Rico went with his friend
Damon (a regular movie buddy) to see
Captain America: The First Avenger. It was a bit florid and prone to hyperbole, but well worth seeing. The sets, computer-generated or real, were
incredible, with a totally period-authentic look and feel. (Okay, okay, the Germans had some armored vehicles and aircraft and weapons never seen outside of the sketchbooks, but, hey, it's from a
comic book, after all, and they were well done nevertheless.) There's a story somewhere about how they made the hero look small and skinny in the early part of the film, but you'll have to find it yourself, if you care.
The whole
Red Skull thing
had to be in there, given the comic book, but it wasn't overdone, and you didn't like
Johann Schmidt anyway...
Tommy Lee Jones is getting old (hey, who among us isn't), but is as good as ever.
No sex scenes with
Hayley Atwell, alas, but she's been doing a lot of television; she'll be back:
Stanley Tucci was great, but got croaked early on. (But how can he be eight years
younger than Rico?)
Samuel L. Jackson had a teeny part as
Nick Fury; he'll be back, too, though Fury wasn't black in the original comic book; there just
weren't black combat soldiers in World War Two:
All in all, an enjoyable afternoon at the movies.
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