[Bandit Keith icon] (Captain America)

relia's parents are visiting with the dogs. Dogs are always a really really big serotonin-and-dopamine-booster, but I have to complain that the Spartan King is always a demanding-ass customer: every time I stop petting him to type this he keeps nudging me like I'm crinkling a candy wrapper in a movie theater.

Speaking of movies, Captain America. Uh, if I tried to go into an in-depth review of Captain America I would wind up getting hung up on things like "why was everyone speaking English???" so I'll be lazy and C&P from what I said to impersona like five minutes ago: As for Captain America... uh, putting aside the whole notion of Captain America and my opinion that the idea of a virtuous PG-13-rated superhero named "Captain America" should have been retired thirty years ago in disgrace, and the questionable taste of bowdlerizing WWII for a superhero movie, the whole thing could have been written directly from TVTropes. Rel commented that there was probably not a single line that came out of Hugo Weaving's mouth that had not been said in a different movie at some point. I agree with her.

You know, am I the only one who finds it weird that this movie exists in the same universe as the Iron Man movie, wherein a naive rich military-industrial tycoon realizes that American money finances violence abroad? It was the hokiest, friendliest portrayal of military-industrial corruption I've ever seen, but at least it was one. How does Tony Stark whose character journey involved realizing that yay USA = not so much coexist with Steve Rogers, representative of truth, justice, and American fascism?

I think the problem is that because of how lukewarm it is, moderate/conservative/patriotic American viewers are supposed to walk away thinking that the problem is Tony Stark, not American militarism, and really it's because he's dissolute and elite. A wholesome, sepia-toned, good-old-days monogamous humble American boy like Steve Rogers is perfect as he is. This really even further invalidates the whitewashed-progressivism of the nouveau Avengers.