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Captain America
- I think I’m a tad averse to this one purely because of the WW2 timeframe. It’s just so different. I am looking forward to seeing Captain America in the modern world though. ;)
- CAPTAIN AMERICA SHIELD!
- I think Hugo Weaving specifically picks out creepy, otherworldly, almost certainly sinister characters to play. On the plus side, he’s really good at them, so that’s okay.
- YGDRASSIL SHOUTOUT! Also, that was a really shoddy hiding place.
- Tiny!Steve!!! The CGI on this was really quite brilliant. I didn’t recognise him the first time I saw this - I thought they’d done some terrifyingly amazing casting.
- Tiny!Steve is just wonderful. He doesn’t ever give up. :) Also, BUCKY!!!! YAY!
- STARK EXPO!!!! Also - surprise, Bucky’s date is the new Doctor Whocompanion!
- HOWARD STARK PLAYED BY DOMINIC COOPER! Excellent casting. :) Just the right mix of cocky and clever.
- Hi Dr Erskine!!! He sees the potential. Of course, he’s basically throwing him to the dogs, but still, it’s what Steve wanted. I totally see where’s he coming from though. If you make any guy into a super soldier, that’s great, but you can’t give a guy a courageous heart. So, you get a little guy with a good heart and the will to win, and bulk him up!
- TOBY JONES! I love him quite a bit. He only ever seems to play weird little men, but again, he’s good at it, and this role definitely required someone with a weaselly little personality.
- AGENT CARTER!!!!!!! (I have a mad girl!crush on Hayley Atwell). Also TOMMY LEE JONES!!!! Why do I always forget that he’s in this?
- FLAG SCENE - Hey, dude, you never said they had to climb up and get it. Smart Steve FTW!
- GRENADE SCENE - I love this bit so much. All the other soldiers freak out and flee, Steve dives on top and tells everyone to get away. THAT’S A HERO. RIGHT THERE.
- Even though the time period makes the film feel a bit weird, there’s no doubt that the mythology of the bad guy is really solid. He’s exactly the right amount of batshit crazy and evil, which is just what a good war movie needs. War movies have always struck me as needing to be a bit more black and white than other action films.
- Tiny!Steve and Peggy are adorable together. He’s all tongue-tied and she thinks it’s cute. ;)
- That thing really does look like a torture device.
- RICHARD ARMITAGE. OF COURSE HE’S EVIL. I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN HIM PLAY A GOOD GUY.
- HOWARD STARK! Hi honey! I’m not supposed to like him, because he was mean to Tony, but he’s adorable here, and I choose to believe, like many fanfic writers, that one of the causes of Howard’s cold attitude to Tony is because he lost Steve, and spent so much time looking for him.
- This is why you pick the guy with the good heart - he won’t back down!
- *fans face* Hi, Hot!Steve. :) I love how hot and bothered Peggy is.
- ERSKINE! :( Hands down, the second saddest bit of this movie. (Saddest is obviously Peggy on the radio.)
- Okay, either Peggy is an absolutely incredible shot, or she is bloody lucky. That was insane.
- His first star-emblazoned shield!
- “Go get him, I can swim!” GO LITTLE BOY!
- Dude, you broke the vial of serum and lost the bad guy. Not a good first go. :(
- Nice recurring theme of magic being science that lesser men don’t understand. I do like it when more crosses over between the films than just characters or names.
- The Star Spangled Man scene - oh, dear lord. I genuinely feel for Steve at this bit. He wanted to go and defeat bullies, and he just ends up play acting. Then he goes to the Front and gets ridiculed for being a dancing monkey. No wonder he jumps at the chance to go fight some real Nazis when he could!
- 107th! BUCKY!!!
- Howard/Peggy/Steve - WHY OH WHY IS THERE NO FIC? At least, none I’ve found. This is obviously a severe oversight.
- TIN MAN!! I know that’s not who he’s playing in this, but he’ll always be Tin Man to me. :)
- I am impressed that Steve manages to get so far in without getting caught. I suppose that’s the benefit of a one man band versus an army.
