That hit me. I thought it was bit at first. I am going through the same thing and always thought James and Claire were like an ediface. It was treated like a bit ... and then it was true. It made me sad.
Loving the fact that the guy who has brought up how hard it is to climb a rope just randomly says how easy it’d be to climb a flag pole. Like I know climbing a rope is harder but still I love James’s confidence
@@ThreadBomb But to consider him a Saint, yes. Either that or like orthodox. Otherwise he's just Peter. But the only reason I said catholic is because James has mentioned that he was./is (i'm not sure which)
I'll always appreciate the dedication of doing a full WW2 origin movie, as it is kind of a double-edged sword that you make this great movie with this great cast of characters, but your doing it with the knowledge that you'll never be able to go back to them in this same way ever again. It goes a long way to make the audience feel the pronounced loneliness Cap will have to deal with for the rest of the series.
@@SirAsdfIt does, and I think it works to the MCU's benefit, especially when he does go back at the very end of Endgame. They crafted an arc that worked across movie series.
Chris Evans' outside the box, pulling the pin out of the flag pole mentality was established in sunshine when he went against the grain by Freezing to death in a movie about people burning to death.
@@li-limandragon9287 yea I wasn't expecting that turn. Went a bit event horizon towards the end. Who knew the sun turns you mad. Don't look at the sun kids!
one of the most underrated semi-miracles of the MCU is that somehow, the three captain america films are either Good to Very Good, retain a consistent vibe and tone *and* fit as key entries in the franchise-series. Like, man, they can't even do that with Iron Man. They can barely do that with Superman and Batman when it's just one visionary
Not really. IMO the first one is so-so. The second one is better, but like so many elaborate plots, unwinds by the end. And the third is just Avengers minus Hulk.
@cejannuzi I respect your opinion but they are factually good films. Their review scores for audiences and critics are mostly positive. Not my favourites but undeniably good films.
18:31 A fucking Zach and Cody movie reference (in the year 2025) immediately into a Spiderman 2 “my back” is the top tier editing an expect from this channel. Give your editors a raise! I’m crying 🤣
It’s funny how he was created to be a PR tool, but realised he could be, and was, so much more. And seeing the alternative road, where he remained a PR tool, is basically The Boys
@@BallNscrOatesYeah but only because none of the good guys knew about it. The Avengers dismantle most of the big military Hydra bases within a year, and then S.H.I.E.L.D. took about two more years to destroy the rest of their assets.
You sure you're not just thinking of the 25+ references they've made talking about the the straight to TV Movie in the 90s where super human Steve Rogers feigns illness *twice* to steal a car?
I chuckled at the editor putting in a American football post, when James was talking about an Aussie rules football post. I'm so glad we got footage of the attempt at least.
I don't know who this Maddie person is, I'm assuming also British like Laurence, since that's where Ben lives. But the fact that they didn't put an ACTUAL football goal and instead put the American one is inspired
There are only 3 absolutely iconic final moments in MCU movies. Tony’s “I am iron man” moment, Steve’s “I had a date” line, and of course the dance between Peggy and Steve to cap off endgame.
From what I’ve seen, the main reason why Evans was reluctant to be cap was because they wanted him to commit to so many projects and he was worried how it would affect his life but Sarah Finn and Feige really wanted him and he was eventually convinced. And he’s since called it the best decision of his life and that it would have been a huge mistake to turn it out down. And he’s also stated that he loves the character and thinks of him to be a very valuable and meaningful character in the modern world. Looking forward to seeing him again.
He really is. The fact that a character called Captain America, whose stereotype in the public was of a jingoistic warrior, became a beloved figure worldwide, including in countries whose state media is explicitly anti-American is a massive triumph in defining what Cap is. Kudos to Johnston, the Russos, and Whedon (bad bloke, look it up) for defining Cap as a good man above everything else.
@ And Cap had been like that in the comics for a long while but I’m glad that the creatives involved were able to represent the character correctly to general audiences.
