Captain America: The First Avenger

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It's windy. All right, Captain America. The first

Avenger. Dude, I'm so excited about this movie.

This is one of my favorites. Headlights in the

fog. Unrelated, my retinas are now burned. God,

I haven't seen this in. I honestly don't remember

the last time I saw this movie. It has been a

little while. Oh, this man's got the jokes with

his little pole. Yeah, that's the normal BS.

Found it. So technically, we should be watching

this scene sometime in the future and then pick

back up. Yeah, you know, there was there was

a small part of me that wanted to go back and

actually edit these things in order, but then

no one could watch it with us. So now the sacrifices

we make for continuity. Right. Oh, spunking.

I don't think that's what it's called when you're

going into a vessel. It is. Oh, okay. You know

this for sure. Bangles and spelunking are my

expertise. You deal with your stuff. All right.

All right. So it shall be. It held up remarkably

well for being just in the elements for slip

and slide. Well, I mean, in the ice, though,

nothing's actually moving. Once it's buried,

it's kind of just there, isn't it? I'm just thinking

about the weight on the top. I guess it is an

air vessel, so kind of meant to deal with some

pressure. Wait, what is that? Wait, is that Jeffrey

Wright? No, it's not. I thought that was the

Watcher for a second. That would be kind of a

cool plug. That would be cool. He's going to

want to see this. Tonsberg, Norway. Guy running.

What's happening in 1942? You're about to find

out. Oh, yeah, it's Filch. Forgot he was in this.

He plays the same character in everything. Crotchety

old guy. I mean, look at him. Dude, if Indiana

Jones were made when he was an actor, he would

have been the knight in the chamber. Oh, that

guy's dead. Whoopsies. You run something like

that through a wall, I don't think there's a

whoopsie involved. Hey, that symbol looks familiar.

Yeah, we just saw that. Like, bro, we're trying.

This stone is actually very heavy by design.

Man, there was a run there when this movie came

out that Hugo Weaving was like every single character

in every movie. Mr. Anderson. Mr. Anderson. Gandalf.

Not quite. Just direct quotes. Well, he says

that. Fair enough. Take my hat. Show off. That

should be at the bottom of a lake. Not that one.

Remarkably breakable cube of glass there. Yeah.

Give me the most fragile cube you can muster.

I'm going to bury it here as a decoy. Yeah. Yeah,

in reality, I think that would have chipped off

a corner and bounced a couple of times. Yggdrasil.

What is the Elvish word for friend? Hey, he said

it too. Jinx. That snake has a very pokeable

eye. Yeah. It's like that thing we were talking

about in cartoons where the one object that's

going to be interacted with is drawn a little

bit differently. Yep. It works that way here

as well. Yep. Uh -oh. Pam, thought we hid that

better. My super secret tree wall didn't do what

it was supposed to do. I like that the snake

is what hides it, too. Some pretty fun parallels

there. Face is sagging there, bro. Hey, there's

a little bit of red on that skull. Oh, that's

funny. I didn't notice that. I like how his paper

is like 10 times bigger than everyone else's.

You're the smallest guy. Take the biggest paper.

Make sure you can hide entirely behind this.

Damn. Don't you wink at me when you're breaking

my dreams? Damn. Help is on the way, dear. He

goes to the movie theater and watches this. Just

a pout. Even little Timmy. I'm doing my part.

But not you, Steve. You suck. The fact that they

would play this kind of stuff in front of cartoons.

Yeah. Man, I really thought the first time I

saw this movie, he was about to do something

with that trash can lid. Yeah, yeah. First drop.

Oh, yeah. The tush kick. Patent pending. Hey,

I know that name. The size difference they made

it look like is insane. Oh, I know. Imagine being

cast as the Captain America scrawny body double

for these shots. We need someone's body that

looks like they could never survive in this world.

Yeah, yeah. Who's in? Audition now. Also, we're

going to cover up your face with a different

person's face so that they're not going to know

it's you. Yeah, I was wondering about that when

there's like a really hideous character. Like,

what did the casting sheet look like for that?

And how do you feel about submitting your your

headshot? Wanted one morbidly obese person like

golly. We got the human torch cameo right there.

Well, cameo, I guess, is a weird word for the

Easter egg. Easter egg is a better word. Thank

you. But Bucky's pulling, pulling two bras. That's

that's the doctor's. It's Claire from Doctor

Who. Oh, the Richard Dawson treatment. The look

on her face is like, I'm not actually happy about

that. Right. That's why it's the Richard Dawson

treatment. No, those women looked happy either.

Fair enough. Gravitic reverse technology. Gravitic.

I like that word. Gravitas. Huh. How very Starkian.

Well, he's just getting started. Oh, I know.

That's the same exact vibes as the introduction

of the Cybertruck when they're like, this window

will never break. And they have the guy come

up on stage and bust the window out first try.

Hilarious. Oh, man. He's also got a very short

tie. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a thing, isn't

it? Yeah. Tucci! Tell him, Cap. Yep. Luckily,

Erskine happened to be right there, right then.

Amen. Stranger things. The threads of fate. That's

right. No, he's gonna. That. Burn. His hat's

also kind of cocky to the side. Oh, it's Buck,

man. That's got to be. Short ties and cocky hats

to the side. Sure signs that you're living in

yesteryear. Cocky. I wonder if that's where the

word originates. You have your hat cocked to

the side. You know, I don't know. Perhaps. You

in trouble. Look at that. Look at that sign there.

It's illegal to falsify your enlistment. Oh,

he looks at it, too. Yeah, we all know. Bro.

He falsified. Yeah. How many times now? Let me

put my little shoes on. I mean, it's so awkward.

Just walk in there and say nothing. Like. They

have all of those things saved. I mean better

records than we have today. Yeah. You can squeeze

in places. That's right. Be like a ferret. Oh,

baby. Little did he know he just changed the

entire world. Or maybe you did know. All I want

to do is see Tommy Lee Jones say, how much is

the other guys paying for him to be on our side?

The cartoon. Oh, I got it. That was a fun little

Easter egg because that's how he's going to look

later. Yep. Brought the whole snake. You think

that's part of it, bro? They don't want to handle

it. I mean, he really, really does, though. It's

kind of his whole thing. Caution in the name

of science. Huh. Yeah, he's he's known for exercising

extreme caution in the name of science. Science,

I tell you. Yeah. I love how he keeps adjusting

his face. Such a fun character. Well, I would,

too, if I had like a face flap covering my skull.

