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Director Joe Johnston worked behind the scenes in the visual effects department of Industrial Light & Magic, which is owned by Lucasfilm, Ltd. He worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. That explains the reference to Adolf searching for trinkets in the desert and the presence of the filming influence from Empire.
"How was he asleep?" He crashed into the arctic. He was frozen for 70 years. The serum kept him alive but he was basically frozen until they found him and thawed him out.
Agreed! Before I got into marvel and the mcu I always thought Captain America was a silly sounding character. Watching the Cap trilogy changed my mind and he became my favourite Marvel character!
I would agree with this statement. 1 is the weakest of the bunch, but still a solid movie. IMO Spider-Man has the second best, then Iron Man (yes, really), then Guardians (i think 2 is really weak), then Ant-Man at the bottom (1 and 2 were great, 3 was a dumpster fire).
@@RobFMDetroit You skipped Thor (technically not a trilogy... but neither is Captain America... and possibly not Iron Man from what people have been saying).
Something that killed me just before this film they released "Man of Steel" and director Zack Snyder says the humble Superman "would not work in the modern day". Then this film showed then EXACTLY how you get that genuine mix of humble and full of optimism and heart. Chris Evans embodied that perfectly.
@@kevinmoore2929 He was more after the Spear. Any army marching with the Spear of Destiny at its head cannot be stopped. The Ark was to finish his enemy strongholds once the Spear-led armies drove the enemy back. Redundant, with an unstoppable army, but Hitler seemed so indecisive he probsbly changed his lunch order halfway through eating it.
Whenever I get a hankering for a Marvel movie, Cap is almost always my first choice. I like the _good_ guys. My favorite DC hero is Superman. My favorite X-man is Scott Summers. My favorite turtle is Leo.
I am suspicious of patriotic flag waving as a front for imperialistic militarism--but I still love Steve Rogers because he embodies what America SHOULD be, not blind loyalty to what it is.
@@michaelwestmoreland-white4664 same, the flag waving in the first movie is a bit heavy handed but that's what makes Cap so good. Because all of that patriotism is turned on it's head in his second and third movies where Cap realizes how corrupt the system is.
This film is one that often gets overlooked by the fandom for whatever reason, but it really is a great origin story for such an important Marvel character. That emotional moment after all the men he saved cheered for him gets me every time. Just a truly good person
Captain America is described in the comics as "Peak Human". IOW he's as strong, fast, durable, etc. as a human can theoretically be, which no actual human ever is. So he can lift more, run faster, hit harder, and take more punishment than a normal person, He can't do things that a normal person couldn't do, but he can do almost anything better than a normal person would.
Never officially confirmed, but it wasn't just the baseball game that clued Steve in that something was wrong at the end. The SHIELD agent posing as the nurse was not wearing era-appropriate clothes either, so her outfit looked all wrong to Steve. It was like a bad Halloween costume.
It's less that this film reminds you of Star Wars, and more that the original Star Wars films are heavily inspired by World War II propaganda and films, which this film also recreates. And to answer a question, the ice that Captain America crashed in froze his body cryogenically, so that he didn't age during those years.
A worst-case scenario of this concept happened to John Carter. The novel it was based on was mined for material for decades, so when a direct adaptation was finally made, it seemed derivative.
I wasn't expecting this on a rainy afternoon. 'I had a date' is one of the saddest lines in the MCU. I mean, there are other sad moments, but it really pulls at the heart strings.
@@charleslee8313 Eh, I don't buy that line. And besides that, even if I did, what would Steve have had to do to live up to the expectations of that line? Nothing he or any man of true integrity could have lived with. Sometimes it's better to say nothing. But that line does sound sad and expresses a very sad sentiment, I'll give you that much. It would be sadder if I felt it were sincere and had meaning behind it. It was supposed to, and I'm supposed to believe that, but in the actual MCU, as executed, it doesn't ring with any truth.
She already liked, as in really liked, him as a person before the serum. Having more of a physical attraction in addition to that sure doesn't hurt, but it's telling that the picture that she looked at after he had made his sacrifice was of scrawny Steve. That's who she really loved: the man behind the muscles. Dr. Erskine favored him for the project, too, for many of the same reasons.
Joe Johnston began his career as a concept artist and effects technician on Star Wars, co-created the design of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, and was art director on one of the effects teams for the sequel Return of the Jedi.
A shout out to Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, she's one of my fave Marvel girls and characters overall. Peggy and Steve just GET each other, even before Steve took the serum. She sees the strength in him, he sees the strength in her, even though the rest of the world underestimates them for what's on the outside. And Peggy's just such a memorable character beyond the love interest angle, she's got that old fashioned gumption of the Rosie the Riveters of the era. Of course there's a war on, they can't prioritize a relationship, but you see how they look out for each other.
@@shanedaley6236 given the way some people were whining about her getting more than one What If episode in the second season I can only imagine how bad the incels would lose their mind if she got a whole movie!
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I'm saying that they should have given her a main movie back in 2015 when the show happened in the prime years of the MCU same with black widow but I think if we would have had a completely different movie that whole thing would be better
On top of that, I remember hearing somewhere in the fandom that Hayley Atwell herself put the effort in to research period-appropriate makeup *and* how to use it correctly, and other little details for her role - might have been for Agent Carter rather than this film, but any actor who puts that kind of work into a role deserves some extra points for the effort.
I'd argue it's not that Captain America was Star Wars-coded as much as both Captain America and Star Wars were WW2-coded. Prince of Persia was Star Wars coded; Cap is just WW2. This is my favorite film in the whole MCU. Most people seem to prefer the sequel, and it's not hard to understand why. But this had the classic, idyllic Americana that Johnston also brought to the Rocketeer (which I also love dearly) and I adore films like these. Get ready, though, cause Avengers and Cap 2 are phenomenal experiences. Watching your reviews takes me back to the days when people who weren't comic book fans were FINALLY finding out what I loved about these characters.
@@DJKuroh”Actually”, there are several animals that survive hibernation after being in freezing conditions. And there is research into short term cryosleep in humans.
True, although without the serum (which was really a retrovirus that changed his DNA throughout his body), he would not have survived being frozen like that.
Steve's original shield in the movie is the one Cap used in the first comic. It was switched to the disc in the second issue because a rival comic company complained that the first one looked too much like one of their characters (the Shield)!
Well, also, the serum brings out your truest self. Red Skull was always awful at his core, the serum just made his madness physical. Steve was at his core a good man with a strong character, the serum made that strength physical. The incomplete serum is part of it, but their characters also made a difference
You're close Shan - it's not capitalism, it's propaganda - which is precisely what the Captain America comics started as, back in the 40's. I recall when this movie was about to release - I was super skeptic. The whole concept of the character felt outdated and highly cliche, and I couldn't see it working in a modern movie the same way Iron Man worked. But they did a masterful job of juggling the cliches and humor, meeting then defying expectations, and remaining pleasantly self-aware throughout.
Indeed. Captain America was the hardest to adapt; they really had a hard needle to thread, trying to be true to the comic while not being corny. And if Cap had failed, since he is the front man of The Avengers, the whole of the MCU would’ve been in trouble. Captain America TFA is the cornerstone on which the MCU rests. Also, it is additionally impressive that no one ever labels Cap as being on any particular political party or ideology; he is equally admired by both liberals and conservatives.
Jones' "I'm not kissing ya!" is, in my opinion, the best line in the entire film. That man has timing and delivery down to an absolute art. Also, the first season of Agent Carter is a nice closure to her story. I wouldn't bother with Season 2, personally, but that works because Season 1 sort of acts as its own entity.
Captain America debuted during WWII in the comics, the costume and character deliberate symbology to inspire 10 year old boys to do whatever they could for the war effort.
It is WELL worth watching season 1 of the Agent Carter tv show (only 8 episodes). Without spoilers, you will get more of the Mid Century world of Cap’s origin, lots of fun characters and great writing.
Joe Johnston has a great run of pulp or pulp-adjacent movies. The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Hidalgo, and First Avenger all have a lot of pulp adventure elements and are fantastic. When he's in his oeuvre, he's outstanding. When he's not, he's still pretty darn good 👍
I would add that he also directed the second best Jurassic Park movie, and he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which is a way better and funnier movie than people give it credit for.
