Captain Marvel - Literally, from "her" to "hero"

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Are you actually going to watch this flick?

  • No

    Votes: 74 17.0%

  • Fuck, no

    Votes: 177 40.7%

  • Not in cinemas

    Votes: 81 18.6%

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 9.2%

  • (((Yes)))

    Votes: 20 4.6%

  • Twitter told me I must, I can't say no, you white-cis-sexist-oppresive scum!

    Votes: 43 9.9%
  • Total voters
    435
Twitter is already having reactions and it’s sort of a mixed bag thus far.

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Something tells me that it’s on par with or slightly below Thor 2/Incredible Hulk.

As they say, “you can’t win them all.”
 
Didn't Fury say "Last time I trusted someone I lost one eye" all dramatic when talking with Cap in a context full of espionage and human betrayals?


And the fucking cat did it in apparently an anticlimactic way?

Lol
 
If if it was average to good the whole time why did they feel the need to market it with the whole Ghostbusters 2016 style "ur all hateful incels lulz" nonsense?
 
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Ruin said:
If if it was average to good the whole time why did they feel the need to market it with the whole Ghostbusters 2016 style "you're all hateful incels lulz" nonsense?
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It was more that they didn't tell Brie to shut the fuck up, and are likely compensating for Wonder Woman beating them out for "First Female Superhero movie" BS
 
Positron said:
It would make a much more compelling drama if it showed how Carol overcame her hateful personality and got laid.
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Look, man, Mar-Vell's Kree girl died and probing his feisty blonde co-worker with his alien wang seemed like a good idea at the time. At least he was lucky to go out due to literal cancer as opposed to metaphorical cancer.

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howyadoin said:
- The film doesn't really have a main villain. The "villain" is the idea that people keep on telling Carol that she is less capable than she really is, and her arc is overcoming that and embracing her true power. It's all internal conflict.
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Yeah... going to sit this one out guys because that sounds pretty boring for a "conflict."

Godzilla@1989 said:
Twitter is already having reactions and it’s sort of a mixed bag thus far.

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Something tells me that it’s on par with or slightly below Thor 2/Incredible Hulk.

As they say, “you can’t win them all.”
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It is really telling when the best parts of the movie aren't the main protagonist.
 
KillThemCrackasBabies said:
Looking like initial response is it's "pretty good, not great", with criticisms lobbed towards it being a quip-filled Marvel movie just like all of the rest of them are.

Prediction; it will get mild reviews (better than Ant-Man, worse than BP), so Youtubers can sperg out over that, but will do well at the box office, because it's a fucking Marvel movie and only a complete reetard thinks Marvel movies bomb.

Fizzle out until Star Wars and the process repeats itself.
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It might clean up at the box office on the opening weekend, but if it really is a turkey then it won't have any legs to stand on in the second week, much like Last Jedi. Though if this film is indeed going to show cracks in the Marvel formula, I guess the well is about ran out with the last drink of water being Endgame.
 
howyadoin said:
Someone on 4chan posted the plot of Captain Marvel:

- Carol is a pilot recruited by Project Pegasus to test a “hyperspeed engine” developed by Dr. Wendy Lawson AKA Mar-Vell and powered by energy extracted from the Tesseract.

- Carol is attacked by the Skrulls and the engine explodes. She absorbs its energy before being rescued by Mar-Vell and taken to Hala by Yon-Rogg, where she is brainwashed into believing she is a Kree warrior whose powers come from an implant on her neck.

- Carol is captured by the Skrulls during a mission and Talos probes her mind for information on the Tesseract. Carol escapes and goes to Earth, where the Skrulls are hiding, and crosses paths with Nick Fury, who decides to help her.

- Talos masquerades as Fury’s boss and frames Fury for being a Skrull. SHIELD tracks Carol and Fury to Project Pegasus headquarters, but Coulson lets them escape.

- Carol believes that the Skrulls are bloodthirsty conquerors, and the Kree are noble warriors defending the galaxy from them, but slowly realizes the Kree have the conquerors and have been wiping out “lesser cultures” and exploiting their resources for centuries. They attacked the Skrulls first but the Skrulls have been able to fight back.

- The big twist is that Mar-Vell and Talos both defected and had been working together to harness the Tesseract’s energy in order to end the war. Carol was not attacked by the Skrulls, but by the Kree.

- Carol, Fury, Maria Rambeau and Talos team up to retrieve the Tesseract from Mar-Vell’s space station in Earth’s orbit, where Talos also reunites with his wife and daughter whom Mar-Vell had been protecting from the Kree, but Yon-Rogg and Ronan arrive with a Kree armada to retrieve the Tesseract and destroy the Skrulls on Earth.

- Carol gets rid of the implant, unlocking her full powers, and destroys the Kree armada before confronting Yon-Rogg one last time in the desert and announcing she’s no longer under his control. The Kree are forced to retreat, and Carol gives Fury a pager to contact her if he needs help before leaving with Talos to continue Mar-Vell’s efforts to end the war.

- There is a running gag of Fury almost losing his eye in dangerous situations throughout the movie, only for Goose to unceremoniously scratch it off in the end.

- The film doesn't really have a main villain. The "villain" is the idea that people keep on telling Carol that she is less capable than she really is, and her arc is overcoming that and embracing her true power. It's all internal conflict.

- Talos is a lot fun and a total bro in the end, Yon-Rogg is okay but unremarkable, and most of his dialogue is exposition.

