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

[Feline Darkmage]

Saw it a week or two ago now and it was good. I liked the twist.

 

[Cod of War]

If you have the time to spare, MauLer did a video. It's almost two hours.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Made some fan art centered around the firstest ever and bestest ever womyn superhero of all time and idol to wamen, pocs and cuckold aficionados everywhere:

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Larson: "I did most of my stunts, because I just thought that's what you did with these movies."

Hemsworth: "Going to be the next Tom Cruise?"

Larson: "Im GoInG tO bE tHe NeXt Me, ThAnK yOu VeRy MuCh"

If you have the time to spare, MauLer did a video. It's almost two hours.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Keooxe5x6Ts

Could have easily cut about 45 minutes off this video, as I feel like he starts talking in circles in some parts. Overall, he pretty much covers all bases as to why this movie is so goddamn fucking terrible.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Alita is a way better character and movie than Captain Marvel

 

[madethistocomment]

Larson: "I did most of my stunts, because I just thought that's what you did with these movies."

Hemsworth: "Going to be the next Tom Cruise?"

Larson: "Im GoInG tO bE tHe NeXt Me, ThAnK yOu VeRy MuCh"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6dgJCfDlqU


Could have easily cut about 45 minutes off this video, as I feel like he starts talking in circles in some parts. Overall, he pretty much covers all bases as to why this movie is so goddamn fucking terrible.

There has never been another human being with an ego as massive yet ridiculously fragile as Brie Larson.

 

[XYZpdq]

This doesn't just apply to Marvel movies, but in general the reported China box office take should always be taken with a big grain of salt. There's two reasons for this:

A) Showing agreements in China work differently than those in the US. While it's a somewhat complicated topic to compare them because US and European theaters use a sliding scale based on how long the movie has been playing to determine the portion of each ticket sale the studio gets, the long story short version is every $1 of gross ticket sales in China is a significantly lower contributor to net profits for a film than $1 of gross ticket sales in other markets (the standard in China seems to be that the studio gets - at most - a fixed 25% of each ticket sold).

B) China is widely understood to heavily falsify ticket sales numbers to "save face" because ownership of theaters showing a movie and investment in the western movie production company that made it frequently come from the same individuals. All of the crazy conspiracy theories about empty theaters and fake ticket sales for Captain Marvel are things that we know are regularly done by Chinese theaters. Last year it was estimated that up to 40% of ticket sales reported in China might be fraudulent.

One hundred years of Hollywood accounting is no match for three thousand years of Chinese accounting.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

There has never been another human being with an ego as massive yet ridiculously fragile as Brie Larson.

And that's exactly the reason why people make "cringe compilation" videos of her. Literally nobody would be making fun of her stunts from Captain Marvel if she had not put herself up on such a high pedestal and snapped at Hemsworth like that.

Bitch doesn't know how to take a day off from being the embodiment of anti-charisma.

 

[LN 910]

Larson: "I did most of my stunts, because I just thought that's what you did with these movies."

Hemsworth: "Going to be the next Tom Cruise?"

Larson: "Im GoInG tO bE tHe NeXt Me, ThAnK yOu VeRy MuCh"

I agree with Brie Larson. Tom Cruise was a crazy person that kept his beliefs out of his work and delivered insane stunts, competent performances, created an entirely new kind of franchise out of an old property and for a while was box office gold. Brie stars in a film series that did well without her for ten years, had CGI do most of the work for a rather formulaic film and will probably fizzle out when the capeshit craze dies. They're not comparable in the slightest.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Tom Cruise puts more effort into his sprinting than Brie did her emotional story arc.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

I can understand Hemsworth being unfriendly with Flatass. He's put work into Thor, turned a literally who into one of the most popular characters around with his face and acting. Brie comes in as Captain Feminism and Marvel Studios props her up as "the REAL most important character, we promise guys )" after she robots her way through Ghostbuster 2016 2. If Chris Evans wasn't such a cuck he would probably be angry that they were trying to usurp Cap with this bland ass superman bitch as the first Avenger.

Spoiler: How Marvel can fix this.

Marvel needs to man up and replace Chris Evans with Rich Evans.

 

[Wyzzerd]

Rich can only replace Chris if he gets twice as many shirtless scenes as every other character to date.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

More cringe material, y'all. This is from the same infamous interview where she snaps at Chris Hemsworth.

Don Cheadle can't fucking stand her, lol. If anyone sees his behavior as just "playful banter," then they are clueless. You can easily tell that he finds her insufferable.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Rich can only replace Chris if he gets twice as many shirtless scenes as every other character to date.

Replace Chris Evans with the radio DJ Chris Evans.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

My biggest problem with this film was that the character arc was just skipped over. Like, we’re told she’s too emotional, but we don’t really see that. Then we get a few flashbacks which apparently illustrate that she’s been suppressed all her life (I think?) and then... something happens and now she’s incredibly powerful. It felt like they tried to squeeze 2-3 movies into one.

 

[armoreddinnerjacket]

My biggest problem with this film was that the character arc was just skipped over. Like, we’re told she’s too emotional, but we don’t really see that. Then we get a few flashbacks which apparently illustrate that she’s been suppressed all her life (I think?) and then... something happens and now she’s incredibly powerful. It felt like they tried to squeeze 2-3 movies into one.

Exactly. I walked out wanting to see her origin film, because this sure as heck wasn't it. Don't tell me how wonderful a person she is, show it to me, preferably with it's own movie like all the other big players got.

Unless we're just throwing Marvel in as another side character, because what we've gotten is adequate for a supporting role.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Exactly. I walked out wanting to see her origin film, because this sure as heck wasn't it. Don't tell me how wonderful a person she is, show it to me, preferably with it's own movie like all the other big players got.

