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[trinityvixen]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE. I NO LONGER HAVE ANY ANGST ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA.

IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT I COULD BE COMING AROUND ON THIS SPIDER-MAN REMAKE.

Okay, so, in less capslock-y analysis, I like these pictures. A lot. I am sure most people will look at the Captain America one in particular and give me the big o.O face from behind their compu-machines. But I'm digging it. It is kind of outrageous and yet perfect. I think the suit does an impossibly good job at being everything all at once. It's period-appropriate and still future-forward as fashion. As in, I know someone in the 1940s could have made this outfit, but since real life is not a comic book, no one ever did. It manages to conform to Chris Evans' body shape (which, as I may have mentioned before, is pretty much my sole reason for seeing this movie, humminah humminah humminah) without being ridiculously stiff looking, like the X-Men movie uniforms or the Batsuits of the Burton era. It also manages to capture the spirit of the Cap's spandex suit while not being entirely faithful to it.

The Spider-Man photo is impressive in its own right, too. Most significantly, they don't try to buff up Andrew Garfield in it. It remains to be seen if he'll be as impressive without the muscle suit when he's moving around and not strategically posed in the shadows. But I dig a lean Spidey. He's pretty much always been a beanpole, especially compared to the over-muscled among the other Avengers and what not. (Which, because Sony has the rights to Spider-Man for the foreseeable future, I doubt he'll be joining onscreen.) One of my favorite interpretations of Spider-Man is Ultimate Spider-Man, and this feels like that's where they're taking this. I am still not entirely cool with a reboot of a movie that came out eight-nine years ago and whose sequels ended three years ago, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Well played, Spider-Man reboot!

(Hmm, will they call it The Amazing Spider-Man to differentiate it from Raimi's trilogy, do you think? Or Spectacular Spider-Man? Or would they just do a fangirl some service and name it Ultimate Spider-Man?)

Comments

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I hate the helmet. It's ugly, and also there's nowhere near enough compression space to be useful. It's a sheet over his skull. It just makes it a little harder to cut his scalp, but if you whack it good, most of the force is still going to give him brain trauma.