MOVIE REVIEW: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The First Avenger

A Film Review by David Gordon

Time.

Time is one of the most wonderful concepts that, as man, we have and can use at our leisurely expense.  There is thought that things get better with time, like wine.  Or, responding to an email immediately after you have been fueled with any kind of emotion like telling your boss to kiss off after she tells you, you need to be more mature and remember that there is a time and a place to say things.  See, if you just wait till the next day, you won’t send that emotionally fueled email.  You will have time to reflect.  Time to save your job.

Wait, where was I?  Oh yes, time.  And time is exactly what I needed to write this review after watching Captain America: The First Avenger.  Because, if you were reading this, this Saturday afternoon, you probably would have been reading a gushing review calling this movie the best comic book movie of all time.  It hit on all the sweet spots of what makes a great superhero movie.  Comedy, action, suspense, romance, wait… I’m getting off track.  This is what I was trying to avoid using time…

Don’t get me wrong.  Cap does all that and then some.  It was indeed a good movie.  But, with a little reflection, I can see the faults the movie has.  Maybe faults are too harsh of a word, but things I’m definitely nit picking on.

COMIC REVIEW: July 13 Quick Hit List

Punisher Max #15

Along with my weekly full review (as seen by here), I’ll be giving you all an extra gift each week of some quick hits on ten randomly selected books, I additionally read from the week.  They are not full reviews but just some initial impressions of what I was thinking while reading them.  Some weeks, there may not even be ten but I’ll never go over ten. 

So, without further ado, I give you my quick initial impressions of ten randomly selected books.

FEATURE: Avengers Trailer leaked!

Holy moley, my inner dork was screaming out when I saw this trailer.  You'll have to forgive the quality but there is still enough there to see and pretty much increase hype by 1000.  We'll keep this link video posted as long as it is not pulled. 

EDIT:

Looks like the original link is dead.  Marvel, it would seem, wants to keep the lid on it still.  Which is a shame.  I say start the hype train now.