Don't say face flap. That's horrible. And suddenly

he has speed powers, immortality, ability to

make portals. Oh, wait, no, that's just Gahori.

Now, remember, that's not continuous. Continuous.

Same stone, brother. Same stone. That's why I

don't like what if. Because what if says that

this thing is supposed to be at the bottom of

a lake in America somewhere. I know, I know.

No. Good one. There you go. Look on Steve's face.

I really like Tommy Lee Jones. Yeah, he's great.

You could shake that helmet will fall right off.

Yeah. I love how inept they made him. What a

dick. Yeah. Everyone's standing there watching,

too. Hit him with the ladies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like squirrels on a bird pole. A bird pole?

Yeah. You've never seen this before? I don't

know that I've ever heard the term bird pole.

Well, you're just not as cultured as I am. I

guess not. I wasn't done trying yet, coach. It's

so good. I did it. There you go. Oh, man. Man,

she hit him with the ladies, too. Yeah. like

a very specific rodent oh man it's making me

cry I love that she went for it as well. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. That really gives the whole Captain

Carter thing. Yeah, yeah. It really gives it

some backbone. I love it. He's like, well, shit.

The look on his face. Oh, man. Can't imagine

why. Man, that shirt should have had a big star

in the middle. That's not till later. I know,

but you know, foreshadowing. It's like the blood

on the skull. That's pointed. No, I mean, he's

talking history. Speaking weak and small, Steve,

look at yourself. He heard this story from the

conquistadors. Yeah, right. Who had a tough go

with some Native Americans one time. I mean,

he thought there's power inside the earth. You

got to remember, there's also a celestial living

in there, too. That's right. A lot of power in

the earth. They hadn't thought of that yet, though.

Mm hmm. Then they thought of it, left it for

like a decade. And then thought of it again.

Full circle. Oh, yeah. What is this thread we

need to tie? It is really impressive how clean

the special effects of putting his head on that

scrawny ass body are. I know. And then to take

it back off and put it on his own body later,

don't even see the stitches or anything. Just

pop it off. What year did this come out? 2011.

You're asking me questions that there's no way

I know the answer to. Well, I asked it, then

I realized I know exactly when it came out. Cause

as I mentioned earlier, this was mine and my

wife's first date. So that's when we got together.

So yeah, 2011. Why don't you turn that light

off? Because he's skull right now. He doesn't

want to show. What is he trying to hide? What's

going on? Nope. That poor artist. His big red

head. Hey, I take offense to that. Hey, you know

what? Maybe you have the red skull to blame for

people shitting on gingers. Gingerism. Yeah.

Perhaps. The original redhead. A victory. Well,

I got some bad news for you, brother. So dramatic.

Dramatic effect. The artist is like, dude, he's

been making me paint this disgusting thing. Show

us the art, damn it. It kills me that they don't

show us that canvas. There's going to be a dramatic

reveal for those that don't know what's coming.

Yeah, well, but still, come on. They're going

to touch butts later. No, no, there's a whole

lot of fallout because they don't touch butts.

Oh, they touch butts. We just have to wait for

a very long time before they do. Oh, yeah. You

know what? That's right. That's right. That's

right. And then he doesn't tell Falcon about

it. Yeah, she wants to touch his butt. She really

wants to touch his butt when he comes out of

that machine. I want to touch his butt when he

comes out of that machine. What if it was like

crazy stormy outside? And they came in. Somebody

would really know. It's like, well, yeah, obviously

I have an umbrella. No, it's not lady. What's

wrong with you? Man, they didn't even try to

make that bookcase look real. Those books were

like three inches thick. Three inches can go

a long way. Oh, it's him. Yeah, I'm looking forward

to watching the Agent Carter series again. You

know, I've not seen any of those, so those will

be first times for me. Oh, are you serious? Oh,

they were great. I'm glad to hear that. We will

experience it for the first time together, all

of you who be listening. Get naked. Your pants

will be fine because pants and marble always

size to fit. That's Banner. He'll tell you. Pants

technology. Yeah, they really they really go

all in on the pant technology. Other clothes.

They really do. Yeah. My sandwich. They're about

to, man. A super soldier sandwich. Super soldier

sandwich. That's how I'd like to take mine. Serum

sounds kind of scary. This whole process looks

terrifying. Yes. I got plastered last night.

Anyway, let's operate. It's like, wait, Stark,

last thing I saw you operate was unsuccessful.

Get out of here. See you when you're hot. Wow,

that's unnecessary. That was so unnecessary.

He didn't even try to talk into it first. I know.

Right on his nipples. We're all good. Paddle

should go. Oh my. Damn, they're putting a lot

in him. Guess I didn't realize. How crazy would

it be if he just dies here? Everybody's watching.

Like, oh, okay. Well, I guess let's go home.

Well, where's our next? Get that Blonsky kid.

Make sure you tell the lady up front you got

your umbrella or she'll shoot you. Pull the lever,

crunk. Wrong lever. Why couldn't that have already

been standing upright? Dramatic effect. Yeah.

Looks like an Iron Maiden. Kind of terrifying.

No, you're going to. Those pants are versatile.

They still fit you afterwards and they hold all

your liquids. Stark's the only one with the sunglasses.

Everybody else is just eating the eye damage.

Oh, no, that guy's got some. Yeah, it always

kills me in movies thinking about the actors

when they're filming outside and how they're

not able to wear sunglasses. Oh, I know. Like

that's got to be the worst part of being an actor.

What do you expect him to do? Say, I'm fine.

OK, well, I guess, yeah. All day, he should have

said, I can do this all day. I could do this

all day. Keep cranking it. I'm glad they planned

to go to 100%, but Hunter was still in the red

zone. I know, I was just thinking, why is it

red if that's the purpose? Show me what you got.

Now she's really ready to touch his butt. Not

yet. And everyone can see why. See, the belt

is still done perfectly. It's not a stretchy

belt. No, no. His pants perfectly fit. Always

double the size or more. Excuse me, sir. You

left your cigarette pouch. I love that she goes

to touch him. And the look on the nurse's face

behind him was pretty funny, too. She can't not

touch. Nice poll. That's a plug for you. Big

bada boom. I love how there's just one left.

Exactly one left. Very convenient. Nice shooting.

Yeah, now it's time to do stuff. Well, that's

what you get for leaving a 90 ,000 year old woman

in charge of security at the front door. Not

to mention, she obviously knew someone was coming,

man. Light it up when he's coming out the hallway.

