episodes). Without spoilers, you will get more of the Mid Century world of Cap’s origin, lots of fun characters and great writing.

Stan Lee was in the audience when Cap was supposed to be winning a medal but didn't show up. He was the one in the army outfit who said "I thought he'd be taller."

This whole movie in retrospect now seems like one giant exquisitely told backstory prologue to a greater overall masterful finely crafted epic take for the ages.

Cap isn't immortal, but the serum does slow his aging, and it allowed him to survive being frozen for 66 years. Being frozen in ice basically put Cap into suspended animation, so he didn't age. In the MCU Cap's "powers" are simply being stronger, faster, more agile and more durable than humanly possible. In the mainstream comics he was originally at the upper limit of human potential, but the MCU version is superhuman- this version of Cap can lift about 3-4 tons overhead.

@KneightBauer

15 күн бұрын

The MCU used Ultimate Captain America from the comics.

@neospock5034

15 күн бұрын

@@KneightBauer yeah Marvel Studios gave MCU Cap the physical abilities of Ultimate Captain America, but the personality & attitude of mainstream Captain America.

Joe Johnston began his career as a concept artist and effects technician on Star Wars, co-created the design of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, and was art director on one of the effects teams for the sequel Return of the Jedi.

Once again, with this movie, Feige and Co. continue their trend of perfect!casting!

"This is so Star Wars coded." To be fair it's more that Star Wars was very WW2 coded.

@jonathanroberts8981

15 күн бұрын

People forget that Star Wars was supposed to be like afternoon serials of that era.

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

@@jonathanroberts8981 In all of their pulpy goodness, influenced by the pulp novels around the early 20th century from the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author of the _Tarzan_ and _John Carter_ novels, for those who may be unfamiliar).

Cap is my favorite Avenger. I'm so happy to have watched it with you.

Jenna Coleman was one of the two girls with Steve and Bucky, and it annoys the crap out of her that Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill, Peter Capaldi, Karen Gillan, and a few others from Doctor Who played hero roles in Marvel and DC projects and here she was playing a bit part early in the MCU. Also, I love that the game they played was not only a real game from May 1941, but it had a play that's rarely happened in baseball history: an inside the park grand slam. I'll just say that I can't remember most of the games I saw live but the Bills Jets game I saw live where CJ Mosley jumped over both lines hilariously offsides? I'd remember that one for a long time.

@gerstelb

16 күн бұрын

By my count, this movie alone now has four actors who’ve appeared on Doctor Who. Still holding out hope for Hayley Atwell as a fifth someday.

The point of the movie is not just Captain Americas origin story but to time jump him into the same timeline as Ironman so they could make the Avengers film.

18:23 That’s what happened in the comics, Dr Erskine was killed right the success of the Super soldier serum, so they could be no more super soldiers.

Steve was literally frozen in the ice for 70 years. The super soldier serum gave his body the ability to go into a form of suspended animation and he survived until the Valkyrie was discovered in the Arctic.

In the original comics Steve's WWII team was actually Nick Fury's team, called the Howling Commandos.

The reason why Captain America reminds you of Star Wars is probably b/c Star Wars got a lot of its inspirations from WWII Germany uniforms, equipment and other aesthetics including things like the name of the Stormtroopers and even direct corollaries about how the Empire is pretty much the stand-in for a fascist state.

Captain America's true super power is Sincerity. To truly believe that we can all be better.

I don't think there will ever be as epic of a movie adventure than the ride from Iron Man to End Game.

Couple notes here. Peggy Carter reaching out to touch Steve's pecs, before stopping herself, was a legit reaction 😂 Chris Evans was kept from the rest of the cast, so *UNTIL* they shot that scene, no one had any idea of how his body would look! So the awe from Hayley Atwell was legit! Just a note for further down the line. The scene where Cap goes against orders and rescues the rest of the 107th unit? You're going to want to remember that! Something...similar to it comes up later on! 😉

@themiIes

2 күн бұрын

Imagine not telling reactors that shit is coming later or hinting at things. They either dont get it anyway or its a spoiler. People keeping the comments related to the movie in the video seems to be an impossible challenge

The term they use is "in suspended animation", in a natural cryo chamber, basically frozen in ice for 70 years.

Captain America isn't one of my favorite MCU films but that "I had a date" line gets me every time.

Best line: 41:06 "He's going to take it down elsewhere. Because he's good and if you're good it amplifies the good."

Bruce Banner was trying to recreate this experiment when he created the Hulk the problem is he didn't have the Vita-rays he tried gamma rays

Great reaction! I do have to say it is kinda funny that you were promoting a mattress at the beginning then mention your fear is sleeping through your life. LOL!! Great reaction though! The Captain America movies are definitely my favorites in the MCU.

As a poor kid from Brooklyn in the 40's, Steve had no access to things like fondue... which is fairly commonplace today.

This movie, and Steve's story in general, makes me unreasonably emotional for a fictional character. There's just something about his "I can do this all day" attitude, and his awkwardness, that just gets to me.

Have to remember when watching these that they're taken from the comics and tried to stay as true as possible without ruining the idea of a modern film. Steve kept wearing the 'costume' because that's how the comics portrayed him

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

I think the idea was to continue using him as a symbol for morale in addition to a supersoldier. It's propaganda that he could actually back up to a very large extent with his and his team's crazy exploits.

