TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

I'm pretty unaware of anything Captain America as far as comic books wise, so I went into the theater only knowing a few things: Captain America is Steve Rogers, who used to be a 90 lb. weakling, but during WWII they needed a supersoldier for the army. There was a bad guy named Red Skull and he had a sidekick named Bucky. That's literally everything I knew. Unlike the Harry Potter series, you don't need to have read the source material to understand the film. "The First Avenger" plays out like any normal superhero film...and that's exactly what it is: a normal superhero film. It doesn't go beyond your expectations, it's not a below par film like I heard "Green Lantern" was. It plays exactly like "Thor" did actually; establishing the character's backgrounds, setting them up for what's to come, taking time to reveal the main villain. One could argue that that's the set-up for anymovie superhero movie, but if you...

I didn't review last year's prelude to this film, because I didn't want to sound biased as a fairly big Potter fan. Or Potterite? Potthead? I don't know. All I know is that I HAVE to review this movie, not to let people know about it, obviously they do; $168,000,000 over the course of a weekend doesn't lie, but to say how excellent of a movie it is, how marvelous of a franchise it is, and how sad it made me that this is the last bit of Pottermania the world will know unless some very daring idiot wants to remake the series 70 years later. But is that even possible? I don't think so. The intricacies and complications and such spot-on casting make the Potter movies as easy to remake as "Gone with the Wind;" you just can't screw with it. There will be no main character as Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter, no one as comically funny as Rupert Grint's Ron Weasley, and no one nearly as intelligent and level-headed as the incredible Emma Watson...