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Early review of Capt. America: Favorable

Acemace

By Acemace,
Posted on: 2011-07-20 24:50 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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The Skull was only tapping a fraction of the cube and didn't realize that it is essentially a cosmic "aladdin's lamp" as Thanos once described it.
It'd still work. Just... you know... wear gloves, Howard. :)

 

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Actually this brings up an interesting point: Tony Stark has had his eyes opened to all the death and destruction his weapons cause both in the right and WRONG hands, so he orders his company OUT of the weapons business. Ironically he then creates one of the greatest weapons in the form of the Iron Man armor, but there are securities to keep unauthorized personnel out of the armor. (Rhodey was authorized in IM2). But my point is this: will Tony keep the synthetic element that he created from his father's notes in IM 2 to himself?

Yes, he now can take the arc reactor to it's maximum potential and presumably give safe, clean energy to the world.....but SHOULD he? He was adamant that Obadiah not have engineers study the mini reactor in his chest in IM1, and I wonder if now his feelings have changed on the matter? He won't want it for weapons at all, but you know how the military can be about wanting the next best thing to stay ahead in the arms race. Arc reactor powered weapons would be something they'd love to have.
That very point came up in the comics a few years ago. (Ultimate Marvel, maybe.) Reed Richards doesn't give his ideas away because they can be too easily perverted into world-ending weapons.

Since Ant/Giant/Butthead-Man apparently doesn't exist in this continuity yet, I wonder if they can use Tony's tech as a basis for Ultron. He's got the suits and the artificial intelligence; all you need is a Justin Hammer-type bad guy to bring it all together. Or even a misguided General Ross. (Side note: I've acronymed "Jarvis" into J.A.R.V.I.S., Just Another Realistic Virtual Intelligence System. It sounds like something Tony would do.)

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(Side note: I've acronymed "Jarvis" into J.A.R.V.I.S., Just Another Realistic Virtual Intelligence System. It sounds like something Tony would do.)
It's that way in the Iron Man novelization, too. It stands for Just A Really Very Intelligent System - which, not entirely coincidentally, is the kind of acronym you'd have to be drunk and/or a bit immature to think was clever. :)

 

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It's that way in the Iron Man novelization, too. It stands for Just A Really Very Intelligent System - which, not entirely coincidentally, is the kind of acronym you'd have to be drunk and/or a bit immature to think was clever.
Well considering Yinsen told Tony they'd met briefly at some lecture where Tony was talking about integrated circuits and how pie-eyed Tony was at that lecture...he probably was tanked when he named Jarvis

 

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Talking of cross overs, the director of Fantastic Four 2 originally wanted to have Spider-Man, Daredevil and a few other heroes at the wedding, but Fox said no.

 

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Talking of cross overs, the director of Fantastic Four 2 originally wanted to have Spider-Man, Daredevil and a few other heroes at the wedding, but Fox said no.
Sony has the movie rights to Spidey so he couldn't have appeared. Not sure who still has Daredevil movie rights or if they reverted back to Marvel studios.

 

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That too.

 

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With the servers down, took the opportunity to go see the movie.

Best movie I've seen in quite a while.

I definitely squeed! when I see the original human torch.

Chris Evans pulled Cap off. I really had my doubts, but he did it.

Hugo Weaving. Well, it's hard to think of a superhero movie with a villain of his quality.

Tommy Lee Jones stole almost every scene he was in.

Peggy Carter was a strong female presence. Very happy for that.

Even Sgt. Bucky worked for me.

Loved how the Howling Commandos were Cap's group.

Still not a fan of their version of Nick, but at least he's not the real Nick so it's more acceptable.

Really looking forward to the Avengers.

 

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I think it was a great movie but it lacked in epicness that it should have had

 

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With the servers down, took the opportunity to go see the movie.

I definitely squeed! when I see the original human torch.
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Would love to see them do a movie with the original Torch.

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Chris Evans pulled Cap off. I really had my doubts, but he did it.

Hugo Weaving. Well, it's hard to think of a superhero movie with a villain of his quality.

Tommy Lee Jones stole almost every scene he was in.

Peggy Carter was a strong female presence. Very happy for that.

Even Sgt. Bucky worked for me.

Loved how the Howling Commandos were Cap's group.

Still not a fan of their version of Nick, but at least he's not the real Nick so it's more acceptable.

Really looking forward to the Avengers.
Tommy Lee, enjoyed his character and felt he was definitely channeling Agent K of the MIB.

Hugo Weaving: fantastic as the Skull, plus it was great that we see him looking normal for about half the movie and the second half he has removed the latex-skin mask to reveal his now true appearance. This to me was much better then Schmidt wearing a red skull mask and then removing it for the final fight scenes to show the star's face. For Cap about the only time I could say he was deliberately showing the star's face was the scene where he tried to save Bucky. As to Weaving as the Skull, the only thing that would have made it even better is if in the scene where he executes the person who said "We fought to the last man" is if that character was named Anderson and Skull says: "evidently not, Herr Anderson!"

Sgt. Bucky: well ED Brubaker in recent years had brought Bucky back and showed he really wasn't the doofy sidekick that Bucky was back in the old Timely Captain America Comics and all the Timely issues became WW2 Propaganda films about Cap and Bucky. Bucky instead is rewritten to be a fully trained combat soldier and was given the maximum possible training so that he could serve as Cap's partner in the war. Which to me makes more sense then having some doofy kid suiting up as a sidekick which should really get the hero arrested for child endangerment instantly. Also the scene in the movie where he picks up Cap's shield in one hand and pistol in the other was a nice Bucky as Captain America moment from the recent comics. Now one must wonder if a Cap sequel will have Bucky back as the Winter Soldier.

Wonder if after the war the Howling Commandos helped start SHIELD along with Howard Stark? I bet Peggy Carter also may be revealed as a SHIELD founder as well.

 

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Which to me makes more sense then having some doofy kid suiting up as a sidekick which should really get the hero arrested for child endangerment instantly.
To be fair, this was not a particularly pressing concern in 1942.

 

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Granted, comics back then were definitely a bit different from now.
And so was the Army, come to that.

 

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As to Weaving as the Skull, the only thing that would have made it even better is if in the scene where he executes the person who said "We fought to the last man" is if that character was named Anderson and Skull says: "evidently not, Herr Anderson!"
My favorite line was when Weaving dismisses the Nazis' search for occult items with a contemptuous, "And the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert." Seemed to me very much a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which director Johnston worked on.

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My favorite line was when Weaving dismisses the Nazis' search for occult items with a contemptuous, "And the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert." Seemed to me very much a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which director Johnston worked on.
True, that does indeed sound like a Raider's or even Last Crusade reference.

Wonder if the Skull set up the sleeper program in case of defeat? That would make for a nice Cap sequel.