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Where Have We Seen Chris Evans’ Skinny Captain America Before?

Depending on your mileage for superhero origin stories, the trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger was either totally awesome (Red Skull!) or totally blah (Red Skull?), but no matter how strong your geek heart beats, one part of the slick, 30-second spot demanded universal attention: Chris Evans’ transformation from bulky real-life actor to wimpy fictional soldier to bulky fictional superhero. As has been echoed at Internet watercoolers all day: How’d they do that? Perhaps the answer lies ahead.

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Where Have We Seen Chris Evans’ Skinny Captain America Before?

DVD: For Colored Girls and 5 Other Disastrous Adaptations of Great Source Material

There’s many a slip twixt the page and the screen — just ask fans of Ntozake Shange’s powerful 1975 theater piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf who recently had to suffer through Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls (on DVD and Blu-Ray this week from Lionsgate), a ham-handed and tone-deaf adaptation that managed to drain almost all of the poetry, wit, and majesty from a great play. But Perry is just the latest filmmaker to obliterate a great work of art by turning it into a dreadful movie; Other examples abound. Such as…

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DVD: For Colored Girls and 5 Other Disastrous Adaptations of Great Source Material