“Now, Mr. Stark…”
And that’s just one of many tiny moments that make up a pretty wonderful whole for Captain America: The First Avenger.
This is a fantastic trailer. There’s not really a wrong note in it. Even the light humor, usually so cringeworthy in superhero flicks, is tonally right. Everything feels right. No one sticks out as an anachronism, no one looks too modern or acts too sarcastic. It feels like it could have come from the 1940s.
If the 1940s had Benjamin Button technology, that is. There are definitely skinny Steve scenes that are a little jarring, but I imagine they’re still smoothing out the edges. It still looks damn good, and I’m glad they took a technological risk instead of simply trying to pawn off buff Chris Evans as a sickly reject.
And Evans? I don’t want to get too overblown, but I think he is going to be the Cap we wanted all along. He’s so earnest. So good. There’s no hint of his Johnny Storm cockiness. He’s got a real aw shucks, all American, Jimmy Stewart attitude going. I think he is going to walk away from this a big star and a major casting coup.
Watch. Enjoy. Talk! I’m eager to hear some criticisms because I don’t have a single one. And that feels funny.
ETA: The HD version is now available. Pretty!
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His head-to-neck ratio is really bugging me; otherwise, looks fun!
Elisabeth Rappe, The Captain America Trailer, is…Awe-Inspiring!
Looks awesome
Looks great! Much better than Thor.
Trailer looks good… but let’s be honest, even if the trailer was shit, we’d all see it anyways.
Seriously, has geek culture matured to the point where we can see a trailer like this now and all agree it’s pretty terrific? Is this really happening? Really?
Looks GREAT. I’m stoked. If I wasn’t so burned out on comic book movies, I’d be SUPER stoked. So I’m just bargain basement stoked.
OMG…did you see the shield bounce off a wall and continue its path? Nerdgasam.
Seriously, this looks good. If the movie is half as good as that trailer, I think we’re looking at this generations Raiders of the Lost ark!
I hope this isn’t going to be one of those “WTF! The trailer was SO good but the movie….” situations, because that trailer is awesome. I appreciate the fact that most of the stuff that happens AFTER he becomes Captain America isn’t in the trailer.
X3?
The two-minute mark is where it’s at.
@king, isn’t it amazing. I’ve been on three different sites today reading comments, and the only negatives I’ve read were typical American-bashing crap, but nothing specifically negative about this trailer. And Elizabeth, once again, you have perfectly summed up my feelings quite perfectly. You are becoming one of my favorite movie bloggers, which is saying something as I’ve been following movie blogs before the term “blog” was even coined. You are like a throwback to when it was actually fun and exciting to read movie news.
Fantastic trailer.
Just realized Cap is a WoW Protection Paladin.
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