Man, I haven't watched Somewhere in Time in decades. Forgot how much I loved the music.

I want to try both sides!

Yeah, I'm just gonna leave that hanging out there.

What if they made a stupid battleship style movie based on Tetris [link]

Matt, when you slash Steve and Bucky, when do you do it? I mean, is it pre-serum Steve, or after the rescue of the 107th?

I'm watching Captain America right now, and I think it is my favourite of the Avengers components right before the movie itself. I don't know why something so clearly and inherently jingoistic gets me, who usually avoids war movies like the plague.

Chris Evans plays it just right, though, and it has the best supporting cast of any of the year's superhero flicks. I don't wonder why for any of the interactions, including the romantic subplot, and she's not ditzy or shoved to the side or anything.

I am so eyerolly at the people who thought Chris was too flip for this. He's *perfect*.

I worried about that myself despite being a longtime fan, based on Johnny Storm, Jake Jensen, and the bulk of his other characters. But he knocked it out of the park with a much more grounded and mature performance.

I tend to think pre-serum myself. Bucky did not act like someone who felt he'd hit the jackpot when his friend bailed and left him with two pretty girls the night before shipping out.

Had you seen Push or Sunshine when he got cast? I thought he'd already proven himself playing responsible leadership roles. I mean, not that I necessarily needed proof--I was willing enough to give him the benefit of the doubt anyway, but I mean, he was plenty capable of gravitas and maturity.

I'd forgotten how large a role Dr. Stark had in this movie. I haven't read much Tony/Steve (it's mostly a fanart pairing for me), but I do wonder if that tends to come up.

I did see the beginnings of a very nice Steve/Peggy/Howard picture yesterday.

FTR, one of my coworkers said she worked with Chris Evans when he was a kid, and said he was great.

I loved him in Cellular.

so clearly and inherently jingoistic

I went into it expecting to be overwhelmed by jingoism, and it didn't hit me that way, despite the setting being Yay America. I think it was because, despite the setting, it was how Cap came across as just being anti-bully, not America, Fuck Yeah! (Yes, despite his name and costume.)

Cellular's another "grownup" character, and he also played it straight and serious in Street Kings. I don't know if no one saw those four movies, or they just don't stick in people's minds, because the panic was nigh palpable.

I'm not entirely how the movie managed to not ott "Yay, America!" with having continual USO performances and flags all over everywhere, and America coming into WWII is also generally pretty much all about America.

But you're right Steph--the Cap role doesn't spout any of it back, so I get an impression of it all happening around him, and he's just there to go to war and save whoever.