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Post by takewithfood on Mar 11, 2011 12:13:02 GMT -5
Do we have a thread on this yet? Because I can't find it. Anyway, I missed the TV trailer, which I gather ran during the Super Bowl. Here it is, in case anyone else missed it, too: You can also watch it in higher definition on the official website. Thoughts? It looks okay to me, but there wasn't much to see. Definitely didn't give me chills or anything. They've also released a look at The Red Skull. ~TWF
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2011 16:08:27 GMT -5
They finally have a real promo? I noticed it's based in WWII, and I hope they have a Normandy Beach scene in the movie. I've always thought a Captain America movie should focus more on war instead of comics, but that's my my opinion. I'm not an avid comic book reader, but I have a few Captain America Comics, and some merchandise so I'll probably rent this one when it comes out on dvd.
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 12, 2011 0:14:38 GMT -5
If I understand correctly, it's mostly but not entirely set in WWII (which strikes me as odd... I see no reason for them not to hold off on bringing him into modern times for the Avengers movie).
I stand by my thoughts about movie in general; it looks bad. Spider-Man 3 bad. X-Men Origins bad.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2011 0:29:14 GMT -5
If I understand correctly, it's mostly but not entirely set in WWII (which strikes me as odd... I see no reason for them not to hold off on bringing him into modern times for the Avengers movie). I humbly disagree because you can't understand the truth meaning of Captain America without reading it from WWII, or possibly from living WWII. F-Bomb Personal Log. I had the opportunity to meeting a WWII vet before Alzheimer's completely took him. He's since went further though since I've met him, and been moved out of state. Those HERO'S are in my prayers. They are the real real hero's of the free world. Kudos...Kudos.
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 12, 2011 6:15:34 GMT -5
Er. Okay. So you obviously didn't understand the meaning of my post. I was saying I'm not sure why they're having Cap move into the present in the movie. Not why they're setting the movie in WWII.
On a broader note, though... Captain America as he is currently conceived is strictly a product of a 1960's mentality, not a WWII one. You can easily understand Cap w/o knowing the first thing about WWII, or about war at all. While it would be outstanding if they'd given Cap an actual war veteran mentality, they didn't.
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Post by takewithfood on Mar 12, 2011 8:21:30 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems logical to start the movie in WWII, then conclude it in the present somehow. You don't want to spend too much of the Avengers movie sorting out how Cap came to be in the present, and you don't want to just quickly explain it away, either.
I don't think it looks Origins bad, or Spidey 3 bad, but it doesn't look X1 or Spidey 1 good either. Hard to judge by such a short trailer, though. Watchmen had an amazing trailer, but the movie was just okay (worth seeing, but didn't rave about it). The Dark Knight had a pretty bland trailer, and we know how that turned out. Iron Man had a great trailer and the movie was really enjoyable, though, so there was some consistency there. And the Wolverine movie looked awful in the trailer and was awful on screen, too.
Argh, why must I wait until July 22nd?
~TWF
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Post by Silentking Alpha on Mar 12, 2011 9:24:58 GMT -5
Er. Okay. So you obviously didn't understand the meaning of my post. I was saying I'm not sure why they're having Cap move into the present in the movie. Not why they're setting the movie in WWII. On a broader note, though... Captain America as he is currently conceived is strictly a product of a 1960's mentality, not a WWII one. You can easily understand Cap w/o knowing the first thing about WWII, or about war at all. While it would be outstanding if they'd given Cap an actual war veteran mentality, they didn't. Isn't that how the first one went? Started in WWII and then jumped to the present? Losing hope for this movie here...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2011 12:17:55 GMT -5
Someone told me the movie is told in flashbacks. Anyone, hear an offical word about that?
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 12, 2011 12:45:17 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems logical to start the movie in WWII, then conclude it in the present somehow. You don't want to spend too much of the Avengers movie sorting out how Cap came to be in the present, and you don't want to just quickly explain it away, either. ~TWF I do. Want to hand-wave it away in the Avengers movie, that is. Largely because it's silly pseudo-science. The entire thing could be done in a few quick flashes during the opening credits as far as I'm concerned. Stark tells Fury he's made an amazing discovery. Submarine cruises through arctic waters. Captain America in slowly thawing ice block. Done.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2011 16:34:27 GMT -5
Someone told me the movie is told in flashbacks. Anyone, hear an offical word about that? I hope that's not the case. I've been waiting for a good Captain America movie for a while, but if it's a movie about flashbacks I won't watch it. Whenever a movie starts somewhere or some time then puts you in another place and time it breaks up my concentration, and I quickly loose interest. Like some other fans I'm hoping that it runs smoothly through WWII into Cap being frozen. I swear if it starts off with them finding Captain America frozen and flashes back to the war I will stop watching any marvel movies that come out. If they do that it'll be like that through the entire movie like they are trying to tell two different stories at the same time trying to cram two sh*tty movies into one movie for a diarrhea explosion when they could have just stuck with one good movie. My biggest question after watching this movie is how come Cap never repaints his shield. I understand that the shield is indestructible, but you' expect the paint to start chilling after it was hit by a bullet. I need some of that paint for my car.
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Post by takewithfood on Mar 12, 2011 16:56:12 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems logical to start the movie in WWII, then conclude it in the present somehow. You don't want to spend too much of the Avengers movie sorting out how Cap came to be in the present, and you don't want to just quickly explain it away, either. ~TWF I do. Want to hand-wave it away in the Avengers movie, that is. Largely because it's silly pseudo-science. The entire thing could be done in a few quick flashes during the opening credits as far as I'm concerned. Stark tells Fury he's made an amazing discovery. Submarine cruises through arctic waters. Captain America in slowly thawing ice block. Done. Hmm, you might be right. Really, Cap is the character who deserves/needs two movies before the Avengers, not Iron Man. You could tell Cap's origin story, then give him a fish-out-of-water story post-thaw, which could lead in well to the formation of the Avengers. Iron Man's sequel was pretty meaningless. Oh well. ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 12, 2011 20:06:04 GMT -5
Right, I could see that. What I can't understand is packing both his WWII experiences and his modern re-emergence into one movie, and The Avengers movie is going to be too much of an ensemble thing to really explore Cap's more interesting parts (for me anyway, that being the fact that he is a man out of time). Worse, they could try to do that and turn the Avengers movie into "Cap and those other dudes" the way the X-Men movies were focused on Wolverine.
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Post by Brainstem on Jun 12, 2011 13:59:50 GMT -5
Did you see the poster for this movie? It looks awesome and really gives me some hope for it. At the very least, the vibe this makes it look like they're going for is certainly one to be appreciated.
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Post by WildKnight on Jun 12, 2011 17:44:55 GMT -5
So let me see if I understand you Marvel Movie people, whoever you are.
It's not cool for Cap to be a "flag waver"... but it's cool to advertise the film with WWII style images (when the whole country was "flag waving"), and actually include the iconic image of Cap knuckle-dusting Hitler?
Cuh-rap.
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Post by takewithfood on Jun 13, 2011 6:24:17 GMT -5
You've seen his costume, right? How much more flag-waving do you want? ^__^
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