Captain America: The Only Avenger

I will seed this post with spoilers. You have been warned.

Captain America: The First Avenger was really good.

 I have no counterpoint. I really enjoyed this movie. It was not only good as far as comic book movies go. It was also a good movie in and of itself. I know I tend to gush when I get excited about things and start listing aspects of the film as good, well-done, and enjoyable, and damn it all, I'm prepared to do it again. I honestly can't find any major flaws with this movie. This may be because I haven't read many Captain America comics and zero that feature Red Skull and the Cosmic Cube.

This is what I know:

In the comics, the Cube is a device that was created by the malevolent organization Advanced Idea Mechanics. It supposedly grants a wish to the wielder. This is handled in a completely different manner in the film. In the movie, it is linked to Yggdrasil, The World Tree (of which I might add is not featured in the Thor movie.) and serves as a source of Asgardian energies. Now, in the post-credits scene in Thor, Loki appears to show interest in the Cube. I have to ponder on why Loki needs an artifact that gifts its holder with Asgardian power, being that he is from Asgard. I suppose it could be used to travel back to Asgard.

Thinking ahead to next year's Avengers movie, I can only assume that Loki needs the Cube for either bringing some form of Asgardian weapon to Midgard, or bringing some form of Earthen weapon (The Hulk, maybe?) to Asgard. While the latter would seem the more likely, I would prefer to see the Avengers kicking ass on Midgard, as opposed to just seeing another scene similar to the end of Thor.

One Asgardian that I forgot to mention in my Thor post and the makers of the film forgot to include is Balder. It would be nice to see him in future films.

But this isn't about Thor, it's about Cap.

I don't have anything bad to say about this movie and it filled me with glee. Go see it and have a great time. Stay through the credits for an Avengers trailer, as well. I had no idea it was coming. Hopefully this link to the recorded-in-the-theater trailer is still up when you read this. If not, I'm sure you'll be able to find it soon enough. Whoever does Chris Hemsworth's hair in this did a hell of a better job than in Thor. There's some Hawkeye and Banner images, too.

I'm still on the ropes on whether or not I liked Cap better than Iron Man. It's tough to beat Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Cap was really well executed and it gave me faith in Chris Evans for the role of Steve Rogers.

I give this movie two vibranium frisbees up, soldier.