Unless we're just throwing Marvel in as another side character, because what we've gotten is adequate for a supporting role.

Personally, I’d have saved her for after Endgame. Tell a smaller story, maybe tie her in with already-seen characters and settings from the cosmic MCU so we don’t need to explain everything to the audience. Concentrate on turning her from a soldier to a hero. Introduce the Kree, with the Skrulls as minor secondary bad guys. Then in the sequel, reveal she’s from Earth, the Kree are bad, the Skrulls are good, and give her a power boost.

Characters like Thor, Cap and Iron Man feel like they’ve earned the right to take centre stage because we’ve seen them develop slowly over several movies. With Captain Marvel, it just feels like they’re saying “Hey! Remember how everything Cap believed in was a lie? Remember how Stark fucked up all those times? How Thor lost everything? Well, she’s had that as well!”

Man, I really hope they don’t have her be the one to kill Thanos, but...

 

[AnAspieWithAVengeance]

Replace Chris Evans with the radio DJ Chris Evans.

Don't even joke about a concept so horrific.

 

[One Man Bland]

If you have the time to spare, MauLer did a video. It's almost two hours.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Keooxe5x6Ts

You know, seeing this and being given the full context for that "I have nothing to prove to you" line, it really sums up how out of touch the creative team is with what made the previous MCU characters so popular.

When you look back at all of their films, the vast majority of their origin stories are redemption arcs specifically because it allows for characters who are snarky, powerful, or both to feel like they've earned the right to be that way. And what makes a redemption arc feel earned is that the audience gets to see a character's real strength by being able to see them go from an artificial high point, to a extreme low point, back to a high point now reached by their own skill. Tony Stark in Iron Man 1 goes from a spoiled billionaire to captured by terrorists to fighting his way out with a weapon he invented out of scrap metal, the Guardians of the Galaxy go from a rag-tag group of criminals looking to make a profit to criminals on the run and in way over their heads to a close-knit group of friends able to defend an entire planet, and Thor is literally kicked off by having him be thrown out of the house by his dad and being told he can have his hammer back when he proves that he doesn't need it anymore. Super-powered protagonists proving themselves to other characters and the audience is kind of essential if you want audiences to be interested in them because it creates the feeling that their powers are the icing on the cake, not the core of their strength.

Having Captain Marvel just blasting the guy asking for a hand-to-hand to match, when the previous instances indicate that she tends to resort to those blasts when she starts to lose anyways, does not come off as badass or like she's sticking it to The Man. It comes off as though CM is actually nothing without her powers, and that if she were ever in the same situations previous Marvel characters had been in her only option would be to curl up into a ball and die. It would've been a helluva lot stronger if she said that line and beat him without a blast, and outside of a cheap joke she just kinda comes off as an asshole who uses her powers frivolously - not to dissimilar from Thor in his first film the more I think about it.

I'm really curious as to how well they expect the inevitable sequel to do after Endgame is finished. There's only so far a character with such little charisma can go.

 

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THIS HORSE DOESN'T LOOK DEAD ENOUGH. HIT IT SOME MORE.

Report: Disney Requires Theaters to Show Captain Marvel During Avengers: Endgame's Thursday Preview - Bounding Into Comics

Disney is requiring theaters to show both Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame on Thursday night, April 25.

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Disney is requiring theaters to show both Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame on Thursday night, April 25.


Our source tells us that Captain Marvel will be required to be shown on Thursday night. Theaters will not be able to drop the film from screens in order to create room for Avengers: Endgame.


The idea behind this move is to hopefully bring in more people to Captain Marvel and boost the box office sales of the Brie Larson led movie, which is still far below Disney’s domestic gross projections for the film.


Disney had originally projected the film to earn $450 million at the domestic box office over the course of its run. The film has currently only grossed just over $400 million.


While the move will more than likely provide a boost for Larson’s Captain Marvel, it means theaters won’t be able to fill a number of their theaters with eager Avengers: Endgame moviegoers on Thursday. Less Endgame moviegoers more than likely means less concession sales and less overall business for theaters.


The move by Disney to try and promote Captain Marvel right before Avengers: Endgame is not unexpected. Back in March, we revealed that they would not be selling Dumbo tickets until after Captain Marvel’s opening weekend with the idea to maximize Captain Marvel’s presence.


They will be doing the same thing with Avengers: Endgame as Aladdin tickets will not go on sale until the Monday after Avengers: Endgame’s opening weekend.


The move also makes sense from a Marvel Studios story standpoint as Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has stated Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel will take the lead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe following Avengers: Endgame.


Feige revealed Captain Marvel’s importance to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the Captain Marvel: The Official Movie Special guide:

“When we found out that Brie Larson might be interested in joining our world, we had a number of meetings. She was a huge fan of the character in the comics. One of the highlights of my career at Marvel was introducing her at Comic-Con and having her come out on stage and stand there with literally almost everybody else from our movies. There she was at the forefront, and it was a great foreshadowing – not just for how audiences are going to embrace Brie as this character, but also for how Captain Marvel is about to take the lead and be at the forefront of the entire Cinematic Universe.”

Larson actually spoke about Captain Marvel’s place in the MCU indicating she might take a central role in Avengers: Endgame. She notes how the Avengers were defeated by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and they need to find a way to punch back.

“But I think very quickly they understand this is someone they want on their team, and their hands are tied at this point. They’ve done the best they can do and came up short. They’re going to have to lean on somebody new.”

What do you make of Disney’s decision to have theaters keep Captain Marvel on screens during Avengers: Endgame’s Thursday night previews? Do you expect Captain Marvel to hit that $450 million domestic mark?