Also just me or
Did anyone else think they got a different actor for Ronan? Totally didn't look like Lee Pace but it was.
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Captain Marvel |OT| The name is legally hers.
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Someone please tell me how fucked is Thanos after seeing this?
Obviously don't spoil the movie but powers wise, is Captain Marvel's powers on a galactic scale here. Should Thanos have spontaneous bouts of diarrhea knowing she exists?
Obviously don't spoil the movie but powers wise, is Captain Marvel's powers on a galactic scale here. Should Thanos have spontaneous bouts of diarrhea knowing she exists?
Boy that was Thor/Captain America levels of blah. I don't hate anything about it though.
Soundtrack was bad btw.
Soundtrack was bad btw.
Thanos handed Hulk his ass pre full Gauntlet. He's still a threat.
Seeing this in less than 2 hours. Fuck, the time is crawling buy. Hurry the fuck up time. I needs me Mahvel FIX
Christ on a bike, i forgot about that. But is Hulk not a weak hero in the greater Marvel universe? Kind of like there being much stronger beings than Superman in DC.
Had a blast at the movie. The CGI felt a little rough at times, but overall I was really pleased. Plot threw me for a couple loops, and I'm really happy with all the choices they made. Definitely not a standard origin story, and I'm glad for that. Honestly felt Jude Law was the weakest of all the actors.
About to watch this in Dolby Cinema. Never been a huge fan of the character, but we'll see if this changes my mind.
MCU does Hulk dirty. A pissed off Hulk can do some obscene shit.
I think Brie carried this film quite a bit. Outside of the 90s porn, this feels very much like a Star Trek episode, and a pretty average one at that.
Decent, sometimes fun movie, but somewhere around the Ant-Man 2 tier.
Decent, sometimes fun movie, but somewhere around the Ant-Man 2 tier.
That's gonna be a yikes from me. Felt like a scene they threw together in five minutes and half-improvised. If that's actually in the final cut of Endgame...
Carol Danvers is one of if not the most powerful Marvel character for the last few years now. She has limits/limits herself for reasons in the comics, not sure if the movies will muddy it up with her, but this is a woman that can damage Phoenix, not just drive it away like the other more powerful characters. Among other crazy ass feats of power shes displayed
It's only shown that her powers are from the engine explosion. Nothing else.
Wasn't she using the Tesseract to help with her Engine? Could that be a part of the source?
just got out... steady first half, definiely finds its footing in the second half
it did remind me of a phase one film, but ironman thor and cap 1 are personal faves of mine so no qualms with that
like most people have said, turn your expectation down one single notch (not multiple notches, just one)
captain marvel is a very enjoyable and entertaining sci fi superhero action comedy
oh, and yeah... ben mendolshon is mvp
it did remind me of a phase one film, but ironman thor and cap 1 are personal faves of mine so no qualms with that
like most people have said, turn your expectation down one single notch (not multiple notches, just one)
captain marvel is a very enjoyable and entertaining sci fi superhero action comedy
oh, and yeah... ben mendolshon is mvp
I found this to be great.
They really cut some bad trailers for this. Brie was much better as Carol than the trailers showed.
They really cut some bad trailers for this. Brie was much better as Carol than the trailers showed.
Yeah, this is definitely up there for the MCU origin films.
As a said in the RT thread, a perfectly adequate movie but nothing really stands out to me. Just your typical superhero flick. Also is it just me or do you folks also find the Skrull/Skroll (meh, can't be bothered to check) look so... cheap? It's like they're wearing cheap alien mask from your local toy shop, definitely not something I'm expecting from a studio as rich as Marvel.
But she is as depicted by this movie is easily 100x stronger, if not more, than Hulk power wise.
But she is as depicted by this movie is easily 100x stronger, if not more, than Hulk power wise.
I didn't like the color palate.
And it was like Roy Roger's/Jack In The Box. You know how sometimes it hits the spot? It's weird because it takes from what other places do well and just throws it all on one menu, and the weird aftertaste is that song during that one fight scene.
I still liked it and had a good time. Best mid-credits teaser by far.
And it was like Roy Roger's/Jack In The Box. You know how sometimes it hits the spot? It's weird because it takes from what other places do well and just throws it all on one menu, and the weird aftertaste is that song during that one fight scene.
