The first Captain America is easily my favorite of the Marvel movies, so I was looking forward to this one, which I found pretty disappointing. They're both generic, but I found the classic sweeping adventure kind of story of the first way more fun than the military detective story of this one. I think it's a combination of it being a pretty weak mystery and it lacking much scope. I mean of course the fate of the world is in the balance, but it still feels so small. Lame villains too, we've already got one 24 reboot. Chris Evans and ScarJo have pretty good chemistry though.
From the screenshots on SMZ I thought it was gonna be like the Berlin Alexanderplatz epilogue set in the colonization of the Americas, and then during the first couple minutes I knew it wasn't gonna be that but I got super excited cuz I felt sure it was gonna be one of those movies that hits me a certain way. Then as it progressed I realized it was just gonna be a movie, and I accepted that and enjoyed it somewhat. But then, somewhere around the transition from Columbus to Raleigh, it occurred to me that this would indeed be a movie that hits me a certain way. And I ended up finding the second half just fucking awesome. It might be superficial to compare this to Schroeter but I definitely got a similar vibe as this got increasingly nuttier. Schroeter's style is more in my wheelhouse though. Beautifully shot too, almost looks like Super 8?
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