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Our series on remakes continues and this time we’ve got one that you may not even realize was filmed in live-action before. In honor of the release of Captain America: Civil War on Friday, we’re talking about the star spangled man with the plan. This week, Cinelinx looks at Captain America: The First Avenger.

It’s not too often that a remake is much, much, much better than the original but we have one of those rare instances in the case of Captain America. Years before Captain America: The First Avenger, the first movie version of the star-spangled hero of WW2 was filmed in 1990 and directed by Albert Pyun.

This movie…was awful! It has a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and went directly to a video release, wisely bypassing theaters to prevent millions of people demanding their money back. Captain America is played in this mess by Matt Salinger,...

Making a movie on the exploits of Marvel comics. Captain America sounded like a good idea at the time. However, the resulting film was so bad that it was shuffled directly to video in Caps. home country. It.s certainly not a movie that you want to wrap in Old Glory, more wrap in cement, sink, and forget. During WWII, Dr. Vaselli (Carla Cassola) is working on a formula to make super soldiers. She had been working on the same program with the fascists years before, but objected to their methods for obtaining a test subject . murdering a young boy.s family and kidnapping him. She escaped from them and has been working with the Americans. Steve Rodgers...

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...