- “I’ve knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.” :D STEVE, THAT WAS GENUINELY FUNNY! Well done!!
- BUCKY!!!!! “I thought you were dead!” “I thought you were smaller… What happened to you?” “I joined the army!” Yay Steve!
- Dude, put the mask back on. That’s just disgusting. Also, stop being such a snob. I am slightly impressed that you didn’t tell him your plan before you left him ‘for dead’. That would have been a rookie bad guy mistake.
- Their triumphant return is really, really awesome. Also, those surveillance planes must be rubbish if they didn’t spot four hundred men marching with tanks and other assorted vehicles.
- And just like that, Captain America is an actual hero! *squeals* Of course, he’s way too busy to receive any pesky awards.
- STAN LEE ALERT!
- “Well, nobody’s perfect…” Peggy, you might be. ;)
- Captain America’s little band of soldiers are freaking awesome. Also, I really, really ship Steve/Bucky.
- STEVE, FOR GOD’S SAKE, ASK HER OUT. SHE’S HALF A SECOND AWAY FROM JUST LICKING YOU.
- And then, of course, he has to go and mess it up by getting caught snogging Anne Boleyn. (Again, not her character, but I can’t picture her as anyone else. Idiot. Poor Peggy.
- I LOVE THAT PEGGY SHOT HIM. HE DESERVED IT.
- HE’S GOT A PICTURE OF PEGGY IN HIS COMPASS! *squeals*
- Yeah, there’s no doubt that Captain America and his little band are proper heroes. I particularly love the little French guy and his bombs.
- STEVE!!! BUCKY!!! This bit always makes me teary. They killed Bucky! Now they have to die. *nods*
- “What is this?” “Steak!” “What is in it?” “Cow!” Oh, I love you Tommy Lee Jones. Also, steak is yummy. Stupid German.
- That plane really is quite sinister looking. I can’t decide if it’s the shape, or that cluster of windows in the nose. It’s all a bit scary.
- Poor Steve. :( He can’t even get drunk.
- I can’t help feeling that the fact that Steve’s batshit crazy plans keep working is eventually going to be very detrimental. One day, one of his plans is going to fail epically, and then what will he do?
- “Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but you do it better than most.” In my experience, that does tend to be true. Especially in Steve’s case.
- I think I’ve figured why I don’t like war movies. It’s the sheer numbers involved. In a normal action movie, there’s casualties, but not usually on the scale of war movies, where it’s unlikely any even minor skirmish is going to end without a dozen or so dead bodies (usually nameless extras). It gets to be quite disheartening.
- YAY KISS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, now it’s extra tragic when Steve inevitably crashes. :(
- I’m sure there’s a better way for the whole little bomb-planes thing to be resolved - but I am far too tired to think of it just now.
- “You don’t give up, do you?” Dude, that’s kinda the point of Captain America.
- FFS DUDE, DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DEPRESSING? You’re supposedly committing suicide. Stop talking about going dancing, because it makes me cry. Quite a lot. And I’m tired and emotional, and now I’m crying way too much. *hugs Peggy*
- See, Howard goes out searching! This is why he’s all absent-parenty to Tony. I’ll bet Tony had Captain America toys and comics when he was little.
- So, back in the modern day. I kinda get what they were going for with the gently-gently approach, but you would have thought they’d’ve checked the date of that baseball game. Now he’s not only freaked out, he won’t trust you.
- “I had a date.” WHY STEVE? DO YOU WANT ME TO DISSOLVE? IS THAT YOUR GAME PLAN?
Post-credits - Oh, I’d forgotten it was this scene. “Trying to get me back in the world?” “Trying to save it.” God, why isn’t it Thursday yet??????
Right, that’s it. That’s all 5 movies! Wow. Actually, watching them all together is a very good way of doing it. They have very different tones and feels - they’ve obviously been created by different people with different agendas, but the way that certain characters, plot lines and themes crossover and intertwine make it clear that they’re one unit. You can watch them separately, and that’s fine, but they’re most special when you immerse yourself.