Don't give him the opportunity to shoot you.

She should have been more ready than that. Yeah,

Tommy gun, drive by. Take two. Boom headshot

damn. She's good Like oh shit my legs work look

at that Luckily, they knew they have a just right

size T -shirt for him when he got out of there.

Well, I mean, always be prepared, right? Yeah.

What size will he be when he comes out of here?

I don't know. Bring two or three shirts just

to be safe. Yeah. See, they try to address it

a little bit. You see, the pants are actually

a little short. They look like floods, but they

still fit around the waist and in the thighs

and everything. Yeah, figure that out. Yeah.

He's like, damn, that serum really works. Yeah,

he's running down a car. A cephalopoid on foot.

Physics. Who needs them? Don't worry, I'm fine.

No seatbelt, we're good. That Luger's got infinity

bullets in it. Not reloaded once. Yeah, right.

I'm kind of wondering how many shots he's taken.

I'd love to go back and check, but I'm not gonna.

At least one more missed one. There it is. Right

when it matters. This is one of my favorite parts.

Kid gives just a big middle finger to the bad

guy. I don't know why he did this. Just go. Yeah,

he tossed me in the lake. I can swim. We're fine.

This is best case scenario. Yeah. I am Aquaman.

You've got to be kidding me right now. Yeah.

Underwater, able to punch strong enough to punch

through a submersible, which is built to withstand

pressure's window, is wild behavior. That's what

heroes do. Yeah. Whoopsies. Mm hmm. That's one

of those tropes, the cyanide tooth. Yeah, it's

crazy because, I mean, I've accidentally chewed

weird in my life. You know, if you're just sitting

there. Yeah. Having a strong bully and next thing

you know, you're dead. Yeah. Whoops. Whoa, I'm

jacked. Yeah, it's the first time he's like really

taken account. Why? Because your face is red?

What did you say? Yeah, when you're kind of railing

on someone like that and they say something like

that, I don't trust it. Yep, that's not the time

to follow. I'll tell you that. It's time to go

home. Yep. Live to fight another day, soldier.

Mm -hmm. Burn. What a couple of goobery looking

dudes. Yeah. He counts them out. I'm glad he

had to count to three as well. I know, right?

It's like when you're reading a book and it's

like, oh, there were four or five of them. It's

like, you can count to four or five. You don't

realize that thing, very gun -like, is just already

pointing at you and he's sitting there like talking

shit. Oh, I should have made an imprint of him.

Yeah. It's a silhouette of ash. Yeah, that'd

have been good. Oh, boy. I hate that salute.

It's so dumb. It's so dumb. Yeah, me too. It's

like, oh, oh, right. Yeah, that's right. I'm

supposed to say it. I didn't do the arm thing,

though. Sorry. Oh, man. You have no idea how

long. That's a good question. Oh, got him. I

don't have time to read. Those kids would be

very upset if they could read. What are you going

to do about it? Alamogordo. What a name. Dick.

That's rough. Carter's like, I think you're enough.

You're enough, Steve. Scalpel. Mystery man saves

child. We're talking to somebody and I just randomly

said a word to somebody like paper. And they

came up and showed like, what dick? Like, can

I see that paper? How about show them the paper?

Bing, bang, boom. I love it for this. He's got

the original suit. It's so good. And the right

shape shield. Yep. Love it. Oh, this baby. One

of those dancers actually looks like the gal

that got shot in the Agents of S .H .I .E .L

.D. episode. The one in the red dress. Well,

we know that's not true because she's already

dead. Did she die? Maybe not. I don't think she

died. And this is only a few years later. Well,

she's a bad guy. I don't think she's going to

be a go -go dancer for Captain America. You don't

know. She might have reformed. That's fair. I'm

going to crack me up when I'm looking this stuff

up to put it on the site if that's the same gal.

Make whole theories about her, why she's there.

What's going to actually happen is you're going

to realize you're just wrong. Oh, that's probably

exactly what's going to happen. I love it. Hitler

behind. Yeah, that'll show him. Goofy -ass smile

on his face. Those amphitheaters are full of

people going to see that. The 40s, man. What

else are you going to do? That's fair. I don't

care how strong you are. That's really difficult

to balance. Oh. Luckily, in a production like

that, it could just be wires helping him out.

Okay. Cool. Uh... Oh, man. Yeah. We don't see

that guy. You know, I don't think they will.

Well, not until he saves a whole bunch of people.

We never rediscover that Steve is actually a

pretty talented artist. Well, my hands are kind

of tied, but luckily I was brought out here randomly

to dance in front of the soldiers. Mm hmm. Fair,

fair. Spandex. Nothing but spandex. Well, that's

not good odds. Nope. How did he not know that?

I don't feel like anyone's sharing any kind of

information with him. Right. That feels like

something that's very simple that he could have

found out. Like, I'm going to go in front of

a bunch of troops. Who are they? Yeah. Yeah,

you're absolutely right. Weird. Got him. Hey,

you bet I do. She's like, oh, shit, my speech

worked. I'm inspirational. Get this man a shield.

I do love that he wears his uniform. That's kind

of a direct callback, too, because that's how

it used to be. Secret identity. He wore it under

his uni. His uni under his uni. Uniception. Everyone's

got that messy, rained on hair. Yeah, no kidding.

I wish I looked half that good with my hair wet.

It's not. Nope. That's a prop. Star gets it honestly.

Yes, he does. Touch butts. He touches butt. Fondue,

that's what we should call it. Yeah. Hey, girl,

you want a fondue? Boom. Got him. Wow. Yeah.

Got her. Oh, I wouldn't pull my shoes. Oh, I

guess they're pretty close to the ground. How

about the first Avengers movie where he he jumps

out of the plane without a parachute? Yeah, I

think it's the second one when he's jumping down

towards the ship. Hmm. Hmm. Or that might be.

No, no, no, no. He has to jump after Thor because

he takes Loki out of the plane. We'll see. You're

wrong, but you'll see when we get there. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. So whatever movie he's got, he goes

and takes over that whole ship and fights crossbones

on the ship. That's the movie he jumps with no,

with no shoot. I say with confidence, if I'm

wrong, I don't know. I'll give you, I'll give

you 50 cents or something. The more I think about

it, I think you might be right. I know. Oh, boy.

Whee! Woo! He had to hit them pretty hard, and

I'd imagine they had radios. Yep. Luckily, none

of those people looked just a little bit to their

right. Yeah, and didn't hear that sound, huh?

