LTTP: Captain Marvel (CM Spoilers, but please no Endgame spoilers)

[HellforLeather]

So I finally just saw this.....I get it now when people say this feels like a phase 1 movie sorta but its nowhere near on the level of Iron Man 1. Just some random thoughts

-I still dont understand her powers, so she absorbed an energy core of some kind which makes her shoot lazers, fly, and....invincible, I guess? Pretty sure I saw her get shot a few times when flying around destroying the Kree ships.

-This movie feels kinda boring. I dont feel invested in anything that happened or Carol's backstory.

-The 90's music feels like a hail mary attempt to inject some kind of life into this movie instead of enhancing the good stuff that's already there (ala GoTG)

-Young Nick Fury effects are insane, why are the space action scenes so weirdly blurry?

-Marvel humor is usually pretty hit or miss for me but the humor in this movie was almost all misses.

-Brie Larson is pretty terrible in this. Maybe thats why I couldn't get invested because she has the same bemused look on her face in 90% of the movie, even when there is plot relevant stuff happening. Some of her line deliveries are just bad. She looks bored.

Overall this definitely feels like a B-team (or even C-team) effort. I'm assuming CM does great things in Endgame but I dont expect to remember most of this movie in t-minus 1 week.

 

[Bor Gullet]

Young Nick Fury effects were amazing, until the character ran, or bent down. You could clearly tell it was the body of a 70 year old man.

 

[HellforLeather]

Young Nick Fury effects were amazing, until the character ran, or bent down. You could clearly tell it was the body of a 70 year old man.

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Yes, this is true. Still pretty impressive though. Visually, its completely 100% convincing to my eyes.

 

[StopMakingSense]

-I still dont understand her powers, so she absorbed an energy core of some kind

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She absorbed power extracted from the Tesseract/Space Stone

 

[Arebours]

saw it a few days ago.
Best thing about the movie was the feminist perspective, although a bit on the nose I want more of that stuff. Everything else fell flat for me. Boring story, boring characters, boring dialogue and boring visuals. That puts it right above the middle of the pack as far as marvel movies goes for me(I'm not the biggest fan if you can tell).

The sam jackson CG is some of the most distracting and ridiculous stuff I've ever seen in a movie. I didn't know about it coming in and I ended up absolutely hating it. Did not work at all for me. Overall 2/5 movie. At least enjoyed it more than the trash-tier Aquaman movie I saw a few days later.

 

[roflwaffles]

I thought this movie was a bottom 3 MCU movie, but I never feel comfortable saying it because it feels anti-feminist to do so.

 

[Poyunch]

-I still dont understand her powers, so she absorbed an energy core of some kind which makes her shoot lazers, fly, and....invincible, I guess? Pretty sure I saw her get shot a few times when flying around destroying the Kree ships.

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She absorbed the powers of one of the most powerful objects in the MCU. Basically, she's a walking nuke.

 

[Veelk]

-Brie Larson is pretty terrible in this. Maybe thats why I couldn't get invested because she has the same bemused look on her face in 90% of the movie, even when there is plot relevant stuff happening. Some of her line deliveries are just bad. She looks bored.

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I feel like whenever we get a female lead action hero, there is a disproportionate amount of focus on their factial features. I have never once heard these kinds of commentaries on the male marvel heroes, positive or negative. Not just Bree, but same thing with WW too.

She absorbed power extracted from the Tesseract/Space Stone

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Yes. This is how the Twins, Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch, got their powers as well. And iirc, how Red Skull got his super strength and looks.

The Tesseract is kind of a random power generator.

 

[Cipherr]

I still don't get it. I loved the movie. Feel like they are on a roll with their origin films lately. BP and CM are so much better than like Dr. Strange that its crazy. And I liked Dr. Strange lol.

 

[Doran]

I didn't like it either but I also have massive superhero fatigue.

 

[Doggg]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't top tier Marvel, but of course most aren't.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

I love Brie Larson, so I really wanted to love Captain Marvel. But Brie plays the character so damn stiff and boring. Or she was directed to do so. I dunno. It was an okay movie, but it just wasn't the Brie I was used to and excited to see step into Captain Marvel role.

Yes. This is how the Twins, Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch, got their powers as well. And iirc, how Red Skull got his super strength and looks.

The Tesseract is kind of a random power generator.

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RNGesus

 

[Dalek]

It's a perfectly fine movie with some truly great moments-but for some reason people pull out the ultra powered microscope when it comes to nitpicking this particular movie.

