StW felt that the first half of the movie was much tighter and better crafted than the second. I still haven't quite parsed out whether I agree, but I think he has a point.

I agree, with the caveat that a couple things were set up in the first half and not resolved in the second, so that affected both halves for me. As in, just cut the scene of Cap standing up the Senator at the medal ceremony. It was unbelievable and didn't do anything to move the story. Also, what ever came of the good guys getting a sample of Cosmic Cube Juice? I was all prepared to get crabby when they gave the "How do you feel?" line to Peggy - oh, nice, give the woman the emotional caregiver line - but then her character pretty much went right to ass-kicking.

Also, while I think (not sure this is a spoiler) that a racially-integrated military was a cop-out, the fact that the black guy didn't die, didn't sing or dance, wasn't the Magical Negro, and had skills beyond the athletic was nice. And made it better than XM:FC.

Raq, while the real US military didn't integrate until '48, as I recall, the Marvelverse US military integrated earlier, so they could use it for storylines.

The character in question is Gabriel Jones, a Marvelverse character of long standing.

Ah, so it's actually canon, and the movie being true to the Marvelverse. That's cool. I thought it was a way to keep Spike Lee from complaining about the lack of black soldiers.

I feel like I should see the movie again when I'm not stupid tired. I don't remember half of what you guys are talking about. I may like it better when I'm fully conscious.

One thing I liked about Captain America was the realistic nature of some of the German secret weapons. Germany did a lot of experimenting with flying-wing aircraft, as a way of getting the range needed for bombers to fly to America and back, and to improve performance of the era's relatively crude jet and rocket engines.

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I don't think a prototype of that ever flew.

Yep. Marvel canon.

I want to see it again now.

I kept wondering when I was watching it who the heck the actor playing the English Howling Commando (memefault on name) was, because WOW, he looked familiar. Which would be because it's JJ Feild, and I saw him in the last movie I saw in theatres, Third Star. He impressed me enough in that that I kept meaning to find something else he'd been in and watch it.

I haven't seen Captain America yet, but Chatty!co-worker did, and he mentioned a musical number. Is that bullshit? Are talking, like, music playing over a montage? Or more like Dr. Horrible? I'm assuming the first, because something like Dr. Horrible would be spoiled faster than potato salad at a picnic in Hell.

Tep, neither. Also, it's STUCK IN MY HEAD.

Christopher Judge cast in The Dark Knight Rising.

They did have a nod to the incongruity of an Asian man on the troop, which was something.