I love how so many elements are inter-mingled in different series throughout the Marvel Universe

This movie was the one that cemented a tradition for my wife and I. I have a rule, if something happens once NBD. If something happens twice it could be a coincidence. But if someone happens 3 times, it's now a tradition. 2009, our first anniversary. We're on a weekend trip, just checked into our hotel. The weather is stormy and it's getting late so we don't want to go out so we check what's on the hotel ppv. The movie Push, fresh out of theaters, was an option so since we hadn't seen it we watched that. 2010, we couldn't take a trip so we went to the theater, at the time there was a new action movie, the Losers, so we went to that. 2011, the MCU is in full swing, my wife's fave superhero is Captain America, so I surprise her with tickets to go see it. Then I realize, every year on our anniversary we had watched a movie with Chris Evans in it, totally unplanned. 3 times makes a tradition. 15 years later we've continued it. Not always in theater, but always a Chris Evans movie. He better continue making movies forever.

I still think this should have been the first MCU movie... it's not only Captain America's origin story.. it's the origin story of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cap was the first superhero in the Marvel Universe.

@michaelwestmoreland-white4664

15 күн бұрын

Technically, in the comics, Timely comics created Namor the Submariner and the original (android) Human Torch first. They both were created in 1939 and Captain America didn't come along until 1941. BTW, the humanoid figure in glass at the world expo is supposed to be the android Human Torch--good Easter Egg.

@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace

15 күн бұрын

@@michaelwestmoreland-white4664 as far as the MCU goes.. at least on Earth.. Cap was the first superhero.

He gets his own uniform so that he isn't tied to a specific branch of the military.

@CaptainFrost32

10 күн бұрын

In the comics, the Red Skull was a propaganda tool of Germany and FDR has Captain America's identity created as a counterpoint and gave the uniform seen in the bond drives to Steve Rogers after the death of Dr. Erskine. An ally of Captain America was seen in the Expo: The Original Human Torch, an Android built by Phineas Horton that was kept in an airtight transparent tube. In an oxygen-rich atmosphere, he would "Flame On!", and was the inspiration for Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four in the 1960's. (A role that Chris Evans had played twice before.) Stan Lee had been in Timely Comics at the time that Kirby and Simon created Captain America. Stan was the office gopher, and he would eventually contribute to the writing. Jack 'The King' Kirby ticked off the American Nazis with the cover showing Hitler getting clocked by Cap. The offices of Timely Comics were surrounded by a mob of them calling him out. The police came out and separated them. Jack Kirby was a trained boxer and had to be restrained from going in the street and busting heads. All Hail The King! Excelsior!

FML - I usually have a great eye for faces, but I NEVER noticed Erskine was Stanley Tucci!!! *BRAINMELT*

To answer your questions, Steve was frozen in the ice inside the plane for 70 years, in sort of suspended animation, kind of like cryostasis, which is why he didn't age. He is not immortal, even though he does age somewhat more slowly than regular people.

Hot tip: there were 2 people willing to jump on the grenade. Steve and Peggy. Look up Captain Carter Shanelle. Blow your mind

As an infantry paratrooper combat veteran, this movie always hits soooo different

It's interesting that you mentioned how "Star Wars" some of the shots in this movie looked. Joe Johnston spent the beginning of his career working at ILM. After the 80's he was ready to take the money he saved working for George Lucas and just take some time off. George Lucas offered him a deal. He said that Joe should go to film school instead. George Lucas used his connections at USC to get him enrolled then paid him a partial salary to just go to film school.

Shanelle - - The Star Wars vibe is easy to explain. Joe Johnston, the film's director, was one of the original artists George Lucas hired for ILM when creating the VFX for the first Star Wars film. He was a concept artist and effect technician on Episode IV, co-created the design of Boba Fett for Episode V, and was an art director on one of the VFX teams on Episode VI. He won an Oscar for the visual effects for Raiders of the Lost Ark. He started directing in 1989, starting with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and moving on to films like The Rocketeer, October Sky, and Jurassic Park III.

Oden's Ice Cube! I love it! This is one of my favorite movies. It's done well, it's fun. As you said: it's everything I want an origin story to be. Thanks for the watch! Looking forward to what's next.

Steve is my favorite hero in the MCU. Just the... clarity of purpose that he brings to the table. It's not even just about "knowing what is right" so much as him having the absolute conviction to do what he believes is the best thing for the most people... such a powerful hero. Not just in the sense of physical strength, but sense of his strength of character. He's not my favorite MCU character, but... that's a discussion for much later.

My favorite Tommy Lee line - "I'm not kissin you"

@telynns8490

15 күн бұрын

Right up there with "I don't care." from The Fugitive.

Imagine people in the real Tønsberg, Norway reacting to that opening. The whole movie theater was roaring with laughter 😆

I have had the pleasure of seeing Hugo Weaving aka Red Skull act live on stage in person twice, and in the last show he used his Red Skull voice. :)

Peggy already liked him prior to the serum. He didn’t need it to gain her interest

@rbrtck

15 күн бұрын

Exactly, and this is confirmed by the picture of scrawny Steve she looked at toward the end, after he had made his sacrifice. Having a gorgeous physique didn't hurt, but she loved the man, not the muscles that came later.