First look: Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer

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Mar 24 2011 3:53pm

First look: Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer

Okay! First impressions of the new Captain America trailer: he’s patriotic! He’s not overly fond of the Nazis. His superpowers include abs, and looking great without a shirt on. Tommy Lee Jones is on hand to gravely quote General Patton (which makes total sense, since TLJ is officially more American than an apple pie filled with beef jerky and wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner). Patton silently salutes from grizzled soldier heaven. Stanley Tucci’s German accent is entertaining. Notice a quick appearance by Howard Stark (~~Mr. Tony Stark, Sr~~.) at 1:13. Hugo Weaving is not what you expect (but is he ever?). Motorcycles! Explosions! Attractive woman firing a handgun. Fin.

Wow. It seems like they’ve pretty much covered all the bases, right? Visually, the period design looks great, and I think Chris Evans certainly looks right for the part—I’m hoping he’ll do a good job. I’m also really looking forward to seeing more of Weaving as The Red Skull, but I’m sure there are various other trailers on the way, which may or may not include some of the following: Swing dancing. Bucky Barnes arm wrestling Rosie the Riveter. Explosions! Tommy Lee Jones high-fives a bald eagle. Eleanor Roosevelt fires a bazooka at a map of Germany.

In any case, I’m excited. What do you guys think—has Marvel done it again? Too much? Too little? Explosions?

Bridget McGovern is suddenly very glad that Patton is on Netflix streaming right now.

1. Sharat Buddhavarapu

view all by Sharat Buddhavarapu | Thursday March 24, 2011 04:00pm EDT

Okay! The producers, directors, and scriptwriters need to write in those last suggestions of yours: "Swing dancing. Bucky Barnes arm wrestling Rosie the Riveter. Explosions! Tommy Lee Jones high-fives a bald eagle. Eleanor Roosevelt fires a bazooka at a map of Germany."

2. Mummers

Thursday March 24, 2011 04:01pm EDT

How did they get him to look so short, thin and wimpy?? That must be some major digital magic!

3. Josh Wimmer

Thursday March 24, 2011 04:03pm EDT

Yeah, they've got my money.

4. KatoCrossesTheCourtyard

view all by KatoCrossesTheCourtyard | Thursday March 24, 2011 04:08pm EDT

Gotta say this preview looks good.

Kato

5. BMcGovern

view all by BMcGovern | Thursday March 24, 2011 04:53pm EDT

@1 Right?! Thank you! (Also, in my head, there would be a sped-up big
band cover of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing over all of this
ridiculousness, in case anyone was wondering. And at some point General
Eisenhower would probably jump a flaming tank over a canyon. That last bit might be overkill, though :)

6. StephenAryan

view all by StephenAryan | Thursday March 24, 2011 05:38pm EDT

It looks fantastic to me. I think this year, Marvel will rule the box office in terms of comic book movies. With this looking excellent, and Thor looks as if it will be no slouch either, DC are seriously lagging with Green Lantern which so far has yet to impress and seems like a weird bromance/ rom-com which just isn't Green Lantern. Next year or 2013, DC could rule with the 3rd Nolan Batman film and the new Synder Superman movie, but I guess we'll see, as Whedon will have his Avengers movie out for Marvel around that time too. Interesting times ahead.

7. Bakema NL

view all by Bakema NL | Thursday March 24, 2011 05:52pm EDT

I'm definitely in for this movie.........damn, how cool to be around these days and see all these heroes come alive on the big screen, after reading the comics for about 30+ years now........I'm getting old, lol.
And finally we'll get the Avengers movie.......pfew, bring it on.

8. EliBishop

view all by EliBishop | Thursday March 24, 2011 06:32pm EDT

"TLJ is officially more American than an apple pie filled with beef jerky"

That explains why Tommy Lee Jones looks like he is physically made out of apple pie and beef jerky. And I mean that in a good way.

9. del

view all by del | Thursday March 24, 2011 06:49pm EDT

Attractive woman firing a handgun is Hayley Atwell, who I last saw as Julia Flyte in "Brideshead Revisited". I can't tell whether the character there is suppposed to be American or English.

10. Sihaya

Thursday March 24, 2011 09:52pm EDT

"TLJ is officially more American than an apple pie filled with beef jerky and wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner"

The rumors around Texas are that the Democratic party is begging Jones *so hard* to run for governor. He's saying no, so far. I admit that he'd give the sitting governor a run for his money. The state Republicans would have to haul out Chuck Norris to fill the ticket, and then the whole race would be a roadhouse stompin' match.

Mind you, I'm not going to offer a preference in the match or participate in a debate between the parties, just letting y'all know that TLJ's own political party already noticed his physical resemblance to an American Bald Eagle.

11. BMcGovern

view all by BMcGovern | Thursday March 24, 2011 11:16pm EDT

@8 It's true. He's a delicious, gravelly slab of Grade-A patriotism. Tommy Lee Jones is awesome.

@9 I know! I saw her recently in the Pillars of the Earth miniseries, which was generally pretty uneven, but I quite liked her in it, so I was happy to see her here. Not sure exactly how they're positioning her character in terms of nationality, but I do enjoy the fact that there's some variety in terms of the casting in the movie: Besides Atwell and Dominic Cooper as Tony Stark the elder (among several other Brits) there's Hugo Weaving (an Anglo-but-mostly Aussie born in Nigeria) playing a German, Sebastian Stan (a Romanian) playing Bucky Barnes, and an American-born Brit playing Union Jack. Nothing crazy there, admittedly, but maybe a little bit better than the usual Hollywood suspects. I guess that remains to be seen, though :)

@10 Interesting! If there's ever a TLJ/Chuck Norris showdown brewing, it might be just the excuse I need to finally forsake New York for Austin (one of my favorite cities ever). Thanks for the heads up--I will be monitoring the situation from here on out...

12. Sonofthunder

view all by Sonofthunder | Friday March 25, 2011 05:01am EDT

Mmm, this looks good. Never been into comics, but I'll definitely have to check this out. I'm liking what I'm seeing. Thanks for the heads-up!!

13. bunnycatch3r

view all by bunnycatch3r | Friday March 25, 2011 07:35am EDT

Beautiful people with athletic bodies going to war. Even if it had nothing to do with the comic you would be hard pressed to call it anything but Captain America.

14. rogerothornhill

view all by rogerothornhill | Friday March 25, 2011 12:42pm EDT

I love the Howard Stark tie-ins but I am still wondering if they are going to keep a slow-aging Fury back with the Howlin Commandos.

As for the movie, it's Joe Johnston. If it's half as fun as Rocketeer, we should be fine.

15. Daedos

view all by Daedos | Monday March 28, 2011 11:18am EDT

Politics aside, I doubt anyone could give Chuck Norris a run for his money. Only, if he ran for Gov. of Texas, he'd somehow end up being sworn in as Pres. of the USofA. That's just how Chuck does it.

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