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Post by Picap on Jan 28, 2019 21:35:49 GMT
At 3:26
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Post by bethnor on Jan 29, 2019 5:26:45 GMT
maybe someone here can dig this up... but i'm looking for the e! interview (either e! or entertainment weekly) where evans talks about being... ah... felt up? by atwell, and his reaction was "ah, excuse me." he's wearing a green plaid shirt. i KNOW this video is not on youtube (as far as i know), but it's somewhere on the web.
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Post by Bob on Jan 29, 2019 11:32:37 GMT
maybe someone here can dig this up... but i'm looking for the e! interview (either e! or entertainment weekly) where evans talks about being... ah... felt up? by atwell, and his reaction was "ah, excuse me." he's wearing a green plaid shirt. i KNOW this video is not on youtube (as far as i know), but it's somewhere on the web. I love this kind of challenge. I've been through my vault and so far have found only 3 interviews that I've actually got in which he's wearing a green plaid shirt. One is E! but I've had a quick listen and he doesn't seem to say anything about being 'felt up' by Hayley Atwell. Can't find any Entertainment Weekly yet. I'll keep looking. I did screenshots of the 3 I found. Ring any bells? Access Hollywood E-Online
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Post by bethnor on Jan 30, 2019 5:07:35 GMT
^^^^
it's definitely from the second interview, but it's not the segment they have on youtube. the segment in question (as far as i know) was only on e-online, or one of its cousins. the segment on youtube only has chris, but the segment in question intercuts between evans and atwell.
here are screencaps from it:
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Post by Picap on Jan 30, 2019 12:58:08 GMT
Starts at 2:10m
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Post by Bob on Jan 30, 2019 16:00:56 GMT
@picap
You're a gem!
God, Hayley Atwell is supernaturally gorgeous.
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Post by bethnor on Jan 31, 2019 4:08:57 GMT
picap <3
yes, it's skeevy of me to want to see that video. but the way he says "excuse me" is so dang cute.
also, when he "curses" his mom for teaching him how to tap.
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Post by Bob on Feb 1, 2019 0:56:24 GMT
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Post by bethnor on May 14, 2019 7:03:58 GMT
of course, now that the infinity saga is winding down, a lot of critics/authors are ranking their mcu films. i was a bit surprised (but pleased) to find that first avenger actually made the top spot on some lists!
"Even on a rewatch, this is still the best start-to-finish MCU movie of the bunch. It was also the first MCU movie that I outright loved. Stanley Tucci and Chris Evans have an exchange that sums up everything good, hopeful and inspiring about this whole Marvel epic, no matter what came after (and what lessons America failed to learn). It was is the first MCU movie that didn’t feel constricted by budgetary limitations. Joe Johnston gives us a wonderfully exciting, funny, and joyful World War II adventure that both didn’t shy away from the horrors of the period with a resounding reminder of why America used to be considered something of a moral beacon.
Captain America: The First Avenger is the first great MCU movie and still my favorite MCU movie. Chris Evans does something wonderful here. He doesn’t make Captain America “edgy” or “troubled” for our cynical age, but rather makes Steve Rogers’s relentless decency outright exciting and makes that unblinking morality into his defining character trait. The Captain America of the MCU isn’t “like us,” but rather he is (save for his #TeamBuckyAtAllCosts actions in Civil War) unquestionably better than us, a character not so much to relate to but rather aspire to and admire. And his first movie is a ripping old-school adventure which remains my favorite MCU film to date."
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Post by Bob on May 14, 2019 7:17:27 GMT
of course, now that the infinity saga is winding down, a lot of critics/authors are ranking their mcu films. i was a bit surprised (but pleased) to find that first avenger actually made the top spot on some lists!
"Even on a rewatch, this is still the best start-to-finish MCU movie of the bunch. It was also the first MCU movie that I outright loved. Stanley Tucci and Chris Evans have an exchange that sums up everything good, hopeful and inspiring about this whole Marvel epic, no matter what came after (and what lessons America failed to learn). It was is the first MCU movie that didn’t feel constricted by budgetary limitations. Joe Johnston gives us a wonderfully exciting, funny, and joyful World War II adventure that both didn’t shy away from the horrors of the period with a resounding reminder of why America used to be considered something of a moral beacon.
