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
Krokodil Overdose said:
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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After teleporting Red Skull, it fell through the bomber and into the ocean before Steve crashed the plane. Later there was a scene where Howard Stark recovered the Tesseract while they were searching for Cap. So it has been in SHIELD's custody prior to the first Avengers movie.
 
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TVBForever said:
I'm about to sperg out on a very late post in regards to Captain Marvel being the only showtime in mostly every theatre.

I mean, I was planning on seeing on How to Train Your Dragon 3 this Friday but considering that theatres owners and Disney are desperate to show Brie's wooden face in my city as well as across the fucking nation, I'll just pirate HTTYD3 and Alita. Lucky for me, I uninstalled Fandango just a week before Captain Marvel's release.

It was a exceptional move for Murdoch to sell Fox to Disney; he could've just sold Fox to NBCUniversal. I mean, yeah I get it; NBCUniversal is owned by Comcast; one of the worst companies ever; but consider this, ticket sales for Universal's theme parks are cheaper (and not to mention, the rides are more fun to ride on than some of Disney's parks), the films are bad (and that's with any film company; mind you, Illumination, judd Apatow, and Blumhouse still exist to this day), but occasionally, but in terms of business decisions, and I can't believe I'm saying this, they're a bit more sane in comparison to Disney's, so I'd rather have Fox be sold to NBCUniversal than a greedy company that consistently fucks up everyone's childhoods across the globe every year.

Although, I do come across as a hypocrite seeing as how NBCUniversal does share stake of Fandango along with AT&T's own Warner Bros., and Fandango also owns Rotten Tomatoes; the same site that Brie Larson and Disney have both done damage control over the percentage rating on the "Want to See" score because "it was considered review bombing," when no, it's the interest; but then again, we're dealing with that Brie is a completely insane SJW, and the fact is SJW's are lactose over the keywords, "interest," "opinions," "logic," etc. and therefore label them as something stupid as "durr patriarchy," "but muh oppression," or other forms of bullshit stupidity these feminists do nowadays.
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In my area it doesn't seem like it's all theaters that are Captain Marvel-centric, just one really. One is not showing Captain Marvel, only Madea, Train Dragon, and Lego Movie; another is showing Captain Marvel but another 10 movies also. Then there's another, who is only showing CM for an entire week. They must love the flavor of that spiny Disney cock.
 
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Kyria the Great said:
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.
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Most of the disappointment I can see comes from the fact that it was an action comedy, and not some "hella fucking epic!" character study.
 
First review on Rotten Tomatoes and it’s rotten, but mixed.

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KillThemCrackasBabies said:
Most of the disappointment I can see comes from the fact that it was an action comedy, and not some "hella fucking epic!" character study.
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So the whole "strong and powerful superHERo who's an inspiration to little girls everywhere" angle they were going for while promoting this movie was all just for a space comedy?

Ok, sure, Marvel ... That's definitely going to compete with something like the "No Man's Land" scene from Wonder Woman ...

And in context to the Avengers movies, it's makes everything tonally ALL OVER THE PLACE when you go from a movie that ended in universe-wide genocide to space comedy to "character from space comedy is our one true hope and is going to kill the bad guy who killed half of the universe."

Excuse me WAT.
 
If critics end up panning this movie for not having enough feminism, I might just die of laughter.

You SERIOUSLY cannot please these people.
 
StarkRavingMad said:
If critics end up panning this movie for not having enough feminism, I might just die of laughter.

You SERIOUSLY cannot please these people.
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It’d be more hilarious that a Brie Larson flick would be the first MCU film to have a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
 
Xerxes IX said:
But traits in women that would indicate being an awful dick in a man are empowering! Brie Larson is a bigoted narc? YAS QUEEN!
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There is something to this in that part of why people like Tony Stark is that he's a huge dick. But it's more that Brie Larson has no charisma in this role for some reason.
 
Your Weird Fetish said:
There is something to this in that part of why people like Tony Stark is that he's a huge dick. But it's more that Brie Larson has no charisma in this role for some reason.
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Charisma is one of the major elements to making a lovable character. Another element is the character acting like a human being, therefore allowing the audience to understand the character's motivations.

Tony Stark has gone through a 10-year character arc that has been awesome to see unfold. Yes, he can be an ass sometimes, but he's gone through some REAL shit, man.

Looks like all we're going to see with Carol is that "she has to prove that she's a strong wamen to everyone who doubts her, because she's just awesome and super strong like that."

That's not nearly as interesting as an "asshole billionaire inventor has to build himself a machine to get out of being held prisoner by terrorists, learning responsibility and accountability in the process."
 
I'll say it again, Wonder Woman didn't have this level of political shit storm attached to it.

Sure you had some blue haired weirdos going nuts about it, and there was the thing about all woman screenings for the film, but overall, they just made a good movie and WB was just happy to promote it as such, and fortunately, Gal Gadot is charming as hell and everyone loved her.

Whenever this type of culture war BS pops up over a film that is designed to sell toys and coloring books, that tells me it isn't that good. Why do you need to shame people into liking something when you could just point out why the movie is good?
 
Jeremy Jahns has reviewed Captain Marvel and have it a mixed response.


IndieWire was massively dissappointed.
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‘Captain Marvel’ Review: A Massively Disappointing Introduction to Carol Danvers

Brie Larson has all the right stuff, but she can't save this generic Avengers prequel from being among the most disappointing Marvel movies.
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The New York Post calls this a aimless slog.
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‘Captain Marvel’ review: An aimless superhero slog

The latest instance of Marvel Studios wringing out every last drop of ink they can is “Captain Marvel.” Never heard of her? That’s because this is the character’s first appearance in a major film. …
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RumblyTumbly said:
Why do you need to shame people into liking something when you could just point out why the movie is good?
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One thing I had found concerning about the promotion Captain Marvel was why they didn't have a teaser for San Diego Comicon 2018 when Shazam (a film further back in post-production) had one ready. This was supposed to be the big tentpole for the post-Endgame MCU and one would think they would want to give it more fanfare because even when the first trailer hit months later, it was as exciting and joyful as going to Grandma's funeral. It is almost like the only one who had faith in it was Kevin Feige and even then I wonder if his faith was just empty bravado. I can see why @Secret Asshole said that choosing Brie Larson was a calculated move, but one could only imagine what was going in his head when he looked at what appeared to be a mediocre script on his desk and now he's backed into a corner.

With the middling reviews, I have got to wonder if we'll get a repeat of The Last Jedi.
 
As a fan of the MCU I'm only gonna go see it so I can stay up to date with what's going on for Endgame. Who knows, maybe it'll be actually good.
 
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Ok im going to go head on and say this initial poor critical reception will be quickly swept away in a tide of "STUNNING AND BRAVE! BEST MOVIE EVER! FACK YOUU ICKY NURDBROS!!!" shill reviews the way criticism of ghostbusters and TLJ was, and it will wind up comfortably in the 80% or at worst high 70% on the RT critic side.

...but if im wrong then hoollleeee sheeeeiiit did they mess up bad if even the time tested method of "claim an evil bigot troll conspiracy against all wammen in movies to get easily influenced critics to give you max ratings to prove they hate nazis the most" is failing to prop up its score.

I can only guess that the absolute shitshow that is the character lore combined with the REEEEEEE politics behind the scenes made it an absolute nightmare for the writing team to cobble something together that vaguely ties in to the comics.
 
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