@@sharkey25uk I did not know that. It doesn't surprise me, tho - he definitely has an eye for set decoration and themes. He's a good, solid Hollywood director with a way above-average body of work. He seems like the kind of guy you could hand almost any project to and he'd make it work.
Interesting thing about Evan's Cap is the scene when he comes out of the Vita Ray device is the only time you see Steve Rogers without a shirt on. This is famously contrasted with Chris Hemsworth's Thor who has a shirtless scene in almost every movie.
"He's not being branded as a superhero, he's being branded as a member of the military" Well, it's more like he's being branded as an inspiring figurehead for the military, in an age before the term "super hero" became what it is today.
Agent Carter touching Cap's "boob" was a sudden thing. A blooper, in a sense. Hayley Atwell was asked about it, and the actress said she was so impressed with his chest that she just had to touch it. It was never part of the script. 😂
The Red Skull has been Cap's nemesis since their very first appearance, in Captain America Comics #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).
Red Skull's always been weird. Originally, the whole image was itself a mask worn by an unnamed rando Hitler picked to "transform into the perfect agent," but throughout the years the mask was frequently drawn as if it was his actual head, with sunken eyes and an impossible jaw devoid of musculature. The MCU's Johann Schmidt appears to be inspired in part by the version of Red Skull in Albert Pyun's awful 1990 Cap movie, who was an Italian child orphaned by the fascist regime and experimented upon with what would eventually become the Super-Soldier Serum, disfigured by it but made super-strong.
"The element" as you keep calling it isn't the same element that Tony discovered as a replacement chest piece in Iron Man 2. They're both blue and glow but beyond that, two different things. The cube has its own name as you'll soon find out. No, he's not immortal. The crash and ice put him in a state of cryo-sleep--basically a coma. But as far as his powers go, you've actually seen them before. Remember the soldier Emil Blonsky (aka Abomination) from the Incredible Hulk? Remember how General Ross gave him an injection to increase his speed, strength, stamina, etc so he could go toe-to-toe with Hulk? This serum Ross gave him was a manned attempt at recreating Dr. Erskine's formula that made Captain America and Red Skull. In Marvel lore, it's called the "Super Soldier Serum". This serum heightens normal human abilities to superhuman levels. This is what you saw from Blonsky, Captain America, and Red Skull. It makes you stronger, faster, allows you to heal quicker (hence Cap said he can't get drunk), gives you enhanced reflexes, etc. And as far as "How did the Hydra guy turn red?", it was a negative side effect from when he took Dr. Erskine's Super Soldier Serum. Not only was the serum incomplete at the time, but you'll recall that "good becomes great while bad becomes worse". It was that combination that turned Schmidt into Red Skull.
FYI the element Tony recreated in Iron Man 2 was a different substance. But its discovery was certainly assisted by Howards Stark's research on the Tesseract, which isn't from Earth.
The first 3 phases of the MCU were so good that this movie didn't get the props it deserved. I'm glad that's starting to change, because I really like it.
@@jculver1674 - I loved it from the start, but it definitely took getting to Endgame for a lot of people to appreciate where the whole Saga started for Cap.
He was frozen for 70 years. The beginning scene was them finding him present day. Stan was in a scene, when Capt was suppose to get some award or medal, but didn't show, Stan says I thought he would be taller. Sitting next to him was the actor who portrayed Captain America in a couple late 70s made for TV movies
"they put the actor's head on like a different body via CGI?" Yes Leander Deeny was the actor who you see when Captain America was small and they put Chris Evans face onto his
There was a running joke during the height of the MCU to gets the numerous Chriss confused. Like RDJ post a Happy Birthday message to Chris Hemsworth on Chris Evans birthday.
My favorite joke about Chrises came from Valiant's Faith comic. Her favorite actor is an action star, the blond blue-eyed square-jawed "Chris Criswell", whom actually aspired to play villains but was typecast as "heroes" due to his looks, and eventually went actual supervillain. Oh, and to fight the superheroine Faith/Zephyr, he sics his legion of stunt doubles on her.
Shanelle - the reason "Incredible Hulk" didn't show how Banner became Hulk is that the movie was at once both a soft-reboot and sorta-sequel to Ang Lee's "Hulk" that came out in 2003, and that movie DID do the whole story. It's not technically part of MCU canon (and it has a different actor in the part, Eric Bana), but i think with the whole story just having been explained 5 years earlier, they didn't want to do it all over again.
@@RobFMDetroit I'll double down and say that no MCU movie ever did Hulk better than Ang Lee. The Avengers may have scratched the surface a little. but that's it.
As usual, a great reaction! The reason Captain America gets a WW2 origin story is that the original comic book Captain America was actually published during WW2. All of the other characters -- Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, etc. -- came up in the comics nearly 20 years later. In the comics, Cap was literally frozen in an iceberg for (back then) 20 years, and the Avengers found him and thawed him out. I wouldn't call Captain America "immortal" (because then, where's your risk of loss and drama?), but he's incredibly resilient (remember, the doctor said his cells changed) -- the hypothermia that would have killed an ordinary human just put him into suspended animation. The Red Skull was Cap's enemy throughout the WW2 comics. If you look at the action scenes in the Marvel Comics of the 60s, plus the old Captain America comics of the 40s, you'll see where Lucas got his inspiration for the aesthetic of Star Wars. It isn't that this film is giving you Star Wars vibes, it's that Star Wars is full of Captain America vibes! (I mean, Lucas stole from friggin' everybody, but its the synthesis he created from all those stolen things that's so brilliant.)
Star Wars was inspired by 30's-40's serials (action/adventure/sci-fi theater shows), and the original Captain America comics came around the same time and had the same ideas. Makes sense that this would make you think of Star Wars. I've always thought the Captain America movies were the best of the core films. 2 is even better!
From the moment you uploaded Iron Man, I couldn't wait for you to get to this one. Sooooo happy you loved it... it's one of my absolute faves from the MCU, especially Phase 1... and I wasn't even that much of a Captain America fan (in my comic book reading days). Now I can't wait for you to see The Avengers 😍
The original Captain America comic book was from the 1930s and he was used heavily as a patriotic symbol during the war. In the comic he fought Nazis and if memory serves there is a cover where cap is punching hitler.
_1940s._ Cap's first appearance was in _Captain America Comics_ #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).
The pro-fa$ci$t sentiments at the time sent d3ath threats to the creators and Timely, and the mayor of NYC personally stepped, being a fan of the comic himself.
If you want to see some more period piece superhero films, I suggest "The Rocketeer" (1991), which shares a director with this film, and "The Shadow" (1994).
44:02 Yep you missed it. When they were presenting Steve Rogers with the medal, some random guy comes out and Stan Lee as a military General in the audience says "I thought he'd be taller."
I think what I appreciate about this movie is the conversation about being a good soldier vs a good man. Even after the transformation, Steve isn't the ideal soldier - he doesn't just obey orders blindly, he's not nationalistic ("I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."), he doesn't have all this bravado. A lot of military training is about beating people into submission, but through it all, Steve doesn't let the war change him. (spoilers for MCU below) . . . . . Which is why it still kind of bugs me that he gets stereotyped as "The Soldier Out of Time" in universe and out of universe sometimes. The films sometimes counter this characterization, but sometimes don't (depending on the writer). Steve isn't exactly a renegade like Tony, sure, and he accepts his duty with SHIELD for Peggy's and Howard's sake, but not because he's a good little soldier boy. Because he tries to do what's right, and the minute he thinks the powers that be aren't doing what's right, he fights HARD. That's my two cents, anyway
@5:52 The town of Tønsberg, Norway is featured a few times throughout the MCU. It was the place of the ancient battle between the Frost Giants and the Asgardians in Thor (2011). It’s also revisited in Thor: Ragnarök (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Jenna Coleman was one of the two girls with Steve and Bucky, and it annoys the crap out of her that Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill, Peter Capaldi, Karen Gillan, and a few others from Doctor Who played hero roles in Marvel and DC projects and here she was playing a bit part early in the MCU. Also, I love that the game they played was not only a real game from May 1941, but it had a play that's rarely happened in baseball history: an inside the park grand slam. I'll just say that I can't remember most of the games I saw live but the Bills Jets game I saw live where CJ Mosley jumped over both lines hilariously offsides? I'd remember that one for a long time.
