And here I dreamt I was a soldier

[sovay]

I hate commercials; I try to avoid them at all costs. I also hate trailers, because even the ones for halfway decent movies now run well past the premise and into the second plot twist, which seems to defeat the entire purpose of a first act. But I do watch The Daily Show, and I don't know what flicker of color or image it was that got me to look up from my laptop and turn the sound back on, but I thought, You know, this actually looks like an interesting story. World War II America, this clever, undersized, determined kid who's been rejected by five different draft boards until a German-accented stranger offers him the chance to help the war effort in a top-secret way—so who's he going to end up with? The OSS? The SIS? Some department I've never . . .

. . . no, apparently it's Captain America.

That's the best trailer I've seen in years. I don't even care about the mythos and I might have to see this film. It could have been a straight-up historical drama until things started glowing.

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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Not been paying attention to that one, but the Captain America origin story is one of the stronger ones (I think) in comics. And one not retold 40 times by now, which is a bit of a plus.

[sovay]

Not been paying attention to that one,

I hadn't even registered there was a film coming out, or I'd have picked up on the trailer sooner. Seriously, I like that it didn't telegraph superhero universe! from its opening frames; that bodes well for its worldbuilding.

but the Captain America origin story is one of the stronger ones (I think) in comics. And one not retold 40 times by now, which is a bit of a plus.

I don't actually know much more about it than the whole super-soldier deal. The director was responsible for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), which is not reassuring, but my vague memories of The Rocketeer (1994) indicate he might know what to do with the time period.