I'm pretty sure the main thing I have to say about Captain America is a quote from Linda Holmes on the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast: There should be more things where Anthony Mackie is the guy, not the other guy.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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Jesse - Apr 06, 2014 9:49:29 am PDT #26717 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
beekaytee - Apr 06, 2014 11:23:24 am PDT #26718 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I heard that Strange name too, but totally missed the reference to Hawkeye .
I'm not sure where I heard it but I could swear that I saw an ad that said that this week's Agents episode will be appreciably different as a result of movie events .
News here about Sabastian Stan having a 9 picture deal and elsewhere that he spent 5 months training for Cap2 AND spent every day walking around set with a plastic knife, so that his movements were totally natural ...well, all that makes me wibble a bit.
This whole article is super fun. LOTS of Cap2 spoilers and cool tidbits.
Polter-Cow - Apr 06, 2014 12:50:34 pm PDT #26719 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So the movie appears to be doing well:
In only 10 days overseas, the sequel has already taken in $207.1 million -- eclipsing the entire foreign run of Captain America: The First Avenger ($193.9 million).
As for opening weekend, it's one of those weekends:
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 1/3,938, Disney/Marvel, $96.2 million.
2. Noah, 2/3,751, Paramount/New Regency, $17 million, -61%, $72.3 million.
quester - Apr 06, 2014 1:49:50 pm PDT #26720 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I missed the Strange reference but caught the reference to the Valedictorian in Iowa City which played well with the Iowa audience.
billytea - Apr 06, 2014 1:56:50 pm PDT #26721 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
As one who has not yet seen CA:WS (and has to wait till next weekend to do so NOOOOOOO seriously I have not been this jazzed about a movie since the Avengers and possibly not even then), I have one question: 3D or not 3D? (Oh, look, it's Hamlet, adjusted for inflation.)
Polter-Cow - Apr 06, 2014 1:59:52 pm PDT #26722 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Not 3D. It's a post-conversion, and To 3D or Not agrees that 2D is just fine.
billytea - Apr 06, 2014 2:07:02 pm PDT #26723 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Cool. 2D it is, then. (I'll be seeing it with my youngest brother, and it shall be awesome.)
le nubian - Apr 06, 2014 2:38:51 pm PDT #26724 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
(nodding at all of your reactions). Just wanted to chime into to say I saw it in a large theater last night and the scene discussed above with a key performance by Jenny Agutter's character (white font)
the ENTIRE audience groaned out loud when the mask pulled off out of sheer disappointment. Every one. To a person. The reaction was spectacular .
Steph L. - Apr 06, 2014 2:39:59 pm PDT #26725 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay, that's hilarious. That reaction seems to be universal.
t edit And yet, I bet if it had actually been real, people/reviewers would have been saying it was totally unrealistic (within the logic/rules of a comic-book movie).
Dana - Apr 06, 2014 2:46:03 pm PDT #26726 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Every (fannish) reaction I've read has said the same.