First,like and comment!!! I love the fact "Steve Rogers before the super solider serum a kid from Brooklyn New York was willing and able to through himself literally on top of a live grenade.. yet Tony wouldn't said something stupid with a bunch of laid out algorithms theories and questions. "No time like the present eh Tony stank."
Steve is my favorite hero in the MCU. Just the... clarity of purpose that he brings to the table. It's not even just about "knowing what is right" so much as him having the absolute conviction to do what he believes is the best thing for the most people... such a powerful hero. Not just in the sense of physical strength, but sense of his strength of character. He's not my favorite MCU character, but... that's a discussion for much later.
One thing of critical note. Bruce Banner was lied to by the government, by General Ross on what he was working on. He was actually trying to recreate teh Super Soldier Serum, which is what the first pumped into Blonsky. Steve's Super Soldier serum was energized and activated by Vita Rays, which is the chamber he was in. When Banner used gamma rays to test whether or not his serum worked, instead of protecting him from radiation, it interacted with the part of the serum that Vita Rays were supposed to energize, and SUPER CHARGED it to the moon. Good becomes great, Bad becomes worse, a tyrant with a god complex gets a red skull, and an insecure man who has been suppressing his rage his entire life, becomes an Incredible Hulk. Banner experiences the pain that Steve did in that pod every time he becomes The Hulk and reverts back, just to a much higher degree.
Oh man. Another reason to look forward to Saturdays 🤓🤙 this is definitely my favorite out of the first wave before “The Avengers”. There’s just so many good lines. “A weak man knows the value of strength” and “I don’t want to kill anyone; I just don’t like bullies” are just so solid.
Great reaction! I do have to say it is kinda funny that you were promoting a mattress at the beginning then mention your fear is sleeping through your life. LOL!! Great reaction though! The Captain America movies are definitely my favorites in the MCU.
In my opinion, the Captain America movies are all great, especially the second one, _The Winter Soldier_ . The action is interesting in that one because it is so brutal and visceral, almost like a modernized Bruce Lee movie. There are others like it, but this one stands out, because everything feels so *quick* and *hard* . The third movie has similar action, and is also one of the best MCU movies.
Stan Lee was in the audience when Steve was supposed to get an award and said, "I thought he'd be taller". "I had a date" is one of the saddest lines in the MCU.
The first Avengers is the best film in the MCU hands down. Excited for you to get to it. But this movie is also fantastic and I'm glad you're enjoying it. Keep up the great content! Can't wait to see your commentary on the Joss Whedon writing and directing. Just FYI they brought Joss in to plot the larger arc between films (because of how brilliant the long arcs were in Buffy) after Thor and he wrote the general plot outline and what each film would be about from the first Avengers all the way to the end of Endgame, even though he didn't write scripts or direct past Avengers 2. I have a feeling as a film maker you're going to really love it and I also think you'll end up agreeing with me that the later films (while still good) just lack the skill in directing and the tight script of the first Avengers.
This whole movie in retrospect now seems like one giant exquisitely told backstory prologue to a greater overall masterful finely crafted epic take for the ages.
@@jonathanroberts8981 In all of their pulpy goodness, influenced by the pulp novels around the early 20th century from the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author of the _Tarzan_ and _John Carter_ novels, for those who may be unfamiliar).
Cap isn't immortal, but the serum does slow his aging, and it allowed him to survive being frozen for 66 years. Being frozen in ice basically put Cap into suspended animation, so he didn't age. In the MCU Cap's "powers" are simply being stronger, faster, more agile and more durable than humanly possible. In the mainstream comics he was originally at the upper limit of human potential, but the MCU version is superhuman- this version of Cap can lift about 3-4 tons overhead.
@@KneightBauer yeah Marvel Studios gave MCU Cap the physical abilities of Ultimate Captain America, but the personality & attitude of mainstream Captain America.
It would have been hilarious if they did the comic story, where Sub-Mariner finds the frozen Cap being worshipped as a god, gets pissed and sets him on fire.
All the Capt America movies are great, I'm looking forward to your reaction to the second Capt America film the Winter Soldier. It's one of my favorites in the whole MCU.
This movie was the one that cemented a tradition for my wife and I. I have a rule, if something happens once NBD. If something happens twice it could be a coincidence. But if someone happens 3 times, it's now a tradition. 2009, our first anniversary. We're on a weekend trip, just checked into our hotel. The weather is stormy and it's getting late so we don't want to go out so we check what's on the hotel ppv. The movie Push, fresh out of theaters, was an option so since we hadn't seen it we watched that. 2010, we couldn't take a trip so we went to the theater, at the time there was a new action movie, the Losers, so we went to that. 2011, the MCU is in full swing, my wife's fave superhero is Captain America, so I surprise her with tickets to go see it. Then I realize, every year on our anniversary we had watched a movie with Chris Evans in it, totally unplanned. 3 times makes a tradition. 15 years later we've continued it. Not always in theater, but always a Chris Evans movie. He better continue making movies forever.
Couple notes here. Peggy Carter reaching out to touch Steve's pecs, before stopping herself, was a legit reaction 😂 Chris Evans was kept from the rest of the cast, so *UNTIL* they shot that scene, no one had any idea of how his body would look! So the awe from Hayley Atwell was legit! Just a note for further down the line. The scene where Cap goes against orders and rescues the rest of the 107th unit? You're going to want to remember that! Something...similar to it comes up later on! 😉
Imagine not telling reactors that shit is coming later or hinting at things. They either dont get it anyway or its a spoiler. People keeping the comments related to the movie in the video seems to be an impossible challenge
The SHIELD guy who picked the baseball broadcast had tons of archives, yet he picked a game from before Steve became Cap. I want to see him explain that screw up to Fury.
Stan Lee was in the audience when Cap was supposed to be winning a medal but didn't show up. He was the one in the army outfit who said "I thought he'd be taller."
"You guys, this is what I wanted from Hulk... show me getting there." Then you want to see the 2003 Ang Lee directed Hulk, Shan. It doesn't quite fit into the MCU due to some story changes, but has a very comic book style and a great cast (Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott)
@@jonasfermefors It's got some 2000s CGI problems, and some of the story changes are odd, but I enjoy Bana's Bruce and Connelly's Betty way more than Norton and Liv Tyler
Or even better, go to the tv show of the 70s. Hulk's origin didn't need to be explained again because it had been shown in previous movies and shows and its main lines were already generally known in the pop culture. It's similar to Spiderman origin, at this point everybody generally knows or heard about the radioactive spider and uncle Ben.
The Incredible Hulk movie gave the origin on the opening credits, and it was based in the medical research origin from the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferigno television show. The Ang Lee movie should NEVER be viewed as a prelude to the MCU, and The Incredible Hulk is not a sequel to any prior Hulk content except the TV show.
(I might need to update this) MCU Feature Films Phases One thru Five (so far) in theatrical release order Phase One: 1. Iron Man (2008) 2. The Incredible Hulk (2008) 3. Iron Man 2 (2010) 4. Thor (2011) 5. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 6. The Avengers (2012) Phase Two: 7. Iron Man 3 (2013) 8. Thor: The Dark World (2013) 9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 10. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 12. Ant-Man (2015) Phase Three: 13. Captain America: Civil War (2016) 14. Doctor Strange (2016) 15. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017) 16. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 17. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) 18. Black Panther (2017) 19. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 20. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) 21. Captain Marvel (2019) 22. Avengers: Endgame (2019) 23. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Phase Four: 24. Black Widow (2021) 25. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) 26. Eternals (2021) 27. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 28. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 29. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) 30. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Phase Five: 31. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ( 2023) 32. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 33. The Marvel's (2023) 34. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) It's suggested that before watching "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in Phase 3, you take some time to watch the Spider-Man movies that were released before Sony (which owns the rights to the Spider-Man character) and Disney (which wound up owning the rights to the MCU) made a deal in 2015 to include Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That'll add some useful context in later MCU Spider-Man movies: "Spider-Man" (2002) "Spider-Man 2" (2004) "Spider-Man 3" (2007) "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (2014). It is possible that the animated Miles Morales Spider-Man movies might become part of MCU Multiverse: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Spider-Verse: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024?) Other than in it's own movies, the Venom character has only appeared in a MCU credit scene so far: Venom (2018) Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Knowing what I know about these movies and what you are about to see, and what i've seen from your reactions so far, I can't wait to see your reactions to the next movie and the next movie and the next movie. This entire MCU journey is going to worth every penny of a patreon subscription for full length reactions. Keep em coming
When that Senator was trying to give Captain America a medal of valor and he was not there to receive it, the old guy who said I thought he would be taller was Stan Lee
The energy for Shmidt's weapons come from the Teseract. It contains the Space stone. One of the six infinity stones. So it doesn't actually vaporize. It transports what it hits (to who knows where). Stan Lee was at the White House briefing. Someone else besides Capt. came out and Stan Lee said "I thought he'd be taller".
