Captain Marvel. First things first, the tribute to Stan Lee
at the very beginning introduction was absolutely lovely. It pulled at my
heartstrings. The Marvel Studios opening theme, but instead, it shows clips of
Stan Lee's cameos.
Do you need to see it to understand End Game? Doubtful. First
end credits scene is from End Game and the second one at the very end is not
important.
With that out of the way, it is a lot better than I thought
it would be. I am glad to report that. Ending fight scene was visually cool.
De-aging CGI of Sam L. Jackson was spot on. You couldn't even tell it was CGI.
The CGI overall is pretty good. Overall, the acting was sufficient. This is
more of a fresh faced Fury than the one we know, but that is gonna happened due
to the fact this is his first encounter with aliens. Ben Mendelsohn was great
and the show-stealer, Jude Law and Sam L are great as always. And that is all I
really have to say about that.
There are a plethora of plot holes that could have been
explored such as how did so and so get this item. A big plot hole is that this
is the first time Fury dealt with aliens, so how does that explain him saying
the events of Thor was the first time he knew of aliens? This movie has plot
holes that affect previous installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is
as if the writers and directors haven't watched a single MCU film prior to
making this. The comedy was mostly a miss. It wasn't cringe bad; I just didn't
laugh for most of it, from all the characters. The audience in the theater did
laugh at many of the jokes. They cheapen how Nick Fury looses his eye. It was a
joke on the internet about how he loses his eye and that's exactly what they
did. They cheapen how the Avengers got their name. It would make sense, in
universe, but disrespects the legacy of the Avengers. They seem to be
retconning previous story elements to shoehorn Captain Marvel to lead the
Avengers post Endgame. Soundtrack was decent, but then the song by No Doubt in
a fight scene made it worse. The fight scene itself was good though.
As for Brie Larson's Captain Marvel, honestly, she was great
in the beginning. Snarky, quick witted, funny, and actually had a personality
that we didn't see in the trailers. It, then, just stops and she becomes that
character in the trailer. She has character development and is not good at
every thing right off the bat. She learns how to control her powers so when she
goes OP in the end, it's not out of nowhere. She does get her ass handed to
her. There is hope for this character, just not in this one. As for Brie Larson's
acting, I think she phoned it in for most of it. She was Kirsten Stewart level
wooden. Thing is, she had flashes of great performances during this film so I
know she can perform, but then it goes bye bye. Russo Brothers may be able to
fix this, but Brie Larson just doesn't fit the character well.
Here we go, the politics. I didn't want to look at it
through that lense, but the movie marketing kind of forced me to. Yes, there is
feminist drops everywhere, but it isn't a constant beating over the head. Captain
Marvel herself doesn't seem to be a feminist, well, at least, amnesiac Captain
Marvel isn't. She was born in the 1970's, so obviously, I can see some of that
being true, but I will say they were cringe. Smile more, etc etc. It was the
stereotypical sexist men, but I can overlook that since doesn't affect the
movie. What does affect the movie is when you dumb down or belittle the male
characters to make the female characters look strong. Spoilers...For instance,
how is a 90's earth woman gonna lecture a technologically advanced alien on
astrophysics? How is calling a woman a young lady an insult? Not even taking it
into account that is said by an alien. It is that kind of stuff that affects
the movie. You don't need to sacrifice other characters to make the women look
strong. Every male character suffers from this.
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