From The Guardian. Critics picked their favorite superhero films:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Here’s a conspiracy theory: someone at the Academy purposefully shuffled those envelopes to detract from the much bigger scandal earlier in the evening: the snubbing of Garry Shandling in this year’s Oscars In Memoriam montage. I hope my choice of the Marvel movie in which he cameos as a sinister Hydra disciple will go some way to righting this wrong. Shandling’s 15-second appearance in this sequel to the first film featuring the weed who becomes the most fantastic hunk is one of my chief reasons for picking it; the other is it’s literally the only superhero movie I can ever really remember enjoying. This is obviously a personal deficit, but perhaps it is, actually, a better superhero movie than most? There are terrific action sequences, for a start: that initial heist, fuelled with sexual tension between the Cap and the Black Widow, plus the most wonderful punch-up in a lift. Plus, vegetables to accompany all that meat and beef: a properly thought-provoking investigation of the morals of surveillance and the ethics of vigilantism in a democratically accountable society. But perhaps what really clinched it for me as an Avengers movie I could get along with was the relative dearth of Robert Downey Jr. The more you can minimize this man, the more I shall like any movie. CS
From The Guardian. Critics picked their favorite superhero films:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
But perhaps what really clinched it for me as an Avengers movie I could get along with was the relative dearth of Robert Downey Jr. The more you can minimize this man, the more I shall like any movie. CS
I kind of agree with this.... hence the reason TWS is my favorite above CW, among other things
I totally agree mechevpao9!! Civil War was not all I wanted it to be and I think a great deal of that was too much Iron Man. I wanted my Cap movie not an Avengers film co-staring Cap and Iron Man. :-(
There was just something really amazing about CATWS. Honestly, that is the film that made me a fan of the Evans. I am sad to admit he had not really stood out to me before that. (I am hanging my head in shame.) It was a great movie on every level in my book and Captain America became the most interesting and layered Avenger.
I totally agree mechevpao9!! Civil War was not all I wanted it to be and I think a great deal of that was too much Iron Man. I wanted my Cap movie not an Avengers film co-staring Cap and Iron Man. :-(
There was just something really amazing about CATWS. Honestly, that is the film that made me a fan of the Evans. I am sad to admit he had not really stood out to me before that. (I am hanging my head in shame.) It was a great movie on every level in my book and Captain America became the most interesting and layered Avenger.
I go along with that mostly. However, I recognise that The Winter Soldier was the best film in my head but my heart belongs to The First Avenger just because it was such an exciting time from the announcement that his actorness had got the role up to the release and success of the film. Plus I recognise and appreciate the efforts Chris must have put in persuading Marvel to come and film in Manchester just for me. It can't have been easy.
I was going to say I have a love/hate relationship with RDJ but that's too strong. It's more a love/slight irritation relationship. I recognise his talent but I think sometimes an actor becomes so famous for himself that it outshines his characters when he works. When I look at Chris's characters they're all so different that the real Chris is tucked neatly away somewhere. When I look at Iron Man I mostly just see RDJ. I admit the fault may lie in me. Iron Man didn't overshadow Cap in TWS as much as I thought he was going to but it was still there. It definitely was a part of Marvel's plan to gradually pump up the number of superheroes in each film though. I suspect comic book and Marvel fans saw it as something more positive than us Chris Evans fans.
I totally agree mechevpao9!! Civil War was not all I wanted it to be and I think a great deal of that was too much Iron Man. I wanted my Cap movie not an Avengers film co-staring Cap and Iron Man. :-(
There was just something really amazing about CATWS. Honestly, that is the film that made me a fan of the Evans. I am sad to admit he had not really stood out to me before that. (I am hanging my head in shame.) It was a great movie on every level in my book and Captain America became the most interesting and layered Avenger.
When I look at Chris's characters they're all so different that the real Chris is tucked neatly away somewhere.
Yeah, but there's also a little bit of Chris that shines through in each role too... You catch it every now & then with an expression or mannerism, and you know that whoever the character is, there's a little Chris in there too.
There's one photo of Steve Rogers from Civil War that is 100% Chris - I just can't find it ATM though!
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Yeah, but there's also a little bit of Chris that shines through in each role too... You catch it every now & then with an expression or mannerism, and you know that whoever the character is, there's a little Chris in there too.
There's one photo of Steve Rogers from Civil War that is 100% Chris - I just can't find it ATM though!
