Captain Marvel - the latest MCU movie

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Anyone see it?

I went with my friend Jenny on Sunday. (I’m apparently the only one who will go with her to comic book movies.) We both enjoyed it. I’d place it in the top half of the MCU movies, but not at the very top.
 
I saw it on Saturday. I agree with you MrZoom. It reminded me of some earlier MCU films in its approach. It was an alright film and I’m excited to see this character’s future stand alone films.
 
Sorry, I am not a fan of movies based on comic characters. But each to her or her own.
 
I was keen to see it until I read all the negative reviews - they made it seem like she’s a terrible actress with no story arc (it’s all win, win, win!). Plus I don’t like it when they ‘de-age’ actors’ faces using software.
 
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I was keen to see it until I read all the negative reviews - they made it seem like she’s a terrible actress with no story arc (it’s all win, win, win!). Plus I don’t like it when they ‘de-age’ actors’ faces using software.
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I very much disliked The Last Jedi, and when I saw all the negative press I thought this movie would have many of the same flaws, but the complaints were overblown, imo. It’s a decent and fun movie.
 
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I saw it… I thought it was on par with the other origin movies: Iron Man 1, Thor, Captain America: the First Avenger.

The problem I have with the movie (I can separate the actress from the Character) is that I think the end of the movie made Captain Marvel too overpowered compared to the other Marvel heros.

What she did to the Kree ships was too much, in my opinion, UNLESS over time, her powers diminish a little. Otherwise, she’s too powerful.

There would be no need for the Avengers with Captain Marvel, the way she is shown at the end of the movie.

I would have rather seen her maintain the same power level she had in the beginning of the movie, but learn how to fly (& fly fast) after removing the chip.

But because her power increased the way it did, to me, she now doesn’t really fit into the rest of MCU because she’s over powered. I think they should have made her as powerful as Thor, but not more so. But who knows… maybe Thor could have done the same thing now (with Stormbreaker).

I also didn’t like how fast she learned how to handle her new powers at the end of the movie. Yes, they showed her being off balance because of the new powers, but she still adjusted a little too fast for me.

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I saw it and enjoyed it. Much like previous posters, I think it’s top half of MCU but not at the tippy top. Definitely one that we’ll watch more of when we can watch it at home and I may take my oldest top see it in the coming weeks as she was upset that she missed it and I think she’ll enjoy it.
 
That’s so true (about her being a B-list character) and the same was true I feel about the male Captain Marvel before her (because I assume she is the character once known as Ms. Marvel?). Do you remember a storyline written I think by Claremont that involved the Avengers abandoning her in another dimension after she had rapidly and unnaturally gotten pregnant and given birth to a being that they thought was her friend but turned out to be some kind of monster who used mind control to get the Avengers to leave her with him? And when they returned to check on her or she escaped she was furious with them? It was in an Annual issue, not the regular comic book series.
 
This was my first retcon (though I don’t think that word was in use back then).

Do you remember who did the artwork on that Annual issue? He was a very talented artist.
 
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I’m sick to death of superhero movies, honestly. I just don’t get the appeal. And yet tonight a very dear friend is coming over who loves them and enjoys talking about them…endlessly. :roll_eyes: Say a prayer for me!
 
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I’m sick to death of superhero movies, honestly. I just don’t get the appeal. And yet tonight a very dear friend is coming over who loves them and enjoys talking about them…endlessly. :roll_eyes: Say a prayer for me!
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I think they’re basically action movies. There are adrenaline-pumping chase scenes. People square off in battle and things blow up, or get smashed to bits.

I used to think that a main driver of the phenomenon was nostalgia of a generation (X) who used to read the comics that are the source material for these movies, but now I feel that the directors and writers alter things so much that it can’t help but alienate these original comics fans, who were used to a much richer and layered experience than what any 120-minute movie can deliver anyway, so I think it’s taken on a life of its own among a younger, mainstream audience who never read the comics and never would.
 
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He was a talented up and comer - one to watch - when that Avengers Annual was published, or at least I perceived him that way. I see from Wikipedia he is best known for drawing ‘The Micronauts’ (which I also read at the time). His artwork had a fluid quality that looked nothing like the Jack Kirby-inspired Marvel ‘house’ style of that era. It seemed like a step forward to me, more stylized and three-dimensional.
 
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Yes, I agree. And he was a little overly employed by Marvel at that time, especially on titles like Rom (hey, another toy tie-in).

P.S. did they copy Kirby or were they told to draw like Kirby? I thought it was the latter.
 
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Now that you mention it (and maybe I’m showing I know a little too much about this stuff), didn’t Sal replace John on Thor? I remember feeling really ripped off about that, as I had just subscribed to Thor. Or maybe I’m imagining it. It was a while ago!
 
He was incapable of drawing old ladies (Sal); they always came out looking like men cross-dressing as old ladies.
 
Don Heck was another one! (I didn’t know him on my first go-round with comics but saw his artwork a lot when I started buying bound re-issues for my kids a few years ago - he drew the original Black Widow series for example.) He had a basic competency but he just couldn’t compete with the stars of the Marvel stable. He was just … meh.
 
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Yes! (10 characters) Added: just read on Wikipedia that Heck actually pre-dated the Super Heroes era of Marvel, as he was hired by Stan Lee when it was still Atlas Comics and they did more horror or adventure-type comics.
 
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One of the rare female artists at Marvel (or any comics publisher, I’d imagine). I haven’t heard that name in a long time.

Re Don Heck, I would say his style had that old 50’s generic quality even into the 60’s and 70’s.
 
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Saw it. Loved it. I’m a casual fan of superhero movies. I rank it in top three of marvel.
Interesting notes:
  1. I love that the movie handled gender issues without really sexing it up. In fact I thought captain marvel was actually attractive in a coy type of way. Very feminine and very powerful.
  2. the soundtrack was incredible if you like 90s music. I loved it and loaded each song into an Alexa playlist.
  1. I laughed out loud at some of jude law’s lines. The Matthew Kelly shout out of best version of yourself was funny and Law is kind of sealed in my mind as the young Pope lately.
  2. Trying to “handle” her by telling her she is too emotional played right into the gender statement the movie was trying to make. It did a good job of it.
  3. She was “too powerful” for sure but as a casual fan not really caught up in the logistics of other movies that’s kind of what you want in a superhero. Think back to superman (not marvel) he can fly around the earth to make time go backwards and change anything he wants. Too powerful? Sure. But we loved it. We dont care that he never did that again in the other movies.
 
@Hoosier-Daddy I will have to check it out. I find the best way to enjoy superhero movies is not to take them too seriously.
 
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