I don't know why you're assuming he's gonna be Steve Rogers in Doomsday. RDJ is in it and he's not playing Iron Man. He's almost certainly going to be playing someone else.
One of my favourites of the MCU ! The New York city chase was filmed in Central Manchester. My wife could see the greenscreens from her office window. When Cap runs round the corner, he emerges in Liverpool docks, a jump of about 35 miles.
FINALLY! Cap's my favorite superhero ever, and these movies really helped cement him as my childhood hero, as I watched them while I was growing up! In my opinion, Cap's trilogy is arguably the best trilogy from the MCU, rivaled closely by the GOTG.
23:57 I'd have loved someone yelling in the background "Hey Logan! Over here!" And then we see the back of a gruff looking army dude walking towards the voice smoking a cigar
I remember I was 6 when this came out and it was the first movie that I was like "I need to see this in theaters", and it just so happens to be my favorite Phase 1 movie
When I was a kid I irrationally didn’t like Cap because he had (barely any in retrospect) red in his costume and I thought he was boring. I didn’t want to see the movie. When I walked out of the theater I was saluting the audience, my dad bought me a Captain America shield, pajamas, bedspread, etcetera. When I thought he was going to die in Endgame I cried for the last forty five minutes of the movie. Captain America is my guy. I love this movie, love this trilogy. And my other favorite superheroes are the Flash and Daredevil so the red thing makes no sense.
I’ve got the reverse. I thought Cap was pretty cool pre-MCU. Liked him in this movie and Winter Soldier, hate him by the time of Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame. His hypocrisy and selfish actions are awful but so many people will act like he can do wrong. Comic Cap is worse sure, but not by too much.
@@li-limandragon9287I mean I think all of that is pretty clear and on the surface, it’s just that he tries to do better. Essentially I disagree with your take but I understand it.
@@johnskrip7174I really don’t see a lot of the “trying” tho. Endgame is just him throwing in the towel and leaving the guy he betrayed his friends and kept murder secret for high and dry so he can get back with a woman who had moved on in her own series. I love Chris Evans, but Cap himself comes off worse than Tony or Wanda in the end.
@@li-limandragon9287 Their writers wrecked the character. But I think it was also to avoid making another big star like RDjr that they would have to pay so much money to.
I'm surprised that a lot of people thought this one was just okay, because it's one of my favorite MCU movies. Then again, I also love The Rocketeer and the 616 comics version of Cap. The writers and Chris Evans have really nailed Steve's brave, but kindhearted personality. Thank God they weren't as inspired by Mark Millar's Ultimate version except in terms of the costumes.
Anybody else hear the story about how when Matt Salinger was Cap, he was better than the stuntmen at throwing the shield, which he claimed was from playing Ultimate Frisbee in his youth? He said at one point he was supposed to throw the shield "as close as he could" to an approaching motorbike, with plans to fake the impact in a later shot, but instead he hit the bike head on and sent the stuntman over the handlebars. I have no idea why I know that, but it's all from some interview I read when I was a kid that's still with me now.
Sunshine is the greatest movie I've ever seen! I saw it right when Chris Evans was first announced as Captain America, and we all rolled our eyes, but then me and my friends watched Sunshine for the first time, and we were like "yes! That man can save America!"
I think I would’ve been more upset with how dc was handling Superman if I didn’t have captain America in the 2010’s. Evans is on the same level as Christopher reeve for me, both able to play sincere paragons of virtue so perfectly.
I never understand why he didn't give the shield to Bucky, like his childhood best friend, WW2 comrade and fellow super soldier? A bit of a sick burn on Steve Rogers part?
Some of the things that Neal McDonough was called on Justified that will always stick with me: “Looks like an albino deer.” “Looks like he shits blonde.” “Looks like a husky sled dog.” “Has a big, stupid baby head.”
