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Post by Jet on Jun 21, 2011 3:12:59 GMT -5
That is, if someone has strenght to even read the books anyway. Many people I know really, REALLY wanted to read them but failed halfway through becouse Two Towers was soooooooooooo boring and full of padding. I admit, Im not a book person, but it doesnt say a lot of a title if I dont want to know the second half of it after going that far. And it applies to many of my friends, most of them read fantasy novels for breakfast. So yeah, the movie at least managed to hold me interested all the way through and makes me come back and enjoy other LOTR products, like video games or board games (btw, LOTR Card Game is awesome, check it out if you can).
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Post by honestiago on Jun 21, 2011 9:33:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I had trouble finishing all of LOTR. I like Terry Brooks' books a lot better, even though it's pretty much the same damned thing, without all the cultural flavor and textures (though all the history at the beginning of Sword of Shannara was a big, boring, necessary bear).
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Post by kito on Jun 23, 2011 5:08:03 GMT -5
i have never read the LOTR books and will pribly never will i hated all 3 LOTR movies and regret ever seeing any of them. if i could remove any movir franciez form theaters it would be the X-men but LOTR comes next for shure. i have no idea aobut the starship troopers stuff have only seen the movies ant tv show? is it a book? comicbook? flip book? but i did like the style of the first starship trooper movie. i was aobut 10-12 ish when it came out, and i thout it was cool and nicly presented easy to undestand, as for number 2 and 3 and maby 4 i cant rember if there is a 4, just could not take them. 2 with its "Zombie" Bugs and 3 with the God thrown in, i mean they kill the bug "GOD" at the end is it not over will the bug now not quit with no god?
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Post by Black Sam on Jun 25, 2011 14:17:41 GMT -5
Not to derail this thread with the actual topic, buutt...Trailer #2 is out!
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Post by WildKnight on Jun 25, 2011 14:24:19 GMT -5
So... that was a trailer alright.
I did like this though... "What made you so special?"
"Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn"
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Post by Silentking Alpha on Jun 25, 2011 14:28:41 GMT -5
Will Skull be using the cosmic cube?
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Post by Puck on Jun 25, 2011 14:33:34 GMT -5
this looks beast
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Post by WildKnight on Jun 25, 2011 14:36:00 GMT -5
Will Skull be using the cosmic cube? I suspect that there will be some mention of it, but I doubt we'll actually see him utilize it, at least not to its potential. Seems like it would be kind of stupid to have Cap crush Skull with the Cosmic Cube, and then have the Cube show back up again as a threat to the entire Avengers team, somehow.
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Post by Brainstem on Jun 25, 2011 14:54:57 GMT -5
Unless the movie ends with Cap being frozen away, rather than having that as some kind of prelude in the Avengers film?
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Post by WildKnight on Jun 25, 2011 14:57:49 GMT -5
Unless the movie ends with Cap being frozen away, rather than having that as some kind of prelude in the Avengers film? Ah, yeah. Hadn't thought of that.
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Post by Black Sam on Jun 25, 2011 16:05:03 GMT -5
I thought the hand grenade scene was cute. This trailer raises my hopes a smidgen.
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Post by takewithfood on Jul 12, 2011 17:41:01 GMT -5
Ten days to go. Nice big, long trailer for you guys in the meantime:
~TWF
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Post by Black Sam on Jul 20, 2011 6:21:34 GMT -5
First (mixed) review from the Hollywood Reporter:Captain America delivers comic-book action that should satisfy Captain America’s fans, old and new, while Chris Evans’ no-nonsense yet engaging portrayal of a man who doesn’t know how to back away from a fight may cause young women to swoon and young men to join a gym. Yet the film will leave others wondering, especially following the film’s long gestation and marketing build-up, "Is this all there is?"
For in terms of even recent films, Captain America lacks the deft touch, appealing character interaction and sophisticated storytelling skills of Marvel Comics’ X-Men: First Class. And let’s not even bother to compare this to Christopher Nolan’s Batman series.
Sticking to its simplistic, patriotic origins, where a muscular red, white and blue GI slugging Adolf Hitler in the jaw is all that’s required, Captain America trafficks in red-blooded heroes, dastardly villains, classy dames and war-weary military officers. There is no ambiguity here. Nor does any superhero question his powers. No, sir, not in this war and not with these determined heroes. While bracketed by a modern-day sequence, the movie otherwise takes place in a heightened rendering of the early days of the fight against Nazi Germany.
An overnight media sensation, the military doesn't know what to do with Steve other than send him— shades of Flags of Our Fathers— on a bond-raising tour as the newly dubbed Captain America. When the tour takes him to Europe, he breaks out of the carnival show long enough to save the lives of nearly 400 GIs including his Brooklyn buddy Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). This rescue cues a new assignment for Captain America. Steve is now point man for Col. Phillips’ team in Strategic Scientific Research, along with the redoubtable Peggy Carter and inventor Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper), in taking on the Hydra organization, a Nazi science division that is even worse than the Nazis. In fact, it’s more like a worldwide criminal organization out of the James Bond era, intent on world conquest and more than willing to kill fellow Nazis. Everyone associated with this evil group shouts not "Heil Hitler" but "Heil Hydra."
Caught between contemporary tent-pole movie making and a period piece, the movie keeps featuring very odd visual anachronisms. You might accept the battles that feature sci-fi weapons along side vintage WWII arms but what to make of the Hydra soldiers’ Darth Vader costumes, those weird planes, cars and a submarine that maneuver within 1943’s earth, sky and sea and, most alarming of all, that red dress Peggy wears in the battle zone. It’s a knock-‘em-dead outfit that may be a special weapon all its own.
Director Joe Johnston makes certain that amid all the retro-futuristic nonsense his nucleus of actors playing SSR heroes fits well together. Evans nicely underplays the role, giving a Gary Cooper-ish air to the young hero who just wants to do the right thing. Atwell is a perfect throwback to that era: Darkly gorgeous yet tough as nails, she would look just at home painted on a bomber fuselage as she is slugging a solider who gives her lip. Jones knows how to make every moment of screen time count with these grumpy and gruff characters he now plays, but Stan and Cooper aren’t so lucky: Their characters came out a little too thin in Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely‘s screenplay. Meanwhile, Weaving is very one-notish as the villain, which leaves it to Toby Jones, as his sidekick, to add a little nuance to Nazi villainy.
The tech team brilliantly supports the comic-book action without any single department showing off or adding unnecessary flourishes. A special tip of the hat here to Anna B. Sheppard’s costumes and Rick Heinrichs’ production design for maintaining enough period flavor so the production doesn’t go too overboard. Oh yes, this film is yet another summer fantasy in 3D in certain theaters. For some sequences, the format works well enough but it’s hardly worth the extra expenditure. This gimmick is truly running out of steam.
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Post by WildKnight on Jul 20, 2011 6:27:55 GMT -5
Shock of shocks... someone from Hollywood thinks that a story about Captain America is less "sophisticated" than X-Men: First Class.
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Post by takewithfood on Jul 20, 2011 6:35:30 GMT -5
A lot of newcomers to comic books are going to be put off by Hydra and Red Skull, though I imagine Hugo Weaving may make many of them not care and just enjoy his performance. ^__^
Rotten Tomatoes has two fresh and one rotten so far - though the reviewer who submitted the rotten review also hated Thor and First Class, so who knows. It's too early at this point.
It does worry me a little that there haven't been reviews until this point, only a few days before the premiere. That isn't a good sign.
~TWF
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