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Author Topic: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 07-22-2011 03:51 PM                        CINEMA: Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons, Sandy, UT AUDITORIUM: 13 PRESENTATION: Dolby Digital Cinema DLP PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None RATING: Three stars (out of four) So the pre-show television-grade commercial nonsense ends and the Texas Instruments DLP thingie plays, then two cinema-grade local commercials that always play with the trailers play, then the Dolby Digital Cinema trailer plays, then the movie starts. NOT ONE MOVIE TRAILER. Hmmm. THE PLOT: A wimp transforms. Not like a Transformer...more like Charles Atlas. Wackiness ensues. I really liked the period piece feel of this. Hugo Weaving was an awesome villain. The confrontation between him and Captain America on the bridge as they separate was a great scene. I don't think this one will be a long term memorable feature, but it's solid anyway. I'm told there's no scene after the credits, and I didn't stick around to find out. The scene that's usually there actually ended the feature this time.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-22-2011 03:57 PM                        Did Hugo call anyone "Mr Anderson"? Because that is always what I expect from him when he's onscreen in any movie. It was very distracting in Lord of the Rings and I simply could not buy whatever character he played. Matrix ruined him for all other movies.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 07-22-2011 03:59 PM                        Admittedly, even without him wearing the sunglasses, I couldn't help but keep thinking the same thing.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-22-2011 04:18 PM                        It's like "Al Bundy" syndrome. Do you ever see Ed O'Neil in anything and not think "Hey that's Al Bundy playing that ____"  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-22-2011 04:53 PM                     I'd argue Weaving pulled off Lord Elrond, specifically because he wasn't a villain that time. AJG  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-22-2011 06:58 PM                     One has an entirely different problem when their introduction to Hugo Weaving is from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In some ways, I'd prefer to expect "Mr. Anderson..."  |  IP: Logged David Bowler Film Handler Posts: 9 From: St. Louis, MO Registered: Jan 2011 posted 07-22-2011 07:08 PM                     There is a teaser for The Avengers after the credits.  |  IP: Logged Mike Frese Master Film Handler Posts: 465 From: Holts Summit, MO Registered: Jun 2007 posted 07-22-2011 10:05 PM                        There is a scene at the end of the credits with Nick Fury as well as a preview for The Avengers.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-22-2011 10:13 PM                        It's on-screen right now for the first time at our place, and I'm a bit confused. This is susposedly period set back in the 1940's right? Just saw a guy in some control room watching a dude blow up stuff with a tank via an LCD COLOR monitor and a PAN-TILT VIDEO CAMERA? Since I was born in '67, I can't really recall if they had LCD monitors and pan-tilt video cameras in the 40's.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-28-2011 12:42 AM                     quote: Aaron Garman I'd argue Weaving pulled off Lord Elrond He did, but it didn't make it to the final cut. On a side note, is The Avengers going to be in 1.85? That seems odd.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-28-2011 01:49 AM                     Other than the tea joke, this isn't worth your time.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-28-2011 12:45 PM                     I always wanted to see that one Brad, even if everyone hated it. Besides, the cast at least makes it interesting. AJG  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-28-2011 01:41 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer Matrix ruined him for all other movies. I agree Hugo Weaving was such a good villian in The Matrix it doomed him to being typecast. I think Alan Rickman's career suffered for some years after he played "Hans Gruber" in Die Hard over the same kind of thing. Even 20 years later whenever Rickman is in a new movie, like one of those Harry Potter installments, I always think of him as Hans Gruber. quote: Barry Floyd Just saw a guy in some control room watching a dude blow up stuff with a tank via an LCD COLOR monitor and a PAN-TILT VIDEO CAMERA? Since I was born in '67, I can't really recall if they had LCD monitors and pan-tilt video cameras in the 40's. The earliest black and white studio video cameras from the 1940s had very limited capability. Any pan/tilt movement would have been built into the large pedestal holding the camera body, if the pan/tilt capability was there at all. The very first color video cameras weren't introduced until the 1950's. Additionally color TV production and broadcasting wasn't widespread (from large to small market TV stations) until the mid 1970s. I remember it being a pretty big deal when the Far East Network TV station aboard Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni, Japan upgraded to doing the news in color in the late 1970s. Many of the movies they aired were ran on film and converted to a video signal and broadcast as the film ran. They even shot some of their news footage on film. It took a few years for that FEN station to complete the transition to video. LCD-based devices didn't appear until the 1970s. Wrist watches and digital displays for electronics devices were among the first devices. The first LCD-based color computer monitors didn't go into production until the mid 1990s. At that time a 21" CRT with 1600 X 1200 resolution was the top end for computer monitors.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-28-2011 04:14 PM                        quote: Brad Miller Other than the tea joke, this isn't worth your time. I'd likely rather watch that Avengers rather than the Avengers which is forthcoming. For one thing, it's guaranteed to be a lot less confusing since there aren't two dozen characters to keep track of each with their own little subplot. I can't imagine the comic book Avengers movie being any good, but comic fans will love it nonetheless. I imagine to keep the confusion down, the Avengers will "group up" into two or three different groups, maybe four. Mark my words. It's the only way it could be somewhat coherent.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-28-2011 06:37 PM                    Brad, for a moment I thought you were going to post THIS.  |  IP: Logged

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