Yeah, I didn't hear him knock someone that was

fully armored, including his head, completely

out with one hit. I feel like he'd be spotted.

That's another one of those instances where the

stealth isn't working like it's supposed to.

Yeah. He's openly running in a field with a giant

American shield on his back. I know. So are those

just leather hats? Because they don't seem to

be doing a damn thing. I think that they're the

opposite of a helmet. I think that they get touched

and just indent on your brain and you're dead

immediately. It's really a design flaw in Hydra's

plan. Yeah. Checks out. Almost got an arc reactor

look to it. Yeah, that's what I was going to

say earlier. When they were showing those, the

scenes with the big round discs they were plugging

the energy into, they looked very arc reactor

-ish. Hey. Hey, firsties. Can you say that again?

No, man. Racism. Yeah, wow. That's dumb, dumb

Dugan. Yeah, he is. Poor man being from Fresno,

though. Oof. Armpit of California. Tell you what.

To all our Fresno listeners, you know it. Embrace

it. Yep. Man, those hats. That guy just got kicked

in the shin. Even sounds like an arc reactor

or the repulsor blasts. Yeah, it does. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Captain America busts in. Oh, yeah. Oh,

yeah. I met that guy. Really? Yeah, Neil. Oh,

God, I've forgotten his last name. Yeah. Anyway,

I met him in Beverly Hills. Nice guy. Somehow

they captured all these guys, but now on the

flip side, they're all getting free and easily

overpowering their captors. Yeah. And I know

there's technology that just doesn't exist in

our world here, but the clarity of those TV screens

for the 40s? For the 40s, yeah. Nah. Nah. I'm

not buying it. Well, Hydra is on a different

level. Those are the clearest TV screens in the

world right now. Yeah. They're using the space

stone to clarify it. Yeah. I like the little

Rolodex countdown or two. Man, I miss when clocks

did that. I used to have an alarm clock that

did that. The actual flipping. Back in my day.

Mm hmm. I feel like I'd have my shield in front

of me. Yeah, well, it's a prop. Just. Just saying.

I mean, it's done something. Everybody's captured.

The only person that's being experimented on

is Bucky. Obviously. Yeah. He's like, Steve,

you're really big. This scene would hit a lot

different if it was the original idea that Bucky

is like a 12 year old. Yeah, that was a weird.

It's a weird. Weird move. The psychics were always

children. Explosions? So you need torque on your

side? Yeah. I got one question for you. Explosions?

The timing. Perfect. How many times is that going

to count down to zero? Well, it was different

switches. Each one was a different area. So he

was clicking them one at a time. So they're each

a couple seconds apart from each other. Fair

enough. Cool shot. Let's send over this fiery

chasm. Yeah. Mustafa. I have the high ground.

Something's wrong with your face, bro. Time for

the big reveal. Face flap. Oh, shit, left a little

scalp on the back. Man, they really could have

made him look terrible, but that is actually

a really good Red Skull. Yeah. Boom. Got him.

The structural integrity of this building is

failing quickly. I don't think I would take the

elevator in a place where everything below me

is exploding. Right. Take my ride. His car reminds

me of, did you ever see the movie League of Extraordinary

Gentlemen? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So good. Oh yeah.

That is one of the best B movies out there. I

love it. Pitting the ace at a hundred yards.

Bloody close. That was my best Connery. Same.

Walk across this. Don't worry about all the explosions

below. It's fine. We're fine. Everything's fine.

You'll be fine. I would be crawling. I would

be shitting myself and dying. That's what I'd

be doing. I mean, probably that at the same time,

but regardless, crawling. Well, I guess I wouldn't

have made it. Yep. I'm dead. This has been a

good run. Yep. I'm a superhero. Don't worry about

it. Don't worry. So from that backshot, it did

not look like he got any air when he jumped.

I'm not certain that that was a good enough reason

to use the term backshot. Get out of here. I

got some things to say. That's right. A lot of

other good men, they were going to be dead anyway,

brother. That's not fair to put on her. POWs

don't always get killed. Okay, fair. His hope

was, he even said it, that they would be freed

once they won the war. So, in his mind. Hey,

everyone, let's go stand here and look. Yeah.

There's that tune. We did it, coach. Is that

the first time we get the full Captain America

theme music? It might be. Or did we get it when

he was coming out of the thing as well? I don't

think so. I didn't catch it. I don't think so

either. I was too busy looking at his pecs to

listen, really, to be fair. Well, obviously,

I was completely distracted as well. But, you

know. I'm surprised we never got a Howling Commandos

movie or show. Agreed. Agreed. That would be

amazing. Well, it couldn't be amazing. Yeah.

Yeah. Because that's what heroes do. Oh, she

wants to kiss him? Bad. She wants fondue. Fondue?

Yeah, look at those hungry eyes. Yeah, she hungry.

She hungry. She hungry. That's awkward. Yeah.

The man himself. Is this our first cameo? I believe

it is. Yes, it is. The first of many. Yeah. Oh,

but you think he is. Open mouth kissing to ensue.

Followed by fondue dipping. Fonduping? No, that's

too much. I said fondue dipping. That's what

you do with fondue. Oh, it's Natalie Dormer.

Yep. You see Tum Tum laughing. What the hell

is he saying? What he said. Hear, hear. Yeah.

Seriously, I would love to see a like Eyes of

Wakanda style cartoon of Howling Commandos would

be incredible. Yeah, that could be something

special. Kind of kills me that the poster behind

him, he's saluting with his left hand, which

is very disrespectful. That's not to question

the official story. I'm just just pointing out.

Yeah, that one. That's not an official salute.

He's given the two finger thing. That does make

it better or worse. Oh, my. She knew what she

was doing, getting dressed up before she walked

in there. Oh, absolutely. Eyes up, Steve. Bucky,

go away. Nice. This isn't about you. She does

not. Well. Mm -hmm. He wasn't wearing glasses,

was he? Yep. He sure wasn't. Man, that guy's

got no more eyes. All that glass? Nah. Lady Tyrell

hitting on Kat. It's pretty good. Timing. Not

looking for that right partner anymore, huh?

Oh, you thinking something? Yeah. Once again,

how very Starkian of him. Yeah, that's right.

Look at that goofy ass little tie he's got going

on. Yeah, it's fat and short. As in the background,

we see that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Eyes on Wakanda.

Eyeballing it. Episode five. Getting the shield

back from camp. She feels better now. Oh, man.