I still liked it and had a good time. Best mid-credits teaser by far.
Definitely felt like mass effect to me lol. I enjoyed the movie and loved the skrulls
I would say it's comparable in quality, though I think Captain Marvel had a better third act.
WW I think is better? But the final part of the movie I think this one is more satisfying, unlike Wonder Woman.
I didn't see Carol do anything IW Iron Man couldn't do.
I mean yeah, She IS a heavy hitter, top 3 easily, but she's not gonna curb stomp Thanos.
Also again, MCU does Hulk Dirty,
Fucker's lifted Mountains. And thats one of the more milder acts.
Cross-posting my spoiler post with spoilers redacted:
Just got back. Pretty mixed on it overall. The start was REALLY rough but I thought the middle section had a lot of good stuff in it in particular. I think I'd give it about a 6.5/10. I agree with how the critical average ranks it in the lower-middle of the MCU movies. It's basically around Ant-Man/Thor quality...which isn't really what you want for an origin story of the most powerful entity in the MCU.
The Good:
+ The Stan Lee tribute/cameo was great.
+ Samuel L. Jackson fucking kills it. The film improves immeasurably the moment he shows up.
+ The digital de-aging on SLJ was absolutely ridiculous and I can't believe how good it looked.
+ Ben Mendelsohn rocked it as Talos, his character was way more nuanced than I expected
+ The actress who played Maria gave the best performance in the film even though her character was pretty thin. Her emoting during several scenes was just spot on and made Carol seem kinda bland by comparison.
+ Some cool musical choices (some not, but more on that later).
+ The cat was hilarious.
+ The closing titles sequence was AWESOME.
+ The original score was really, really cool. One of the most memorable in a while.
The Bad:
- The direction was really flat for almost the entire movie. There was so little personality to most of the shots and a lot of the action/dialogue coverage was super sloppy and ugly. You can tell these guys don't have much experience in tentpole films.
- The editing was really bad in places. At least 2 action scenes where I felt a headache coming on from how incoherent it was. Also tons of shots where continuity doesn't match to the point of distraction, like Brie's half-way through a laugh and it cuts and she's looking all stern.
- The first half-hour really had me fearing the worst. It's just full of awful expository dialogue and rushes through SO many things. It was annoying to watch. I honestly think it's one of the most ill-conceived openings to any MCU movie so far.
- A lot of cringey forced quippy dialogue, a lot of it given to Carol, which is ironic given that people expected her to be "too serious" when honestly I thought the opposite was true. It reminded me of Age of Ultron where the "witty" dialogue was so relentless at times you could sense the actors mechanically going through the motions rather than being able to let it play naturally.
- Forgettable action sequences for the most part.
- CGI during the third act was pretty rough; Carol looked like a blurry digital blob when flying around, the shot when she's falling back towards Earth was horrible
- Totally wasting Annette Bening.
- Carol's origin story wasn't very interesting and I never really cared much about her as a character.
- Larson was kinda all over the place. I struggled to get a bead on what she was trying to do and I ended up wishing the character was written to be more stoic. I think this is way more the material/direction's fault than her because she's normally very good.
- The 90s nostalgia was laid on WAY too thick.
- Some embarrassing musical choices later on. Reminded me of Suicide Squad where obvious songs are just thrown in with no cohesion.
- Agent Coulson de-aging looked way worse than Nick Fury's. Like the first few scenes I'd believe you if you told me he wasn't available for some reason and they just pasted his likeness over a stand-in.
- The new Ronan makeup was SO bad. It just looked like they slapped some blue paint on Lee Pace, especially during the close-ups. Didn't look anywhere near as cool or nuanced as in GOTG.
I feel like it was neither the trainwreck the haters wanted it to be nor the 4/5-star coming out party for the character its fans wanted. If we're comparing female-led superhero movies, Wonder Woman felt so much more confident and assured than this in pretty much every way, which is surprising.
Just got back. Pretty mixed on it overall. The start was REALLY rough but I thought the middle section had a lot of good stuff in it in particular. I think I'd give it about a 6.5/10. I agree with how the critical average ranks it in the lower-middle of the MCU movies. It's basically around Ant-Man/Thor quality...which isn't really what you want for an origin story of the most powerful entity in the MCU.
The Good:
+ The Stan Lee tribute/cameo was great.
