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DVD Review: Original ‘Captain America’ Tries to Bank Off Reboot’s Success

10 September 2011 1:47 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – You’re probably going “Huh? There was another Captain America movie? Before Chris Evans?” Believe it or not, yes. Before people like Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi turned the Marvel-verse (and really all of Hollywood) on its head by proving that superheroes could not only be profitable but critically viable as well, there were some honest train wrecks, including an incomplete version of “Fantastic Four” and an awful adaptation of “Captain America,” recently released on DVD to tie in with the success of “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Don’t get them confused.

Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0

Honestly, even looking at the case, much less seeing a minute of footage, clarifies the differences between the high-budget 2011 blockbuster and the 1990 movie that was supposed to be a summer movie tentpole but ended up going straight-to-video and was essentially forgotten by history. There’s a reason many of you probably didn’t know »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Captain America (the 1990 version)

30 August 2011 10:04 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

In the wake of Batman’s success in 1989, it appeared to renew interest in movies based on comic books. One of the first, and one of the worst, was the 1990 version of Captain America. The film had actually been announced in the early 1980s from Cannon Films but in the intervening years, the studio folded and the right shifted a bit before Menahem Golan mounted it under his 21st Century banner.

The movie languished in development until the rights were about to expire so director Albert Pyun urged Golan to let him take a crack at getting the film made for about $6 million. Marvel actually approved the script that was shot and Pyun loved its take on America’s fascination with heroism. If only some of that love found its way onto the screen.

The movie was shot in 1989 but wasn’t released theatrically and was finally dumped on video »

- Robert Greenberger

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Fantasia 2011: A Look Back At ‘Captain America (1990)’

9 August 2011 7:11 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Captain America (1990)

Directed by Albert Pyun

Written by Stephen Tolkin, based on a story by Stephen Tolkin and Lawrence Block, based on characters created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

USA, 1990

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Dismissed by comic-book fans (those who know of it at all) as the Captain America with the Italian Red Skull, this was a film that I had publicly mused about going to see when I took a look at the Fantasia line-up.

To my surprise, I got the following comment on July 13th from Albert Pyun, director of Captain America, not to mention The Sword and the Sorcerer and Cyborg, “Hey Michael – hope to see you at my screening of Captain America and Tales of an Ancient Empire. Think you will enjoy both. They are sort of throwbacks to the 1980′s cinema and I think a lot of fun and laughs… And I really want to read »

- Michael Ryan

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New Release: Captain America DVD

16 June 2011 11:24 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will add the 1990 adventure movie Captain America to its MGM’s Limited Edition Collection, the “manufacturing on demand” (Mod) program that the studio launched last fall. It will be available beginning on July 19.

The DVD will be available for sale on online retailers everywhere for a prize of approximately $19.98.

Matt Salinger is Captain America--the one from 1990.

Obviously aiming to capitalize on Paramount’s international theatrical release of Captain America: First Avenger starring Chris Evens on July 22, Fox is hit the archive to pull out the 1990 Captain America, which was directed by Albert Pyun (the man behind 1994′s Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor – need we say more?) and stars Matt Salinger (Babyfever). The story is generally the same as teh original Captain America comic, wherein a genetically-engineer WWII super-soldier emerges from a frozen slumber deep inside a hunk of Arctic ice to many years after »

- Laurence

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