The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

Looking further into the 1990 Captain America movie, more assorted thoughts:

• They freeze Captain America for over 45 years, and except for a scene where he accuses Ned Beatty of being a spy because he has a German car and a Japanese tape recorder (not knowing that the war's been over for close to half a century) and a few other assorted moments, they do nothing with the fish-out-of-water motif that would inevitably be a part of Steve Rogers' culture shock.
  
• Red Skull has gone from having a shitty Italian accent to a gruffer variation on Ren Hoek's accent, and for some reason, he's been given plastic surgery to make his face halfway presentable. And it looks like shoddy attempt at aping Batman (with the scenes where the Joker pretends to be a legitimate businessman and he puts on flesh-coloured makeup to make it look like he's just normal Jack Nicholson with a Glasgow smile.)
  
• How does Red Skull expect to become the President of the United States after killing him? Did he somehow take all the rest of the cabinet and the President Pro Tempore and not mention it?
  
• The big climactic fight scene at the end is one of the most confusingly edited fight scenes I've ever seen in a movie:
  
  
  
• Also, the final shot:
  
  Could Menahem Golan not afford to make a costume that looked like it could potentially fit Matt Salinger? Was spandex really that fucking expensive in 1990?
  

Well, this was the worst superhero movie I've ever seen. Yes, worse than Fant4stic. I think I've covered most, if not all, the bases between this post and my previous one, so was there anything good about it? 

• Well, Matt Salinger was actually halfway decent. 
  
• Some of the changes to the source material actually worked; you may notice that some of the aspects of Red Skull's backstory (like his being a failed experiment in the same sort of experiments that turned Steve into Captain America and being responsible for the Kennedy assassinations) ended up getting put into the MCU films.
  
• There is a good powering-up leitmotif that sometimes plays just before Captain America starts to kick ass (a rare occurrence indeed). Sadly, I can't find a clip of it on Youtube, and it's kind of overshadowed by the third-rate synth music, third-rate blues, and third-rate Heartland Rock.
  
• He doesn't say this:
  
  

That's pretty much it.