Captain America

[EricJ]

I commend George on coming back with the Dictionary descriptions and not using his reply to begin or prolong a new argument.

(I dunno, to take a page out of the sudden taste for Star Wars jokes, doesn't:

"You're a clinging, co-dependent stalker pest who graffitis his name across the entire board two or three times a day by the clock with nonseniscally off-topic jokes and arcanely personal-interest material, who won't quit because he has no lonely social life of his own!"
"..Who's 'stalking'?"

sound oddly like "Who's 'scruffy-looking'?" )

[Dacey]

Full new trailer:



Looks awesome!

[Randall]

I think I may love this movie. And I'm not even American.

[Bill1978]

Is Chris Evans head digitally placed onto an actor playing pre-Captain America Steve? On my first viewing it was kinda offputting, but that's probably cause I've never see Chris Evans as short or scrawny before.

[GeorgeC]

I think I may love this movie. And I'm not even American.

Captain America is an ideal... he's not a puppet of any political group or government.

That's something half the people who write the character forget.

The character's generally positive attitude (in the past; hate the characterization since the mid-1990s -- he's written like Batman now) and his fight to live up to the concepts of freedom and liberty are nothing to be sneered at by anyone -- especially now with the encroachment of political correctness on every aspect of speech. Not to mention the people in power in most developed countries who are taking advantage of the economic crisis to do some very unsavory things to keep their power.

Too bad if people can't get past the flag-costume... that's not the whole freakin' point of the character.
He's not a jingoist.
The main enemy may no longer be the Nazis but the need for a positive inspirational figure isn't any less than it was 70 years ago...

[Randall]

Hear, hear!

[EricJ]

And, of course, the appeal of his character in the modern-day Avengers (which's the reason we get the movie this year), is that his "basic ideals" seems out of place with modern superheroics, but, of course, that's his biggest strength.
If you didn't put his character in 40's red-white-and-blue WWII context, he'd just come off as another costumed goof like the 70's TV series.

Still, seems like the trailer is showing even MORE of the zero-to-hero origins than the last one did--Normally, my GL/Muppets "What are they hiding? " alarm would go off, but here, looks like they're being smart enough to hold the Cool Stuff back, like they did with Thor's marketing.

[LotsoA113]

As a MArvel nerd, this has me pumped. Thor delivered a rousing, A grade adventure and CA looks to do the same. July should be a fun month for movies (adding in Harry Potter and the exciting-looking Cowboys and Aliens)

[Ben]

Did this just come out online? I saw it with Pirates 4 weeks ago!

The Evans head on a scrawny bod look was a bit weird the first time I saw it too, but you get used to it. I don't know if it's his head on a smaller body or if they shrunk him, but if so they should have shrunk his head a bit too, as it looks (a little) too big.

I'm loving the whole vibe, though, and think I'm going to love the movie too. I haven't yet seen a Joe Johnston movie that has been really bad (I don't count Wolf Man as he stepped in late and finished off someone else's bad movie and even Jurassic III was a better rehash than Lost World) and I'm looking forward to this one big time!

[Dacey]

This might be what you saw at "Pirates," Ben...



Really, the two trailers are virtually identical to each other in terms of structure. The second one's just slightly more action heavy.

[Ben]

Yep, that's what I saw, thanks! Ahh, I'll bother to go check out the newer version then!

[Vernadyn]

Just saw this, and it was very enjoyable and entertaining. The action sequences are well done, though there is a bit of a sci-fi vibe to some of the weapons. It also features a rousing, old-school score by Alan Silvestri. It's not quite Mummy Returns, but it brings back memories from when orchestrally complex scores were more common. Alan Menken contributes a fun song as well. There's a brief Avengers teaser after the credits, though it doesn't really reveal anything of substance.

[EricJ]

There's a brief Avengers teaser after the credits, though it doesn't really reveal anything of substance.

Oh, go ahead and spoiler it, who watches ten minutes of credits anyway?

(And it wasn't until a review that I realized that Chris Evans also played the insufferable Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies:
Interesting that the one man most responsible--next to Ang Lee--for convincing Marvel to make their own movies is now the one man on whom the Avengers' future rests.)

[Randall]

Hey, Chris and Chiklis were the only decent parts of the FF movies. Sure, Johnny was insufferable, but he was written that way. Chris did well in the part. And from what I've seen so far, he nailed Steve Rogers.

[GeorgeC]

Yeah, Chiklis and Evans were faithful to The Thing and Torch.

People really have to read the FF comics again... The Thing has always had a depressive personality complex because of his appearance and Johnny IS a hot-headed motor mouth adrenaline junkie, too. The only mature Torch was the android!