Nick Fury looked amazing.

 

[Bitanator]

I love Brie Larson, so I really wanted to love Captain Marvel. But Brie plays the character so damn stiff and boring. Or she was directed to do so.

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Brie is hit or miss for me, she can be wonderful in one role and phone in another. Usually when the character is horribly written. She is definitely not a bad actress, but cannot elevate poor script.

I honestly didn't or mind her in this, though I saw it with my brothers GF and her daughter and seeing her reactions to the film made it worth it.

 

[Terraforce]

It's amazing you made it this long without being spoiled about Endgame.

 

[Lundren]

It's a perfectly fine movie with some truly great moments-but for some reason people pull out the ultra powered microscope when it comes to nitpicking this particular movie.

Nick Fury looked amazing.

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This is how I feel.

People get so focused on how she is so cocky and delivers one liners with a smirk that they don't realize that they don't like something a lot of the other characters do. I think it's because when Tony Stark does it, they feel like they are being badass and funny, but when Carol does it they feel like they're on the receiving end.

 

[Deleted member 1627]

It's a perfectly fine movie with some truly great moments-but for some reason people pull out the ultra powered microscope when it comes to nitpicking this particular movie.

Nick Fury looked amazing.

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Yup. Very odd.

 

[SugarNoodles]

Give me CM over Winter Soldier any fucking day of the week.

 

[CloseTalker]

It was a ton of fun. Definitely fell into the MCU trend of having really weak, unmemorable action scenes, but the character work was great and it was genuinely very funny. I thought Brie Larson was awesome in the role, a perfect blend of badass and sympathetic.

 

[Noppie]

I liked it, was serviceable. Think Brie did a fine job, especially during the more 'cheeky' moments we saw here in.

 

[Finaika]

-I still dont understand her powers, so she absorbed an energy core of some kind which makes her shoot lazers, fly, and....invincible, I guess? Pretty sure I saw her get shot a few times when flying around destroying the Kree ships.

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They're photons.

 

[Ichthyosaurus]

Yes. This is how the Twins, Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch, got their powers as well. And iirc, how Red Skull got his super strength and looks.

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Red Skull got that from a prototype super soldier serum by the same scientist who made Cap.

 

[Veelk]

Red Skull got that from a prototype super soldier serum by the same scientist who made Cap.

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I guess I recalled incorrectly. Could have sworn that the Tesseract did SOMETHING to him. Or was it just that it sent him to Vormir?

Well, anyway, I know it gave the twins their powers. It's just what it does.

 

[Ichthyosaurus]

I guess I recalled incorrectly. Could have sworn that the Tesseract did SOMETHING to him. Or was it just that it sent him to Vormir?

Well, anyway, I know it gave the twins their powers. It's just what it does.

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Yep. :)

 

[Beren]

I guess I recalled incorrectly. Could have sworn that the Tesseract did SOMETHING to him. Or was it just that it sent him to Vormir?

Well, anyway, I know it gave the twins their powers. It's just what it does.

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The Mind Stone in Loki's scepter gave the twins their powers, not the Space Stone, which was on Asgard at that time.

 

[Veelk]

The Mind Stone in Loki's scepter gave the twins their powers, not the Space Stone, which was on Asgard at that time.

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Shit your right.

I'm getting sloppy with my MCU lore in my old age.

Look, the point is, dem stones give people powers.

 

[Ferrs]

I don't get Brie complains, she was great this movie. Overall it was a lot of fun.

 

[Cyberclops]

I thought the movie was average, but I'm a fan of Dr. Strange so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

 

[Ukumio]

Yes. This is how the Twins, Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch, got their powers as well. And iirc, how Red Skull got his super strength and looks.

The Tesseract is kind of a random power generator.

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Red Skull got his powers from a similar serum to Captain America. Its literally shown and explained in the movie. He was Red Skull way before he even got his hands on the Tesseract.

Also, the Twins got their powers from the Scepter (Mind Stone).

Edit: See I was beaten on both accounts. Sort of torn that the stones (of the E-199999 universe) are destroyed.

 

[Phendrana]

The amnesia plot device almost never works for me, but using it in a freaking origin story takes it to another level. What an awful idea. We spend like 80% of the movie with a Captain Marvel who doesn't really know who she is, and her character suffers for it.

I'm looking forward to her getting more fleshed out going forward, but yeah - not a great first outing imo.

 

[Pandora012]

It's a perfectly fine movie with some truly great moments-but for some reason people pull out the ultra powered microscope when it comes to nitpicking this particular movie.

