The LA Times has an interview today with Joe Johnston, a director who has been in Hollywood for 30 years but has never actually made a movie that didn’t completely suck. Next up for Joe is my beloved Captain America, and he’s not off to the greatest start in the world with this one either.
“He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re reinterpretating sort of what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.”
“…it’s also the idea that this is not about America so much as it is about the spirit of doing the right thing. It’s an international cast and an international story.”
I’m still hopeful because this has a tremendous cast led by Chris Evans and was (reportedly) re-written by the great Joss Whedon, but Johnston had a great cast and writer for ‘the Wolfman’ too, and he took the controls and steered it right into the ground. Even the best ideas can be ruined if the wrong guy is in charge. Take slavery for example, that was a great deal, but then that busybody Lincoln had to ruin it.
(full size copy of the banner pic/movie concept art here)
America! Fuck yeah!
the slavery bit got a giggle out of me.
Reinterpreting Captain America?
The character defines American Flag Waving
So what else gets a giggle out of you Sinds?
I’m really crossing my fingers on this one.
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Ghey!
I wonder if Captain America participated in those military LSD experiments in the 50’s. He looks like a mental patient.
No, Rem, they’re “reinterpretating”. Whatever the fuck that made up word means.
Well they certainly injected some serious drugs into him
oh remmy, lots of stuff makes me giggle! but im really partial to the politically incorrect jokes like that.
Woodman wasn’t bad. I bet it is gonna be better then this movie. When will people get that they don’t want a re -imagining of something? The comic is popular for what it is so mms a movie about that. Why do you think Iron man worked? It was a updated origin story but te root of the story was there. Nit having a very Patriotic hero named Captain America….pretty stupid!
Reinterpretating?
Is Bugs Bunny directing it?
Politically Incorrect Joke:
When Mr.. Wilkins answered the door late in the evening one day after he’d lost his wife scuba diving, he was greeted by two grim-faced policemen.
“We’re sorry to call on you at this hour, Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife.”
“Well…tell me!” he demanded.
The policeman said, “We have some bad news, some pretty good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?”
Fearing the worse, Mr. Wilkins said, “Give me the bad news first.”
So the policeman said, “I’m sorry to tell you sir, but we found your wife’s body this morning in San Francisco Bay.”
“OH MY GOD!,” said Mr. Wilkens, overcome by emotion. Then, remembering what the policeman had said, he asked, “What’s the good news?”
“Well,” said the policeman, “When we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeoness crabs on her.”
“Huh?” he said, not understanding. “So, what’s the great news?”
The policeman smiled, licked his chops, and said, “We’re going to pull her up again tomorrow morning.”
WTF??? Look, I don’t care if you’re in love with Europe and think America is some kind of shithole, that’s your business, but why put a guy who believes that and has a track record of complete failure in charge of the most pro-America superhero in comic book history?
“He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver.”
Seriously, the next douchebag who tells me that Hollywood is more concerned with making a profit than making political statements is going to get punched in the mouth.
That’s like saying james bond wont deliver corney one liners…
Hollywood is more concerned with making a profit than making political statements.
Why don’t they re-name it “Captain Earth Guy”, so as not to offend anybody? What a joke.
would anybody be opposed to moving the film studios from LA to Guantanamo Bay? It is warm and sunny there too, all the movie people should get on famously with the Castros.
Also these folks can do something constructive about closing the detention center that so distresses them.
Seems like win win for everybody.
I want to see Captain Al Qaeda!
There was a sort of Captain Al Qaeda in the Ultimates comic, they had a muslim version of the Avengers