Captain America: The First Avenger is the first great MCU movie and still my favorite MCU movie. Chris Evans does something wonderful here. He doesn’t make Captain America “edgy” or “troubled” for our cynical age, but rather makes Steve Rogers’s relentless decency outright exciting and makes that unblinking morality into his defining character trait. The Captain America of the MCU isn’t “like us,” but rather he is (save for his #TeamBuckyAtAllCosts actions in Civil War) unquestionably better than us, a character not so much to relate to but rather aspire to and admire. And his first movie is a ripping old-school adventure which remains my favorite MCU film to date."
This makes me happy. Whilst my head accepts that The Winter Soldier is an accomplished film The First Avenger is the choice my heart would make.  |
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Post by bethnor on May 14, 2019 7:32:49 GMT
but wait! there's more!
"Period films have an advantage of being familiar, but not. The First Avenger is up there with the Indiana Jones movies in how wrings the throwback opportunity. The WWII setting opens the floodgates for design. There will never be an MCU duo as dreamy as Steve and Peggy. There will never be a villain scooped up from as far down in hell as Red Skull. Then there’s Chris Evans, whose compassion and physical force convinces us to love the most earnest human on the planet. Endgame wraps up his arc in a profound way, but every second of The First Avenger pushes him in that momentous direction. "
(for the record, i find these lists meaningless, but still it's nice to see the cap movies appreciated as marvel continues to churn these out)
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Post by bethnor on May 15, 2019 5:02:53 GMT
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Post by Bob on May 15, 2019 14:10:41 GMT
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Post by Picap on May 15, 2019 20:11:58 GMT
It makes me happy to see The First Avenger get the recognition it deserves as one of the best of the MCU.  But then I read the rest of the lists attached to it and  |
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Post by bethnor on May 18, 2019 8:32:45 GMT
It makes me happy to see The First Avenger get the recognition it deserves as one of the best of the MCU. But then I read the rest of the lists attached to it and the reason why these lists (IMHO) are a little silly is, people are a bit spoiled. fact of the matter is, on a bad day, the worst of the MCU movies are solid B movie entertainment. they really aught be viewed as the natural inheritors of the mantle once carried by star wars and indiana jones. no more than that. but no less, either.
not to be an old geezer, but here are the franchises that have fizzled out/have been wildly inconsistent in my lifetime:
terminator alien the matrix james bond (it's such a peculiar phenomena where ppl want idris elba to be bond... i mean, why? if you like him, as i do, he should stay well away from bond. i mean, name five bond movies you like. now, which of those are considered good movies?) star trek star wars die hard
seriously, the worst of the MCU--mainly iron man 2 and AoU (both of which i thought was solid) is still heads and shoulders above the worst in those franchises, and sometimes on equal standing with some of their best (at least as good as say, retur of the jedi, for example). i gave up on serialized TV after battlestar galactica, after moore let the storyline list in the last season, finally ending it with "god did it," which is just as bad as "it was all just a dream." the fact that the MCU has maintained some fairly good internal consistency over a span of so many films is impressive and should be regarded as an achievement, particularly the cap series. so it's been good to have some serialized story telling done right.
all of that said...
in general most of the lists were way too harsh to the ant man movies, which are, at their worst, low key comedies with positive messages about family.
i'll get in trouble for this, but while i enjoy black panther, i don't put it up as marvel's best. i think it was an important movie, but i failed to see how it rose above being a superhero movie the way critics claimed it did.
yeah, a number of these lists had doctor strange as #1. um, no. i get why they thought it--it's a romanticism with eastern mysticism/inner peace/contemplation, something i think evans himself would praise highly. but take it from someone of far east descent, it's all hogwash. i enjoy doctor strange, but it is in fact the most white-washed of the marvel movies (without speaking about tilda, who i think is, in fact, lovely, and always a treat). but it tended towards espousing a "turn off your brain and seek inner peace" nonsense that i find especially dangerous in these times.
i also thought that any list that had captain marvel ahead of any captain america movie was nuts. captain marvel was the most boring MCU movie i've seen in awhile. i'm glad if young girls were empowered by it, but it had several issues to me. i think brie's a fine actress, and eventually they'll figure out what to do with carol, but she was hobbled by the writing. i can "see" what they were trying to do, make carol a sort of cross between the snark of stark and steve's nobility because she is to replace them, but it just came out as a mush. it makes me a bit bitter, because i don't want carol, i want steve (*puts thumb in mouth and pouts like infant*--yeah yeah, i'm just whining). i still have no idea why she's a good guy (when steve, as played by chris, established it with one simple line: "i don't like bullies. i don't care where they're from")--if she were suddenly to turn heel, there's nothing so far that goes against that. the only trait they established for her is that she keeps getting up--okay, but why is that impressive, when she can literally destroy thanos' juggernaut by herself?
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