The Upcoming Captain America Movie

I use a lot of inspiration for my rpg campaigns. Books, Movies, TV shows. I use them all, if I'm rather picky about just what ones I use. And I tend to approach them with a "I like these ideas, but I want to do them myself without the mistakes and railroading".

This is the background for my Year 1 Superhero campaign which is based on Marvel Comics- but isn't Marvel Comics. We get to start over and do the characters right without the bad stories, worst writers, and consistent characters. What a thought.

With that in mind, I'm awaiting the upcoming Captain America movie. It may give me cool ideas that I can play off of.

A lot of people seem to be slamming the movie sight unseen.

I think some of it is driven by expectation (i.e. anything from Hollywood must hate America) instead of  any real facts on the ground. Yet another part is driven by how Marvel itself has treated the character in the comics- in a real way, he (with rare exception) hasn't been what Captain America should be since the 70s (if then).

Indeed, the closest they've come to the original is perhaps the version in the Ultimate run of books. I think Marvel viewed it as a chance to show how much of a dinosaur the character was- but it was a huge hit with the fans. When they went to do Ultimate Avengers- they split the difference and produced what I thought was perhaps the best version of Capt ever done up to this day.

I think (at this point) that some of the slams against the movie are unjustified.

The costume is very similar to the Ultimate series I referenced above. More practical with muted colors and web gear. They are however using the modern shield in its full bright red, white and blue. I don't understand any of the whining on this point. Complaining about the costume strikes me as someone looking for problems and then making them up when none jump right out at them.

The director comments referenced by Big Hollywood in the link above are more troubling. But again, not something I have a problem with by itself. Capt doesn’t' have to go around making speeches about how good America is- he just has to go around doing good and heroic things while wearing the colors of his country. Deeds, not words work fine.

Now they can do a bunch to make the movie horrid. Marvel itself has ruined the character, and it wouldn't be hard to see them doing that in the Movie. Just look at the first Hulk movie for an example.

But I'm still in the wait and see mode. Hoping for the best.