Captain America was the second MCU movie I actually saw in a theater after Iron Man II. The first Iron Man movie, The Hulk and the first Thor movie I saw on Redbox (tells you how long ago this was doesn't it?) or a movie channel on TV. Of the origin stories this is the best besides Iron Man and of the MCU phase 1 movies I'd rank it third behind The Avengers and Iron Man. It really holds up well so many movies later and of the stand alone characters Captain America easily gets the best trilogy of movies with this, The Winter Soldier and Civil War. Chris Evans was brilliantly cast for this role and does an outstanding job. Outside of the MCU movies I really enjoyed the Agent Carter TV series they did on ABC back in the day and I wish it had lasted longer. The Agents of Shield tv show had a pretty good Hydra storyline as well. The hype for Avengers when it finally hit was completely unreal as it was the first time so many super heroes had been combined in one movie and it still holds up as a great team up origin movie as well.
In the real world, both pronunciations are correct for the same object. However, the comic book character is pronounced Mag-nee-toh. Unless you're Kathy Garver voicing Firestar in "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" where in Season Two, she pronounces it Mag-net-oh after pronouncing it Mag-nee-toh in Season One.
For general trivia, a tesseract is a hypothetical higher dimensional object (5th dimensional?) This I learned from sci-fi novels growing up, so I could be wrong.
She even started to fancy him after their conversation in the car. She was impressed and already cared about him, which only grew after what he did in the trials for the project. This was all before the serum. The effects of the serum sure didn't hurt, but it was a picture of scrawny Steve that Peggy would look at later after he had apparently sacrificed his life to save others. That tells us everything we need to know.
Well Shan, the reason why you were getting Star Wars vibes might have something to do with the director being Joe Johnston! He was visual effect art director at Industrial Light and Magic for many years, working on all three original Star Wars movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark (for which he won an Oscar), and was something of a protege of George Lucas. In fact, the line that Schmidt has near the beginning, “And the Führer digs for trinketsss in the desert…” is an obvious nod to Raiders! He also directed The Rocketeer, which was a kind of template for this movie. Anyway, I’m so glad Shan enjoyed this one! It’s generally seen as one of the weaker MCU movies, and yet it’s always been one of my favourites. I remember when it was being made, there was a lot of speculation about how a jingoistic flag-waving symbol of old-style nationalism could be accepted by modern audiences, and yet they managed to do such a great job of humanising the character and making his motivations palatable. Great movie.
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Congrats on the spon! And sorry about the view purge. But you're already bouncing back, so that's good. 😊
when she touched his chest; that was a real moment that was unscripted. it was the first time that she saw chris without a shirt on. :)
Did you watch the whole avengers trailer, or did you turn it off once you knew it was a trailer?
Director Joe Johnston worked behind the scenes in the visual effects department of Industrial Light & Magic, which is owned by Lucasfilm, Ltd. He worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. That explains the reference to Adolf searching for trinkets in the desert and the presence of the filming influence from Empire.
@@williambryan3346 OH! That explains quite a bit of the visuals of this movie!
"How was he asleep?"
He crashed into the arctic. He was frozen for 70 years. The serum kept him alive but he was basically frozen until they found him and thawed him out.
Captain America was frozen for 66 years- as Fury said, "almost 70 ".
He went missing in 1945 and was found by SHIELD in 2011.
And important to note that while the serum makes him stronger and tougher, it does not make him immortal.
Suspended animation
Side effect of the unfinished suoer soldier serum that he used turned him into rhe Red Skull
@mauz4588 his aging is slowed considerably.
Howard trying to recreate the power of the tesseract is what led to the creation of the arc reactor
Captain America has the best trilogy in the MCU, I don't care if anyone says something different! Gotg comes second for me.
Agreed! Before I got into marvel and the mcu I always thought Captain America was a silly sounding character. Watching the Cap trilogy changed my mind and he became my favourite Marvel character!
I would agree with this statement. 1 is the weakest of the bunch, but still a solid movie. IMO Spider-Man has the second best, then Iron Man (yes, really), then Guardians (i think 2 is really weak), then Ant-Man at the bottom (1 and 2 were great, 3 was a dumpster fire).
100 percent agree, and this comes from someone who’s favorite character is Iron Man. 👍
Well I don’t care about your opinion
@@RobFMDetroit You skipped Thor (technically not a trilogy... but neither is Captain America... and possibly not Iron Man from what people have been saying).
Something that killed me just before this film they released "Man of Steel" and director Zack Snyder says the humble Superman "would not work in the modern day". Then this film showed then EXACTLY how you get that genuine mix of humble and full of optimism and heart. Chris Evans embodied that perfectly.
Snyder is a tool.
Man of Steel came out in 2013, this movie came out in 2011.
@@KneightBauer it might have been during the development.. But I do remember his comment..
@@mcgilj1 It was probably was. That sounds like something he would say.
Yep and Henry Cavill could have been such a wholesome Clark and it would have been incredible. But DC had to go and Snyder the whole thing up.
Schmidt's line about Hitler "digging for trinkets in the desert" is a reference to Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
Hitler DID actively search for the Ark of the Covenant and the Spear of Destiny during the war.
The Director of this movie, Joe Johnston, was actually the VFX and Art Director on Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
@@kevinmoore2929 He was more after the Spear. Any army marching with the Spear of Destiny at its head cannot be stopped. The Ark was to finish his enemy strongholds once the Spear-led armies drove the enemy back. Redundant, with an unstoppable army, but Hitler seemed so indecisive he probsbly changed his lunch order halfway through eating it.
Good thing he didn’t know about the pick of destiny
Exactly, Joe Johnson worked on Raiders for Spielberg!
Of all the marvel movies, Captain America is my favorite because he is just wholesome. He is a good man.
And he pulls off that whole boy scout motif even better than Superman does, maybe because he isn't practically invulnerable.
Whenever I get a hankering for a Marvel movie, Cap is almost always my first choice. I like the _good_ guys. My favorite DC hero is Superman. My favorite X-man is Scott Summers. My favorite turtle is Leo.
He's worthy of admiration...
I am suspicious of patriotic flag waving as a front for imperialistic militarism--but I still love Steve Rogers because he embodies what America SHOULD be, not blind loyalty to what it is.
@@michaelwestmoreland-white4664 same, the flag waving in the first movie is a bit heavy handed but that's what makes Cap so good. Because all of that patriotism is turned on it's head in his second and third movies where Cap realizes how corrupt the system is.
This film is one that often gets overlooked by the fandom for whatever reason, but it really is a great origin story for such an important Marvel character. That emotional moment after all the men he saved cheered for him gets me every time. Just a truly good person
The director was SUCH a good pick
Captain America is described in the comics as "Peak Human". IOW he's as strong, fast, durable, etc. as a human can theoretically be, which no actual human ever is. So he can lift more, run faster, hit harder, and take more punishment than a normal person, He can't do things that a normal person couldn't do, but he can do almost anything better than a normal person would.
Never officially confirmed, but it wasn't just the baseball game that clued Steve in that something was wrong at the end. The SHIELD agent posing as the nurse was not wearing era-appropriate clothes either, so her outfit looked all wrong to Steve. It was like a bad Halloween costume.
