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Old 07-17-11, 06:50 PM
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

After suffering through innumerable reviews 20 years ago that all touted the Burton Batman movies as being refreshingly free of the camp of the TV series, I came to realize most people that use the phrase have no real grasp of what it is.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Originally Posted by Paul_SD
After suffering through innumerable reviews 20 years ago that all touted the Burton Batman movies as being refreshingly free of the camp of the TV series, I came to realize most people that use the phrase have no real grasp of what it is.
While superheroes are not typical traditional Waters-style "camp" they've sorta become campy in their own specific way. The 1960s Batman TV show ported over the old comic-book code era to the TV and thus produced its own form of now established "superhero camp" (although if you can't read into the 60s Batman as being very-campy your gaydar is broken). The 3rd and 4th Batman films went back towards the superhero campiness after Burton tried to established a gritty, but all be it highly stylized, Batman. Fans hated towards camp stems from the fact that producers tended to try and shoe-horn those elements into films when the core fans hated it.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Adam West Batman series and film... I just don't want a quasi camp & serious film mixed together.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

I read there is a review embargo. Anyone know for sure?
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Not sure about the embargo. The world premiere is Thursday July 21st. Though that does seem a bit unusual. I would've thought it would have already been screened and reviewed with a few reviews on RT to get the good word out. Hmm.

http://www.sheknows.com/entertainmen...c-con-premiere
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

It's not a good sign when they hold reviews back until release day. Even the fanboy sites had lots of Thor reviews over a week in advance.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Probably they want to hedge against some backlash of it being the 4th comic book movie.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
I read there is a review embargo. Anyone know for sure?
Most critics will see it Wednesday night.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

I personally know of at least one critic who has already seen it. They said it was "okay".
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Here are a couple of fanboy/regular guy reviews....

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/c...america-review

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit.../news/?a=41948
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Jordan Raup of The Film Stage tweeted this
Captain America: TFA is the best franchise starter Marvel has made. Joe Johnston knocked it out of the park.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Originally Posted by Eric F
It's not a good sign when they hold reviews back until release day. Even the fanboy sites had lots of Thor reviews over a week in advance.
Wasn't Thor released like a week or 2 early in austrailia
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

I'm really on the fence about this. I keep getting a "Fantastic Four" feeling about this movie - the trailers make it look good, and he's a good character so it's hard to imagine them fucking this up - but I can see the movie being filled with bad jokes, corny one-liners, and generally just being boring.
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Here's a positive review by Roger Moore from the Green Bay Press Gazette:

http://greenbayhub.greenbaypressgaze...text|FRONTPAGE
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

^If James Bond likes it, then I'm definitely interested!
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Re: The First Avenger: Captain America (2011, Johnston) - News, cast, rumors

Originally Posted by Super X
Here's a positive review by Roger Moore from the Green Bay Press Gazette:

http://greenbayhub.greenbaypressgaze...text|FRONTPAGE
That's so weird. Roger Moore writes for the Orlando Sentinel and apparently some other company the Green Bay Press Gazette publishes. He uses the same reviews for both. Weird.

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