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and he's actually a decent choice. Chris Evans certainly has the physicality of the part. Original article here.

Guy's ripped. Give 'im that.

I've only seen him act in the god awful Fantastic Four movies so my hopes are not high. Evans has the face for the part but his body looks more like a lean athlete like a swimmer; whereas Captain America has about 50 more pounds on him since he looks like a huge steroids-popping, ready for WWE wrestling kind of guy imo.

Also not a fan of the director involved (Jurassic Park 3 guy).

I do like Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull then again Hugo Weaving is bad ass in just about any role

All in all I have very little hope for this movie. Not only due to most of the people involved but also because Captain America seems like one of those lesser-cared about characters and one of the more difficult ones to transform to the silver screen. Imo his name, story, shield, costume, etc have not aged well and most of these qualities will likely see significant changes.

..for the record I posted this first in the comic book thread, moan grumble

Cane wrote:I've only seen him act in the god awful Fantastic Four movies so my hopes are not high. Evans has the face for the part but his body looks more like a lean athlete like a swimmer

Well he's already played the Human Torch*, maybe he's going to play the Submariner as well and star in his very own Invaders film.




*Different ones, I know.

He's done well playing an arrogant jerk. See if he has more range than that. He was good in Sunshine too, but played the same basic role.

Johnny Storm as Steve Rogers?

I don't know about this.

GG

I disagree and agree. The character has aged just fine, if you've read Ed Brubaker's current run on the book. It's a very gritty, grounded, espionage-based approach to the character (rebirth story excepted). Heck, he even made Batroc the Leaper seem like a decent character.

The Cap movie is potentially Batman Begins + Saving Private Ryan, if handled right. Having said that, Marvel will likely muck it up. You don't have to go much farther than the title -- "The First Avenger: Captain America." Sounds to me like it's headed too far down the corny path (a little corny is good), and that's a shame.

gorgon wrote:I disagree and agree. The character has aged just fine, if you've read Ed Brubaker's current run on the book. It's a very gritty, grounded, espionage-based approach to the character (rebirth story excepted). Heck, he even made Batroc the Leaper seem like a decent character.

The Cap movie is potentially Batman Begins + Saving Private Ryan, if handled right. Having said that, Marvel will likely muck it up. You don't have to go much farther than the title -- "The First Avenger: Captain America." Sounds to me like it's headed too far down the corny path (a little corny is good), and that's a shame.

Well, it is basically being done as a prequel for the Avengers movie but I do agree it doesn't exactly flow very well.

We need Cap kicking Nazi ass damn it!

And he does need to bulk up more. As fit and well muscled as he is, he is just not the right kind of build for the Cap.

Will be interested to see how it is done, but I don't have a great deal of hope of getting the gritty kill-a-thon that I want over the naff-ness that we will probably get.

what happens if the Fantastic Four and Captain America team up.............. does he play both parts?

he catches fire and beats himself to debt.

I must say I had big, big reservations about Iron Man and they did that extremely well.
Even the redone Hulk was a massive lift of the one from 10 odd years ago.

Gotta agree, his physique is all wrong for Captain America.



I bet Chris Evans has feet and all sorts of crazy stuff.

I concur that he was surprisingly good in Sunshine.

Does anybody else think that the Captain America film from the 80s is actually not that bad? (aside from his fake ears of course).

Flashman wrote:I concur that he was surprisingly good in Sunshine.

Does anybody else think that the Captain America film from the 80s is actually not that bad? (aside from his fake ears of course).

I'll agree that the Captain America film from the 80s wasn't entirely bad,in fact it had alot of potential ...it just sort of fell apart in places.
However,it was infinatly better than The Captain America films of both the 70s and 40s.





As for this latest "vision" of Cap,guess we shall have to wait and see.

I'm waiting for the Thor movie, and heres hoping Captain America will actualy be set during WW 2 in its entirety.

I cannot comment on this choice without turning in my man card.


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Oh, who am I kidding?

HE'S HAWT!

/submits man card

The "muscling up" thing is overrated. He's not going to be in spandex, head-to-toe.

Regarding the uniform,

they need to rough him up. he is too pretty to be Cap America. the muscle thing might be a bit off, but they DID cast Nic Cage as Ghostrider *shudder*

Iron Man has been the only marvel movie to live up to the story and make it awesome, imho...

Spiderman ranchise
ghostrider
all xmen
daredevil
any im missing


they all just ruined all of my dreams as a child as to what the movies would be like....

IG_urban wrote:they need to rough him up. he is too pretty to be Cap America. the muscle thing might be a bit off, but they DID cast Nic Cage as Ghostrider *shudder*

Iron Man has been the only marvel movie to live up to the story and make it awesome, imho...

Spiderman ranchise
ghostrider
all xmen
daredevil
any im missing


they all just ruined all of my dreams as a child as to what the movies would be like....

Yeah but there are gay undertones in the iron man movie. It's all over the net, it's so blatant!

GG

now you are bringing in a separate issue from a different topic and being a troll. grow up, man.

IG_urban wrote:now you are bringing in a separate issue from a different topic and being a troll. grow up, man.

Dude it was a joke.

GG

one of text's downfalls are the lack of tone of voice and facial expression.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to Cap. USA. I just hope he does alright, I'm still annoyed about Wolverine. YOU DON'T GET AN OZZIE TO PLAY A CANADIAN! :( They took the ONE good thing to come out of Canada and Ruined it.

Thanks for posting the picture of the guy that makes me feel all gay and stuff. :(

X-men 3 is the worst movie I have ever seen.

Here's a few other guys who could play a mean Captain America:



umm...



oh...ah...he let himself go...



well...at least he has muscles...



okay, not bad...let's see another shot of him...



blarggghhhhrgelegleslglgelgeglelg (imitating throw up noise)



Okay, we're done here.

Gwar! wrote:

I'll see it and raise:

Never much liked Captain America as a character, indeed during the Civil War, well what I've read of it, he comes across very much as a petulant little brat. Gimme Tony Stark anyday. Even if he was a Skrull.

On the subject of other Marvel movies, X2 is the best I've seen so far. They really nailed X-Men in that one IMHO, with only Cyclops being underused.