I genuinely cannot wait to see them all in action together. :D
- I think I’m a tad averse to this one purely because of the WW2 timeframe. It’s just so different. I am looking forward to seeing Captain America in the modern world though. ;)
- CAPTAIN AMERICA SHIELD!
- I think Hugo Weaving specifically picks out creepy, otherworldly, almost certainly sinister characters to play. On the plus side, he’s really good at them, so that’s okay.
- YGDRASSIL SHOUTOUT! Also, that was a really shoddy hiding place.
- Tiny!Steve!!! The CGI on this was really quite brilliant. I didn’t recognise him the first time I saw this - I thought they’d done some terrifyingly amazing casting.
- Tiny!Steve is just wonderful. He doesn’t ever give up. :) Also, BUCKY!!!! YAY!
- STARK EXPO!!!! Also - surprise, Bucky’s date is the new Doctor Whocompanion!
- HOWARD STARK PLAYED BY DOMINIC COOPER! Excellent casting. :) Just the right mix of cocky and clever.
- Hi Dr Erskine!!! He sees the potential. Of course, he’s basically throwing him to the dogs, but still, it’s what Steve wanted. I totally see where’s he coming from though. If you make any guy into a super soldier, that’s great, but you can’t give a guy a courageous heart. So, you get a little guy with a good heart and the will to win, and bulk him up!
- TOBY JONES! I love him quite a bit. He only ever seems to play weird little men, but again, he’s good at it, and this role definitely required someone with a weaselly little personality.
- AGENT CARTER!!!!!!! (I have a mad girl!crush on Hayley Atwell). Also TOMMY LEE JONES!!!! Why do I always forget that he’s in this?
- FLAG SCENE - Hey, dude, you never said they had to climb up and get it. Smart Steve FTW!
- GRENADE SCENE - I love this bit so much. All the other soldiers freak out and flee, Steve dives on top and tells everyone to get away. THAT’S A HERO. RIGHT THERE.
- Even though the time period makes the film feel a bit weird, there’s no doubt that the mythology of the bad guy is really solid. He’s exactly the right amount of batshit crazy and evil, which is just what a good war movie needs. War movies have always struck me as needing to be a bit more black and white than other action films.
- Tiny!Steve and Peggy are adorable together. He’s all tongue-tied and she thinks it’s cute. ;)
- That thing really does look like a torture device.
- RICHARD ARMITAGE. OF COURSE HE’S EVIL. I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN HIM PLAY A GOOD GUY.
- HOWARD STARK! Hi honey! I’m not supposed to like him, because he was mean to Tony, but he’s adorable here, and I choose to believe, like many fanfic writers, that one of the causes of Howard’s cold attitude to Tony is because he lost Steve, and spent so much time looking for him.
- This is why you pick the guy with the good heart - he won’t back down!
- *fans face* Hi, Hot!Steve. :) I love how hot and bothered Peggy is.
- ERSKINE! :( Hands down, the second saddest bit of this movie. (Saddest is obviously Peggy on the radio.)
- Okay, either Peggy is an absolutely incredible shot, or she is bloody lucky. That was insane.
- His first star-emblazoned shield!
- “Go get him, I can swim!” GO LITTLE BOY!
- Dude, you broke the vial of serum and lost the bad guy. Not a good first go. :(
- Nice recurring theme of magic being science that lesser men don’t understand. I do like it when more crosses over between the films than just characters or names.
- The Star Spangled Man scene - oh, dear lord. I genuinely feel for Steve at this bit. He wanted to go and defeat bullies, and he just ends up play acting. Then he goes to the Front and gets ridiculed for being a dancing monkey. No wonder he jumps at the chance to go fight some real Nazis when he could!
- 107th! BUCKY!!!
- Howard/Peggy/Steve - WHY OH WHY IS THERE NO FIC? At least, none I’ve found. This is obviously a severe oversight.
- TIN MAN!! I know that’s not who he’s playing in this, but he’ll always be Tin Man to me. :)
- I am impressed that Steve manages to get so far in without getting caught. I suppose that’s the benefit of a one man band versus an army.