I love her. She's such a good character. Now

he wants fondue. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I really appreciate

that they made that star on his back actually

utilitarian holding straps and stuff. That was

pretty cool. Yep. It's a small costume details.

Bye. Here's this. Put it in the little box of

gone places. Needs a helmet made out of vibranium,

too. Oh, man. Just that one guy. Poor fellow.

I got it, coach. Jeez. That's a hell of an explosion.

Yeah. A lot of bang in that buck. Uh -oh. Boom,

headshot. See, that was the right hand. Whoops.

Damn, that is a hell of a tank. Yeah. His outfit's

super awesome, too. They really did the skull,

the red skull justice here. Yeah, they really

did. I really appreciate the character design.

From the acting, you know, the actor to the outfit

to how the skull looks, all of it, just top notch.

Yeah, 100 % agree. And that's one thing about

Marvel casting. Nailed it. Every single movie,

I think they nailed their characters. Yeah. Fox,

not as much, but Marvel specifically. Fantastic.

Well. Fox Shade starting early. Oh, hey, man,

when you cast Halle Berry as Storm, you've already

written off that you care. What happens to a

toad when it's struck by lightning? Same thing

that happens to everything else. Oh, man. Stupidest

line in Marvel. Oh, that wasn't her, to be fair.

Someone told her to say that. I'm not saying

that it's her fault, but she was not a good storm

to begin with. And then there was that line.

Let me put my hat on. How does the devil move?

Quickly, evidently. Bugs. Rabbit season. He just

dropped right in front of, oh, I guess that's

just a roof, sunroof. Looked like the glass where

they'd be looking out. Yeah, if anybody's in

any of those, they definitely just see them.

Those are windows. Yeah. I don't think I'd like

to be on the stay on top of the train duty. No,

no hard pass, although I mean, spoilers. That's

not the one that loses it, though. I mean, yeah,

to be fair, inside the train is worse, but I'm

just not going to the train at all. I'll stay

up here and watch. Yeah, I'll hold the rope from

the top. Yeah, I'm the rope holding guy. Zola.

It's almost got the Hydra stomper design. Yeah,

yeah. I would hazard a guess and say that's what

they were going for. Oh, I'm sure. Luckily, that

zip line's on the roof. Very useful. Bucky, a

metal arm would come in handy right here. Yeah.

My pistola. Boom. Headshot. Glad that a single

shield hit to his chest completely incapacitated.

He's done. It's over. Oh, Bucks. Well, he'll

be fine. This is awkward. Don't worry, Steve.

We have a little bit of future information here.

Nope, the on top of the train guy managed to

find his way up there. Why do they even go in

sideway back there when they could have just

went in through that window the whole time? Right.

We'd still have Bucky. That's a lot of looking

at that spigot right there. Right. Looks cozy.

Yeah, it's everything you need. A bed and a spigot.

And blood. A little bit of blood on the floor.

You think someone came in with a dropper just

to put just a couple drops, just make sure he

sees it and this will freak him out. He just

turned it to where the cup was nearest to him.

That's a glass of milk. That's upsetting. It

really is. The steak with a glass of milk. Unacceptable.

See, see, he just moved it to the proper spot.

Why did he keep putting it closest to the net?

That's silly. I feel like that's a hand that

you made yourself. I don't like that. Not really.

It's not great. Everyone put your masks on. It's

time to go to work. Don't do the stupid salute.

No, they're gonna. I know. You're absolutely

right. They killed it with his costume. Yeah.

No, we've met Valkyrie. She has nothing to do

with this. Nope. Nope. She is a long ways away.

Probably already drunk. Here it is. God damn

it. Just for you. Everyone. I wonder how many

versions of that they had to do that. Nope, still

too Nazi. Still pretty bad. This is too close.

Well, they're supposed to be sort of an offshoot

of Nazism. Oh, I know they are. Absolutely. I

don't think they necessarily care that they're

adjacent here because they're the bad guys and

they're supposed to be. Well, sure. Sure. But

you don't want to straight up put the Nazi salute

in your Disney movie. Not for lack of trying.

What a bummer of a side effect. That's true.

He would have to be eating a ton of food. I mean,

we don't see anyone. He might be. That's true.

They don't show him. When he goes to the shawarma

place later, he has a normal amount of shawarma.

I mean, that's left. I want four shawarmas, please.

It's kind of like a plate piled to the ceiling.

I like Bucky in Winter Soldier as a character.

I think it's a great storyline, but that fall,

the way they showed it, nobody. Nobody would

have survived that. His his skull was crushed

against the side of the mountain. Sorry, that's

terrible. But not only from the fall, but the

train was also moving. It passes the devil speeds

to start with. Right. So we don't see Natalie

Dormer ever again. I think Carter had her transferred.

Or killed. She did it herself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's like, here, hold this shield that Cap used

to use. Let me test it. Really cool motorcycles.

The forest moon of Endor. Same vibe. These guys

are going to fall out the same way. Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. Whoops. That's one. It definitely used

that in Jedi. I don't remember a flame. Oh, that

was the Wilhelm scream. Yep. Found it. Yep. That's

so messed up. Just leave your grenade sitting

there just ready to be pulled. Oh, that's great.

Jesus. Some strong artillery on that bike. My

head can't as it's Stark tech. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Stark Tech keeping that bike upright, too. Yeah.

Hey, guys, we got our guns. Let's all charge

him. So dumb. Do we want to aim at him? No, let's

make a ring of fire. Bring it in, bring it in.

Well, would they give him the I want him alive

speech? They must have. Mm hmm. No wonder they

were charging with their guns. Yeah. Fair, fair.

Percival, how dare you? You're right, but how

dare you? No, he's right. He's right. What is

that line that Falcon says? Look, he's out of

line. He's right, but he's out of line. planet.

Must not like Brooklyn. Yeah. Got him. Schedule.

Good timing, Commandos. Sorry, man. If I'm Skull,

I'm pulling the trigger no matter what. Yeah.

Don't look. Don't take the time. It's almost

as bad as monologuing. I wonder if the commandos

part of their training is frisbee throwing just

so that they can give the captain his shield

back. Absolutely. They have an ultimate team.

Checks. That's what they do in their spare time.

No. Invented in World War Two. And I guess with

these test rat guns, at least you disappear like

you're gone immediately. There's no pain. It's

you just dead. Far as you know. Well, what's

really happening is they're eating them to that

dimension, the sky dimension from Khori. Oh,

my God. They're all just there now. Right. The

sky world's just filling up with Hydra soldiers.

