If Hollywood wants to make a bit more money on a film's opening day, they might want to shoot me an email about it that says, "It's about somebody fighting a cult." That's the surprise I got when I finally caught last year's
Captain America: The First Avenger:
It's a movie about somebody fighting a cult!
O.K., it's a stupid CGI-laden monstrosity, with explosions and a "love interest," about somebody fighting a cult. But still, it's a movie about somebody fighting a cult, and I should've been told:
For the record, the cult is
Marvel Comics' mystical order known as
Hydra, based on the
Nazi SS, which brings up lots to think about - first and foremost, how
the same beliefs and desires that fueled the SS also do so for
today's NewAge, and how the public, both,
here in the present and in Germany during the war, think that's a good thing. Word to the ahistorical, uninformed, and very-unwise:
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