+ Samuel L. Jackson fucking kills it. The film improves immeasurably the moment he shows up.
+ The digital de-aging on SLJ was absolutely ridiculous and I can't believe how good it looked.
+ Ben Mendelsohn rocked it as Talos, his character was way more nuanced than I expected
+ The actress who played Maria gave the best performance in the film even though her character was pretty thin. Her emoting during several scenes was just spot on and made Carol seem kinda bland by comparison.
+ Some cool musical choices (some not, but more on that later).
+ The cat was hilarious.
+ The closing titles sequence was AWESOME.
+ The original score was really, really cool. One of the most memorable in a while.
The Bad:
- The direction was really flat for almost the entire movie. There was so little personality to most of the shots and a lot of the action/dialogue coverage was super sloppy and ugly. You can tell these guys don't have much experience in tentpole films.
- The editing was really bad in places. At least 2 action scenes where I felt a headache coming on from how incoherent it was. Also tons of shots where continuity doesn't match to the point of distraction, like Brie's half-way through a laugh and it cuts and she's looking all stern.
- The first half-hour really had me fearing the worst. It's just full of awful expository dialogue and rushes through SO many things. It was annoying to watch. I honestly think it's one of the most ill-conceived openings to any MCU movie so far.
- A lot of cringey forced quippy dialogue, a lot of it given to Carol, which is ironic given that people expected her to be "too serious" when honestly I thought the opposite was true. It reminded me of Age of Ultron where the "witty" dialogue was so relentless at times you could sense the actors mechanically going through the motions rather than being able to let it play naturally.
- Forgettable action sequences for the most part.
- CGI during the third act was pretty rough; Carol looked like a blurry digital blob when flying around, the shot when she's falling back towards Earth was horrible
- Totally wasting Annette Bening.
- Carol's origin story wasn't very interesting and I never really cared much about her as a character.
- Larson was kinda all over the place. I struggled to get a bead on what she was trying to do and I ended up wishing the character was written to be more stoic. I think this is way more the material/direction's fault than her because she's normally very good.
- The 90s nostalgia was laid on WAY too thick.
- Some embarrassing musical choices later on. Reminded me of Suicide Squad where obvious songs are just thrown in with no cohesion.
- Agent Coulson de-aging looked way worse than Nick Fury's. Like the first few scenes I'd believe you if you told me he wasn't available for some reason and they just pasted his likeness over a stand-in.
- The new Ronan makeup was SO bad. It just looked like they slapped some blue paint on Lee Pace, especially during the close-ups. Didn't look anywhere near as cool or nuanced as in GOTG.
I feel like it was neither the trainwreck the haters wanted it to be nor the 4/5-star coming out party for the character its fans wanted. If we're comparing female-led superhero movies, Wonder Woman felt so much more confident and assured than this in pretty much every way, which is surprising.
Hell no. of course, she gets 20 more years to practice but in terms of whats on screen, she's not breaking the power scale.
at best she's a faster version of stormbreaker Thor.
WW had better action and memorable action scenes but I prefer CM's characters and character moments.
From the feminist perspective, I think I also prefer Captain Marvel.
Thanks, i liked WW, seems Ill have to watch this.
Just got back from it. If I had to give a one word review of it, it'd be.....uninspired. Wonder Woman was better.
It was fairly routine and, honestly, I didn't really feel it gave Brie much to work with. To go any further would require spoilers, so....
I expect / hope Marvel to be incredible in Endgame due to the Russo brothers.
It was fairly routine and, honestly, I didn't really feel it gave Brie much to work with. To go any further would require spoilers, so....
I saw someone say Brie encapsulated Marvel completely. I couldn't disagree more, but it's not her fault. The script / story requires her to not be Carol Danvers for over half the movie due to the memories being blocked. As a result, Brie couldn't be Danvers because she wasn't Danvers, she was "Vers". By the time she's herself again, it's primarily fighting / CGI slugfests, not really character work.
Speaking of fights and CGI slugfests, they were unexciting. Against the spaceships, she's Superman, so she's invulnerable and they are no threat. Earlier, in a fight against her old squad, she is similarly unstoppable, but they play "I'm Just a Girl" as the song over the fight and it just ruins the fight sequence. Absolutely terrible. It didn't go with the fight scene at all. That, combined with the fact her opponents were zero threat, it was just....eh.
