Captain Marvel - Finally watched this. Now all I need to do is rewatch
Dr. Strange,
Black Panther and
Avengers: Endgame and my Marvel debt is paid up.This isn't upper tier Marvel though. Too many callbacks, too many unintended (intended?) homages to other movies. Not to mention an alien villain with an inexplicable Australian accent. British accents I can handle but Ben Mendelsohn's, "What is it that I'm going for here?" bad guy was kind of hard to buy into.
WARNING: spoilers below
I know the whole point was that he wasn't actually the bad guy but I thought this was a weird way to get to that point.
I know the whole point was that he wasn't actually the bad guy but I thought this was a weird way to get to that point.
Anyway, it might not be prime Marvel but it's okay.
80/100
This was probably the most disappointing film in the MCU (thus far) for me.
I mean, when
Thor: The Dark World came out, expectations for Marvel movies weren't that high yet and
Iron Man 2 had already checked my expectations (another big disappointment, but hey, it confirmed
The Avengers was coming!) so, as (rightly) maligned as it is, I wasn't that
disappointed.
Doctor Strange was too paint-by-numbers for me and that disappointed me to.
But none of them as much as this one.
When I heard they were making this, I was giddy. I grew up a huge Captain Marvel fan, he was one of the shortest list of the Marvel heroes I wanted to
be.
When I heard they were going with the female version, I was totally on board as this is a character that was primed for that, and I had actually grown up a Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel fan from the comics as well (I was a comic-book kid in the late 70s and early 80s). I bought all the recent Captain Marvel collections to get caught up on what the Carol Danvers version of this character was about.
When I heard they had gotten some indie directors to do it, I was hopeful they would understand how to handle a cosmic property and that Feige would hold their hands through it. Hell, Taika rocked it.
When I heard they cast Brie Larson I was... ehhhh... I was thrilled they landed an Oscar-winning actress for the role, I really wasn't sure Brie was the right person for it.
The movie comes out and, let's face it, Brie is not the right person for this. Maybe it'll get better but she was miscast. The script is... really not great. Really. And I just don't think the directors were comfortable in this film. A lot of stuff doesn't really work and the movie almost comes off feeling more like it should have been a Disney+ release than a theatrical one.
It has some wonderful moments and some really great call-backs to the comics, including my favorite Nova moment, stolen for this character and film, but hey I was happy to see it on-screen and I like this character too, so, fine, but overall the movie has some really stupid **** in it, some of which irreparably damages the MCU (like Fury's eye).
Hopefully, they'll do better going forward, I hope they get someone else to direct CM2, for sure, though I know we'll see Carol in other Marvel crossovers before then.