It's less that this film reminds you of Star Wars, and more that the original Star Wars films are heavily inspired by World War II propaganda and films, which this film also recreates.
And to answer a question, the ice that Captain America crashed in froze his body cryogenically, so that he didn't age during those years.
Was coming to the comments to say that part about Star Wars being heavily inspired by WWII imagery and propaganda
@@Outrider85Same here. Look at us nerds. I just love it. 🥰
And things like the pulpy nature of comics . Captain America was actually published during WWII
A worst-case scenario of this concept happened to John Carter. The novel it was based on was mined for material for decades, so when a direct adaptation was finally made, it seemed derivative.
But it is also influenced by Star Wars as Joe Johnston, the director, worked on special effects on the Star Wars movies.
I wasn't expecting this on a rainy afternoon. 'I had a date' is one of the saddest lines in the MCU. I mean, there are other sad moments, but it really pulls at the heart strings.
It’s Yinsen for me… that one man is responsible for so many things, or basically the whole entire thing
Hurts soooo good 😢😢😢
There is a *sadder* line in "Captain America: Civil War", but... that's for later.
@charleslee8313 for sure. But as River Song says, 'Spoilers!!' :)
@@charleslee8313 Eh, I don't buy that line. And besides that, even if I did, what would Steve have had to do to live up to the expectations of that line? Nothing he or any man of true integrity could have lived with. Sometimes it's better to say nothing.
But that line does sound sad and expresses a very sad sentiment, I'll give you that much. It would be sadder if I felt it were sincere and had meaning behind it. It was supposed to, and I'm supposed to believe that, but in the actual MCU, as executed, it doesn't ring with any truth.
“Now he has a chance with her.”
He always did.
You’ll see.
She already liked, as in really liked, him as a person before the serum. Having more of a physical attraction in addition to that sure doesn't hurt, but it's telling that the picture that she looked at after he had made his sacrifice was of scrawny Steve. That's who she really loved: the man behind the muscles. Dr. Erskine favored him for the project, too, for many of the same reasons.
Joe Johnston began his career as a concept artist and effects technician on Star Wars, co-created the design of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, and was art director on one of the effects teams for the sequel Return of the Jedi.
"I'm still super endeared to Iron man"
"I'm excited for more Captain Americas"
boy are you gonna have a good time moving forward :)
A shout out to Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, she's one of my fave Marvel girls and characters overall. Peggy and Steve just GET each other, even before Steve took the serum. She sees the strength in him, he sees the strength in her, even though the rest of the world underestimates them for what's on the outside. And Peggy's just such a memorable character beyond the love interest angle, she's got that old fashioned gumption of the Rosie the Riveters of the era. Of course there's a war on, they can't prioritize a relationship, but you see how they look out for each other.
I loved her Agent Carter series and I've really enjoyed the What If episodes with her as Captain Britain.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916i still think her as Peggy Carter deserved a main movie
@@shanedaley6236 given the way some people were whining about her getting more than one What If episode in the second season I can only imagine how bad the incels would lose their mind if she got a whole movie!
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I'm saying that they should have given her a main movie back in 2015 when the show happened in the prime years of the MCU same with black widow but I think if we would have had a completely different movie that whole thing would be better
On top of that, I remember hearing somewhere in the fandom that Hayley Atwell herself put the effort in to research period-appropriate makeup *and* how to use it correctly, and other little details for her role - might have been for Agent Carter rather than this film, but any actor who puts that kind of work into a role deserves some extra points for the effort.
I'd argue it's not that Captain America was Star Wars-coded as much as both Captain America and Star Wars were WW2-coded. Prince of Persia was Star Wars coded; Cap is just WW2.
This is my favorite film in the whole MCU. Most people seem to prefer the sequel, and it's not hard to understand why. But this had the classic, idyllic Americana that Johnston also brought to the Rocketeer (which I also love dearly) and I adore films like these. Get ready, though, cause Avengers and Cap 2 are phenomenal experiences. Watching your reviews takes me back to the days when people who weren't comic book fans were FINALLY finding out what I loved about these characters.
The missed Stan Lee cameo was the guy who said "I thought he would be taller" at the awards ceremony.......
There were 2 cameos in that scene. Stan as the General who made that comment and Reb Brown, who played Captain America in two TV movies.
@@williambanks2223 Correct...... Just like in one of the Hulk Movies, Stan and Lou have a cameo together......
He's not Immortal. He just survived the crash and then his body was frozen into basically a cryosleep.
Basically Comic Book Logic. 😅
It's Comic Accurate, but if you think too hard about how cold and cells work, it makes zero sense.
@@DJKuroh”Actually”, there are several animals that survive hibernation after being in freezing conditions. And there is research into short term cryosleep in humans.
True, although without the serum (which was really a retrovirus that changed his DNA throughout his body), he would not have survived being frozen like that.
Thanks to evolution.... wouldn't work on a human. @@johnniequinn3215
Yeah, he just spent some time as a capsicle. ;)
Captain America isn't invulnerable - he was preserved by the ice.
Similar to the overheating of JCV in Universal Soldier.
Steve's original shield in the movie is the one Cap used in the first comic. It was switched to the disc in the second issue because a rival comic company complained that the first one looked too much like one of their characters (the Shield)!
Then Marvel creates S.H.I.E.L.D. out of spite.....LOL.
The red skull was a side effect of taking an incomplete serum. Captain America sleep was like being cryogenic freezing.
Well, also, the serum brings out your truest self. Red Skull was always awful at his core, the serum just made his madness physical. Steve was at his core a good man with a strong character, the serum made that strength physical. The incomplete serum is part of it, but their characters also made a difference
You're close Shan - it's not capitalism, it's propaganda - which is precisely what the Captain America comics started as, back in the 40's.
I recall when this movie was about to release - I was super skeptic. The whole concept of the character felt outdated and highly cliche, and I couldn't see it working in a modern movie the same way Iron Man worked.
But they did a masterful job of juggling the cliches and humor, meeting then defying expectations, and remaining pleasantly self-aware throughout.
Yeah, and propaganda is def not exclusive to capitalism or America. But... US is pretty good at it, won't lie
@@kateorgera5907 As one redheaded villain nicely put it - "Not a uniquely American trait, but etc."
Indeed. Captain America was the hardest to adapt; they really had a hard needle to thread, trying to be true to the comic while not being corny. And if Cap had failed, since he is the front man of The Avengers, the whole of the MCU would’ve been in trouble.
Captain America TFA is the cornerstone on which the MCU rests.
Also, it is additionally impressive that no one ever labels Cap as being on any particular political party or ideology; he is equally admired by both liberals and conservatives.
@@kateorgera5907 Yeah, that was the nail on the chalkboard for me, but I get it. Actor.
Yeah, it was pretty funny that she saw Steve selling bonds for the government and immediately blamed capitalism.
Jones' "I'm not kissing ya!" is, in my opinion, the best line in the entire film. That man has timing and delivery down to an absolute art.
Also, the first season of Agent Carter is a nice closure to her story. I wouldn't bother with Season 2, personally, but that works because Season 1 sort of acts as its own entity.
Captain America debuted during WWII in the comics, the costume and character deliberate symbology to inspire 10 year old boys to do whatever they could for the war effort.
It is WELL worth watching season 1 of the Agent Carter tv show (only 8 episodes). Without spoilers, you will get more of the Mid Century world of Cap’s origin, lots of fun characters and great writing.
I can imagine that if you were in a New York theater when Cap says "I'm just a kid from Brooklyn" the place must've gone fucking NUTS.
Joe Johnston has a great run of pulp or pulp-adjacent movies. The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Hidalgo, and First Avenger all have a lot of pulp adventure elements and are fantastic. When he's in his oeuvre, he's outstanding. When he's not, he's still pretty darn good 👍
I would add that he also directed the second best Jurassic Park movie, and he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which is a way better and funnier movie than people give it credit for.
@@RobFMDetroit For sure👍 and there are even pulpy elements in those (giant insects, lost islands) etc.
@@LordVolkov 100%. And Honey, I Shrunk the Kids holds up surprisingly well because of all the practical effects.
