Cap Movie Post!

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

I'm hopping on one foot to see the new Captain America movie. (Already got my tix for the Thursday midnight show!)

We need more posts about it!

So here are two things. First off, an adorable clip of kids reacting to the trailer. My reactions to their reactions range from "Awwww" to "You only say that because you don't understand Captain America like I do!"

Plus, a clip from the movie I don't think has been posted here yet.

Enjoy!



Those darned kids! :)

"I CAN DO THIS!"

Legal for America!

Comments

[chocochuy]

Well done, Private Proteus_Lives!!!

[proteus_lives]

Thank you Corporal Chocochuy!

[glprime]

This post approved by General GLPrime.

[tacitoz]

Oh. My. God.
THOSE KIDS ARE SO PRECIOUS!
When that one kid says girls can watch it, too, because Cap takes off his shirt...X,D
now I'm hyped again.
And I want a movie with CAPTAIN GERMANY! He'd be some crazy dude who makes chidren eat Sauerkraut! (that stuff is healthy, man! and tastes nice. The French don't know anything!)

[proteus_lives]

Ah, the Germans.

If you have a food-stuff, they can and will make a sausage based product from it.

[tacitoz]

Hey, we don't have sausage flavoured ice cream! (...yet)

[proteus_lives]

Yet is the key word.

There is a man in Baden-Baden with a grinder, a mixer and dream.

[tacitoz]

His is a dream that will make the heavens cry bloody tears!
THough I guess München might be better, the Bayerns are your choice for stereotypical Germans -coughOktoberfestcough-

[proteus_lives]

Oh, no doubt. But Baden-Baden was the first German city to spring to mind. ;)

[arilou_skiff]

Those bloody tears will then be used for a pretty nice blutwurst.

[tacitoz]

...Blutwurst+mashed potatoes+applesauce plz? :D
haha blutwurst is "Black pudding" in English...o_O

[chocochuy]

Just don't tell them to ask Superman to make some propaganda or he would screw the moon again.

In case you are wondering what I am talking about, feel free to read this post : http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2873754.html

Enjoy the weirdness of this Celestial Super-Dickery.

[tacitoz]

Wow, that is probably the most creative advertising ever. Supes, you should be on a creative team, maybe then we'd have less random naked women/sex on commercials and more awesomeness.

[chocochuy]

Motto.

[salinea]

The French don't know anything!
Hey!

[tacitoz]

I was just referring to the fact they called us "Krauts" back in ye olden days. I highly object to tihnking of that as an insult ;3;
(so you're French? :D)

[salinea]

I thought it's English&Americans who call you "Krauts". The basic German derogatory term in French i've usually read of was "Boches".

(a-yup.)

[tacitoz]

Hmmm....true. Weird o_o
why did I think the French did that? This is most worrisome indeed!

[mola_ram]

I have reached the point where I'm not excited per see anymore, but just damn tired and annoyed that the movie hasn't come out yet (and mind you, there's still about a month left before it gets released here in Denmark)
Haven't felt that way about a movie since Lotr: The two towers

I've seen several other clips on the IGN site where the Shield fight post here was linked to.
While it's pretty much just the uncut clips from things we have seen in the various trailers, they still look pretty damn cool.

Shield test clip
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/07/18/captain-america-clip-shield-test


Grenade clip
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/07/18/captain-america-clip-grenade?objectid=34020

[proteus_lives]

A month? Ouch.

I love the shield clips! Did you watch the shield fight one?

Gotta love the internet. When I was but a lad in my LCS I never could have imagined discussing Cap with someone from Denmark!

[mola_ram]

I've seen the shield fight and I absolutely love it.
I think I have to look at the early Jet Li or Donnie Yen kung fu movies to find a scene where I saw the main character dispose of so many foes so "casually" as that.
Very smoothly stunt choreographing and editing indeed.

Have the exact same feeling as you do about the internet. Sure,when I was a boy I always imagined it could take place if you had several screens you could use to talk to people all over the world like in the old Flash Gordon movies, but how I would get in cotact with fellow comic book fans always eluded me. XD

One of the things I like in the two clips I posted is the tension that seems to rise in Peggy whenever she looks at Steve.
I can definetly see the attraction to him when he is all beefcakey, but I'm looking forward to see what he does that puts such an impression in her.

[tsunamiwombat]

I'm interested: news sources have made a bigger hullabaloo out of this, but as a Dane, do you find the idea of a 'Captain America' as insensitive, politically speaking? Are you excited to see the movie even though he's, y'know, Captain America?

