I get what YB is saying. It does seem like they kinda skipped over Cap really being Cap for much of that film, but. . .I also think they did the right move skipping through the origin and WWII in one film. The fact that he's a patriotic army guy isn't what makes Cap really interesting or distinctive in my eyes. It's the "man out of time" component, where we see how someone with the U.S. values and moral compass of the 1930s/40s deals with more "modern" issues. It has been a recurring theme from the '60s with the Avengers through the late-70s/early '80s (Cap's golden era of comics IMO), and continuing on today. He is motivated by something different than the other heroes, and that makes him compelling. In a way, it also makes him seem less like the reader, and while the trend in comic writing over the last 30 years or so has largely been the opposite (i.e., make characters the reader can really relate to and understand), I think there's a real attraction to someone like that. Hopefully the filmmakers here feel similarly. There's a damn good reason Cap and RDJ Stark don't really get along. They should be like oil and water because they epitomize different times and cultural moods. Stark is post-'60s, post-Watergate, post-"me" era of the '80s. Cap was there during the pinnacle of U.S. standing in the world, when things were less cynical, and people had more reason to believe in all those things about the U.S. than they do now.
dude if you thought the first one was "great" I can't imagine what your taste for movies is like. Take care creep.