Also, not forgetting that he was one of the designers on the original Star Wars trilogy and responsible for designing Boba Fett's Mandalorian armour
@@sharkey25uk I did not know that. It doesn't surprise me, tho - he definitely has an eye for set decoration and themes. He's a good, solid Hollywood director with a way above-average body of work. He seems like the kind of guy you could hand almost any project to and he'd make it work.
Interesting thing about Evan's Cap is the scene when he comes out of the Vita Ray device is the only time you see Steve Rogers without a shirt on. This is famously contrasted with Chris Hemsworth's Thor who has a shirtless scene in almost every movie.
"He's not being branded as a superhero, he's being branded as a member of the military"
Well, it's more like he's being branded as an inspiring figurehead for the military, in an age before the term "super hero" became what it is today.
Agent Carter touching Cap's "boob" was a sudden thing. A blooper, in a sense. Hayley Atwell was asked about it, and the actress said she was so impressed with his chest that she just had to touch it. It was never part of the script. 😂
So the exact thing she said in this video.
@@godmagnus I didn't see that part.
The Red Skull has been Cap's nemesis since their very first appearance, in Captain America Comics #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).
Red Skull's always been weird. Originally, the whole image was itself a mask worn by an unnamed rando Hitler picked to "transform into the perfect agent," but throughout the years the mask was frequently drawn as if it was his actual head, with sunken eyes and an impossible jaw devoid of musculature.
The MCU's Johann Schmidt appears to be inspired in part by the version of Red Skull in Albert Pyun's awful 1990 Cap movie, who was an Italian child orphaned by the fascist regime and experimented upon with what would eventually become the Super-Soldier Serum, disfigured by it but made super-strong.
As a poor kid from Brooklyn in the 40's, Steve had no access to things like fondue... which is fairly commonplace today.
"The element" as you keep calling it isn't the same element that Tony discovered as a replacement chest piece in Iron Man 2. They're both blue and glow but beyond that, two different things. The cube has its own name as you'll soon find out.
No, he's not immortal. The crash and ice put him in a state of cryo-sleep--basically a coma. But as far as his powers go, you've actually seen them before. Remember the soldier Emil Blonsky (aka Abomination) from the Incredible Hulk? Remember how General Ross gave him an injection to increase his speed, strength, stamina, etc so he could go toe-to-toe with Hulk? This serum Ross gave him was a manned attempt at recreating Dr. Erskine's formula that made Captain America and Red Skull. In Marvel lore, it's called the "Super Soldier Serum". This serum heightens normal human abilities to superhuman levels. This is what you saw from Blonsky, Captain America, and Red Skull. It makes you stronger, faster, allows you to heal quicker (hence Cap said he can't get drunk), gives you enhanced reflexes, etc.
And as far as "How did the Hydra guy turn red?", it was a negative side effect from when he took Dr. Erskine's Super Soldier Serum. Not only was the serum incomplete at the time, but you'll recall that "good becomes great while bad becomes worse". It was that combination that turned Schmidt into Red Skull.
FYI the element Tony recreated in Iron Man 2 was a different substance. But its discovery was certainly assisted by Howards Stark's research on the Tesseract, which isn't from Earth.
This movie went so underrated for so long for far too many people.
The first 3 phases of the MCU were so good that this movie didn't get the props it deserved. I'm glad that's starting to change, because I really like it.
@@jculver1674 - I loved it from the start, but it definitely took getting to Endgame for a lot of people to appreciate where the whole Saga started for Cap.
Stan Lee was the officer at the medal award ceremony that thought he would be taller 😊
He was frozen for 70 years. The beginning scene was them finding him present day.
Stan was in a scene, when Capt was suppose to get some award or medal, but didn't show, Stan says I thought he would be taller. Sitting next to him was the actor who portrayed Captain America in a couple late 70s made for TV movies
Cap was just frozen in ice. It's comic book rules, so he just survived and didn't age because he was "frozen".
It’s more a cryosleep and thanks to the serum stayed fit
the serum helped him survive being frozen, but yeah being in the ice is why he didn't age.
"I feel like that guy is good" That is the scientist behind creating all the super-weapons for Hydra lol
He isn't good, he's 'less evil".
"they put the actor's head on like a different body via CGI?" Yes Leander Deeny was the actor who you see when Captain America was small and they put Chris Evans face onto his
There was a running joke during the height of the MCU to gets the numerous Chriss confused. Like RDJ post a Happy Birthday message to Chris Hemsworth on Chris Evans birthday.
My favorite joke about Chrises came from Valiant's Faith comic. Her favorite actor is an action star, the blond blue-eyed square-jawed "Chris Criswell", whom actually aspired to play villains but was typecast as "heroes" due to his looks, and eventually went actual supervillain. Oh, and to fight the superheroine Faith/Zephyr, he sics his legion of stunt doubles on her.
Shanelle - the reason "Incredible Hulk" didn't show how Banner became Hulk is that the movie was at once both a soft-reboot and sorta-sequel to Ang Lee's "Hulk" that came out in 2003, and that movie DID do the whole story. It's not technically part of MCU canon (and it has a different actor in the part, Eric Bana), but i think with the whole story just having been explained 5 years earlier, they didn't want to do it all over again.
A much better film imo Hulk seemed watered down to me after seeing Bana.
@@BulldogMack700rs How? Boring story, awful villain, Bana was mid as Bruce Banner.
@@BulldogMack700rs Agreed. "Hulk" took a lot of shit, but I thought it was a pretty good movie.
@@OsSas3 Disagree. Maybe it wasn't a 4 star movie, but for the time (2003) I thought it was pretty good, and I think the critics were too hard on it.
@@RobFMDetroit I'll double down and say that no MCU movie ever did Hulk better than Ang Lee. The Avengers may have scratched the surface a little. but that's it.
As usual, a great reaction!
The reason Captain America gets a WW2 origin story is that the original comic book Captain America was actually published during WW2. All of the other characters -- Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, etc. -- came up in the comics nearly 20 years later. In the comics, Cap was literally frozen in an iceberg for (back then) 20 years, and the Avengers found him and thawed him out. I wouldn't call Captain America "immortal" (because then, where's your risk of loss and drama?), but he's incredibly resilient (remember, the doctor said his cells changed) -- the hypothermia that would have killed an ordinary human just put him into suspended animation.
The Red Skull was Cap's enemy throughout the WW2 comics.
If you look at the action scenes in the Marvel Comics of the 60s, plus the old Captain America comics of the 40s, you'll see where Lucas got his inspiration for the aesthetic of Star Wars. It isn't that this film is giving you Star Wars vibes, it's that Star Wars is full of Captain America vibes! (I mean, Lucas stole from friggin' everybody, but its the synthesis he created from all those stolen things that's so brilliant.)
Star Wars was inspired by 30's-40's serials (action/adventure/sci-fi theater shows), and the original Captain America comics came around the same time and had the same ideas. Makes sense that this would make you think of Star Wars.
I've always thought the Captain America movies were the best of the core films. 2 is even better!
From the moment you uploaded Iron Man, I couldn't wait for you to get to this one.
Sooooo happy you loved it... it's one of my absolute faves from the MCU, especially Phase 1... and I wasn't even that much of a Captain America fan (in my comic book reading days).
Now I can't wait for you to see The Avengers 😍
The original Captain America comic book was from the 1930s and he was used heavily as a patriotic symbol during the war. In the comic he fought Nazis and if memory serves there is a cover where cap is punching hitler.
1940s, not 1930s... and yes on the cover of the first issue Cap was punching out ol' Adolf!
_1940s._ Cap's first appearance was in _Captain America Comics_ #1, by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940 by Timely Comics (which would become Marvel Comics in the sixties).
@@neospock5034 i thought it was late 30s maybe 39, eh i was close
The pro-fa$ci$t sentiments at the time sent d3ath threats to the creators and Timely, and the mayor of NYC personally stepped, being a fan of the comic himself.
Joe Johnston was the PERFECT choice for this film. Old school Hollywood style with just enough whimsy and adventure. Perfect.
If you want to see some more period piece superhero films, I suggest "The Rocketeer" (1991), which shares a director with this film, and "The Shadow" (1994).
