Captain America - The First Man to Use A Shield of Vibranium for a Boomerang.

I got to see a screening for Captain America - The First Avenger Wednesday night and I was thoroughly impressed and thrilled on how C.A. turned out.

Using Chris Evans for C.A. bothered me when it was first announced, a guy who's played in MULTIPLE comic-book movies, Scott Pilgrim, the Losers, Fantastic Four, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.... using him for another comic book movie, just didn't excite me, especially on a character that's one of my favorites. But he played the role of Steve Rogers quite well, heroic, patriotic, and embodied the spirit of C.A. quite well.

I enjoyed the fact they used C.A. as propaganda in the movie, in real life Captain America was first released in the 40's and was an extremely popular comic/character of the time.



Captain America had many roles in the movie and I'm glad they took an extremely realistic approach, and showed various sides of the Capt.

The action scenes (while I was hoping for more) we're definitely action-packed and they did quite well on catching the time-era of the World War 2 1940's. I was really impressed by Tommy Lee Jones, he seems to nail every role he's ever given and he was cracking me up the whole time.

Before seeing it some things you may want to know:

Howard Stark -

Most of you are acquainted to the last name Stark by now due to 2 previous block busters featuring a certain man in an Iron suit, but many may not have realized (not likely but possible) that they didn't realize Howard Stark is Tony Stark's dad.

Howard Stark played one of the most crucial roles in this film and in Captain America and there were a few bridges from Iron Man 2 and this movie, pay attention for them.




Hydra -

A terrorist organization that's goal is global domination. Their slogan/motto is "if a head is cut off, two more will take its place"

Funded by wealth from WWII the group has a long lasting role in many of Marvel's series.




Vibranium -

The rarest of metal that's extremely light and strongest metal known to man, it also completely reflects vibrations. It's mostly commonly known in the Marvel Universe because of Captain America, his shield is made of it. However, it's known in the universe that this metal comes from a fictional country called, Wakanda. A country that is located in Northeast Africa and in the Marvel universe is home to the Black Panther and other heroes have tie-ins, such as Captain America and Storm. I highly watching the new cartoon series The Black Panther, pretty action packed and well done.



Cosmic Cube -

If you waited til the end of Thor, you got to see a glimpse of this, and it's current time location. The cube has essentially various roles, abilities, etc. The owner and controller is able to turn wishes into reality, has imminent power and is essentially an energy generator. The controller of the cube is said to "wield the power of the gods" and a multitude of villains from the Marvel universe have held it or controlled it at one time.



Ultimately, Captain America was a good movie, and I'd give it 3.5/4 stars out of 5 stars. In terms of Comic Book movies, I'd give it a 5 out of 5. I'd also stay til the end for an Easter egg ;)

I'M GOING TO COMIC CON!

So thanks to an old friend, the beautiful Shauna Ryanne, I will be at the SAN DEIGO COMIC-CON!

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Also if anyone is at Comic-Con look for Shauna she should be working through out the weekend. =)

Anyway, getting back on topic here; I will be getting to go to Comic-Con this year which is rather unexpected and last minute. Thankfully I have friends in San Diego, shout out to Brian and Aimee <3 that I can stay at since hotels have been booked well um... let's just say when tickets sold out about 8 months ago or so.

As most convention go-ers have 2-3 days ahead of me, I plan on storming this convention with little time I have.

I leave work today around 4pm, then I have to head home and pack it all up, dinner with some friends, then I'll enter San Diego tonight, and then it's go time. SDCC 2010.

With all the limited edition merchandise that will be in present and by present I mean limited amounts and highly fought for like Batman fighting Joker for sanctity of Gotham, I, Dustin Ma will be hunting these items: The tron lightcycle action figure priced at $5 will not be easily obtained but I am hoping for the best on this one. (not likely to get) Tokidoki marvel shirt, I love the mash ups Tokidoki has done in the past year and while the Tokidoki booth is not listed on the official Comic-Con website it is there... and so will be swarms of nerds, geeks, and the likes will be battling me for Tokidoki shirt supremacy. The Boom booth has toy story 3 custom sketches for characters for the Comic-Con event and as a huge Disney fan I'd love to get a hold of one. They also have Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck comics I'd really like to grab. Maybe i'll get to see the terror that flaps at the Comic-Con! Iron Man 2 cells I'd imagine will be a battle for, as well anything that deals with Tony Stark is typically bad ass and kicks a lot of ass. Hopefully I can land one of the cheap cells from the film. Star Wars Keepsake button from Hallmark would be an awesome souvenir for SDCC and I'll will use the force to obtain such an object. Maybe a Zenscope comic they are making special comics for San Diego, dealing with amazing hot comic girls on the cover in a football center hiking position and other poses/covers for comics showcasing some of San Diego's finest features, granted I am not a Chargers fan, yes I'd say the Chargers are one of SD's finest features.

Anyways ladies and gentleman...

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I'll keep you posted