Oh, yeah, tucked neatly away but not invisible.
"The movie came to life every time you were on the screen." Stan Lee to Chris Evans.
I totally agree mechevpao9!! Civil War was not all I wanted it to be and I think a great deal of that was too much Iron Man. I wanted my Cap movie not an Avengers film co-staring Cap and Iron Man. :-(
There was just something really amazing about CATWS. Honestly, that is the film that made me a fan of the Evans. I am sad to admit he had not really stood out to me before that. (I am hanging my head in shame.) It was a great movie on every level in my book and Captain America became the most interesting and layered Avenger.
I go along with that mostly. However, I recognise that The Winter Soldier was the best film in my head but my heart belongs to The First Avenger just because it was such an exciting time from the announcement that his actorness had got the role up to the release and success of the film. Plus I recognise and appreciate the efforts Chris must have put in persuading Marvel to come and film in Manchester just for me. It can't have been easy.
I was going to say I have a love/hate relationship with RDJ but that's too strong. It's more a love/slight irritation relationship. I recognise his talent but I think sometimes an actor becomes so famous for himself that it outshines his characters when he works. When I look at Chris's characters they're all so different that the real Chris is tucked neatly away somewhere. When I look at Iron Man I mostly just see RDJ. I admit the fault may lie in me. Iron Man didn't overshadow Cap in TWS as much as I thought he was going to but it was still there. It definitely was a part of Marvel's plan to gradually pump up the number of superheroes in each film though. I suspect comic book and Marvel fans saw it as something more positive than us Chris Evans fans.
I like RDJ, he is talented and he always has nice words about Chris except that time at JK, he made the joke that Chris was so nervous at the CW premier and RDJ was like "oh, just man up" like social anxiety is something to "man up" to... and that describes my love/hate relationship with RDJ. Also the fact that he never backs up from Marvel, he is in every movie, I'm eager to see the new Spiderman film but RDJ will be in it too, he goes to the premier of Dr Strange, just to compansate he was not in the movie, anyway....
I liked CW, and it's not an Avenger film, it's on CA perspective, but yet... it's not the movie I wanted for Cap's final solo movie, and that is what angers me a little, there will be no more Cap films, lead by Chris, now there will be 60 characters all together, wih 5 mins each on a couple of movies and it will be over. It saddens me more after watching Logan, I didn't love the movie, but the acting is great and it's so personal to the character and let Hugh shine so well, I wanted that for Cap3.
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump's Russia scandal: Captain America is a documentary now
Nick Romano@NickARomano
Posted on March 23, 2017
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is at the center of the latest revelation in the ongoing scandal over the president’s alleged ties to Russia, and Jimmy Kimmel thinks he has heard this story before.
“Remember that Captain America movie a few years back where everybody in the government was a Hydra agent and it seemed like, ‘Eh, that would never happen’?” (That’d be Captain America: The Winter Solider, by the way.) “It’s a documentary now,” Kimmel joked.
That Captain America himself, Chris Evans, has said he feels “rage” over Trump’s presidency only heightens the comparison.
According to the Associated Press, Manafort signed a contract with a Russian billionaire for the purpose of strengthening the Putin government in exchange for $10 million a year. “Can you imagine what Trump would be tweeting if President Obama or Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager had a $10 million a year contract to promote the Russian government?” Kimmel said. “He wouldn’t know what to do, words wouldn’t even come out of his Twitter. He’d be so excited he’d probably have to start using emojis.”
The late-night host added: “Even if you love Donald Trump, you know that’s true. You know it. You know he’d be tweeting until his tiny little thumbs broke off.”
He further slammed White House press secretary Sean Spicer, calling him the “White House stress secretary.” Kimmel criticized how Spicer “actually claimed that the campaign chairman had a very limited role.”
Fascinating linguistic point. The USA-ians pronounce Lego as Laygo or even Lay-gos. The UK-ians say Leg-go and never use that in the plural, which is why the interviewer repeats the word quizzically.
Fascinating linguistic point. The USA-ians pronounce Lego as Laygo or even Lay-gos. The UK-ians say Leg-go and never use that in the plural, which is why the interviewer repeats the word quizzically.
It's LEG-O in the US but yes we do pluralize it as LEGOS. I heard quite a few UK people taking Chris to task for saying LEGOS in Gifted and pointing it out as a film error - but nope that the way we USA-ians say it.