Pics of Captain America's costume have been leaked

[Oakminster]

@Miller

You can totally have boobs in a Captain America movie! Just make sure they’re Nazi boobs, and make it clear that Cap sternly disapproves, and you’re golden.

Hmmm. Well, maybe very briefly, but if Cap sees em, he’d probably cover them with his shield while looking away and blushing profusely or some such.

[Raguleader]

@Scumpup

Well, who cares about that? Thoughtful examination of his internal conflict can be replaced on a 1-for-1 basis with scenes of him fighting hot, topless SS bitches and the movie will still be a monstrous success.

I will ONLY watch this movie if it features Nicholas Cage reprising his finest role: Fu Manchu

[Scumpup]

Cap might not want boobies plastered across the screen where children could see them, but Cap is a 100% red-blooded American male. ALL American males_gay, straight, or anywhere in between_like boobies. Some more than others, of course.

[Quimby]

@Miller

Yeah, of all the superhero properties out there, Captain America seems like one of the easiest to translate into an effective movie. His super powers aren’t particularly flashy - he doesn’t fly or shoot lasers out of his eyes or teleport, he’s just super-athletic and highly combat trained. Nothing that would be particularly hard to portray on screen.

I think this is exactly why it may not translate well. It’s the “wiz bang” stuff that looks good on screen. Without that you have a guy in tights with a shield. The first shield throw will be pretty cool but 40 minutes in, you realize it is as if John McClane decided to dress funny for the second half of Die Hard.

[Jihi]

@Quimby

I think this is exactly why it may not translate well. It’s the “wiz bang” stuff that looks good on screen. Without that you have a guy in tights with a shield. The first shield throw will be pretty cool but 40 minutes in, you realize it is as if John McClane decided to dress funny for the second half of Die Hard.

Batman’s just a guy in tights with some cool gadgets. Maybe the “cool gadgets” satisfies the “whiz bang” quotient but the most recent movies seemed to have translated pretty well.

[pravnik]

@Quimby

I think this is exactly why it may not translate well. It’s the “wiz bang” stuff that looks good on screen. Without that you have a guy in tights with a shield. The first shield throw will be pretty cool but 40 minutes in, you realize it is as if John McClane decided to dress funny for the second half of Die Hard.

I see your point, but I still think it could work. Captain America is many things; soldier, patriot, hero, and so on, but at the core, he’s kicker of asses. Not much stealth, not much gadgetry, just straight up ass kicking. I’m hoping for a cinematic tour de force of the classic ass kicking genre, something like the elevator scene from Enter the Dragon, but with Nazis and extended for two hours.

[Raguleader]

@Scumpup

Well, who cares about that? Thoughtful examination of his internal conflict can be replaced on a 1-for-1 basis with scenes of him fighting hot, topless SS bitches and the movie will still be a monstrous success.

@Jihi

Batman’s just a guy in tights with some cool gadgets. Maybe the “cool gadgets” satisfies the “whiz bang” quotient but the most recent movies seemed to have translated pretty well.

You can get even more mileage by imagining that the whole thing is the deranged imaginings of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.

@pravnik

I see your point, but I still think it could work. Captain America is many things; soldier, patriot, hero, and so on, but at the core, he’s kicker of asses. Not much stealth, not much gadgetry, just straight up ass kicking. I’m hoping for a cinematic tour de force of the classic ass kicking genre, something like the elevator scene from Enter the Dragon, but with Nazis and extended for two hours.

Maybe if they gave him a crew? Like, a team of WWII-era Marvel heros? Sergeant Rock for one?

[JThunder]

@Raguleader

Maybe if they gave him a crew? Like, a team of WWII-era Marvel heros? Sergeant Rock for one?

Oooh! A teenaged sidekick! That’d work.

[Jophiel]

Would it really hurt Captain America to shave?

[Lok]

@Raguleader

Maybe if they gave him a crew? Like, a team of WWII-era Marvel heros? Sergeant Rock for one?

It would be hard to give him Sergeant Rock for a sidekick. I don’t think DC would really like the idea.

But as JThunder implies, he had a sidekick, Bucky, during WWII. For years it was said that the 2 comic characters that would always stay dead were Bucky Barnes and Barry Allen. Now they are both back in action. :dubious:

[KneadToKnow]

@Jophiel

Would it really hurt Captain America to shave?

Depends on where he shaves.

[Raguleader]

@Lok

It would be hard to give him Sergeant Rock for a sidekick. I don’t think DC would really like the idea.

But as JThunder implies, he had a sidekick, Bucky, during WWII. For years it was said that the 2 comic characters that would always stay dead were Bucky Barnes and Barry Allen. Now they are both back in action. :dubious:

Huh, your internet connection got all garbled, the last sentence came in as a bunch of nonsense gibberish. What was that again?

[Lok]

Nothing important, believe me.

[KneadToKnow]

@Lok

But as JThunder implies, he had a sidekick, Bucky, during WWII. For years it was said that the 2 comic characters that would always stay dead were Bucky Barnes and Barry Allen. Now they are both back in action. :dubious:

I always heard it as Bucky Barnes and Uncle Ben.

[Lok]

@KneadToKnow

I always heard it as Bucky Barnes and Uncle Ben.

I think that was the original pair, but it morphed when Barry Allen died, to make it one each from the Big Two.

[mbh]

@Lok

It would be hard to give him Sergeant Rock for a sidekick. I don’t think DC would really like the idea.

Not Sergeant Rock. Sergeant Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos!

[B.Serum]

@mbh

Not Sergeant Rock. Sergeant Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos!

Ask and ye shall receive.