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Sneak peek! First photo of Andrew Garfield in the iconic Spider-Man suit
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| 1/14/11
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 01/14/2011 9:22:16 AM PST by Nachum
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AND! First pics of Captain America
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:22:21 AM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Rockin'!
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:26:30 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice.)
To: Nachum
Already rebooting spiderman series??? And whats with englishmen playing American super heros??
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:26:32 AM PST
by
smith288
(Peace at all costs gives you tyranny free of charge)
To: Nachum
Why do they keep getting scrawny runts to play Spidey?
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:27:20 AM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
("As government expands, liberty contracts." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: Nachum
Oh yeah. I've been waiting for Captain America with bated breathe ever since I saw his shield laying there in "Iron Man II". It should be awesome.
But, will he be doing his signature cartwheels with his shield at the ready?
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:27:52 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Tyrants flourish only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.)
To: Nachum
I heard Captain America is after Sarah Palin in the film ...
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:28:32 AM PST
by
Scythian
To: smith288
Why not? They play most of the cowboys & GIs now, too.
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:29:12 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Choose Ye This Day
Because Spiderman is a scrawny runt. His powers are from the spider venom.
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:33:08 AM PST
by
smith288
(Peace at all costs gives you tyranny free of charge)
To: skeeter
Plus British actors play most of the bad guys.
It’s not (necessarily) talent - price is important.
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:42:47 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(The Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' ever since the 1800s - always with horrifying results)
To: agere_contra
Hadn’t thought of that angle. I figured it had something to do with classic training in theater.
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:46:44 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Nachum
The new Spidey and Cap seem evocative of the so-called “ultimate” versions. Hopefully the similarity stops there...it was the dystopian tone of those books (which leeched over to the regular books) that drove me away years ago!
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:47:20 AM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: skeeter
You’re not wrong: the theater background has been a decisive factor.
But I think that ever since the huge name of MGM started having devastating money problems all of the big film makers have been quicker to use cheap(er) talent.
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posted on
01/14/2011 9:53:26 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(The Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' ever since the 1800s - always with horrifying results)
To: netmilsmom
Wow - I’m surprised they didn’t call him “Captain Global” and remove all the patriotic stuff from his uniform.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:02:06 AM PST
by
bolobaby
To: bolobaby
“Captain New World Order”.
“Captain Big Brother” would work too.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:06:49 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: skeeter
A while ago I was sitting around with some friends and we were talking about how there used to be this whole generation of American actors who could play tough, adult men. Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood. And they appeared in iconic roles through the 1960s and 70s. Now, there's a total lack of American actors who can play those roles. They're all wispy little emo boys--Leo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, etc.--or they're getting too old, like Eastwood or Mel Gibson. To play adult men who can look right with a gun in his hand, you've got to go foreign--Daniel Craig, Clive Owen, Liam Neeson, Russell Crowe.
Just try to name me the 30-40 year old American equivalent of Lee Marvin today.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:15:50 AM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
The World War had alot to do with producing such guys.
Still, we'd probably have more of that type today if masculinity hadn't fallen out of favor in the popular culture.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:23:18 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: netmilsmom
CAPTAIN AMERICA!
Thumb's up.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:24:39 AM PST
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: Nachum
Garfield is Spiderman???????????
Look, I know Spiderman is a comic book character and all, but having a cat play him is too much. A cat? C’mon.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:28:37 AM PST
by
Brookhaven
(Moderates = non-thinkers)
To: skeeter
The World War had alot to do with producing such guys.Absolutely. The first wave of those guys were GIs who got back from the war and then went to acting schools under the GI Bill--Marvin, Ryan, Jack Palance, etc. The second wave, like McQueen and Eastwood, were a little younger, but still not baby-boomers.
Still, we'd probably have more of that type today if masculinity hadn't fallen out of favor in the popular culture.
That, and I think that if you are a masculine man, acting isn't something that appeals as a career choice the way I think it once must have. Finally, I think that the fact that Hollywood largely stopped making those kinds of movies in the 1980s, focusing on capturing teen audiences rather than adult audiences played a role.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:44:59 AM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Choose Ye This Day
Why do they keep getting scrawny runts to play Spidey? Because alter ego Peter Parker is a scrawny runt.
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posted on
01/14/2011 10:49:06 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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