In the Captain America video game, it's explained that Cap can figure out the geometry of his throws so that he can ensure that the shield comes back to him
I really appreciate you guys mentioning "Sunshine" as it's one of my favorite sci-fi films ever. I remember seeing Captain America shortly after it first came out and thinking "meh". Decided to revisit it last year and enjoyed it a lot. I'm really burnt out on comic book movies but it was a super solid action adventure film set during WWII that is well shot, well acted by a great cast and is a lot of fun. It's also my favorite CA suit.
I love Joe Johnston so much. Captain America, October Sky, The Rocketeer... when you want strong characters and you want to feel something at the movies, you hire Joe. ❤
I have a head canon for Cap's timetravel. What if the universe we're watching is ALREADY an alternate timeline created by another group of Avengers who had the same plan, so the Cap we see at the end of Endgame is technically a different Cap who just also did the same thing. And the husband Peggy has is that alternate Cap and that's how they both existed in the same timeline (until our Cap went back in time, starting the process again in a new timeline) There's no way the writers actually put this much thought into it, but I like the idea.
They're pretty fast and lose with the time travel / dimension hopping rules, but _my_ general rule for this sort of thing is the universe *is* the things that happen in it; you can't have two different universes where the same things happened for the same reason you can't have two different shades of red that are the same color, it's oxymoronic. That's the easiest way to make sense of timelines branching when you make a change, and it's the only way I know of to make sense of preventing that branching by going back again and undoing the change. Honestly the only real problems with the Peggy had always married Endgame Steve is how did the time loop get set up, and why didn't he do anything about all the bad stuff he knows about - funnily enough they might cancel out if he figured that doing anything he knows he didn't do would break the loop and he wouldn't go back to marry Peggy, though I'm a bit iffy on that (it makes the "what counts as a change big enough to count as a branch" problem *way* worse)
I Saw The Rocketeer as a kid and I didn't realize that this was by the same director. That explains the similar beats.. that is to say this is a great self-contained action adventure period film. When you eventually can feature the character without even wearing a mask anymore as in End-Game you know you've done a great job!
Cap had been a great character in the comics for a very long time so I’m glad that the creatives involved were able to show general audiences that with the Evans version.
I would say iron man 1 feels like an actual movie it's quite self contained outside of the post credit scene which back in rhe day was a genuine suprise so Kuch so that people left the cinema before seeing that part because they didn't know until told later.
The time travel different button thing kind of is real. According to the completely nonsense MCU time travel rules, it only creates new timelines when when the Infinity Stones are involved, so once he returned all of them he time travelled within the same timeline. The button thing would probably have been more concincing, actually.
So glad that we’re back in Mr. Sunday’s stunt era!
I'm hoping next week He Kicks Mason off a boat.
He was so close to the top of the pole🥲
Mr Stuntbag movies
Right on time for the new Mission Impossible!
James in his Mission impossible 2 climbing outfit flashbacks
the flagpole bit is an all-time best
“🎶Let’s get down to bus-iness…🎶”
Why does Mason sound more Australian when he's outside?
@@FPSNecromancerBob they get empowered by the sun
@@FPSNecromancerBobBecause Maso puts on a podcast voice and James doesn't
So gd funny. I don't know why but I expected him to be able to do it. I really did.
Mason responding to James's "I really thought this would go better" with just a simple "why?" is too good.
The divorced dad era begins. What a clever choice of movie to pivot this channel to WW2 content.
That hit me. I thought it was bit at first. I am going through the same thing and always thought James and Claire were like an ediface. It was treated like a bit ... and then it was true. It made me sad.
I'm watching that world war 2 in real time series on UA-cam, its so good I love my thirties
@@sean-123-k9t did they not ask nicely enough for people to shut their traps about it
I personally look forward to when the dude starts talking about things like the Ulysses S Grant mini series from the History Channel
Best comment, made me laugh more than the video
Loving the fact that the guy who has brought up how hard it is to climb a rope just randomly says how easy it’d be to climb a flag pole. Like I know climbing a rope is harder but still I love James’s confidence
I’ve climbed a rope and I definitely cannot climb a flag pole. Depends on the rope, though. Thick rope, easy rope, thin rope, impossible rope.
