Well, it sure took me long enough but I finally cleared another movie from my DVR. I enjoyed Captain America: The First Avenger. It was a war story but with a superhero. That’s pretty much how the Marvel Cinematic Universe works best: X kind of story but with a superhero. Guardians Of The Galaxy, which I still have to see, didn’t have a superhero but it’s still science fiction tied to a comic book universe so that’s fine. It’s a formula that has brought Marvel Studios success and you can’t argue with the results.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the second movie featuring ol’ Cap, only this time they jumped right to the Winter Soldier. I guess they really wanted to get him into the MCU since he’s a more recent invention, and a darkened recreation of a classic character. Bucky Barnes was Cap’s teen sidekick during World War II, but this was changed in the first movie since sidekicks seem to be on the decline. I blame Rob Schneider for ruining sidekicks…nah, just kidding. I blame grown-ups who hate kid characters or anything remotely resembling them outside of Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. And even then they have to ruin that…but I’m getting off-topic. So how well did the movie work?
RELEASE DATE: 2014
RELEASED BY: Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures
RUNTIME: 2 hours. 16 minutes
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Sebastian Shaw, and Anthony Mackie
SCREENWRITERS: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
DIRECTORS: Anthony and Joe Russo
GROSS REVENUE: $714,766,572 ($259,766,572 domestic) from an estimated budget of $170,000,000