44:02 Yep you missed it. When they were presenting Steve Rogers with the medal, some random guy comes out and Stan Lee as a military General in the audience says "I thought he'd be taller."
I think what I appreciate about this movie is the conversation about being a good soldier vs a good man. Even after the transformation, Steve isn't the ideal soldier - he doesn't just obey orders blindly, he's not nationalistic ("I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from."), he doesn't have all this bravado. A lot of military training is about beating people into submission, but through it all, Steve doesn't let the war change him. (spoilers for MCU below)
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Which is why it still kind of bugs me that he gets stereotyped as "The Soldier Out of Time" in universe and out of universe sometimes. The films sometimes counter this characterization, but sometimes don't (depending on the writer). Steve isn't exactly a renegade like Tony, sure, and he accepts his duty with SHIELD for Peggy's and Howard's sake, but not because he's a good little soldier boy. Because he tries to do what's right, and the minute he thinks the powers that be aren't doing what's right, he fights HARD. That's my two cents, anyway
In the original comics Steve's WWII team was actually Nick Fury's team, called the Howling Commandos.
@5:52 The town of Tønsberg, Norway is featured a few times throughout the MCU. It was the place of the ancient battle between the Frost Giants and the Asgardians in Thor (2011). It’s also revisited in Thor: Ragnarök (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
the movie starts with them finding Cap after 70 years. he was frozen in the ice, not literally asleep
Jenna Coleman was one of the two girls with Steve and Bucky, and it annoys the crap out of her that Alex Kingston, Arthur Darvill, Peter Capaldi, Karen Gillan, and a few others from Doctor Who played hero roles in Marvel and DC projects and here she was playing a bit part early in the MCU.
Also, I love that the game they played was not only a real game from May 1941, but it had a play that's rarely happened in baseball history: an inside the park grand slam. I'll just say that I can't remember most of the games I saw live but the Bills Jets game I saw live where CJ Mosley jumped over both lines hilariously offsides? I'd remember that one for a long time.
By my count, this movie alone now has four actors who’ve appeared on Doctor Who. Still holding out hope for Hayley Atwell as a fifth someday.
Joe Johnston also directed The Rocketeer in 1990, which is in a lot of ways a dress rehearsal for this movie. You should check it out!
First,like and comment!!!
I love the fact "Steve Rogers before the super solider serum a kid from Brooklyn New York was willing and able to through himself literally on top of a live grenade.. yet Tony wouldn't said something stupid with a bunch of laid out algorithms theories and questions. "No time like the present eh Tony stank."
Steve is my favorite hero in the MCU. Just the... clarity of purpose that he brings to the table. It's not even just about "knowing what is right" so much as him having the absolute conviction to do what he believes is the best thing for the most people... such a powerful hero. Not just in the sense of physical strength, but sense of his strength of character. He's not my favorite MCU character, but... that's a discussion for much later.
One thing of critical note. Bruce Banner was lied to by the government, by General Ross on what he was working on. He was actually trying to recreate teh Super Soldier Serum, which is what the first pumped into Blonsky. Steve's Super Soldier serum was energized and activated by Vita Rays, which is the chamber he was in. When Banner used gamma rays to test whether or not his serum worked, instead of protecting him from radiation, it interacted with the part of the serum that Vita Rays were supposed to energize, and SUPER CHARGED it to the moon. Good becomes great, Bad becomes worse, a tyrant with a god complex gets a red skull, and an insecure man who has been suppressing his rage his entire life, becomes an Incredible Hulk. Banner experiences the pain that Steve did in that pod every time he becomes The Hulk and reverts back, just to a much higher degree.
The Captain America movies are my favorite in the entire MCU
Oh man. Another reason to look forward to Saturdays 🤓🤙 this is definitely my favorite out of the first wave before “The Avengers”. There’s just so many good lines. “A weak man knows the value of strength” and “I don’t want to kill anyone; I just don’t like bullies” are just so solid.
It's Sunday lol
@@kingjellybean9795 Welp. That'll tell ya how MY week's been hahaha
@@EmoDragracer lolol yeah, kinda figured. Next week will be a solid one👍
Great reaction! I do have to say it is kinda funny that you were promoting a mattress at the beginning then mention your fear is sleeping through your life. LOL!! Great reaction though! The Captain America movies are definitely my favorites in the MCU.
Cap is my favorite Avenger. I'm so happy to have watched it with you.
FML - I usually have a great eye for faces, but I NEVER noticed Erskine was Stanley Tucci!!! *BRAINMELT*
Not just "Norway 1942" but Tonsberg Norway... the same town attacked by Frost Giants in Thor. Keep the town in mind moving forward.
"Digging for trinkets in the dessert".
Like the lost Ark, maybe? ;)
The Spear of Destiny. Hitler wanted the Spear. Except in RotLA.
Yup. Joe Johnston got an Oscar for his work on Raiders of the Lost Ark (he was VFX art director), so it’s a little inside joke!
In my opinion, the Captain America movies are all great, especially the second one, _The Winter Soldier_ . The action is interesting in that one because it is so brutal and visceral, almost like a modernized Bruce Lee movie. There are others like it, but this one stands out, because everything feels so *quick* and *hard* . The third movie has similar action, and is also one of the best MCU movies.
Bruce Banner was trying to recreate this experiment when he created the Hulk the problem is he didn't have the Vita-rays he tried gamma rays
Stan Lee was in the audience when Steve was supposed to get an award and said, "I thought he'd be taller". "I had a date" is one of the saddest lines in the MCU.
The first Avengers is the best film in the MCU hands down. Excited for you to get to it. But this movie is also fantastic and I'm glad you're enjoying it. Keep up the great content! Can't wait to see your commentary on the Joss Whedon writing and directing.
Just FYI they brought Joss in to plot the larger arc between films (because of how brilliant the long arcs were in Buffy) after Thor and he wrote the general plot outline and what each film would be about from the first Avengers all the way to the end of Endgame, even though he didn't write scripts or direct past Avengers 2.
I have a feeling as a film maker you're going to really love it and I also think you'll end up agreeing with me that the later films (while still good) just lack the skill in directing and the tight script of the first Avengers.
All 3 Captain America films are top-tier MCU
This whole movie in retrospect now seems like one giant exquisitely told backstory prologue to a greater overall masterful finely crafted epic take for the ages.
"This is so Star Wars coded." To be fair it's more that Star Wars was very WW2 coded.
People forget that Star Wars was supposed to be like afternoon serials of that era.
@@jonathanroberts8981 In all of their pulpy goodness, influenced by the pulp novels around the early 20th century from the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author of the _Tarzan_ and _John Carter_ novels, for those who may be unfamiliar).
Love to re-explore the MCU with newbies! Great reaction! Cap trilogy is the best!
Cap isn't immortal, but the serum does slow his aging, and it allowed him to survive being frozen for 66 years. Being frozen in ice basically put Cap into suspended animation, so he didn't age.
In the MCU Cap's "powers" are simply being stronger, faster, more agile and more durable than humanly possible. In the mainstream comics he was originally at the upper limit of human potential, but the MCU version is superhuman- this version of Cap can lift about 3-4 tons overhead.
The MCU used Ultimate Captain America from the comics.
@@KneightBauer yeah Marvel Studios gave MCU Cap the physical abilities of Ultimate Captain America, but the personality & attitude of mainstream Captain America.
18:23 That’s what happened in the comics, Dr Erskine was killed right the success of the Super soldier serum, so they could be no more super soldiers.
Frozen in the ice = “sleeping”. Same thing happens in the comic, but he was discovered in the 1960s.
It would have been hilarious if they did the comic story, where Sub-Mariner finds the frozen Cap being worshipped as a god, gets pissed and sets him on fire.
All the Capt America movies are great, I'm looking forward to your reaction to the second Capt America film the Winter Soldier. It's one of my favorites in the whole MCU.
I don't think there will ever be as epic of a movie adventure than the ride from Iron Man to End Game.
This movie was the one that cemented a tradition for my wife and I. I have a rule, if something happens once NBD. If something happens twice it could be a coincidence. But if someone happens 3 times, it's now a tradition.