@@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7 Depends on the flagpole, surely. One of those older metal poles would be easier to climb.
Flag poles stay in one place and u can use ur feet without swaying all over the place
@@tybo8377Sure but they're also slippery. At least you can grip a rope and there could be knots in them. Flagpoles are just straight up
4:08 “he denied the role 3 times, much like saint Peter, Mason”
Unexpected biblical references to reminds us once in a while James was raised Catholic lol
@@gustavosanabio473 Or just Christian. You don't have to be Catholic to know about St. Peter.
@@ThreadBomb But to consider him a Saint, yes. Either that or like orthodox.
Otherwise he's just Peter.
But the only reason I said catholic is because James has mentioned that he was./is (i'm not sure which)
@@gustavosanabio473James has said "I've got a big Irish head" and most of Ireland is Catholic so it stands to reason. Also his last name is Clement
Killed me
Where my Greendale Human Beings at?
👋
Greendale Human Beings backwards is still Greendale Human Beings 😮
E Pluribus anus
Pop POP
I like that school as much as Joel McHale.
I'll always appreciate the dedication of doing a full WW2 origin movie, as it is kind of a double-edged sword that you make this great movie with this great cast of characters, but your doing it with the knowledge that you'll never be able to go back to them in this same way ever again.
It goes a long way to make the audience feel the pronounced loneliness Cap will have to deal with for the rest of the series.
The Agent Carter show brings back most of the WW2 cast, and they also show up in an episode of Agents of Shield, in a "crossover" with Agent Carter.
@OpinionParade Still, it makes clear just how much Steve left behind.
@@SirAsdfIt does, and I think it works to the MCU's benefit, especially when he does go back at the very end of Endgame. They crafted an arc that worked across movie series.
21:50 They really put footage of Chris Evans climbing a flag pole and thought we wouldn't notice...
I totally thought that was Chris Evan’s rehearsing, but that was James!
Why?!?
… But we did.
James go five minutes without mentioning Sunshine challenge: impossible
Someone should make a compilation James raving about Sunshine & Maso keep talking about the Rookie
@@danishaiman2244Omg I'm glad Mason loves The Rookie to such a drastic extent but i do wish he'd stop banging on about it sometimes.
@@danishaiman2244 there has to be a limit on how long a UA-cam video can be
Chris Evans' outside the box, pulling the pin out of the flag pole mentality was established in sunshine when he went against the grain by Freezing to death in a movie about people burning to death.
So I watched Sunshine, it’s pretty good but kinda becomes total nonsense when the Sun zombie show up.
In the US Army I knew, it would have got him thrown in the stockade.
@@li-limandragon9287 They went for it though didn't they, I appreciate that
@@li-limandragon9287 yea I wasn't expecting that turn. Went a bit event horizon towards the end. Who knew the sun turns you mad. Don't look at the sun kids!
They also had to find enough blue water dye to fill the tank, causing shortages of blue dye in the local area. Hence the working title, Blue Harvest.
"Its a shame the Red Skull lives on as just a ghost on a planet"
"Oh Because you agree with some of his ideas?"
Fucking crying hahaha
one of the most underrated semi-miracles of the MCU is that somehow, the three captain america films are either Good to Very Good, retain a consistent vibe and tone *and* fit as key entries in the franchise-series. Like, man, they can't even do that with Iron Man. They can barely do that with Superman and Batman when it's just one visionary
Not really. IMO the first one is so-so. The second one is better, but like so many elaborate plots, unwinds by the end. And the third is just Avengers minus Hulk.
@cejannuzi I respect your opinion but they are factually good films. Their review scores for audiences and critics are mostly positive. Not my favourites but undeniably good films.
@@Frostilei respect your ability to look at review scores, but that factually doesnt mean they're good
They’re the best series of character movies in the MCU. Iron Man didn’t have a solid three films, Thor didn’t, etc.
