New How It Should Have Ended - Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Another good one from HISHE. As usual, the good folks at HISHE have put together an amusing short pointing out some of the plot contrivances that make the movies we love...well, the movies we love.

New Trailer For Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The new trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier is out. The verdict? Pretty awesome. Unlike the last Marvel film - Thor: The Dark World, which didn't grab me before release and which I had a lot of problems with as detailed here - I've been looking forward to the new Cap film since it was announced that Winter Soldier would feature as the main villain. I loved Ed Brubaker's work on Captain America and his creation of WS was one of the best reintroductions of a dead character in comics history. While we'll have to see how much of comic book character is ported over into the film and how successful the movie is in telling an action-conspiracy story, at least it looks cool.

Captain America and X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailers

So, we got two new trailers for upcoming Marvel movies. Of the two, Captain America: The Winter Soldier looks more promising. It has the spectacle down - the action looks robust, the hanger of Helicarriers is neat, there are a lot of explosions, which, as we all know, make any movie better - and gives a glimpse of the Falcon. Scarlett is looking hot, Cap is looking like he can kick ass and the story is based on one of the strongest retcons in recent memory. Looking forward to this movie.

And then, X-Men: Days of Future Past. Hmmm...the story is what is going to either save or kill this. It has a good cast and director and it looks appropriately dark. But, the question remains whether they can juggle a lot of characters and successfully tie a bunch of different movies together. Hopefully Singer and company can pull off the same magic they did with X-Men and build on the solid foundation laid by X-Men: First Class.