...Considero o melhor filme feito com os personagens que participarão dos VINGADORES, superando inclusive o Homem de Ferro. A história contou pouco a pouco a história do Capitão América e ainda deixou a deixa para o próximo filme. Diferente do Thor, neste filme houve um adversário real a ser enfrentado, durante todo o filme e não apenas durante poucos minutos!
Considering that he's from Brooklyn, is it really a surprise for the Red Skull that Cap kicks his ass so thoroughly every single time they scuffle? XD
Love the exchange-- "What makes you so special?" "Nothing." That's what Cap is, he's a reminder that all of us have potential to be something extraordinary. I can't wait for this movie.
By "potential" do you mean "pumped full of drugs"? Captain America was NOTHING before drugs made him special. He wasn't even fit to go to war. He didn't take his rejection as motivation to EARN his strength by working out, just just got it handed to him.
What's the message?
Captain America, even with the serum, it's nothing special in terms of powers. The serum just gave him olympics-athlete strenght, speed and reflexes. In the comics he trained YEARS. He learned Aikido, Boxing, Athletics. He's the Marvel equivalent of Batman, powers-wise. In the Avengers comics, he's almost always training when not in action. You sentence clearly shows a pretty poor knowledge of the character.Also, even the serum and all his training gave him nothing more then great hand-to-hand skills. He faced godlike reality-warpers (Red Skull with the cosmic cube), almost undescructible, lethal, powerful and extremely cunning enemies (Ultron), Time travellers (Kang), evil geniuses (Red Skull again, Doom), various alien invaders, etc, etc, yet he came out victorious.He is considered THE single best team leader due to his tactical genius and charisma in a comic universe that has plenty of.And the feature that tops everything is that he is the most noble soul in the Marvel Universe. He is more then willing to sacrifice himself for anybody. The magical hammer of Thor, Mjolnir, is famous for being impossible to lift up for anybody except Thor or someone that his considered worthy (kinda like extracting Excalibur from the rock in the legend), and Cap is one of the few people ever being able to do it in millennia. Thor has commented several times in the comics that Cap is the single being he respects more, both as a warrior, a leader, and a man. And that comes from a friggin' immortal Norse god with a Klingon-like obnoxious honour code that lives among epic immortal heroes and fought on side with most of humans heroes in history.
Josh is right. He was chosen for being a good person with a high moral. Because he wouldn't abuse his gift or go power hungry. He wanted to serve his country and fight for america but he was born sickly, not just skinny and small. Weight lifting would've have helped his condition. Steve Rodgers/Captain America, never quits and always fights for what's right. He's basically the Rocky of superheros. Wikipedia him and read up the info for yourself. allot of people don't get it because they don't know the character. He was special before taking the serum, he just didn't have the strength or body. He was born with a good heart and upstanding character. The serum didn't give him that, just enhanced it.
The message? I don't know if you knew this or not but some people aren't born with genes that allow them to be a 6'5'' height and etc. Message is: he never stopped caring or stopped from trying to help out as much as he could. He jumped on a grenade to save ppl. Self sacrifice maybe?
Why didn't they just get an actual scrawny actor for the role and then bulk him up? Instead of getting Chris Evans and then digitally shrinking him? Or at least it appears digital, because those pre-serum proportions don't look the least bit natural on him.
So, if I'm getting the continuity right, the first thing Steve Rogers must do when he steps out of the Captain America chamber is go to the bathroom.
Or he might just go on to be the bane of porcelain fixtures everywhere with his super powerful bladder muscles.
"Is it too late to go to the bathroom?" Why am I having trouble picturing the Steve Rogers from the comic book actually saying this? Why do I also think that another line must have been in the script, but they just let Chris Evans ad-lib using his "Chris Evans" persona (which he uses in every film he's in) until they found one that test-audiences laughed at? (As an aside: Are Evans, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel fucking Jackson the ONLY choices for comic book movies? Why does Sam Jackson HAVE to ruin, or make worse, so many comic films? "The Spirit?"--he was horrible, and dammit, can't we have the REAL Nick Fury please stand up, please stand up, please stand up! I know the studio wants HUGE box office numbers, but try casting an actor for once (Hugo Weaving notwithstanding)!)
I'm frankly a bit disappointed they've gone with "Captain America: First Avenger" instead of their original title: "Captain America: Out to Just Fuck With 'Rabidwolverine27'"
'"Is it too late to go to the bathroom?" Why am I having trouble picturing the Steve Rogers from the comic book actually saying this? Why do I also think that another line must have been in the script, but they just let Chris Evans ad-lib using his "Chris Evans" persona (which he uses in every film he's in) until they found one that test-audiences laughed at?"
Of course this is all conjecture and personal opinion on your part, so it's really you that's making it hard on yourself. I seriously doubt you 'know' what Steve Rogers from the comic book might have said right before a procedure like that, since it didn't happen like that, nor do we ever get to know Steve Rogers before he was Captain America.... Just saying.
The line sounds a bit more like there's a degree of fear/uncertainty behind it, too.
Keep in mind he's about to get pumped with serum - most people would be having second thoughts then.
To be fair, they cast Samuel Jackson because they were going for Ultimate Nick Fury.
Who is directly based off of him to the point where Marvel licensed his likeness.
Don't forget Sam L's quest to solidify his position as the top grossing (non-voice-)actor of all time.
Hugo's going for a raspy sort of tone, I kinda picture the Skull speaking loud and snobby, but everything else about the film version is fantasti-mungous.
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