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Captain Marvel

Seen it, it's not the best marvel film, and I get as a white male it's not targeted at me, but I'm not black and I loved black panther, I also really enjoyed wonder woman.

I got worrying Solo flashbacks at some of the early dark cinemaphography, but at least it lightened up, as with a few films they managed to put a sequence from the end of the film into the trailers, robbing what should have been a triumphant moment of some of its impact.

They also made a joke out of Fury loosing his eye.

I'd rate this as just above thor the dark world.

None of it is essential to understanding the character that will be in endgame.
 
I saw it today. I liked it. It is hurt a bit by her not knowing who she is in the first half, but that helps make the big triumphant finale all the better. The moment where she breaks free of the Supreme Intelligence (and good job by Annette Bening being evil in that scene!) is probably the most satisfying birth of a hero type moments in the MCU. (Like compare it to Thor just going "no, evil suit of armour, you can't kill Natalie Portman!" and getting his hammer back. This is much better built up.) I feel like the first half would probably be better on a rewatch. Maybe a bit lacking in action in the first half as well. But the character stuff built throughout and Carol as a character really started to come out once they met up with Maria.

I liked Ben Mendelsohn as Talos. I was glad he wasn't evil (and I'm sure they cast him to give you the expectation he was) and he was just a wise-cracking Australian Skrull who wanted his wife back. Jude Law was pretty generic as the bad guy. I did like it when he was like "now if you can defeat me without your powers you will have truly won" or whatever and she just shot him instead of going with his bullshit. Ronan didn't do much again but he said he's coming back! (Wait, he's dead...)

Coulson wasn't in it that much considering Clark Gregg got an "AND..." credit and there was one bit where he talked to a lady agent who could have easily been May but wasn't so that was disappointing (they wouldn't have even had to de-age Ming-Na Wen.)

That cat was a really good cat actor.

Some of the action stuff was a bit murky looking yeah but I liked her fight on the space station and the flying stuff and the Independance Day fighter jet bit. But yeah in terms of action there are definitely better MCU movies but I liked how this one put character first (of course ideally it could have excelled at both I suppose.) All the plot stuff at the end felt a bit rushed (Why did Marv-El have the Tesseract in space? Why would SHIELD or whoever let her have it? Did Project Pegasus not know she had a space station with Skrulls hiding in it? Did they think she was human? Etc?)

Anyway it was good.
 
I'm confused at how the Tesseract ended up with some alien scientist. Supposedly in The Avengers, Fury says Howard Stark fished it out of the ocean. So did Stark find it, give it to SHIELD, alien scientist broad steals it from SHIELD and puts it on a space station, and that's why they find it up there?
 
I also liked how they made the Skrull deaths important, like the bit where Talos was mourning the one in the SHIELD morgue (admittedly after Fury checked out his dick) and I felt bad for the "science Skrull" who sacrificed himself to stay behind as a distraction.
 
I saw Captain Marvel yesterday and thought it was pretty awesome. Wasn't expecting the theater to be packed for a 2nd week showing.


I enjoyed reading your write up CaptainWacky. Thank you. I wasn't expecting the Skrulls to turn out good for sure.
 
I thought they made Nick Fury look like a dumbass. Other than that, it was ok. Just enough "girl power" without being preachy. But, why does the Black woman have to be a single mom? (I'm just saying, what happens in the movie can be interpreted in a number of ways. Maybe Brie Larson came on so strong with the anti white male stuff to disguise the questionable characterizations of the black characters, and the typical "great white hope" theme.) ;)
 
I liked that Fury wasn't the stone cold badass of the (chronologically) later movies. We've already seen plenty of him being cool, I liked him being a kind of happy go lucky dork who hasn't been ground down by years of betrayal.
 
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