@@cejannuzi i feel the first one is more like "better than you'd think it would be".
Happy knowing these lads went and had a nice time in a park together
This was wholesome enough to make me live just a little longer.
17:34 "Red Skull's heels squeak against the floor for a bit" was phenomenal, 2025 energy is sTRONG maso
I'm so glad they finally took away his obviously CGI'ed scrawniness
Maso being the one to film his stunt and provide the commentary was something magical
well it wasn’t gonna be his wife
@ Maso is his wife now
If it was Claire or one of James' other friends, they would have been too nice and encouraging. It had to be Maso to put him in his place
This movie is the most underrated MCU movie. This is the most comic book accurate superhero origin story out of most superhero movies.
19:22 "you've put me on the spot" has joined "here's the thing" as one of my favorite visual gags on this channel. Well done Ben
18:31 A fucking Zach and Cody movie reference (in the year 2025) immediately into a Spiderman 2 “my back” is the top tier editing an expect from this channel. Give your editors a raise! I’m crying 🤣
It’s funny how he was created to be a PR tool, but realised he could be, and was, so much more. And seeing the alternative road, where he remained a PR tool, is basically The Boys
Vought would be shut down within two minutes in the MCU.
@heelmoxley365 I mean, didn’t HYDRA run SHIELD/the country/the world post WWII?
Been a while since I watched Winter Soldier
@@BallNscrOatesYeah but only because none of the good guys knew about it. The Avengers dismantle most of the big military Hydra bases within a year, and then S.H.I.E.L.D. took about two more years to destroy the rest of their assets.
Mason really called James’ bluff on climbing a flag pole
I like how Stanley Tucci and Toby Jones were hosts of the Hunger Games and scientists in opposing sides in Captain America
I know I'm the only Weekly Wackadadoo who loves Dial of Destiny, but it was wild seeing Toby Jones as a good guy fighting against the Nazis in that
They’ve actually never done an episode for these?!
You sure you're not just thinking of the 25+ references they've made talking about the the straight to TV Movie in the 90s where super human Steve Rogers feigns illness *twice* to steal a car?
They did podcast episodes for 2 and 3 as they came out and they've done commentaries for all 3, but they've never done CoG episodes on them no.
@@s1ckboirarigod that movie is so funny, actually a fun watch too but perhaps not for the right reasons
21:56 "How close was I?"
"So close, man."
Pans up to the rest of the pole remaining unclimbed. LMAO
1:54 Anthony Mackie tried to explain this and everyone screamed at him for hating America
What’s crazy Chris Evans said basically the same thing but didn’t get any hat for it but Mackie did 🤔
@@neoPeakeit was pretty america of america to do this
Did he? Or did he say he hated America. He clearly despises America. Disgusting.
Key point *tried* to. His explanation was horrible
@@neoPeake”basically the same” so what you’re saying is that Chris Evans explained it better than Anthony
I chuckled at the editor putting in a American football post, when James was talking about an Aussie rules football post. I'm so glad we got footage of the attempt at least.
I don't know who this Maddie person is, I'm assuming also British like Laurence, since that's where Ben lives. But the fact that they didn't put an ACTUAL football goal and instead put the American one is inspired
"So close, man!!" *slowly pans up to reveal he was, indeed, not close*
Had me laughing too hard
There are only 3 absolutely iconic final moments in MCU movies. Tony’s “I am iron man” moment, Steve’s “I had a date” line, and of course the dance between Peggy and Steve to cap off endgame.
“Well if it isn’t the Star Spangled Man With a Plan” will never not be funny 😆
Sunshine ✔
Wig talk ✔
Normal men ✔
This video has everything!
Not true, no man who shouts RODNEY!
@@Mr.NiceUK Lest we forget.
Points off the flagpole bit for not doing it in a janky Cap suit from a Halloween shop.
It's a shame they couldn't keep Hayley Atwell in the other movies for obvious reasons, she's just so lovely.
