Captain America - 1979

I really love the old classics. What's been especially fun for me has been digging up old Marvel attempts and seeing how different they are from the CGI present. I watched the serial (1944) and had a lot of fun with it. 

This particular version was...something. It was not what I was expecting at all. Steve is coming back in 1979, so there's no Nazi fighting, and the man isn't really very patriotic either. He's more of a reluctant, whiny man-child. He's also a bit dense.

I'm guessing they were trying to meet their screen time limit for the pilot, because they showed looong scenes of driving. Sometimes Steve was in a van, sometimes he was on a motorcycle, and at the end he was puttering around in a helicopter.

Big shoutout to the helicopter pilot, though. He flew pretty low a couple times, and I was impressed. The end was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in a superhero movie. They track the villain (who is reading a book while sitting next to a neutron bomb) with a helicopter (again, for an extended period of time) and then Steve almost kills him with exhaust. I'm not sure why the villain decided to stand right next to the vent where the crap was coming in, but whatever. Watching Captain America sitting next to the prone form of the villain while his doctor friend was saving the man was so weird.

Overall, this thing was so strange. Steve had a soothing voice and no emotions. He also doesn't accept being Captain America until almost the end of the movie. My daughter fell asleep, and she's the one who usually is all in on the nonsense. I have no idea how they had another movie after this one, but it has Christopher Lee, so it can't be worse than this one. It just can't...