I was extremely impressed. The best superhero film of the summer (and I thought Thor and X-Men: First Class were both quite good), and Marvel's best since Iron Man.
One of the things I liked the most was the USO bit, which when I first heard about it sounded like it could go very awry, but was actually one of the best scenes in the movie. Plus, it's pretty rare these days for a non-musical drama to feature an original song actually in the movie instead of just playing over the credits. I think they could actually get the Oscar for that, between Alan Menken's name (incidentally, I thought it was more fun than any of the songs he did for Tangled) and how light the competition in that category normally is.
Dominic Cooper's Howard was fun. Cooper was clearly riffing on Robert Downey Jr. to good effect (though it's hard to connect this version to the older Howard we saw in Iron Man 2). Hayley Atwell was great as Peggy, and I think this was one of the rest romantic subplots in recent superhero movies (the fact that it's played as mostly a missed opportunity for both of them adds to that). Evans turned out to be pretty perfect for the part.
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Date: 2011-07-23 03:05 pm (UTC)One of the things I liked the most was the USO bit, which when I first heard about it sounded like it could go very awry, but was actually one of the best scenes in the movie. Plus, it's pretty rare these days for a non-musical drama to feature an original song actually in the movie instead of just playing over the credits. I think they could actually get the Oscar for that, between Alan Menken's name (incidentally, I thought it was more fun than any of the songs he did for Tangled) and how light the competition in that category normally is.
Dominic Cooper's Howard was fun. Cooper was clearly riffing on Robert Downey Jr. to good effect (though it's hard to connect this version to the older Howard we saw in Iron Man 2). Hayley Atwell was great as Peggy, and I think this was one of the rest romantic subplots in recent superhero movies (the fact that it's played as mostly a missed opportunity for both of them adds to that). Evans turned out to be pretty perfect for the part.