From what I’ve seen, the main reason why Evans was reluctant to be cap was because they wanted him to commit to so many projects and he was worried how it would affect his life but Sarah Finn and Feige really wanted him and he was eventually convinced. And he’s since called it the best decision of his life and that it would have been a huge mistake to turn it out down. And he’s also stated that he loves the character and thinks of him to be a very valuable and meaningful character in the modern world. Looking forward to seeing him again.
He really is. The fact that a character called Captain America, whose stereotype in the public was of a jingoistic warrior, became a beloved figure worldwide, including in countries whose state media is explicitly anti-American is a massive triumph in defining what Cap is.
Kudos to Johnston, the Russos, and Whedon (bad bloke, look it up) for defining Cap as a good man above everything else.
@ And Cap had been like that in the comics for a long while but I’m glad that the creatives involved were able to represent the character correctly to general audiences.
I don't know why you're assuming he's gonna be Steve Rogers in Doomsday. RDJ is in it and he's not playing Iron Man. He's almost certainly going to be playing someone else.
@@einootspork wishful thinking.
@@Tea_Time_480 I could say that just as much about you thinking that he WILL be Steve Rogers.
One of my favourites of the MCU !
The New York city chase was filmed in Central Manchester. My wife could see the greenscreens from her office window.
When Cap runs round the corner, he emerges in Liverpool docks, a jump of about 35 miles.
I walked past the set for that when I was having a random day trip in Manc. I couldn't believe it
I hated on this movie up until recently when I watched it with a couple of mates. Realised I was being a complete idiot😂. Love when that happens.
Literally the best notification i’ve gotten all month, welcome back boys 🙏🏼
Lmao he really took the challenge and tried to climb the post. James in shape though
If they ever cover Hustlers, they could reuse the footage lol
Push is genuinely such a solid role of Chris Evan’s that not only do people not know it exists but people also don’t know it exists
28:53 Grab that Jeremy, guys.
James starting the year off strong by mentioning Sunshine less than 5 minutes into the video
FINALLY! Cap's my favorite superhero ever, and these movies really helped cement him as my childhood hero, as I watched them while I was growing up! In my opinion, Cap's trilogy is arguably the best trilogy from the MCU, rivaled closely by the GOTG.
Am I crazy to think Chris Evans would’ve been a great Superman??
23:57 I'd have loved someone yelling in the background "Hey Logan! Over here!" And then we see the back of a gruff looking army dude walking towards the voice smoking a cigar
That Angela Anaconda reference absolutely sent me. Never expected that in a trillion years
I forgot about that show until now.
When I saw it it unlocked so many memories.
I remember I was 6 when this came out and it was the first movie that I was like "I need to see this in theaters", and it just so happens to be my favorite Phase 1 movie
When I was a kid I irrationally didn’t like Cap because he had (barely any in retrospect) red in his costume and I thought he was boring. I didn’t want to see the movie. When I walked out of the theater I was saluting the audience, my dad bought me a Captain America shield, pajamas, bedspread, etcetera. When I thought he was going to die in Endgame I cried for the last forty five minutes of the movie. Captain America is my guy. I love this movie, love this trilogy. And my other favorite superheroes are the Flash and Daredevil so the red thing makes no sense.
I’ve got the reverse. I thought Cap was pretty cool pre-MCU. Liked him in this movie and Winter Soldier, hate him by the time of Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame. His hypocrisy and selfish actions are awful but so many people will act like he can do wrong.
Comic Cap is worse sure, but not by too much.
@@li-limandragon9287I mean I think all of that is pretty clear and on the surface, it’s just that he tries to do better. Essentially I disagree with your take but I understand it.
@@johnskrip7174I really don’t see a lot of the “trying” tho. Endgame is just him throwing in the towel and leaving the guy he betrayed his friends and kept murder secret for high and dry so he can get back with a woman who had moved on in her own series.
I love Chris Evans, but Cap himself comes off worse than Tony or Wanda in the end.
