Captain America (1990)

In antisapation of going to see Captain America: The First Avenger.
I thought I would sit down and watch the original Captain America Movie.

I know what you are thinking right now, "What are you talking about?
there was never a Captain America movie.." sure there was and as you can
see to the left that is the actual case for it. Yes there has been a Captain America before this came out in 1990 and here is a link to the actual movie poster! Movie Poster! Now I would have to say I have view this movie
many times and I think it is great for the time it was made.
It stars Matt Salinger as Captain America and Scott Paulin as The Red Skull
Now I thought and have always thought that the make-up effects used in this were quite excellent for the very early 90s to pull this off.
Long before what we can do now with digital technology.
I also thought the the costume that was used in this for Captain America looked pretty close to what was see in the comics at the time.
Here is a picture for what both characters looked like in the 90s Film:














True it doesn't or didn't have the coolness that the new film will have and like I said it was
great for the time it was made. There were some nice action scenes and a pretty good story.
The main story quickly hits on the key points of the two characters origins.
Sadly this doesn't take things slow and explain alot of Where Captain America
gets the shield and the uniform. It runs under the assumption that you already know this
which is something I'm looking forward to in the new Film as you can see from the trailers
they show all this which is good. With this movie you do expect more from it but
you don't get what your expecting. Also yes the characters look like their comic counter
parts but only for a short time. The actor only wears the "Red Skull make-up" for about
5 mins or so which is disappointing, becasue after he sends Cap to an icy grave he gets
plastic surgery and looks like a regular guy throughout the rest of the film and is played off as
some type of second rate Lex Luthor/Wilson Fisk.
Also Captain America himself spends more screen time out of the suit then in it.
I hope these things are not the same in the Newer movie you want to see Captain America and
the Red Skull not Steve Rodgers and second rate villain with plastic surgery.

But like I said I can't truly complain becasue back in 1990 Super Hero movies like we
have today were just a dream... One thing I was wondering about the new film is now that they
are linking all the films together (like they should be, being all these characters live in the same
space and see each other regularly) Is how they are going to explain why Johnny Storm
aka the Human Torch and Steve Rodgers aka Captain America look identical!
(being that both were played by Chris Evans) Which is funny in itself
Because in this film they mention the character of the Human Torch which Evans played
in Fantastic Four and this is a movie about a character he ends up portraying as well.

Now like I have said in the prelude to Thor I mentioned that Chris Hemsworth was
not the first to play Thor and the same goes for Chris Evans as well as Matt Salinger
when it comes to Captain America there was this guy!













Yes that is actually Captain America from the 70s TV Movies.
he was played by Reb Brown And surprising enough he wasn't the first either
The very first Captain America was actually This guy!























The Very first Captain America was Dick Purcell
from the 1940 serials , Now true Chris Evans is going to go down in history
as Captain America but like the many who played Batman over the years
there have been many who have been Captain America.

In closing I'm going to leave you with the trailer for the 1990 Captain America
Captain America!