Sunday - July 24, 2011

hooray for hollywood?

The genre of comic book movies continues. Last winter brought the Green Hornet flop, spring gave us a slew of “people with magical powers” flicks driven mostly by CGI, this summer generated another X-Men, Green Lantern, Thor, and now we’ve got Captain America.

I hear it isn’t actually that bad, considering. And it lets me post a little eye candy for the ladies, which I almost never do.

A review snippet from the mega-snarky outre author of thesuperficial, a gossip blog that seems to be blacklisted by BMEWS. He wanted more of a Team America feel but gave it 3.5 out of 5:

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to trash Captain America because it was light years beyond the space-diarrhea epic known as Green Lantern, more fully-realized than Thor, which it surprisingly references a lot, yet still fell slightly short of X-Men: First Class. But only slightly. So, for the last time this summer, here’s my dick joke-laden attempt at a review of a comic book movie that forced me to leave the comfort of my pajama pants and interact with other humans in broad daylight.

Coming from a godless, America-hating liberal like myself this is going to knock you Tea Partiers off your Rascals, but this movie could’ve used more, “Fuck yeah, USA!” I hate jingoistic American exceptionalism as much as the next guy in line at Starbucks with an NPR tote, but if there was ever a place for it, this movie was it. Instead, we got an uncharacteristically apolitical war movie where the walking embodiment of American Big Swinging Dickism barely punches a Nazi because he’s spending 99% of the movie fighting fictitious Hydra soldiers who look like rejects from the shitty G.I. Joe movie starring Channing Tatum. Yes, Steve Rogers was a brave sonofabitch who pissed nothing but courage and bravery for breakfast, but when asked if he wants to kill Nazis, he responds, “Eh, I just really hate bullies.” C’mon! I understand foreign box office is how you make your money back on these things, but when Arugula-Eating Bookworms like myself are going, “Are they going to Ameri-fuck at least one Nazi to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner?” you know something went wrong.

And once again Hugo Weaving is in two or more big-hit films at the same time. Homeboy got mad skillz that way!

Captain America - in theaters now, probably on DVD and online rental services by September.

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Oh, and Amy Winehouse died yesterday. Sad. Guaranteed to be a drug overdose. She had some decent vocal talent, but her life was a total mess. She was 27.

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