Oh, shit. That's not good. That would make a

lot of sense for the space zone. Honestly, it

doesn't actually kill them. It just takes them

somewhere. I was. Yeah. The second you said that,

I'm like, shit, that actually could be teleporting

them to someplace fairly easily. Yeah, that man

is on fire. That's the most common trope ever

with the fire guys is shoot them in their tank.

Yep. Weren't you about to touch my butt? Weren't

you about to fondue? Weren't you about to fondue

right here? A swivel chair. That looked like

fun, dude. Yeah, I know. It looked like he could

have kept on going. Yeah, he could have. He's

got stuff to do, though. In the world and stuff.

Zio. What does Zio mean? Hey, the front of that

ship looks familiar. Have we seen that already,

this movie? Maybe. You didn't hear that coming

up? Come on, Cap. Pay attention. It's like in

my car. Yeah. What's this button do? Push the

little red button. That's Tommy Lee Jones. Remember

that little red button? Push the little red button.

He's done this before. Oh, that's so good. Oh,

my. I'll see you again in 70 years. Yeeks. Like,

you just scratched my car, you son of a bitch.

He's about to nuke the world or whatever. I don't

think he's overly worried about it. Oh, oh, so

close. Yeah. And yeet! Off the side. That would

have been an unsatisfactory way for that to have

ended. Right. I would not be standing. It's hanging

off. Yeah. Get out. It's time to go. It seems

like a bad idea. He labeled all of them. That's

so messed up. New York City. Oh, man. Pace Picante.

Nice. Oh, man, that poor guy. Mm hmm. This guy

gets his switchblade out. That's not a knife.

Oh, no. Everyone else is getting the knocked

out treatment. That guy got a knife to the back.

Yeah. He just dropped a bomb somewhere. I think

they're over the ocean. So, you know, a bunch

of fish. They've not been flying that long. I

mean, maybe. Lucky that didn't fall out. Well,

he fell out. Let's try spinning. That's a good

trick. How you doing, Bob? Nice. Oh, God. God,

I totally forgot about that. Man, that's tough.

That is so brutal. Bye. I've got to be really

uncomfortable without a seat. Yeah. Sitting on

it. Wait, doesn't the joystick go with an engine?

I guess these could be designed. You know, this

is a hydroplane. That's not real. It could be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hydroplanes come quick with

two ejecting seats just in case something goes

sideways. Obviously. That ship design is pretty

rad, though, actually. It really is. Man, crashing

a bomb like that into it. I know. Lucky. Like

how big of an impact do you need for this thing

to actually blow up? That's the neat part. It

doesn't blow up. That's my secret cap. That's

my secret captain. I don't blow up. What kind

of bomb are you? Nope. Ugh. Let's wrestle. Yeah.

Super Soldier Wrestling. I'd pay to see that.

Right? S -S -W -E? Yeah, there you go. Oof. Oh,

I bet his skull feels real gross. My skull is

red so they can't see when I bleed. I should

have worn my brown pants. It's like that. Was

that the plane they take people up into? Yeah.

Yeah. Yep. The vomit comment, I think it's what's

called. Oh, man. You have to say it. You are

welcome. It's not a flag, it's just a star, bro.

I mean, no flags does kind of sound nice, but

not this way. 100 % agree, but yeah, with you.

Not by blowing up everybody. Yeah, let's try

a different method, shall we? That's the first

time he actually touched it. Yeah. See you on

Vormir. Hello, space. Hello, space. The power

of the sun in the palm of your hand. Yeah, he's

getting sent to Vormir. Yep, yep, yep. Not even

a hole on the roof of that plane. You see that?

Zip. Zip. It's like alien blood. That wooden

box back in Norway held that thing, but that

metal grate couldn't handle it. Nah, that must

have been lined with vibranium or something.

Special wooden box. Mm -hmm. Wood from the branch

of Yggdrasil itself. That would probably do it.

dead, technically. Well, he doesn't know that.

That's true. Can't you, like, steer it, you know,

hard bank it? Yeah, anywhere else. Like, it's

letting you fly it, obviously, if you put it

down the ocean. Right, you know. Bank hard left,

then start to die. Fly around in circles until

it's out of gas. But if he did what made sense,

we wouldn't have the stories we have today. That's

true. You know, and if I were him, honestly,

I probably would have tried to do at least a

loop. Yeah, something. You know, pull it straight

up, let that thing stall out, have fun with it

at least. Or like you said, aim it down at the

ocean, then just go out and jump out. Yeah, why

he stayed aboard, I don't even know. Well, because

he had to. He did not. One might say Cap ending

up in this ice is a Nexus event. One might. Well,

I think the Nexus event is him. Yeah, I suppose

the Nexus event is his getting the serum. But

this is kind of important. Tomato, cucumber.

Oh, I'll teach you the tango. We'll teach you

a horizontal dance. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Remember

that time you told him to go away, Tommy Lee

Jones? Bet you feel bad now. You jerk. Oh, man.

Didn't even embed itself. Didn't even, I mean,

it's not even in the water. It's in ice. Now,

I don't know if you know how physics works. I

feel like they could have tried to recover that.

But a plane, well, they did. Did they? Howard,

yeah, Howard went and looked for it. Couldn't

find the ship, but did find the Tesseract. That's

how we get all the events that happen later.

Oh, you're absolutely right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

they couldn't figure out where he landed. See?

I'd forgotten. It's been a minute. Nothing to

say now? Mm -hmm. A little scrawny Steve. Scrawny

Steve. Ew, I don't want this one. Can you get

me an updated one? Yeah. And superheroes were

born. That's right. And we're back with the wind.

Brand new game again. Get it? I... Yes. It's

the slowest fan ever, not doing a damn thing

for that room. Yeah, well, you know. It's not

really a functional room. It's built specifically

to make you not confused for a minute. Yeah.

I was at that game. All the effort they went

through to make this room happen and then to

not go back. I know. And make sure that they

did a game that wasn't didn't already happen

that he could possibly know about. Or have attended.

Yeah. He's looking at her like, nah, your ties

too long. Yeah. I know how ties are supposed

to look. Uh, uh, line please. Yeah, you think

just saying something would go a long way other

than calling in the goons. Right. Everyone just

starts sprinting at him. Like, hey man, can we

just talk for a minute? I know this is confusing.

