This is looking to be the most fun of the comic book movies set for this summer…
As jazzed as I am about The Dark Knight Rises, the more that I see of The Avengers, the more it’s looking like the superhero movie that we always dreamed as kids of seeing but thought we’d never get to have.
The Avengers assemble on May 4th....
So being old enough to (very barely) remember those dopey Captain America TV movies from the late Seventies (starring Reb Brown, forever known best as Yor: Hunter From The Future) and then years later the 1990 film with J.D. Salinger’s son Matt as the star-spangled Avenger, I have waited long enough for Cap to get the respect he rightfully deserves as a live-action adaptation of the legendary comic book superhero.
What sayest then this blogger about Captain America: The First Avenger?
This is almost the Captain America movie that I have always wanted to see happen. I mean, it’s dang nearly perfect… as a film about a Marvel Comics hero. Chris Evans nails it as both the frail Steve Rogers and the super-soldier that he eventually becomes courtesy of cutting edge (for the early 1940s anyway) science. I sincerely thrilled to the production design and the distinctly ...
Breaking on news outlets everywhere now. Cap had just surrendered after the events of Marvel Comics’ Civil War #7 and was being taken into a courthouse when he was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant.
I say: if he’s dead, let him stay dead. Let his death have meaning. ‘Course this being Marvel Comics, it’s probably only a matter of time before Doctor Strange does some mystical hoodoo and not only resurrects Cap, but mind-wipes everyone on the planet into forgetting that Civil War took place, that Spider-Man unmasked himself, will make Mar-Vell dead again too etc…...