i'm currently on a journey to watch every single marvel film because a lot
i've dipped in and out of marvel films i've never really taken two of them but i did a few years ago
watch captain america and i remember liking it but i didn't remember that much about it
so i decided that it was time for me to watch it again i'm still in phase one of course
and i really adored this and so far i would say that this is my favorite marvel film i have a lot
more to watch but so far out of these six or seven that i've seen captain america the first avenger
is my favorite this was released in 2011 directed by joe johnson and stars of course chris evans
as captain america we have obviously a really really fantastic cast hugo weaving samuel jackson
fabulous hayley atwell as agent carter dominic cooper stanley tucci i i have to say erskine
is a character i loved and i i can't i won't spoil anything in case you haven't seen this
but i feel like i'm the only person on the planet who is quite behind with marvel um
but what happens to erskine's character really upset me and i remember feeling that exact same
way the first time i watched this film that's one of the things that really stuck with me
but the narrative is definitely one of the reasons why i love this more than any of the
other marvel films that i've seen and that's because it's set during the second world war
it's one of my favorite time periods in history to study i love watching films that are either
about it set during it this is obviously no exception i'll read the description from
imdb and talk a little bit around it um does this description really explain it very well
i'm not sure let's have a look this says steve rogers a rejected military soldier
transforms into captain america after taking a dose of a super soldier serum
but being captain america comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist
organization steve rogers is of course our captain america played by chris evans
he is rejected for several reasons from the army but he is enlisted to take part in an experiment
that's working to create a super army if you like you take this serum and you become
super strong super powerful the kind of superhero that we can imagine and obviously that does come
with a price because he now has to fight evil to be quite frank now we're not talking about
him battling on the front line and defending and fending off the nazis isn't defending the
nazis it's the antithesis of what's going on here obviously fending off um the bad guys
and it does get quite action-packed and there's there are a lot more intricate intricacies to this
with who the bad guys are and um there are certain characters in this who i believe we meet later on
in later films and there there are things in this that i will need to watch it again to pick up
for example the inclusion of stark even though i've just watched the iron man films
it took me longer than it should have done to pick up on the name stark and work out
who howard stark was um so certainly there's a lot going on here to unpack but i will just
say that it's brilliant i think the character of steve rogers is brilliant i absolutely love
him very well rounded very well fleshed out when he becomes captain america i feel like he still
he still retains the qualities that make him steve rogers so even though he physically looks a lot
more powerful and capable i don't feel like his mind changed that much and that's something that
i really liked because he didn't just change as a person it worked really well for me the
costumes are absolutely fantastic i can't see who did the costumes but i will check that just now
casting is obviously brilliant costume designers by anna b shepard the soundtrack the score
brilliant one of my favorite scenes is the montage where captain america is being toured around the
different states and um you know basically being propaganda and i absolutely loved it i thought it
was fantastic the dance numbers the choreography the costumes in those scenes just brilliant
because i'm not the biggest fan of action films when it does get a bit more when it gets darker
and the action picks up and it becomes less about showing off this super soldier serum
and more about actually taking action i lose a little bit of interest but that's not the film's
fault that's because i'm not the biggest fan of films that are action-packed i prefer films with a
an interesting narrative of course the narrative in is interesting but when a lot of it is action
rather than um narrative development that's where i stopped being interested and i think that's
probably one of the reasons why marvel has never appealed to me personally because they are heavily
action-based and that's fine they're they're at the top of the game that genre and if you like
that then i feel like you probably already are a marvel fan i was very impressed with captain
america the first avenger as i said i remember really liking it the first time i watched it
this second time around is absolutely no exception if you haven't seen it for whatever reason
give it a go if you haven't seen any marvel films or you're struggling to get into marvel like i was
i'd say watch from the beginning start with phase one and work through it they're all on disney plus
the only one that isn't is um hulk because of um some rights issues but hulk's kind of
that hulk film is not really canon anyway if anybody can explain that in more detail
please feel free to in the comments um but yeah i really thoroughly enjoyed it
i'm looking forward to the next film the next film is definitely going to be interesting and
i think i might have to watch it pretty soon so far quite enjoying this journey