*Sigh* We've waited years folks. Hundreds-of-thousands of issues, several B-list character features, and a lot of patience, but we're finally getting it. The Avengers is FINALLY coming to the big screen. Why am I sighing you ask? Well, although I'm elated to see a live-action super-hero team up on the big screen, I can't help but feel cheated. Chris Evans folks. Chris Evans will carry the mighty shield of Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't like Chris Evans as an actor, and I'm pretty sure he's a nice guy to boot, but #Cmonson, really?! Chris Evans?! You mean to tell me there's no one out there fit enough? No one blonde enough than Chris Evans? I really find that hard to believe.
I think what really bugs me about the whole thing is that Evans did a superb job as Johnny Storm (Human Torch of the Fantastic 4) and in my mind, that's all I can see him doing. He's quick witted, a little goofy, and does a decent job when it's time to get the water works going. I'll give him his role in Street Kings though, but how hard is it to play the "rookie" cop, or the by the book guy? I did almost throw my Common CD out the window, however, because he shot the Human Torch. The nerve.
Honestly, the casting director can eat one, because quite frankly, I'm not buying it. #Nohomo, but the Cap is a man's man and looks likewise. Recently, Sylvester Stallone was interviewed and essentially said the "action hero" is dead, and quite honestly, he's right. Think about it. Jason Statham is really the last action hero, no pun intended. Arnold went and f*cked up California, Stallone is trying to do to death what he did to Apollo Creed in Rocky, and Bruce Willis...well I don't have anything witty to say about Bruce, he's too cool. What I'm getting at is we need someone "built" for the role and Chris Evans is too pretty, yet all the go-to guys have either past their expiration date, or they're foreign, and I don't care how well they act or how well they look the part, my Captain America had better be American! Anything would be considered terrorism and the entire cast would be killed for treason! #RNS!
My suggestion, and you're gonna laugh, but I don't care, Matthew Maconahay. Physique wise the guy's in good shape; young enough he doesn't need CGI but old enough to demand the respect 'Cap' deserves, and not to mention, the guy's a really good actor. As for his notorious southern drawl, it's nothing a speech coach and a few vocal lessons couldn't fix.
I think I can learn to deal with the fact that Ed Norton won't be coming back as the Hulk, you can that creative control and egos for that, but I'm going on record as saying that I disagree with Evans being casted as Captain America...it's lame. Robert Downy Jr. as Tony Stark, genius, this, not so much. I would say how much I hate the new lead for the upcoming Spiderman re-boot, but that's another post. They crossed the line and made it personal when they did that.
So there you have it. Who knows, maybe I'll be surprised and Evans' performance puts Downy Jr.'s to shame; I hope so, but the odds of that happening are highly unlikely. As much as I want to destroy everything Marvel that I own for all of their recent casting blunders (Megan Good as Storm in X-Men: First Class!?) I'm still going to check Captain America out when it hits theaters, and am still giddy about The Avengers. Let's pray to God they get a set of decent writers, and maybe bring in Jerry Bruckhimer for stunts and the whole "blow this sh*t the hell up" factor.
Extra tid bit: Hugo Weaving (Smith of the Matrix trilogy) will be playing Cap's nemesis, 'The Red Skull' #ALLthe Awesomeness!!
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