- Post-credits scene as previously reported (Endgame scene of Carol meeting up with the remaining Avengers and Goose barfing up the Tesseract in the 90's).

ETA: There's a thread discussing it.
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I don't hate this ... Except for

Fury losing his eye because of the damn cat. Now, I have been a FAN of the MCU forever; haven't disliked a single MCU movie yet (even though I know some of the movies are vastly lesser than others). However, this "punchline" is literally the stereotype that DC fans have stamped on the MCU about it being "not serious at all" and "too jokey." Nick Fury, the infinite badass with all of the mystery surrounding him ... Ends up losing his eye to Carol's pet alien cat. All because the filmmakers and the studio thinks it's funny.

Yikes.

Some of the more "glowing" reactions to Captain Marvel described the film as "really weird." Now, I'm DOWN for weird. This plot, while I don't hate it ... Comes across as pretty standard and dare I say ... Bland? There's pretty much nothing in these alleged spoilers that nobody could have pieced together from the trailers. That's not good.

It fully reminds me of Iron Man 1, where the revelation is that Stark realizes that Stane has been the one selling the company's weapons to the Ten Rings (except that was a mildly surprising twist, if you aren't a comic book reader). It's clear as day that Marvel is trying to make Carol Danvers the "new" Tony Stark, since it's pretty much confirmed that RDJ and Chris Evans are done.

Yeah, good luck trying to get Captain Marvel on the same level as RDJ's Iron Man. LOL.

EDIT: Jude Law should have been Mar-Vell. The REAL Mar-Vell. What a missed opportunity. We all know that they went with Carol because "wamen"
 
Reading some of the reactions from mcu shills, fucking losing their shit over a couple of "meh" reviews is the funniest thing, just for that I hope the film fails, the meltdown would be interesting to see.

It was going to happen one day anyway, as much as Feige and his cap claim they can do these films for even more years after Endgame, nothing last forever. Downey, Evans, Hemsworth can't do the same shit forever and unlike DC where the characters are more iconic than the actors portraying them, the same can't be said about the MCU, people love Iron Man and Captain America because of the actors, not because of the characters, there's a reason they weren't that well known before. I just can't wait to see the day Disney recast Tony Stark to see the reactions.
 
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If true, this would be amusing since the comics have the same issue. They keep telling us that Carol is the most popular superhero in the Marvel universe despite never explaining why or how. Outside of punching Tony Stark into a coma for being against the idea of thought crimes, she doesn't have any notable recent events where it would make sense for people in Marvel to like her.
 
Whoever called her Captain Action Figure is just right, honestly. She's so... lifeless.
 
howyadoin said:
Someone on 4chan posted the plot of Captain Marvel:

- Carol is a pilot recruited by Project Pegasus to test a “hyperspeed engine” developed by Dr. Wendy Lawson AKA Mar-Vell and powered by energy extracted from the Tesseract.

- Carol is attacked by the Skrulls and the engine explodes. She absorbs its energy before being rescued by Mar-Vell and taken to Hala by Yon-Rogg, where she is brainwashed into believing she is a Kree warrior whose powers come from an implant on her neck.

- Carol is captured by the Skrulls during a mission and Talos probes her mind for information on the Tesseract. Carol escapes and goes to Earth, where the Skrulls are hiding, and crosses paths with Nick Fury, who decides to help her.

- Talos masquerades as Fury’s boss and frames Fury for being a Skrull. SHIELD tracks Carol and Fury to Project Pegasus headquarters, but Coulson lets them escape.

- Carol believes that the Skrulls are bloodthirsty conquerors, and the Kree are noble warriors defending the galaxy from them, but slowly realizes the Kree have the conquerors and have been wiping out “lesser cultures” and exploiting their resources for centuries. They attacked the Skrulls first but the Skrulls have been able to fight back.

- The big twist is that Mar-Vell and Talos both defected and had been working together to harness the Tesseract’s energy in order to end the war. Carol was not attacked by the Skrulls, but by the Kree.

- Carol, Fury, Maria Rambeau and Talos team up to retrieve the Tesseract from Mar-Vell’s space station in Earth’s orbit, where Talos also reunites with his wife and daughter whom Mar-Vell had been protecting from the Kree, but Yon-Rogg and Ronan arrive with a Kree armada to retrieve the Tesseract and destroy the Skrulls on Earth.

- Carol gets rid of the implant, unlocking her full powers, and destroys the Kree armada before confronting Yon-Rogg one last time in the desert and announcing she’s no longer under his control. The Kree are forced to retreat, and Carol gives Fury a pager to contact her if he needs help before leaving with Talos to continue Mar-Vell’s efforts to end the war.

- There is a running gag of Fury almost losing his eye in dangerous situations throughout the movie, only for Goose to unceremoniously scratch it off in the end.

- The film doesn't really have a main villain. The "villain" is the idea that people keep on telling Carol that she is less capable than she really is, and her arc is overcoming that and embracing her true power. It's all internal conflict.

- Talos is a lot fun and a total bro in the end, Yon-Rogg is okay but unremarkable, and most of his dialogue is exposition.

- Post-credits scene as previously reported (Endgame scene of Carol meeting up with the remaining Avengers and Goose barfing up the Tesseract in the 90's).

ETA: There's a thread discussing it.
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OK, refresh my memory, wasn't the Tesseract buried in the Arctic along with Cap as a result of the events of Captain America? I distinctly remember it being there.
 
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