@@li-limandragon9287 Their writers wrecked the character. But I think it was also to avoid making another big star like RDjr that they would have to pay so much money to.
The flag bit was the best thing i have seen from this channel haha
I'm surprised that a lot of people thought this one was just okay, because it's one of my favorite MCU movies. Then again, I also love The Rocketeer and the 616 comics version of Cap. The writers and Chris Evans have really nailed Steve's brave, but kindhearted personality. Thank God they weren't as inspired by Mark Millar's Ultimate version except in terms of the costumes.
I think Bucky being the same age as him instead of his kid sidekick was also from the Ultimate version.
1:03 Never would I have thought I'd see the day when a Malaysian flag appears in a Mr. Sunday Movies video, we've made it!
The detail of this that I love the most is that the meal to soften Zola up includes a glass of MILK. Very 1940s.
From Sri Lanka to Spain, people I met the world over adore Captain America. They see the superhero that's more than the uniform he wears.
If this turns out to be batman ima flip something
I would’ve helped you😂
Pretty sure Jim from The Office was in Ant-Man and WandaVision
Not Ant-Man but Multiverse Of Madness.
When he climbs the pole, look at his little foot twitch! He’s trying so hard bless him
Good use of "you put me on the spot"
Really appreciate the editors to insert and punch up jokes. Chef's kiss.
This is THE MCU Comfort Watch!
Joe Johnston!
Chris Evans!
STICKBALL!!!
Anybody else hear the story about how when Matt Salinger was Cap, he was better than the stuntmen at throwing the shield, which he claimed was from playing Ultimate Frisbee in his youth? He said at one point he was supposed to throw the shield "as close as he could" to an approaching motorbike, with plans to fake the impact in a later shot, but instead he hit the bike head on and sent the stuntman over the handlebars.
I have no idea why I know that, but it's all from some interview I read when I was a kid that's still with me now.
Sunshine is the greatest movie I've ever seen! I saw it right when Chris Evans was first announced as Captain America, and we all rolled our eyes, but then me and my friends watched Sunshine for the first time, and we were like "yes! That man can save America!"
I think I would’ve been more upset with how dc was handling Superman if I didn’t have captain America in the 2010’s. Evans is on the same level as Christopher reeve for me, both able to play sincere paragons of virtue so perfectly.
I never understand why he didn't give the shield to Bucky, like his childhood best friend, WW2 comrade and fellow super soldier? A bit of a sick burn on Steve Rogers part?
I agree he should've got it.
Some of the things that Neal McDonough was called on Justified that will always stick with me:
“Looks like an albino deer.”
“Looks like he shits blonde.”
“Looks like a husky sled dog.”
“Has a big, stupid baby head.”
Everything about Hayley Atwell is wonderful
In the Captain America video game, it's explained that Cap can figure out the geometry of his throws so that he can ensure that the shield comes back to him
I would have given Johnston the DCU and make it all a giant period piece in the 30s
I thought for a moment "Not as good as The Wire" was accompanied by an image from "Brooklyn 99", which would have been a good joke.
I really appreciate you guys mentioning "Sunshine" as it's one of my favorite sci-fi films ever.
I remember seeing Captain America shortly after it first came out and thinking "meh". Decided to revisit it last year and enjoyed it a lot. I'm really burnt out on comic book movies but it was a super solid action adventure film set during WWII that is well shot, well acted by a great cast and is a lot of fun. It's also my favorite CA suit.
I love Joe Johnston so much. Captain America, October Sky, The Rocketeer... when you want strong characters and you want to feel something at the movies, you hire Joe. ❤
It's funny how in Men In Black Will Smith makes a Captain America joke in front of Tommy Lee Jones.
it's the fact you actually went to climb the pole that keeps me coming back and listening to the pod every week.
"He just comes back" with the palpatine shot had me dying 😂
I’m surprised they didn’t do a Caravan of Garbage episode on the Captain America movie from the 90s
There is a commentary!
