Captain America: The First Avenger - Star Spangled Edition

A typically excellent Bobson Extended Cut of an already very good Marvel movie, 2/3 of the deleted scenes don't impact the movie hugely -- although more Dum Dum Dugan is always appreciated -- however, extending the final scene with Nick Fury addresses a major problem that I've had since my first viewing, the obviously truncated explanation of Cap's revival. The little bit of extra detail beyond the line "you were asleep" lends some much-needed credibility to a plot element that the movie, the Cap franchise, and the entire MCU hangs its hats on.

My only qualm is that Bobson didn't add the additional footage of Steve struggling with life in the 20th century that was, apparently, part of an Acura commercial? The editor has even worked with the footage, posting an "Old Man Steve" mini-film on the message boards, and I wish that material, which leads directly into The Avengers, could have been added as a mid or post-credit sequence.

A wonderfully fun B+ movie elevated to an A-, but with that extra little bit it would be a full A in my books. (I urge anyone watching this edit to seek out that commercial in the meantime! It has more Stan Lee if that's your thing.)

This is a simple edit that inserts a couple of solid deleted scenes that really should have been in original cut, as all but one give more depth and humanity to Steve Rogers. Any fan of The First Avenger should check out the Star Spangled Edition for the definitive Captain America origin story.

A few slight technical tweaks could be made to improve the overall experience. Visually it's near perfect, only the extended ending scene in Time Square has some noticeably blurred out billboards that were digitally changed in the theatrical cut. It's not the most distracting thing. However, there are some more distracting audio issues, mainly the dialog track being limited to left-side only. There is also a brief moment in the Time Square scene where you can hear Nick Furry starting to ask if Steve will be okay - in the original audio from the theatrical cut. Not very noticeable again, just a nit pick. If the audio could be adjusted so that the dialog comes out stereo, it would be most excellent!

I didn't expect this extened edition to be so well made.
The transitions were so smooth that I wouldn't have noticed there are additional scenes if I didn't know this movie by heart.
The audio and video quality is absolutely stunning even on my 55" TV, with me sitting barely three metres away from the screen.
The audio of the new scenes is a little bit louder and clearer than the rest of the film but I only noticed this when I listened closely on my five speakers surround sound system.

Since there are only two more minutes of footage, this edit flows just as well as the original movie and there are no problems with the pacing.
It just feels like a slightly more rounded version of an already entertaining movie. Absolutely loved this and it will for sure be my new favorite version of this movie.

This was a great theatrical performance, and BD's edit is fantastic, it adds more of a good thing, and the scenes added are blended in so cleanly, it's like it's meant to be. Thank you for sharing with me, this is my current most preferred version of Cap Merica 1!!!