{"id":7871,"date":"2012-07-26T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:53:57","slug":"captain-america-2011-joe-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7871","title":{"rendered":"Captain America (2011, Joe Johnston)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Evans (Human Torch in the <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> movies) is a scrawny wannabe soldier who doesn&#8217;t want to kick ass to show the world that America is #1, he just wants to end global bullying.  Against the advice of military dude Tommy Lee Jones, scientist Stanley Tucci sticks Evans into a machine (built by Iron Man&#8217;s Dad, Dominic Cooper) that gives him awesome muscles.  He gets an invincible shield (which has no magic flying powers, it&#8217;s just throwable and bouncy), then is sent on tour to sell war bonds for a year.  That was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>When nazi-spinoff villain Hugo Weaving, who underwent an early version of the Captain America process which gave him mega-muscles but turned his face red, steals Thor&#8217;s magic god-box and kills Tucci, Cap goes after him.  No time to fall in love with drill instructor Hayley Atwell (of <em>The Prisoner<\/em> remake), Cap is off to defeat the Red Skull and his morally uneasy scientist Toby Jones.  Success, however Cap&#8217;s best friend Bucky falls to his death, and Cap falls to his presumed death until he&#8217;s dug up by Sam Jackson seventy years in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Johnston previously helmed similar period-adventure-hero flick <em>The Rocketeer<\/em> and the credited screenwriters (rumor has it there were many more) wrote the <em>Narnia<\/em> movies and that Peter Sellers bio-pic with Geoffrey Rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Evans (Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies) is a scrawny wannabe soldier who doesn&#8217;t want to kick ass to show the world that America is #1, he just wants to end global bullying. Against the advice of military dude Tommy Lee Jones, scientist Stanley Tucci sticks Evans into a machine (built by Iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,139,968,1526],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-comics","tag-stanley-tucci","tag-toby-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}