The one where he pretends to be sick in order to steals someone's car???
Multiple times
"I really thought this would go better"
"Why???"
I love Stunt Era v2
I have a head canon for Cap's timetravel. What if the universe we're watching is ALREADY an alternate timeline created by another group of Avengers who had the same plan, so the Cap we see at the end of Endgame is technically a different Cap who just also did the same thing. And the husband Peggy has is that alternate Cap and that's how they both existed in the same timeline (until our Cap went back in time, starting the process again in a new timeline)
There's no way the writers actually put this much thought into it, but I like the idea.
They're pretty fast and lose with the time travel / dimension hopping rules, but _my_ general rule for this sort of thing is the universe *is* the things that happen in it; you can't have two different universes where the same things happened for the same reason you can't have two different shades of red that are the same color, it's oxymoronic.
That's the easiest way to make sense of timelines branching when you make a change, and it's the only way I know of to make sense of preventing that branching by going back again and undoing the change.
Honestly the only real problems with the Peggy had always married Endgame Steve is how did the time loop get set up, and why didn't he do anything about all the bad stuff he knows about - funnily enough they might cancel out if he figured that doing anything he knows he didn't do would break the loop and he wouldn't go back to marry Peggy, though I'm a bit iffy on that (it makes the "what counts as a change big enough to count as a branch" problem *way* worse)
I Saw The Rocketeer as a kid and I didn't realize that this was by the same director. That explains the similar beats.. that is to say this is a great self-contained action adventure period film. When you eventually can feature the character without even wearing a mask anymore as in End-Game you know you've done a great job!
SUNSHINE MENTIONED!!! Always look forward to a James x Sunshine crossover
Michael Chiklis has also played several super hero characters, including with Chris Evans.
21:27 … I was NOT expecting this. It was the clip we all deserve!
21:58 "I really thought this would go better" "Why?!"
I spit my coffee out at that lmao
James on the flagpole was amazing!!😂😂
13:02 Winter Soldier reveals the Howling Commandos had a 0% casualty rate because Bucky survived
Cap had been a great character in the comics for a very long time so I’m glad that the creatives involved were able to show general audiences that with the Evans version.
aww 5:36 look how cute Angela Lansbury is!!!
The edit for this video was incredible. 2025 is going to be amazing.
I read WW2 Captain America comics in preparation for this… *Jesus Christ* Soldier Boy is more accurate than you think.
The divorced Dad energy of trying to climb a flagpole in the middle of the day is unmatched
14:47 The Wire mentioned 🔥🔥🔥
This is the only marvel movie to me that really feels like its an actually movie not a marvel movie, if that make sense
I would say iron man 1 feels like an actual movie it's quite self contained outside of the post credit scene which back in rhe day was a genuine suprise so Kuch so that people left the cinema before seeing that part because they didn't know until told later.
JUST rewatched this trilogy , excited to see you go through them
I know there's a lot of nostalgia behind this, but I absolutely love the 'pajamas' suit from Avengers 1
Y’all should do the pirates of the Caribbean movies
I love being able to start one morning a week with you guys.
The time travel different button thing kind of is real. According to the completely nonsense MCU time travel rules, it only creates new timelines when when the Infinity Stones are involved, so once he returned all of them he time travelled within the same timeline.
The button thing would probably have been more concincing, actually.
"I thought this would go better"
"Why"
Sent me 😂
And they returned with Captain America when America needed a distraction the most, poetic
I love the famous section 'I could do that!', would be great yo get more of them 😂
You can see how Joe Johnston's Rocketeer influenced the style and tone of Captain America. Hugo Weaving was awesome as Red Skull.
I've always thought his performance in Sunshine was criminally underrated. So good!
I actually love the clips you put on in the background while you talk, it's so funny to see
I unironically love that Star-Spangled man song, it was in my playlist for years after this movie came out
Watching mr Sunday trying to climb a pull was something I didn’t know I needed, cracked me up