The best fight sequence in the movie was near the beginning when she's captured by Skrulls and they have her hands blocked. Everything else? Ugh.
The music itself felt shoehorned in an attempt to mimick Guardians. The one scene where it felt appropriate, the bar scene where Fury catches up to Carol, was marred by the fact that the scene itself was horrible.
Lee Pace is awesome and needs more work.
Skrull homeworld being destroyed by the Kree and them being weak and scattered feels like an odd choice. I didn't mind that they were the good guys, here, but it still seemed odd. For being weakened and scattered, there was sure a helluva lot of them in the opening ambush, though....
"Young" Sam Jackson felt odd since he moved like an old man despite looking young.
"Young" Coulson looked amazing.
I expected Maria Rambeau to die to maybe plant seeds for Monica Rambeau to be proud of her and become a future hero....but that didn't happen. For a child actor, Monica Rambeau was fine.
The villains are weak, but Annette Bening was great every time she was on screen.
Speaking of fights and CGI slugfests, they were unexciting. Against the spaceships, she's Superman, so she's invulnerable and they are no threat. Earlier, in a fight against her old squad, she is similarly unstoppable, but they play "I'm Just a Girl" as the song over the fight and it just ruins the fight sequence. Absolutely terrible. It didn't go with the fight scene at all. That, combined with the fact her opponents were zero threat, it was just....eh.
The best fight sequence in the movie was near the beginning when she's captured by Skrulls and they have her hands blocked. Everything else? Ugh.
The music itself felt shoehorned in an attempt to mimick Guardians. The one scene where it felt appropriate, the bar scene where Fury catches up to Carol, was marred by the fact that the scene itself was horrible.
Lee Pace is awesome and needs more work.
Skrull homeworld being destroyed by the Kree and them being weak and scattered feels like an odd choice. I didn't mind that they were the good guys, here, but it still seemed odd. For being weakened and scattered, there was sure a helluva lot of them in the opening ambush, though....
"Young" Sam Jackson felt odd since he moved like an old man despite looking young.
"Young" Coulson looked amazing.
I expected Maria Rambeau to die to maybe plant seeds for Monica Rambeau to be proud of her and become a future hero....but that didn't happen. For a child actor, Monica Rambeau was fine.
The villains are weak, but Annette Bening was great every time she was on screen.
WW's arc was dragged down by the romance with Steve and by how it has to tie back to Diana not helping out humans for decades. It probably would have been ended with her wanting to help humans rather than only realising it after reminiscing over some emails.
Mother of God :O
still stuck at work. This last hour must hurry up, bloody hell.
I have fantasies of a live action World War Hulk movie. Please Marvel make it happen.
I didn't see Carol do anything IW Iron Man couldn't do.
I mean yeah, She IS a heavy hitter, top 3 easily, but she's not gonna curb stomp Thanos.
Also again, MCU does Hulk Dirty,
Fucker's lifted Mountains. And thats one of the more milder acts.
We're talking about *movie* Hulk, yes?
And I don't see Ironman
capable of hurling back a huge ballistic missile, much less forcing an alien fleet to retreat, much less traveling in light speed across galaxies (the scene where she's outside the ship and both it and her warped out), etc etc
I'm simply comparing her to movie Hulk. I think all in all she is way stronger than him, even if we simply go by what is depicted in this movie alone.
I could see the sequel being a Winter Soldier situation where they don't have to deal with the origin shit
This is how I feel. I want an MCU movie every three months. I cannot get enough of them.
I liked it a lot more than Wonder Woman, but my opinions on superhero movies rarely align with consensus.
I was worried that a lot of Captain Marvel was going to be the same naive "Gee golly tell me about this strange new world I'm in" fish-out-of-water shtick that Wonder Woman carries on with for like 2/3rds of the movie......but Carol gets used to being on Earth pretty quick.
I suppose, but I put that on the MCU not doing Hulk his fair due.
Sure, the light speed travel is more powerful, but thats not exactly gonna do anything to Thanos. And Iron Man in Avengers 1 redirected a nuke into an alien facility, and his suit in IW is MILES ahead of his Avengers 1 Suit.
Again I'm not saying Captain Marvel is weak, she's just not comically overpowered compared to Thanos.