Captain America: The Winter Soldier or How Marvel Keeps Making Nearly Perfect Movies & Why I Love Them - A CCD Rant by Mike D

There are a lot of bigger, better, corporately sponsored websites & blogs out there covering pop culture, movies, and comics that get the scoop long before a movie is commercially released. They get to sit down with the creators, pick the brains of the actors involved, and visit the sets to see whats going on. They get to critique the films with early viewings, sometimes being able to watch the movie multiple times even before it gets released. And that is all fine and good... there is a place for that. But this is not that kind of place. I am just a regular schnook, running a regular blog from my house... and the closest I can get to a scoop is watching the movie at a midnight showing the day it comes out. That is good enough for me, and often leads to some of my aforementioned CCD RANTS by Mike D. They are often cathartic for me, and they get a bunch of my readers and friends to comment about my pros & cons. Today, the morning after watching Marvel's latest opus 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', you guys get another rant from me.

You're welcome.... you're all WELCOME!!!

So here it goes. My Pros (many) & Cons (a few) of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Enjoy it (or rip it apart) after the jump...

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Gets It's First Promo - The Marvel Universe Invades A TV Set Near You!!!

Just picked up for next season, Marvel's show about S.H.I.E.L.D., the super secret spy organization in the Marvel comic book and movie universe. This seems like a great way for new characters and concepts to be introduced to the ravenous Marvel film fan base before showing up on the big screen in the summer blockbuster films. I am not sure if Coulson is alive or dead since I have no idea what time period this show is set in. I assume it comes after the first Avengers film. He could also be a LMD (life model decoy) which would be a great reveal to end Season 1. Check out more after the jump...

It's Not Real, But It Should Be

How about some Luke Cage... as played by The Rock? Just because I would watch anything the Rock is in and he has the action chops to pull this off. A side movie maybe with Iron Fist - Heroes for Hire doing their street level thing as the Avengers go all Cosmic. The same war, just different battlefields. These kinds of ideas prove that I continue to go unappreciated in Hollywood. My ideas are too golden to be wasted on those vultures. Check the mocked up fan poster after the jump...

Memos From The Desk of Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

With the recent succcess of the Avengers and the facination with creating fake Twitter, Facebook, and blogs for characters that are fictional, this was only gonna be a matter of time before it happened. Someone (a genius I tell you) has created a excellent Tumblr entitled Memos From Fury which re-posts inetroffic memos from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters from the head honcho himself, Nick Fury. These memos don't involve end of the world problems like Loki or Thanos... no, these memos deal with much more mundane everyday things like interaction between the staff and the Avengers and telling a group of superheroes how to behave themselves. They are fucking hilarious and updated quite regularly. You can click here to see the full Tumblr and check out my top 10 favorite memos after the jump...