Guys, did I watch a different movie?
...Guys?
It's just, the movie I saw was a passable summer action flick- things exploded, people got punched in the face, and the plot, continuity, and character development pretty much sat it out.
I mean, the first act seemed like it was in a completely different movie than the other two; the 1940's visual aesthetic was completely abandoned as soon as Hydra showed up, never to be seen again, and everyone pretty much got spray-painted dark knight batman costumes. Actually, EVERYTHING about Hydra pretty much makes no sense. They have all this technology that looks pretty much modern, but no one's heard about it; they have an army rivaling the Clones in size and lack of human response, who ostensibly spend all their time standing in rows in warehouses; they have magic space lasers, but instead of shooting Cap point blank they hit him with the butts; and when the allies kill hundreds of the expendable buggers, they stay with their six-shot pistols rather than pick up the magic infinite disintegration rays from space. Plus, the guy who plays Howard Stark is woefully miscast, earnest and a bit outspoken rather than the larger-than-life 40's business tycoon his lines were clearly written for. And there were sometimes bizarre jump-cuts, like the ones the Oceans series did really well- you know, team is talking about the plan, then all of a sudden they're carrying out the plan- except instead of that, they're just planning and then all of a sudden it cuts to them jumping off things and punching other things and then Cap throws his shield at something, and then they cut back and go, "Right, that's six military bases down."
I mean, it wasn't bad. But it was really only average- I couldn't see much that was all that special about it.