I happen to think Cap is a great character reguardless of his patriotic connotations (modern day Paladin tbh), but i've seen a few news publications raise the question of wether or not Captain America has an audience anywhere but America.

[proteus_lives]

Who finds the "idea of a 'Captain America' as insensitive, politically speaking"?

What news publications?

Hey, if Spidey, Batman and Iron Man movies rake it in overseas, Cap should do fine.

[kenwyn89]

The thing is, Captain America was born in a very different time. A time when the British Empire still existed in part and patriotism on both sides of the atlantic was rife. A lot of people can forgive the character because of that, however a lot of the problems in making a film of him stem from that. The principles of Steve Rogers as a character is great, and I especially love him when he's a mentor to other heroes in comics. However, I understand the issues within the world that papers bring up are genuinely serious- the world doesn't want to see a country saying "Hell yes, we're better than you are" because it leads to a perception of imperialism. By the nature of his existence, regardless of good literature or not, it could be a problem.

But at least it's not 300. That movie was really an offensive farce of propaganda, but unfortunately sometimes other countries don't understand the principles that movie studios act independently from government.

We brits like it well enough though, I think general opinion finds it almost just another tacky american thing (and people who like superhero films will go see it)- there's more concern about the Prince Harry kidnapped movie thing. Due to Will and Kate there's more pro-royal feeling about than I can remember.

[mola_ram]

Could you provide a link to the articles you mention?
I'm sure some people'll watch another movie if they have the choice because they don't know the Cap character, and consider him little more than american propaganda, but that's the same problem that any movie based on the works of say, Jane Austen is facing.
The moment a character or a setting is following a specific cultural or national setting it's bound to discourage some viewers, but hey, we're all individuals with differnet taste .
I dont think people here'll find Cap politically insensitive (well, the neo nazis and the extreme right wing muslims we have here obviously, but they find everything that they don't like politically insensitive, so who cares what they think.)

I think that the writers/producers are well avare of that, and is going to give his PATRIOTISM and his DOING WHAT'S RIGHT attitude equal screen time so it'll blend nicely together I hope. (Yes, IMO Caps patriotism and sense of right and wrong is two fully functionable seperate entities ;o) )
And I'm sure that people all over the world can get behind Cap in the fact that we all love seeing nazies getting punched in the face.
So I think Cap'll do okay overseas, not as great as in the U.S. obviously, but he'll do fine.

Personally I became a fan of Captain America back when Brubaker took over so you bettter believe that I'm going to watch it BECAUSE IT'S CAPTAIN AMERICA.
If I hadn't started reading Brubakers run and became a Cap fan, I would still as a comic book geek go watch it because;

1, When Cap is involved in a story, you know that the stakes are going to be insanely high, and insanely high means some kickass storytelling and insanely awesome action.
2. I've never seen his patriotism as a bad thing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with loving your country. God may bless America, but that don't mean he damns the rest of the world.
3. Sometimes it's just so nice to watch a movie where there is a clear definiton of right and wrong, where the heros moral compass isn't broken and you still root for the good guy even though the bad guys have all the cool equipment and uniforms. To see a movie where it's just good old fashioned fun to watch the good guy kick some major deserved ass.

Should his patriotism be tuned down a bit to accomodate new viewers?
Hell no!
In general I think that if you make a movie based on any different medium you damn well keep as true to the source material as possible.
It shows you respect the fans who have been loyal to the franchise, and that you have the common sense that if any concept is good enough to make a movie of, you keep to the themes that made said concept a success to begin with.
That's one of the reasons I loathe the Constantine and Catwoman movie so much.

[tsunamiwombat]

Hm, I can't find any of the articles now. I just remember there were headlines and even some local news chatter about the movies title being changed overseas and wether or not it would sell because of it's Americentricity.

[biod]

Highlights:
The widdle girl indignantly saying that there need to be MORE superhero movies.
"Money is profitable"
Girl don't care if Catwoman's a villain, she's cool.
Rainbow shirt kid is awesome.

Achingly ironic comment of the day:
"[Superman] can't die"

[ar_feiniel]

"Girls will be into it because he takes his shirt off"

lol, that was cute. I wish we saw more of the reactions while they watched the trailer though.

[lieut_kettch]

I'd like to give the kid who was sooo hyped about the Green Lantern movie a big pat on the back. And a Kleenex to blow his nose on.

*stiffly extends arm, Sheldon Cooper-style*

There, there.

[retro_nouveau]

Reason #422 that retro does not belong in scans_daily: Loved them all, but saw Thor 1 time, First Class 1 time, Green Lantern 3 times.

[arilou_skiff]

I love the girl who was just intently staring at the screen and going "Oh my god!"