Nick Fury looked amazing.

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Sure it's a perfectly fine mediocre movie. It was boring and basically a waste of time for me.

Brie is hit or miss for me, she can be wonderful in one role and phone in another. Usually when the character is horribly written. She is definitely not a bad actress, but cannot elevate poor script.

I honestly didn't or mind her in this, though I saw it with my brothers GF and her daughter and seeing her reactions to the film made it worth it.

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They really needed a better script for this movie. Here's hoping they do for her sequel.

 

[Edgar]

Give me CM over Winter Soldier any fucking day of the week.

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No

 

[Dragon1893]

I loved the movie and it was very obvious that everyone in the theater where I watched it loved it as well, there were cheers and laughs several times. It was genuinely funny and entertaining and Brie was great.

 

[Knight in Shining Armani]

I have the MCU in three tiers:

• Amazing, will buy and rewatch (Homecoming, Ragnarok, Infinity War, Endgame)
• Very enjoyable, but I never need to see it again (Ant-Man 1+2, Doctor Strange, AoU)
• This is not outright bad but man, it drags at times (Iron-Man 2+3, Thor DW)

For me, CM is in the bottom tier.

 

[cognizant]

I think setting it in the 90s was a mistake, they should have set it in modern times. Or at the very least follow her journey from the 90s to modern times.

Nobody even calls her Captain Marvel in her own movie right? Kind of annoys me.

 

[Deleted member 1849]

Young Nick Fury looked better than some other hollywood attempts at de-aging, but to me it still looked really slightly off. Just enough for it to be distracting throughout the movie.

Still super impressive, but not completely there just yet.

 

[SugarNoodles]

No

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[J_Viper]

Brie and Ben Mendelsohn knocked it out of the park with their roles. Everything else was mediocre.

Goober Fury was hard to watch, especially with anything involving the cat, and the way they explain his eyepatch was fucking dumb. The humor really around in this film is the worse it has ever been in the MCU.

 

[plié]

The best mcu movie.

 

[TheBaldwin]

Its a fun flick, held down by the fact that it had to be tied to earth and in the 90's.

If the MCU proven anything to me, its that the origin films are always just good, but hopefully they really nail a new tone and character in the sequel

 

[Arc]

My biggest problem is she's just too OP. I don't know where they can take her next.

 

[McPaul]

I thought the movie was alright, but Brie was a misscast.She's stiffer than a body.

 

[V_Arnold]

I have a feeling that some of you knocking on Brie for her acting does not bet an eyelesh for a similar performance from Thor's actor, or even from RDJ or Chris Pratt.

 

[Kuro]

It was okay but yeah kind of a disappointing MCU movie. I would say it's just a bit below Iron Man 1 and Cap 1 but not completely bad for an origin.

 

[BossAttack]

One of the most average Marvel films that gives both Doctor Strange and Ant-Man a run for its money as most assembly line mediocre product yet.

 

[LinkStrikesBack]

It's not one of my favourites, but every single origin film has been utterly middle of the pack, except maybe iron man 1 so it's just in line with every other marvel movie. The better stuff will come later.

 

[Plutone]

One of the best MCU movies.

 

[vectorj]

It's an ok movie. It felt haphazardly put together. The beginning was really boring but once Marvel and Fury teamed up it became exciting.

I liked Dr. Strange and Antman just fine. I feel its about the same quality as those.

Definitely not one of my favorites.

 

[Terminus]

I feel like whenever we get a female lead action hero, there is a disproportionate amount of focus on their factial features. I have never once heard these kinds of commentaries on the male marvel heroes, positive or negative. Not just Bree, but same thing with WW too.

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This bullshit right here is just as antithetical to the meaningful evaluation of an artistic work as the nonsense coming from the red-pilled hate brigade. She just gave a bland, robotic, unremarkable performance. It's ok to say so. Hemsworth turned in four of them before they found an interesting take on his character. She'll have plenty more opportunities to leave a mark without stans gaslighting people into celebrating mediocrity.

 

[Sandstar]

I feel like whenever we get a female lead action hero, there is a disproportionate amount of focus on their factial features. I have never once heard these kinds of commentaries on the male marvel heroes, positive or negative. Not just Bree, but same thing with WW too.


Yes. This is how the Twins, Quick Silver and Scarlett Witch, got their powers as well. And iirc, how Red Skull got his super strength and looks.

The Tesseract is kind of a random power generator.

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The Red Skull got the beta version of the super soldier serum.