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Good trailer, okay film
Dec. 6th, 2011 06:47 amI watched 'Captain America'. I think it's another film where all the good bits went in the trailers. I liked it okay, but the bits that were yaayness were all bits I'd seen before.
So I should go back to ignoring advertising and just watch films I've seen people talk about. Or, more usually, write fanfic about.
On the plus side I like him in the movie just as much as in the fanfic, so I can keep liking the fanfic no problem.
I think it bothered me a bit about the film that there were enough characters for a team movie but it was just about Steve Rogers and his ongoing awesome. Humble awesome. But it felt weird, like the speaking was about him being just another guy and a Captain as in leader of a bunch of soldiers, part of something larger, and respecting the other soldiers just as much, only the film was about him being The Hero with a bunch of... redshirts around him. I don't know. It's like what it said it was about and what it did weren't the same thing. And then there's the bits at the beginning and end that make it that the whole thing is just a prequel to Avengers, which also pushes every character not Captain America into the superfluous pile. I didn't like that so much.
I like teams. Teams are good.
Did it fail at 'two named female characters'? There were a handful of women but I can only think of one name.
Okay, I'm going back to inventing superheroes in my head.
But Steve Rogers is nice.
So I should go back to ignoring advertising and just watch films I've seen people talk about. Or, more usually, write fanfic about.
On the plus side I like him in the movie just as much as in the fanfic, so I can keep liking the fanfic no problem.
I think it bothered me a bit about the film that there were enough characters for a team movie but it was just about Steve Rogers and his ongoing awesome. Humble awesome. But it felt weird, like the speaking was about him being just another guy and a Captain as in leader of a bunch of soldiers, part of something larger, and respecting the other soldiers just as much, only the film was about him being The Hero with a bunch of... redshirts around him. I don't know. It's like what it said it was about and what it did weren't the same thing. And then there's the bits at the beginning and end that make it that the whole thing is just a prequel to Avengers, which also pushes every character not Captain America into the superfluous pile. I didn't like that so much.
I like teams. Teams are good.
Did it fail at 'two named female characters'? There were a handful of women but I can only think of one name.
Okay, I'm going back to inventing superheroes in my head.
But Steve Rogers is nice.