Out on the river with friends yesterday, and someone brought up Captain America. This led to both a rousing rendition of Lee Greenwood’s ‘Proud to be an American’ and a solid denouncement of the film as “cheesy”. And then the friend who made that declaration asked me what I thought.

what I wanted to say: Guuuuurl, you’re talking to someone who has Comic Con on their bucket list. Someone who put The Avenger‘s opening night on her calendar months ago. Someone who went to score discounted books at Border’s and came home with the MARVEL ENCYCLOPEDIA. And you want to know if I thought Captain America was cheesy?

Puh-lease.

The Transformers trilogy is cheesy. Nicholas Sparks’ movies are capital-C-H-eeeeesy. Anything that comes packaged with the words “an ABC family special” is most certainly going to be cheesy. Captain America is a period piece that does justice to the comics and to the character.

what I actually said: “I’m a geek. I thought it was awesome.” (cue sheepish smile)