Mar. 23rd, 2010

trinityvixen: (pervert)
We have a Captain America.

After not deciding immediately to jump on a role that would likely end up banishing him to Typecast Land forever, Chris Evans has decided to be Captain America. And being typecast is really the least of his problems with accepting this. Marvel, unlike DC, is all about gravy training their powerful franchises (the ones they still have rights to, that is ::coughcoughSpider-Mancough::), which means he'll be Captain America for the next few years at least. And if The Avengers does well? Dear god, he will never not be in skin-tight clothing whacking things.

...well, I can see why he'd protest, but between this and Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern, I'm going to be a veeeeeeery happy movie goer for the foreseeable future. ::sighs dreamily::

ETA: Yes, he's also Johnny Storm. I'm going to have to get over that. I am just glad they did not cast half the people who seriously read for this part. Including Channing Tatum. I would have more happily watched Robert Pattison--and I say this after havingseen New Moon only just last night--than Channing-fucking-Tatum. God, that reminds me I need to call my sister and tell her she has horrible taste again for thinking Channing Tatam was good looking. And then I have to call my other sister to bitch her out for liking Robert Pattison. And for seeing--voluntarily! New Moon more than once.

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Mar. 23rd, 2010 12:36 pm
trinityvixen: (question)
I was thinking about my earlier post (in which I objectified at least two men and hinted at a history of doing so to many, many others) and the oncoming onslaught of superhero movies (our taste for which is surprisingly still rapacious). Marvel has no less than a dozen movies already assumed: Iron Man 2 and, very probably, 3; Thor (with Thor 2 less likely but not impossible); Captain America (its sequel potential somewhere between that of Iron Man 3 and Thor 2); The Avengers; Wolverine 2; Deadpool; and some variety of X-Men-related films--the long idle Magneto movie and the more active X-Men: First Class.

DC has, to its credit, tried to step up production of the next Christopher Nolan Batman film and is making noise about another Superman film (though they won't film anything until the lawsuits are settled, I'm sure). And, while they do that, Green Lantern is already filming. (Seriously, someone took a shitty quality photo of Ryan Reynolds on set with what looked like a smudge on one of his fingers and the Lantern fans exploded with paroxysms of glee that he was wearing the ring.) The Flash may be getting another script treatment. Don't ask about Wonder Woman, though.

But, no, wait, let's ask about Wonder Woman for a second. Or, rather, since I don't want to hear the bullshit about how they can't figure out how to make Wonder Woman interesting enough to justify a movie, let's focus on what really bugged me as I looked at the Marvel line-up. Forget DC for a moment. I need comics fans to answer (riddle) me this: Who is Marvel's Wonder Woman?

I'm not trying to pick at wounds here, though it is a sore subject for me, personally. I really just could not think of any grand dame of the Marvel universe who stands on the sort of equal footing with her male colleagues that Wonder Woman does in the DC universe. The best I could come up with were the obviously-derivative-versions-of-male-characters, sometimes-members of the Avengers, like Spider-Woman or She-Hulk. Thinking about female Marvel characters, I immediately thought of X-Men, but they're hardly any of them anything like Wonder Woman. You can think of the iconic Marvel characters without ever touching on any X-Man or X-Woman. So the X-Women cannot be said to be iconic enough to Wonder Woman, for all that they are, by far, the most interesting women in the Marvel universe.

So, comics nerds better versed than I: am I wrong? Is there an iconic Marvel character who is on par with DC's Wonder Woman and I'm just not thinking of her?

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