Good trailer, okay film

[beccaelizabeth]

I 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.

Comments

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I was about to say something about another named female character, but that's a fanon name. Though all of the Howling Commando's got names, I am not entirely sure if they were all said during the film itself.

But they were cramming four years worth of multiple books, plus the revisions to the canon in those books in the past seventy year, and trying to leave out the really sketchy stuff like Bucky being a teenager sidekick.

Plus they took out some of the real-life sketchy stuff, so the units had people of color in them.

[beccaelizabeth]

I noticed the good stuff about people of colour.

The crammed feeling was definite there. I was sort of sad because the story that happened mostly in montage looked like a good story.

How old were Steve and Bucky meant to be? I couldn't figure. Young, anyways.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Comics!Steve was 21, and Comics!Bucky was 16.

In the film, Steve was meant to be "twenty-something" and Bucky was the same age.

[jess goodwin (from livejournal.com)]

You confirm my belief that one should never watch the trailers. I only watched one, was satisfied that they knew what they were doing (it was the one that included the "not a perfect soldier, but a good man" line) and studiously avoided watching it again, or watching any more trailers for it at all. With the result that I enjoyed the actual movie tremendously.

I wish they could have fleshed out the other characters more too, though. Really, I wish this had been two movies, the first maybe leading up to "the great escape" and ending with the Howling Commandos forming, the second giving more time and space to their adventures together. The montage was quite aggravating - there were a ton of neat stories obviously taking place there, and being passed over with the briefest of nods.

Then again, that's what fanfic is for... ;-)

[beccaelizabeth]

I don't usually watch trailers, but I was trying to keep my brother distracted so we ended up watching all the trailers ever.
A Howling Commandos movie could work.