Captain America - Oh Fuck Yeah

Super Hero Movie Images!

Geekgasm time!

Lots of new images bubbling up online from Marvel and DC Super Hero movies in the works!

I wanna be excited about Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern, but I have my doubts.

This is what the (Hal Jordan) Green Lantern is supposed to look like.



This? Not so much.



He looks like Ben Stiller sporting a Jewfro doing a Green Lantern parody. Fix. That. Shit!

But on the Marvel side, I'm digging on the pics coming out of the "Thor" production by Kenneth Branagh.

Here is Odin (Anthony Hopkins), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston).





I'm also loving the updated Captain America costume for "Captain America: The First Avenger" with Chris Evans as Steve Rogers.




But I am more than a little dubious about this low budget, indie produced, "super hero" flick with the working title "The_D_Rules Is Awesome!" This is the only concept art I've seen and it disturbs me deeply.

Ferrous Hominid Redux

Yesterday was a fun day.

My daughter, young Galadriel Tanqueray Onassis, came over for bruch which consisted of biscuits & gravy, roasted potatoes and sausage patties.

While we feasted on this delicious repast, we watched the first Iron Man.

All of this was the lead up to seeing Iron Man 2 in IMAX at the AMC Independence Commons where we were joined by our friends Average Jane and The Saders.

For me, the movie certainly lived up to the hype. It has me really looking forward to Thor, Captain America in 2011 and The Avengers in 2012.

It's looking more and more like the impetus for the Avengers coming together will be to battle The Hulk who is being controlled by Thor's arch nemisis Loki.

My biggest concern about The Avengers movie is that they are going to have to shoehorn a lot big name stars playing bigger than life, pivotal roles into a story that gives everyone enough screen time without compromising the plot and keep the whole package under 3 hours.

The idea of The Hulk being the main "villain" conjurs the spectre of Edward Norton returning to the Marvel franchise. Internet rumors from 2008 indicated that Norton and the studio were in such conflict over the movie that it almost didn't get released.

There are those that would argue that that wouldn't have been such a bad thing, but I'm not in that camp. I liked The Incredible Hulk. It was certainly an improvement over Ang Lee's Hulk.

But I digress.

After rewatching The Incredible Hulk last night I realized that just because The Hulk will be in The Avengers, that doesn't mean anyone will have to deal with that-very-talented-but-pain-in-the-ass Edward Norton.

Edward Norton played Bruce Banner, not The Hulk. The Hulk was complete CGI. I don't think Norton even did any motion capture work as The Hulk.

So as long as The Hulk stays angry and doesn't go back to Bruce Banner, the creative oyster that needs to produce the pearl called The Avengers should be able do so without the terminally abrasive grain of sand that is Edward Norton.