2009, our first anniversary. We're on a weekend trip, just checked into our hotel. The weather is stormy and it's getting late so we don't want to go out so we check what's on the hotel ppv. The movie Push, fresh out of theaters, was an option so since we hadn't seen it we watched that. 2010, we couldn't take a trip so we went to the theater, at the time there was a new action movie, the Losers, so we went to that. 2011, the MCU is in full swing, my wife's fave superhero is Captain America, so I surprise her with tickets to go see it. Then I realize, every year on our anniversary we had watched a movie with Chris Evans in it, totally unplanned. 3 times makes a tradition. 15 years later we've continued it. Not always in theater, but always a Chris Evans movie. He better continue making movies forever.
Couple notes here.
Peggy Carter reaching out to touch Steve's pecs, before stopping herself, was a legit reaction 😂 Chris Evans was kept from the rest of the cast, so *UNTIL* they shot that scene, no one had any idea of how his body would look! So the awe from Hayley Atwell was legit!
Just a note for further down the line. The scene where Cap goes against orders and rescues the rest of the 107th unit? You're going to want to remember that! Something...similar to it comes up later on! 😉
Imagine not telling reactors that shit is coming later or hinting at things. They either dont get it anyway or its a spoiler.
People keeping the comments related to the movie in the video seems to be an impossible challenge
The SHIELD guy who picked the baseball broadcast had tons of archives, yet he picked a game from before Steve became Cap. I want to see him explain that screw up to Fury.
Once again, with this movie, Feige and Co. continue their trend of perfect!casting!
Fun fact: The chest touch was totally improvised by Haley Atwell (Agent Carter) But the director liked it and kept it in the movie 🎥😊👍
37:43 we will still have Seven Samurai. The core story is still the same, just done through different lenses.
"Magneto" "Mag-net-o" ... I'm dying 😅😂
That's how Firestar pronounced it in the cartoon "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends" back in the 80s.
I know, I know...
Stan Lee was in the audience when Cap was supposed to be winning a medal but didn't show up. He was the one in the army outfit who said "I thought he'd be taller."
"You guys, this is what I wanted from Hulk... show me getting there."
Then you want to see the 2003 Ang Lee directed Hulk, Shan. It doesn't quite fit into the MCU due to some story changes, but has a very comic book style and a great cast (Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott)
That's what I came here to say. I like it a lot. I think it's a lot better than The Incredible Hulk. I didn't like Norton's Hulk.
@@jonasfermefors It's got some 2000s CGI problems, and some of the story changes are odd, but I enjoy Bana's Bruce and Connelly's Betty way more than Norton and Liv Tyler
Or even better, go to the tv show of the 70s. Hulk's origin didn't need to be explained again because it had been shown in previous movies and shows and its main lines were already generally known in the pop culture. It's similar to Spiderman origin, at this point everybody generally knows or heard about the radioactive spider and uncle Ben.
The Incredible Hulk movie gave the origin on the opening credits, and it was based in the medical research origin from the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferigno television show.
The Ang Lee movie should NEVER be viewed as a prelude to the MCU, and The Incredible Hulk is not a sequel to any prior Hulk content except the TV show.
(I might need to update this)
MCU Feature Films Phases One thru Five (so far) in theatrical release order
Phase One:
1. Iron Man (2008)
2. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
3. Iron Man 2 (2010)
4. Thor (2011)
5. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
6. The Avengers (2012)
Phase Two:
7. Iron Man 3 (2013)
8. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
10. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
12. Ant-Man (2015)
Phase Three:
13. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
14. Doctor Strange (2016)
15. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017)
16. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
17. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
18. Black Panther (2017)
19. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
20. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
21. Captain Marvel (2019)
22. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
23. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Phase Four:
24. Black Widow (2021)
25. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
26. Eternals (2021)
27. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
28. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
29. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
30. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Phase Five:
31. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ( 2023)
32. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
33. The Marvel's (2023)
34. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
It's suggested that before watching "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in Phase 3, you take some time to watch the Spider-Man movies that were released before Sony (which owns the rights to the Spider-Man character) and Disney (which wound up owning the rights to the MCU) made a deal in 2015 to include Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That'll add some useful context in later MCU Spider-Man movies:
"Spider-Man" (2002)
"Spider-Man 2" (2004)
"Spider-Man 3" (2007)
"The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012)
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (2014).
It is possible that the animated Miles Morales Spider-Man movies might become part of MCU Multiverse:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Spider-Verse: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024?)
Other than in it's own movies, the Venom character has only appeared in a MCU credit scene so far:
Venom (2018) Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Knowing what I know about these movies and what you are about to see, and what i've seen from your reactions so far, I can't wait to see your reactions to the next movie and the next movie and the next movie. This entire MCU journey is going to worth every penny of a patreon subscription for full length reactions. Keep em coming
I first saw Captain America on a plane, flying to America.
Did you get his autograph?!?
@@mattx449 lol - I saw the film, not the Captain himself.
@@Tonyblack261aw man 😂
When that Senator was trying to give Captain America a medal of valor and he was not there to receive it, the old guy who said I thought he would be taller was Stan Lee
The energy for Shmidt's weapons come from the Teseract. It contains the Space stone. One of the six infinity stones. So it doesn't actually vaporize. It transports what it hits (to who knows where). Stan Lee was at the White House briefing. Someone else besides Capt. came out and Stan Lee said "I thought he'd be taller".
Captain America was the second MCU movie I actually saw in a theater after Iron Man II. The first Iron Man movie, The Hulk and the first Thor movie I saw on Redbox (tells you how long ago this was doesn't it?) or a movie channel on TV. Of the origin stories this is the best besides Iron Man and of the MCU phase 1 movies I'd rank it third behind The Avengers and Iron Man. It really holds up well so many movies later and of the stand alone characters Captain America easily gets the best trilogy of movies with this, The Winter Soldier and Civil War. Chris Evans was brilliantly cast for this role and does an outstanding job.
Outside of the MCU movies I really enjoyed the Agent Carter TV series they did on ABC back in the day and I wish it had lasted longer. The Agents of Shield tv show had a pretty good Hydra storyline as well. The hype for Avengers when it finally hit was completely unreal as it was the first time so many super heroes had been combined in one movie and it still holds up as a great team up origin movie as well.
No he's not immortal, he was frozen in the ice for those decades. And I can't believe you pronounced "Mag-Knee-Toe" as "Mag-Netto" 😄
In the real world, both pronunciations are correct for the same object.
However, the comic book character is pronounced Mag-nee-toh. Unless you're Kathy Garver voicing Firestar in "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" where in Season Two, she pronounces it Mag-net-oh after pronouncing it Mag-nee-toh in Season One.
For general trivia, a tesseract is a hypothetical higher dimensional object (5th dimensional?) This I learned from sci-fi novels growing up, so I could be wrong.
just had to say, Peggy was into Steve even whilst small...
She even started to fancy him after their conversation in the car. She was impressed and already cared about him, which only grew after what he did in the trials for the project. This was all before the serum. The effects of the serum sure didn't hurt, but it was a picture of scrawny Steve that Peggy would look at later after he had apparently sacrificed his life to save others. That tells us everything we need to know.
I’m so looking forward to you continuing this cinematic adventure. Me & my kid watch the whole Infinity War annually.
That or Doctor Who.
Well Shan, the reason why you were getting Star Wars vibes might have something to do with the director being Joe Johnston! He was visual effect art director at Industrial Light and Magic for many years, working on all three original Star Wars movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark (for which he won an Oscar), and was something of a protege of George Lucas. In fact, the line that Schmidt has near the beginning, “And the Führer digs for trinketsss in the desert…” is an obvious nod to Raiders! He also directed The Rocketeer, which was a kind of template for this movie.
Anyway, I’m so glad Shan enjoyed this one! It’s generally seen as one of the weaker MCU movies, and yet it’s always been one of my favourites. I remember when it was being made, there was a lot of speculation about how a jingoistic flag-waving symbol of old-style nationalism could be accepted by modern audiences, and yet they managed to do such a great job of humanising the character and making his motivations palatable. Great movie.
not immortal, just frozen along with definite benefits from the serum.