Captain Marvel
She’s basically the Marvel version of Superman with no apparent Kryptonite-like weakness. And shares the same last name as Supergirl. And doesn’t use glasses to hide her identity. They are in fact used to make her look badass.
Spoiler alert
Captain Marvel is the first female-led movie for the franchise and tells the origins story of Carol Danvers. The movie is, in a word, OK.
I liked the tempo; movie moves briskly throughout and the sense of mystery in the plot points definitely lends itself to it. Villain is good. Skrull’s, supposedly the villain in the beginning turns out to be the victim later on, were engaging.
My favourite part of the movie: Nick Fury. What a legend!
How about that CGI though. What CGI am I right? You know a technology is good if it just disappears, integrates seamlessly with its surrounding. Or maybe Samuel Jackson just doesn’t age.
I had no idea coming in how involved Fury would be. I thought ‘ma man Coulson would be the main guy but no. Fury’s personality really blended in well with Captain Marvel and they make a good team. Nice buddy-cop combo.
There’s definitely a lack of focus in the movie. Convoluted. It never committed on what kind of movie it wanted to be; too many themes being thrown around.
Basically a mess
There’s a bit of 90s nostalgia, an amnesia self-discovery story for Carol or a finding her place in a new world kind of story.
Case in point. There’s this storyline between Carol and her old friend Maria. So Carol had her amnesia thing and everyone who knew her previously — Maria included — assumed she was dead. So when they were reunited many moons later, its suppose to feel emotional am I right? But there’s just so little build-up to it that it didn’t really work.
Captain Marvel as a character was…fine. Good sense of humour, snarky, likeable, Brie Larson did ok. She’s Marvel’s most powerful superhero or something like that and I get it, handling those torpedo missiles definitely classifies her as a Thanos-killer.
Comparisons will inevitably be made with Wonder Woman; this is definitely the weaker movie. DC > Marvel for once. The issue with making a character indestructible is that there’s really no tension involved in fights, she’s so overpowered. The fight scenes are entertaining, but definitely no Wonder Woman crossing No Man’s Land kind of quality. Entertaining but forgettable is how I would put it.
Fury’s Eye-Patch
About the eye.
“Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye” — Fury in Captain America: Winter Soldier
Turns out a flerken — alien cat — scratched it.
I don’t hate this new info. It does cheap out the scene with Captain America a teeny weeny bit. Have a look at that scene, Fury was pretty ‘furious’ and not in a mood to joke I would say. But it does present an opportunity for humour, like the conversation with Coulsen. I don’t love it, but don’t mind it.
End-credits scene
This was basically nothing, just Goose coughing up the Tesseract. The mid-credits scene tho’ was the big one.
The time seems to be just after the events of Infinity War, and the OG Avengers are trying to reboot Fury’s modified pager, before, boom. In comes Captain Marvel out of nowhere 😲
Is it a scene from Endgame? If so is it at the start of the movie? Or somewhere in the middle, and how would Carol’s presence affect the rest of the Avengers? I’m pumped 😁. April 24 can’t come soon enough.
Sadly the mid-credits scene is the best thing about Captain Marvel. It’s far from a BAD movie, but for the MCU’s high standards, this is definitely one of the weakest.
I give Captain Marvel a B.