- “I’ve knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.” :D STEVE, THAT WAS GENUINELY FUNNY! Well done!!
- BUCKY!!!!! “I thought you were dead!” “I thought you were smaller… What happened to you?” “I joined the army!” Yay Steve!
- Dude, put the mask back on. That’s just disgusting. Also, stop being such a snob. I am slightly impressed that you didn’t tell him your plan before you left him ‘for dead’. That would have been a rookie bad guy mistake.
- Their triumphant return is really, really awesome. Also, those surveillance planes must be rubbish if they didn’t spot four hundred men marching with tanks and other assorted vehicles.
- And just like that, Captain America is an actual hero! *squeals* Of course, he’s way too busy to receive any pesky awards.
- STAN LEE ALERT!
- “Well, nobody’s perfect…” Peggy, you might be. ;)
- Captain America’s little band of soldiers are freaking awesome. Also, I really, really ship Steve/Bucky.
- STEVE, FOR GOD’S SAKE, ASK HER OUT. SHE’S HALF A SECOND AWAY FROM JUST LICKING YOU.
- And then, of course, he has to go and mess it up by getting caught snogging Anne Boleyn. (Again, not her character, but I can’t picture her as anyone else. Idiot. Poor Peggy.
- I LOVE THAT PEGGY SHOT HIM. HE DESERVED IT.
- HE’S GOT A PICTURE OF PEGGY IN HIS COMPASS! *squeals*
- Yeah, there’s no doubt that Captain America and his little band are proper heroes. I particularly love the little French guy and his bombs.
- STEVE!!! BUCKY!!! This bit always makes me teary. They killed Bucky! Now they have to die. *nods*
- “What is this?” “Steak!” “What is in it?” “Cow!” Oh, I love you Tommy Lee Jones. Also, steak is yummy. Stupid German.
- That plane really is quite sinister looking. I can’t decide if it’s the shape, or that cluster of windows in the nose. It’s all a bit scary.
- Poor Steve. :( He can’t even get drunk.
- I can’t help feeling that the fact that Steve’s batshit crazy plans keep working is eventually going to be very detrimental. One day, one of his plans is going to fail epically, and then what will he do?
- “Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but you do it better than most.” In my experience, that does tend to be true. Especially in Steve’s case.
- I think I’ve figured why I don’t like war movies. It’s the sheer numbers involved. In a normal action movie, there’s casualties, but not usually on the scale of war movies, where it’s unlikely any even minor skirmish is going to end without a dozen or so dead bodies (usually nameless extras). It gets to be quite disheartening.
- YAY KISS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, now it’s extra tragic when Steve inevitably crashes. :(
- I’m sure there’s a better way for the whole little bomb-planes thing to be resolved - but I am far too tired to think of it just now.
- “You don’t give up, do you?” Dude, that’s kinda the point of Captain America.
- FFS DUDE, DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DEPRESSING? You’re supposedly committing suicide. Stop talking about going dancing, because it makes me cry. Quite a lot. And I’m tired and emotional, and now I’m crying way too much. *hugs Peggy*
- See, Howard goes out searching! This is why he’s all absent-parenty to Tony. I’ll bet Tony had Captain America toys and comics when he was little.
- So, back in the modern day. I kinda get what they were going for with the gently-gently approach, but you would have thought they’d’ve checked the date of that baseball game. Now he’s not only freaked out, he won’t trust you.
- “I had a date.” WHY STEVE? DO YOU WANT ME TO DISSOLVE? IS THAT YOUR GAME PLAN?
Post-credits - Oh, I’d forgotten it was this scene. “Trying to get me back in the world?” “Trying to save it.” God, why isn’t it Thursday yet??????
Right, that’s it. That’s all 5 movies! Wow. Actually, watching them all together is a very good way of doing it. They have very different tones and feels - they’ve obviously been created by different people with different agendas, but the way that certain characters, plot lines and themes crossover and intertwine make it clear that they’re one unit. You can watch them separately, and that’s fine, but they’re most special when you immerse yourself.
I genuinely cannot wait to see them all in action together. :D