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Marvel Rewatch - 'Captain America: The First Avenger'



Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Hugo Weaving
Year Released: 2011
Year in Timeline: WWII
Key Elements: Captain America (Avenger #1), Red Skull, Hydra, The Tesseract, Bucky Barnes

I believe that this was the third (?) movie that was in the Marvel movie release and it didn’t do as well Iron Man but for me the movie was everything that I love in superhero movies. It has a great lead in Chris Evans (you will soon find out that he’s the reason why I fell in love with Captain America).

I will admit, much like most people, I was nervous about Chris Evans taking over the role because he had already was Torch in Fantastic Four, but let’s be honest. He was the only good thing about that movie too.

It’s slow at the beginning. Gotta build that story of why what makes Steve Rogers Captain America. That scene where that scrawny version of Rogers gets his butt handed to him. But let’s stop there for a second. How creepy was it seeing Chris Evan’s head on someone else’s body. But the CGI for it was pretty good. There were times when I was like ‘did he actually lose a lot of weight before this movie?’. Naaahhhhhh. But in enter Sebastian Stan’s Bucky. The kryptonite for Rogers. Yes I know that’s a Superman reference but this fricken relationship annoys me to no end. Wait until we get to Winter Soldier and Civil War.

Back to Captain America.



So yay Bucky is the hero. He is everything that Rogers wants to be, he is pity friends with Steve but Steve idolizes him.  So what does he do? He tries to join the Army and gets selected to become superhuman. Scrawny Steve enters the pod and then he comes out as BAM…Captain America. Then Peggy lets her bad-ass mask down when she sees him come out.

I mean, can you blame her?

Now let’s see if those muscles are good…high speed race…on foot. Peggy shows off her shooting skills and proves once again why she’s a badass. Now Captain America Frogger style jumping off cars and then jumping to stop a submarine.

Steve Rogers is now the hero, but no one wants him to get hurt. So what does Rogers do? Whatever the Hell he wants. This is going to become a theme for him and while it’s all noble for him now, this will become the downfall for him later in the movie.

The villain Red Skull is fricken weird to look at. I wonder how much is makeup and how much is mask. Yeah I could watch those behind the scene features, but why ruin the magic.


Montage of Captain America being the face for America but of course he doesn’t just want to be America’s face, his got ass that must take center stage too. He goes in and decides to complete missions becomes hero to the world and to take down Hydra.

 Now big battle time. But beforehand? SHIELD TIME! Howard gives the iconic shield made out of vibranium and Captain America goes on his way to battle the Red Skull. In the battle, the tesseract opens up and Red Skull gets sucked into Space. Enter sad scene, so get tissues ready. Steve says good-bye to Peggy before crashing the plane into the water taking the tesseract with him.

Now to let a weapon escape him, Howard goes and gets the tesseract and he can’t ‘find’ Captain America. Flash forward (in post credit scene) where Steve wakes up thinking it’s the 40s only to find out he’s actually in the 2010s.

OH SNAP!

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