TheBaxter wrote:
well, this looks good.
Fievel wrote:so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:
I guess that cat scene at the end holds some significance to Captain Marvel fans?
I had one issue of Captain Marvel (1980s) as a kid that I bought in an attempt to impress my dad, who had read the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) as a kid in the 1940s.
So I can't speak of the cat.
Ribbons wrote:Brie Larson continues to look thoroughly unconvincing as a badass:
Peven wrote:it is 2019... like it or not girls/women can be just as strong and tough as most boys/men.
Wolfpack wrote:People! Can't we all just get a lawn?
Peven wrote:Wolfpack wrote:People! Can't we all just get a lawn?
lawns are environmentally irresponsible! do you know that more pesticides and fertilizers are used per square acre on lawns in this country than farmland?????? and here you are proposing that EVERYONE get a lawn??? what kind of a monster are you???![]()
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TheBaxter wrote:i can't wait for this movie to come out...
... so i can finally stop hearing about Brie Larson's fucking training regimen all the time.
Peven wrote:heads above Wonder Woman, and I liked WW.
Peven wrote:I thought it did a great job with portraying a female hero character without any concessions, like at the end when she tells Jude, "I don't have anything to prove to you". fucking fantastic.
Ribbons wrote:Peven wrote:heads above Wonder Woman, and I liked WW.
It sounds like Kirks needs to make another Superchick Hairpuller thread to settle this dispute.Peven wrote:I thought it did a great job with portraying a female hero character without any concessions, like at the end when she tells Jude, "I don't have anything to prove to you". fucking fantastic.
I did relish that moment quite a bit; Jude Law was like the classic Twitterbro demanding an uppity woman earn their respect. I can't say I was overly fond of the rest of the film. It almost felt like the inverse of the typical Marvel movie, which is usually a pretty standard origin and/or doomsday plot that adheres rigidly to formula but largely succeeds due to auteur-ish directors putting their personal stamp on the proceedings. I thought they hit on a pretty brilliant hook with Captain Marvel -- a brainwashed female supersoldier who has to slowly unlearn who she thinks she is in order to regain her humanity and reach her full potential -- but rather than lean into everything strong about the material, it felt completely lifeless and unengaging, almost like it was made on autopilot. The generic MCU formula, where everything is breezy and quippy and inconsequential, normally props a film up during rough patches. Here it felt like the story kind of drowned in it. I also didn't love all of the prequel stuff, which either felt like unnecessary fan service or raised more questions than it answered.
Brie Larson was really good in the role, though. There wasn't a whole lot to Carol Danvers on the page, but she does a heroic job of imbuing the character with charisma and complexity based on the strength of her performance. I enjoyed all of the performances in fact, particularly Ben Mendelsohn, who plays against type for once as a secret good guy.
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