Captain America: The First Avenger (July 2011)

[DocM]

Interesting to say that when much of the film, save for the specifics of the climax and Rorschach doing in Gerald Grice, is shot as if the graphic novel were the storyboard. Almost shot-for-shot.

If anything Watchmen was criticised for its omissions, and those were mainly the studios fault for enforcing a maximum run time - something largely corrected in the Directors Cut and The Black Freighter animated film.

[Growled Member]

I haven't got to go see it yet but I can't wait to do so. It sounds great.

[DocM]

See the Avengers thread for what Caps modern uniform will look like - concept and photos.

[Lamp0]

Interesting to say that when much of the film, save for the specifics of the climax and Rorschach doing in Gerald Grice, is shot as if the graphic novel were the storyboard. Almost shot-for-shot.

Well that would part of the problem; comic books aren't supposed to be used as storyboards.

[sanctified Veteran]

It's like Snyder's whole thing about making films is to make them so "badass" to the point of being ridiculously hammy and bombastic. Watchmen is a film I really want to like but there is so much done in bad taste; like he has no aesthetic principles beyond "cool" that I find it difficult to like.

Aesthetic principles? Who are you? Kant? We're not in the modernist era anymore, there are no strict set of aesthetic principles in any area.

It's cool if you don't like him, everyone it's entitled to their opinion, but don't try to apply terms where they don't belong just to rationalize your choice.

[Lamp0]

Aesthetic principles? Who are you? Kant? We're not in the modernist era anymore, there are no strict set of aesthetic principles in any area.

I don't even know what you're talking about. I think perhaps you took my words "aesthetical principles" the wrong way and/or I used them poorly. I guess what I was trying to say is I find him primitive as a film maker, like he doesn't really know what he is doing other than making an "AWESOME" film.

but what ever..

[Solid Knight]

I saw it. I liked it but I also feel like they spent so much time building up the character of Captain America that they had to burn through the fight against Red Skull.

[BletchleyPark]

I saw it. I liked it but I also feel like they spent so much time building up the character of Captain America that they had to burn through the fight against Red Skull.

They had that problem in the 1989 version too.

[McCordRm]

I freakin' love it. Except for Bucky's storyline, however.

[draklin]

[Julius Caro]

In spite of the extremely simple plot, I enjoyed it.

Although... whatever they did to make chris evans look slim and short, didnt work AT ALL. Looked weird. Was it the neck?

[DocM]

They made him look as if he had Noonan Syndrome, a subtype of dwarfism where they are of small, frail stature with of varying degrees of body parts being disproportional. Looking weird is part of the package, as are a lot of functional problems.

Prevalence is about 1 in 1,000-2,500 worldwide, depending on the article you read.

[Julius Caro]

They made him look as if he had Noonan Syndrome, a subtype of dwarfism where they are of small, frail stature with of varying degrees of body parts being disproportional. Looking weird is part of the package, as are a lot of functional problems.

Prevalence is about 1 in 1,000-2,500 worldwide, depending on the article you read.

Did they mention or explain this in the film? Because making him look short and thin would've worked without the neck looking like a CGI f*ck-up.

I just google-imaged 'noonan syndrome'. They definitely did NOT make him look like that.

SPOILER

Are we to assume that red-skull teleported somewhere rather than dying? Cuz that looked like those people teleporting in thor

[DocM]

Not all Noonans look like what Google Images shows.

Red Skull: ya think?