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Viral: 99-Pound Weakling to Captain America (Thanks, CGI!)

Here is a really cool video from the upcoming movie, “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

There is all the action, of course, but what’s interesting is the CGI used to make the buff actor who plays Captain America look like the slight, sallow and weak man he was before he was transformed.

It’s pretty impressive, as you can see from a recent trailer:


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  • Anonymous

    How, exactly, is a trailer for a major studio release, attached to one of the most popular comic book heroes of all time, a “viral video”? This trailer or one of its variants was aired during the Superbowl. People aren’t exactly passing this around via email, IM and Facebook en masse; the ad is running everywhere you look, after all.

    Aren’t we stretching the definition of “viral” a bit now?

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