Looking at all these brands, I wonder how much

each of these brands paid to be in this. Hey,

good old Nick. Huh. Well. That's a pretty big

bomb to drop. Yeah, no. Yeah. No. I'm not OK.

There's billboards. Some homeless guy just peed

on me. I want you. All right, folks, we will

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and enjoy this episode of Stark Industries. Hello,

ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the deep

dive for our first... We just watched Captain

America, the first Avenger. John, if you want

to go ahead and tell us what that was about.

So we get the quintessential beginning, I think,

of all of superheroes with Captain America. You

know, I think we've done a little things in a

specific order here. And we've seen some things

that might be considered heroes that happened

before this. But really and truly, in the grand

scheme of Marvel, this is what started everything

in terms of everything that we have today. So

we get to see that on the big screen, and it's

really, really exciting to go in. We start out,

and you see the scene where these researchers

find a downed plane in the ice. A little bit

of mystery around who or what, but ultimately

you get to see frozen solid there, Captain's

shield. Then we immediately jump back in time

to where the setting of the movie actually takes

place, and we have... Steve in his very small

form, trying to enlist for the army, getting

turned down. We have the introduction of Bucky,

who is in stark contrast, I think, to the original

material. This big soldier, you know, example

of a man compared to Steve in this case, who

is small and scrawny and unable to get in kind

of thing. And they're kind of going through stuff.

We get to get to see the first looks at some

of the stark tech in the. MCU proper, we'll say,

for purposes, with Howard Stark putting on a

show at a big expo. And during here, they have

a conversation between Bucky and Steve where

he wants to sign up again, even though he's falsifying

his enlistment papers and everything else. And

he just wants to do the right thing. He wants

to be a good guy. And fortunately for all of

us, Dr. Erskine hears this conversation. And

when Steve goes to try to enlist one more time,

Erskine is there to... sort of intercept him

and gives them the little test. Do you want to

go kill Nazis? And just the great line, I think,

that sits with me since I saw this movie the

first time. I don't want to kill anyone. I just

don't like bullies, you know. So good. Really,

really well said. And so we see him. He sort

of enlists. He goes in. He starts some basic

training on this SSR project, the Strategic Scientific

Reserve Project. We get to see Agent Carter here

for the first time as well. And it's clear that,

you know, Steve in this form, you know, where

he is, even though he is hand selected almost

to be here by Erskine, is leaps and bounds below

all the other men here who were trying out for

this program. And ultimately, they're only picking

one to take the serum that Erskine has developed,

which was going to be the first test in this,

you know, this sort of program to create an entire

legion of these super soldiers to go and fight.

during World War II. Man, can you even imagine?

I know. So crazy. So we get to the scene where

Steve is ultimately picked and he goes in to

take the serum. It's a big lab sort of setting

and onlookers that include members of the SSR

and some of the US government who were there.

And we get to see the transformation sort of

live and everything where he takes the serum.

And his body is transformed into this hero, you

know, this heroic stature. And immediately things

kind of go sideways from there where an undercover

HYDRA agent who had infiltrated this viewing

room causes an explosion, kills Erskine and attempts

to escape. Steve, with all of his new abilities,

is able to capture him. And unfortunately, no

information is gathered as he pops a cyanide

tooth pill and... That's that. So it's all confusing

what's going on. But we have a little bit of

information as we continue about Schmidt, the

Red Skull. But ultimately, as all this kind of

goes down, Steve is sent off to be a song and

dance boy to sell bonds rather than using his

abilities. And luckily for all of us and his

fate would have it, eventually he does end up

towards the front lines trying to do this performance

for soldiers who all kind of make fun of him,

shoo him away. But he learns that. The 107th,

which is part of where Bucky was shipped off

to, had been captured behind enemy lines. And

Steve decides to, with a little bit of nudge

from Agent Carter, to go and try to rescue them.

And ultimately is successful, does so, and gets

everyone out, including Bucky. They get the first

meeting between he, Red Skull, and Arnim Zola

is there as well. And he gets this, luckily as

well, this look at this map that sort of shows

Hydra bases. So they've got a plan. All while

this is happening, Schmidt and Zola on the other

end are using the Tesseract, the Cosmic Cube,

the Space Stone, all interchangeable names here

that we'll find out later, that Red Skull took

earlier in the film to create weapons. wipe everything

off the face of the earth and sort of start over

fresh. This is even above and beyond the German

sort of rhetoric of the war and is ultimately,

because of that, a much bigger threat, which

is kind of hard to believe as Axis powers were

a big threat in their own right. So these things

are happening kind of behind the scenes, but

they're slowly sort of unplugging everything

and learning it as they're going to base to base

and blowing up these hydro facilities. Cap and

the Howling Commandos, Dum -Dum Dugan is there,

which is an awesome character, one of my favorites.

It's cool to see him and everything. And ultimately,

it all kind of comes to a pinnacle as they do

sort of one last mission to capture Zola, successfully

so, but Bucky falls from the train that they

capture him from into a chasm very far below,

seemingly killed from the fall. Though, spoiler,

we know better. Somehow he survived. Zola gives,

yeah, well, you know, somehow he survived. There's

no body, there's no death. That's always been

a trope in pretty much every bit of media ever.

So Zola ends up turning, wanting to live more

so than wanting to take a cyanide tooth pill,

like some of the other agents that have been

captured, gives up the plan. And so they have

one last thing to do, and that's to stop the

Red Skull for good. They have a big sort of fight

as he is taking off this plane. which is, as

we've already seen earlier in the film, the same

plane that they find on the ice later that is

loaded to the brim with bombs, all labeled for

the different cities that they're going to go

destroy completely. Steve is able to get on said

plane and ultimately, after doing battle with

the Red Skull one -on -one, defeats him in a

manner of speaking as he grabs the space stone

and is sort of zapped away from reality. We do

have the luxury of knowing what happens later,

but we'll get there. Yeah, well, you know what

I mean. This reality at the very least. And the

cube falls to the floor of the ship into the

ocean below. This plane, Steve's unable to stop

it. It's going towards the mainland to drop these

bombs. So he makes the decision to put this into

the ice to save everyone. We have the touching

moment between he and Agent Carter where they

sort of solidify this romance that had been building

along the film as well, only for it to be ended

abruptly as he goes under. No fondue to speak

of. No fondue. We then fast forward back to the

present day where Steve is sort of laying in

a bed, this baseball game on, everything sort

of old timey. It turns out very quickly that

this is all a farce as he was at that game and

realizes that. It can't be a live game that he's

listening to. He pushes some people out of the

way and runs outside and sees modern day New

York much different than what he was accustomed

to, for sure. And then we get the first introduction

in this temporal watch through of Nick Fury as

well, who comes to him and sort of explains to

what happens. And we also, to wrap it all up,

have our first after credit scenes here where

Fury comes to Steve and presents him with the

mission. It's sort of left on a cliffhanger.

