Did he call anybody “son”? That’s his trademark.
I haven’t yet seen the movie, but I imagine the lack of swastikas has less to do with German law and more to do with the fact it’s easier to sell swastika free action figures of the bad guys.
Completely agreed. I also enjoyed what seemed to me an intentional tie-in to Iron Man:
The sound effect for the Hydra laser guns (particularly the Red Skull’s “laser Mauser”) was very similar, if not identical, to the sound effect for Iron Man’s repulsors. I assume that the Stark “arc reactor”, and the repulsor design, are based on what Howard Stark learned from Hydra’s tech, and the Cosmic Cube. It also seems like the “new element” which Howard’s notes lead Tony to create in Iron Man 2 comes from the Cube.
To kenobi 65’s last spoiler:
Stark already had his flying car prototype at the Expo, before he got ahold of the Cube or ray-guns. I was figuring that that was an early version of the repulsor.
True, though…
It failed fairly quickly. I’m guessing that (after the events of the movie) he used what he learned of the Cube and its power source to improve the repulsors (or maybe just improve the power source).
Perhaps, but they still don’t appear to ban Indiana Jones. A search on Amazon.de shows Indiana Jones 3 - Der Letzte Kreuzzug is still being sold on DVD in Germany.
Also, IMDB shows that Inglourious Basterds was released in Germany on August 20, 2009. It would be just a little difficult to edit the Nazis out of these two films. 
An even better complaint about the vibration-absorbing shield than the one I had:
Yeah, I know. I should bring a book or something to these movies for when the action scenes go on for 15 minutes. 
I thought so, too.
Probably.
The law doesn’t say you need to get rid of the Nazis - you need to get rid of the swastikas.
Here is the German trailer to Inglourious Basterds (warning: YouTube video.) The trailer clearly depicts swastikas in a film released in Germany in 2009.
I’m not actually bothered at all by the shield clanging or ricocheting, since “absorbing vibrations” in the sense that they mean is impossible; it violates conservation of momentum. Which makes it, effectively, magic, and magic can have whatever properties the storyteller wants.
Pretty much. Captain America’s shield is a great example of comic book Science! (Has to have the “!” at the end) and is no crazier than quite a few Marvel heroes getting their powers (as opposed to cancer) from exposure to radiation, or Superman having a host of powers because of yellow sun radiation, and makes plenty more sense than some other examples, like The Atom being able to shrink because he wears a costume made of what dwarf star material (seriously).
Sorry, make that white dwarf star material.
Another possible Easter Egg - I think that was the original Human Torch (whose body became the Vision, depending on the author of the particular issue) in the clear tube at the Expo.
Another “depending on the author moment”, at one point in the Comics, the Cosmic Cube was established as a seed/egg/fetus of a super-powerful alien named “the Shaper of Worlds”, IIRC. I thought the space view during the final Red Skull scene may have been referencing that.
I was wondering why they specifically mentioned that the shield absorbed all vibrations but then didn’t seem to make a point of using that ability in the film.
BTW, I thought the Tesseract was the thing in the tomb that Johann Schmidt smashed.
No, that was something else.
I saw this in 3D yesterday. Rousing action flick, kinda thin on plot, but still fun. Wish they’d found a way to work in the cartoon theme song somewhere.
“When Captain America throws his mighty shield…”
As he’s smashing the glass cube in the sarcophagus, he says something to the effect of “The Tesseract was the prize of Odin’s trophy vault… <smash>”. The implication being, the real thing isn’t something you can just shatter by dropping it.
The real one was hidden in the secret compartment in the Yggdrasil bas-relief, and glowed blue when he took it out.
I dug it. I liked it better than Thor – Thor might have been a little better at pacing and writing, but I also thought it was more formulaic and I loved the overall art direction of CA more.
I realized, while watching, why I like Marvel movies so much. It was during the scene where Cap manages to steal a completely-new-to-him experimental enemy aircraft midair, then immediately fly it despite it having no seat, in an incredibly precise fashion
It’s a scene that would be at home in a lot of big budget action flicks, and it would normally annoy me to no end. It’s just so unlikely.
But, hey, it’s Captain America. Why couldn’t he do that? Using actual superheroes is like a magic free suspension-of-disbelief pass. I can comfortably turn off my analytical brain in a way that I normally can’t, and just allow aesthetics and narrative to dominate.
possibly the worst movie i’ve seen in my entire life
just sayin