Captain America (1990)
In an early post I called this movie lame, but I figure I’d better rewatch it just to justify my case. Cause I actually remember watching the film as a youngster at least once and liking what I saw, so I had to make sure.
I’m confirming it is lame. It suffers from the same issues as the 1994 Fantastic Four, but unlike FF I can give it a, it’s so bad it’s good stamp (And I’m very happy about that).
Captain america is a pretty easy comic to adapt to the big screen, it’s just an action adventure war movie about a guy who sometimes wears a mask.
They did take some liberties with the character that make my Fanboy radar point up, but it’s superficial.
Steve Rodgers is now a boy from Southern California who has polio and offered himself up to the super soldier experiment headed up by a woman who escaped from the Nazis (The idea of a woman creating the star spangled avenger was cool, not enough female brainiacs in the comic book industry ).
Shortly after Steve Rodgers becomes Captain America the doctor is killed making Steve and The Red Skull the only one’s like them. After stopping the Red Skull from destroying the White House he is trapped in Ice for 60 years and wakes up having to stop the Red Skull, who has formed an underground crime unit that basically is Hydra without saying it, again.
Proving how well Cap works as an action movie, Matt Salinger who plays Steve Rogers, wearing some sort of padding to make it look like he’s got more than he does, barely wears the cartoonish suit they made for him (of course wearing the uniform makes him Captain America, duh)
It’s got that 80s swagger to it. The Red Skull has his daughter do all the heavy lifting for most of the movie with her small army of rich Nazi brats who drive the fastest cars and wear the hottest fashions but more than capable with the guns.
They took some liberties with The Red Skull’s origin too, I think this was to save money and film the entire movie in Italy (I’m also guessing that certain places in Italy look more like Southern California than New York City)
I am being harsh on the movie because I’ve grown to like the character more now than I ever did when I was a kid and saw this, but like I expressed before, the movie does have a so bad it’s food quality that makes it real enjoyable.
