Captain America - what a flop

[dastari]

I've been so excited about the Avengers films and by and large they've been good. Even Hulk which didn't wow me was ok. However, Captain America I found flat and boring. The whole film felt like it was just marking time until the Avengers. A LOT of the movie was wasted in just setting up Cap before he gets the super soldier serum. I really think

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[dastari]

That's actually supposed to be some incarnation of the Howling Commandos from Marvel's Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos. The tipoff to me was the presence of Dum Dum Dugan (the red haired Irish guy. That was a 60's comic set in World War 2. This is what popularized the Nick Fury character (who is white in Marvel) and later lead to his being in modern comics. They explain this away with the nazis apparently inventing an infinity formula that stops the aging process. Nick stole it and drank it thus meaning that he never ages. I'm pretty sure that the "black guy" in the movie was supposed to be a young Nick Fuy (Samuel L Jackson's character) and it was a nod to that without actually saying out loud that he's Nick and having to explain the Infinity Formula. After all, the way that Nick talks to Cap at the end of the movie seems more familiar than someone who has only ever read of someone and meeting them for the first time.

I do believe that the asian dude probably was not part of the Howlers in the comics but having never read the book I don't know for sure.