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
Stab You in the Back said:
I was thinking Black Widow. Scarlett Johannson is 1) way too old and rough looking to play a femme fatale, 2) incapable of carrying a movie on her own, and 3) like Brie Larson, a charisma black hole. The only way it would work is if they somehow brought in Charlie Cox's Daredevil and made it a teamup movie like Ant-Man and the Wasp or Wonder Woman. You know, toss in a charismatic guy for the bland woman to bounce off of and hope that people don't notice that Steve Trevor Charlie Cox is the best part of the film.
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Absolutego said:
The biggest thing preventing that from happening isn't the inevitable media outrage over Black Widow having to have some MAN come in and be part of the movie, but rather that Cox's iteration of Daredevil is still within Ike Perlmutter's department, and he and Feige detest each other.
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I would have thought having a character who is Russian spy/assassin as a protagonist would not sit well with American audiences given today's political climate ;)
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Corporate peacocking never fails to make me laugh. Disney was able to convince a direct competitor to give up exclusive use of Spider-Man, but they can't get two guys who work down the hall from one another to collaborate on a film together.
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The problem is that Perlmutter is an old holdover from the pre-MCU era and is eternally butthurt someone besides him turned Marvel into a cash dispensary. He kept forcing stupid creative decisions down Feige's throat during Phase I to the point that the dude had enough documented evidence of Perlmutter being responsible for every misstep in those movies that Bob Iger finally agreed to spin out Marvel Studios and get them out of his reporting chain.

Perlmutter's been living on borrowed time for years now, it's just that the MCU movies make so much money no one at Disney really cares what the comics & TV version of Marvel does.
 
Brie Larson Says Views The Upcoming ‘Captain Marvel’ As “My Form Of Activism”
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Despite the experience of winning an Oscar for her role in the film “Room,” Brie Larson’s world is about to change like never before. In March, the actress’ next film “Captain Marvel” opens around the world, and with it, Larson becomes an overnight superhero sensation, joining the ranks of Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr, Mark Ruffalo, and Scarlett Johansson, among others, as members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And according to a new interview, the actress plans on using this newfound fame for some real-life good.

“The movie was the biggest and best opportunity I could have ever asked for,” Larson says, in a new interview with InStyle. “It was, like, my superpower. This could be my form of activism: doing a film that can play all over the world and be in more places than I can be physically.”

READ MORE: Keanu Reeves Rumored To Have Been Cast As Jude Law’s Character in ‘Captain Marvel’ But Left Before Production

And what exactly does Larson mean when she says that this film can be seen as a form of activism? The Oscar winner says that portraying a strong, independent, and supremely powerful superhero, that happens to be a woman, will not only inspire others, but also give Larson the means to use her fame for good.

First off, she wants to create a pipeline for women and people of color to join the various roles in the production of a film. “My next goal is to start a school to train people in various jobs [on set],” she says. “There are so many great jobs. You like the weird alien blasters? You could be the one who makes them. We need young people to carry on this tradition in moviemaking, and it would be so great if we had more diversity coming in through that.”

The actress also talks about what excited her most about becoming Captain Marvel in the MCU. Apparently, it all dates back to the first time she saw Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, and how she was desperate to find a role that gave women the female equivalent of that flawed hero.

READ MORE: ‘Captain Marvel’: Brie Larson Releases The First Action-Packed Clip + New Superbowl Spot

“I remember losing my mind,” she says about seeing ‘Indiana Jones.’ “I couldn’t think of a female equivalent. There was Sigourney Weaver in ‘Alien,’ of course, but there wasn’t enough of that spectrum of confidence and sass and a little bit of a mess, just a mix of everything. Women weren’t allowed to do that.”

Brie Larson is also taking her own bit of inspiration from the role of Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel. “I want to hold on to the cockiness and the sense of ownership,” she says. “Because I do believe in my abilities, and I do value myself, and I do know that I’m strong, and I do know that I can do a lot of things that people don’t think I can do.”

“Captain Marvel” opens March 9.
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She's taking a stand for all overpriveleged rich Hollywood assholes!
 
Fuck off cunt, seriously. It's a fucking popcorn blockbuster, not some groundbreaking film or shattering any sort of barrier. Holy shit.
 
Absolutego said:
He kept forcing stupid creative decisions down Feige's throat during Phase I to the point that the dude had enough documented evidence of Perlmutter being responsible for every misstep in those movies that Bob Iger finally agreed to spin out Marvel Studios and get them out of his reporting chain.
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What were these decisions? I'm curious because Phase I was my favorite era of the MCU (or at least it's the only era I was actually invested in).
 
Baldur's Gait said:
What were these decisions? I'm curious because Phase I was my favorite era of the MCU (or at least it's the only era I was actually invested in).
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I shouldn't have just limited it to Phase I, as the meddling reached its peak during phase II. There were two ways it manifested: either Perlmutter was forcing casting decisions due to budgetary concerns (that's why Don Cheadle replaced Terrance Howard as War Machine, for example. He also refused to pay Mickey Rourke more than $250,000 for Iron Man 2 until higher ups intervened before he could drive him off too), or he indirectly meddled with the creative direction of the movies via his Creative Committee. The Creative Committee was a group of Marvel editors (Bendis and Quesada among them) as well as a few of Perlmutter's buddies from Toy Biz that the directors and producers of MCU movies had to filter all their creative decisions through. They apparently were notoriously slow with feedback and extremely pushy with directors, and a lot of their feedback is motivated by things besides making good movies. I hear lackluster toy sales for the Incredible Hulk is why they squash any proposition for a solo Ruffalo movie, for example. Rumors say that they were the ones responsible for Edgar Wright leaving Ant-Man, and Joss Whedon's also made comments intimating that they were a pain in the ass to work with.

It all came to a head during the pre-production of Civil War. Fittingly enough, it was extremely dysfunctional (Perlmutter was trying to get Iron Man out of the movie, for example. No Iron Man. In a movie adapting Civil War), and Feige used it and the relative failure of Age of Ultron to convince Bob Iger to spin them out.
 
So she wants to start a "diverse" training program to get more "poc" into backstage roles?

Just why? Most backstage roles are things which are unqualified and you learn on the job, or things which you need other training for... Oh, let me guess - blacks can't get a foot in the door, because of how racist the industry is? Sure jan...
 
Stab You in the Back said:
"I'm going to start a school that trains black people to bring me coffee and do my makeup."

-Brie Larson, 2019
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LOL. This sounds almost exactly like the gaffe that Bill Clinton made during Hill-dog's 2008 campaign:

"A few years ago, Barack Obama would have been bringing me my coffee."

(This was him trying to say how great it is that we could have the first black POTUS -- Well, even though Clinton himself called himself the first black POTUS and was met with applause by the NAACP, but I digress)

These leftists love to virtue signal so much that it comes full circle and then their racism creeps out.
 
Truthboi said:
The website broke for me
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screencapture-marvel-captainmarvel.png There's also a woman who looks like an older version of Hillary Clinton who pops up from time to time
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