We, of course, know that that first mission is

going to be the events of the first Avengers

movie, which will get there. But that's what

happened. That's the that's the the breakdown

of the plot. And in terms of how this ties into

the MCU at large, in every way imaginable, I

mean, is the MCU. Yeah, this this I mean, this

is the MCU in terms of how it all kinds of. and

grew to where it was today, we get to see Stark,

which we know directly relates to Iron Man later,

you know, and leads to everything. Working with

and being part of Captain America's story, we

get to see Cap himself, which of course is a

big, huge part. We get to see Bucky, which is

a big, huge part, not only to the Avengers in

general, but now the new Avengers, you know,

that we have through the Thunderbolts timeline

and everything else. Like he is a prominent part,

Senator Barnes later on. Just everything else

that ties in. We get to see Fury coming in and

S .H .I .E .L .D. being involved, which we just

got to touch on a little bit on the last couple

of episodes with the Agents of S .H .I .E .L

.D. show going back in time. So all of this sort

of is coalescing and finally kicking off to all

the branches that ultimately will lead to the

complete timeline that we have today. I mean,

I don't think there's much in this movie that

doesn't tie in in some way. Kind of funny, we've

now seen three directors of S .H .I .E .L .D.

in our limited 10 episodes or 11 episodes yeah

that's true so yeah i mean i said the tie -ins

are pretty much endless here in terms of how

it all goes i would say uh to a certain extent

without some retconning and rewriting the mcu

doesn't exist without this as we sort of know

and understand it how about uh of course uh tie

-ins with the comics itself as this is i said

the first avenger in more ways than one Yeah,

yeah. So there are quite a few tie -ins, of course.

As far as comic roots are concerned, this obviously

pulls from Captain America number one, which

cover dated in 1941, was actually released in

December of 1940. But while the original roots

are very golden age, the actual characterizations

of Steve and Bucky are more drawn from the 2005

run of Ed Brubaker's Captain America. What you

were saying about Bucky being significantly larger

and everything like that, that's from that run.

So the Bucky that we know, the sidekick, the

young kid, very much Golden Age. Yeah, exactly.

So that's the difference there. As far as the

film's conclusion, where Rogers is recovered

from the ice, that's actually pulled from Avengers

number four, 1964. And of course, we have the

wonderful Howling Commandos, which had their

own run, starting with, of course. Sergeant Fury

and his Howling Commandos, number one in 1963.

So those are the big pull -ins. Of course, there

is a ton of other stuff, it being Captain America.

There's so much to pull from, but those are the

big four that I noticed. And as far as Easter

eggs are concerned, we, of course, just a few

of them that I'm going to pull out is the Shape

of the Shield, the original outfit. Of course,

those are fantastic pulls from the comics. The

first time we see Dr. Zola, he's he's seen through

that kind of obscure the warped fish eye lens

and that's kind of fun because we get to see

him as that character later So a big old Easter

egg there. Then, of course, we get our very first

Stanley cameo. He shows up as a general and drops

the I thought he'd be taller line, which is a

great Hollywood trope that can be found in virtually

every franchise out there. So that's a lot of

fun. And finally, I wanted to throw out, which

I found out that John has never seen The Rocketeer,

which is just mind blowing to me. But the director,

Joe Johnson, also directed The Rocketeer. And

aesthetically, you can very much feel the DNA

from that movie bleeding into this one. And I

just I adore that movie. And of course, I adore

this one as well. So all in all, John, what are

your thoughts? Well, since you just decided to

publicly shame me about a movie I haven't seen.

I think I'll return the favor a little bit, especially

for those who just joined us from the watch party

where Remy argued with me up and down that in

the first Avenger movies, Cap jumped out of the

plane without a parachute to join the fight between

Thor and Iron Man. And we've done a little bit

of research and that is just simply not true.

So maybe the first of not so many times, but

I'll savor it while I can. where he is just blatantly

wrong about something. But yeah, overall thoughts.

I mean, this is one of my favorite MCU movies.

It always has been. It's well -written. It's

well -acted. It's, you know, the action scenes

are great. I love that Bucky is not a child.

That's, you know, it just, why would a child

be on the front line? It just, none of it makes

sense. You know, I love that Steve's identity

is not secret here either. Yeah, that's that's

kind of neat. I know that was a big trope back

in sort of the original formations of a lot of

comic books is that everyone had a secret identity.

I like that this, you know, everyone knows who

Captain Rogers is and Captain America being interchangeable.

Love that. The plot, like I said, amazing the

way it ties into the MCU. Well done. The romance

between Steve and Carter. Amazing. We get to

see some of that kind of continue to play out

in the various films and things as time goes

on. Just everything, seeing the Howling Commandos

in action, very, very cool. You know, seeing

Stark Tech happen, seeing Howard be able to do

stuff and getting a little bit of that nod pre

-RDJ and his Iron Man run and everything else,

just all very good. I really don't have any complaints

about this movie. I can't think of anything they

could have done better. Yeah. You know, in terms

of things that I'm just like, why? You know,

but. Except for that stupid salute. I hate that

salute. Well, yeah. The Hydra salute is just

the stupidest thing ever. But, you know. Anyway,

how about you? I'll echo everything you said.

I absolutely love this movie. The everything

from the costume design, the music, the it's

just it's so well made. And for this to be one

of the first, what, the third? Of the big Marvel

tentpole movies to come out. Just so well done.

And Chris Evans as Cap is perfect. Hayley Atwell.

I just really, really well cast. Really, really

well acted. And like you, I have absolutely no

criticisms of this movie. Not to mention it does

hold a very special place in my heart because

it was mine and my wife's first date. So, you

know, big fan. Big fan all around. And I just

love everything about this movie. And like you,

it's one of my all time favorites. I will never

not want to watch this movie. Absolutely. All

right. Yeah, that's that. So our first movie

in the books and folks, we are so looking forward

to the rest of this journey. I'm having such

a good time. Absolutely. We hope you are, too.

Yeah. So we will see you in the next one. Thank

you for joining us in this episode of the Snark

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