That was the real Stan (not CGI). He passed after that scene was shot. (And he was reading the script for Kevin Smith's 1995 film Mallrats, in which Stan had a wonderful cameo.)
This was the first movie after Stan Lee had died, but because his health had been failing they actually filmed a batch of cameos before he died, so this will not be the last time you see Stan in the MCU.
@34m: "She's really strong" - Evie - We know from the first Captain America and Avengers movies the Tesseract can transfer energy: to Hydra weapons and Shield "phase 2" weapons. In this film, Carol got two doses of Tesseract energy. The first was when the lightspeed engine in the plane blew up. The second was when she was fighting to get out of the Kree restraints, and the Tesseract was in the lunchbox right next to her. That's what makes her so strong. Other Infinity Stones have powered up characters. The Mind Stone did that to Wanda when they experimented on her. The Dark Elf Malaketh temporarily gained the power of the Aether when he absorbed it. The Time Stone took Doctor Strange from a beginner sorcerer to a master in a short time. @Post-credit scene: Goose ate the Tesseract and the bad guys because she was hungry. She stopped eating bad guys the second time because she was full. Since the Tesseract couldn't be digested, she coughed it back up. We find out in a later film that the Flerkin got a kind of power up from holding an infinity stone, but details will have to wait. @40m30: Yon-Rogg's failure as a character is from the start to the end of the film he was trying to control Carol by telling her to control her emotions and doubt herself. Even when her massive powers were exposed, he still kept to the same tired lines like a robot. About Stanley Lieber (aka Stan Lee): I had the privilege of being a guest at the Dragoncon Sci-fi and media convention and met Stan and George Takei in the "green room", the suite with snacks and drinks for invited guests to rest and get away from the crowds. Stan's personality in real life is exactly the same as his movie cameos.
38:00 "Pretty sure the whole soundtrack has been women singing, right? Like hits from the '90's from women?" Pretty close except for _Come As You Are_ by Nirvana...
@@AlexandruCarjan not one person has ever said agents of shield isn't cannon! prove me wrong? then tell me why daredevil is but aos isn't. i've made these challenges for over 5 years and no one has linked where it has been said that aos isn't cannon.
@@craiglortie8483 Kevin Feige himself said it. Also again inhumans DO NOT exist in the MCU, Chornicoms DO NOT exist in the MCU, tons of other species from the last season DO NOT exist in the MCU, NONE of the events specific to Agents of Shield have ever been mentioned in the MCU. Also last but not least, Agents of Shield IS NOT in Disney+ MCU timeline, it's separate as a Marvel show. Same as Agent Carter. Just because Jarvis made a cameo in Endgame does not mean anything
You should absolutely watch the movies that Kevin Smith directed. He did his own connected universe long before the MCU. Mallrats (timeline wise this movie takes place the day before clerks but it was released 2nd) Clerks Chasing Amy Dogma Jay and Bob Strike Back Clerks 2 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Clerks 3
11:18 Stan was able to film some more cameos before he died. I think he have one until End Game. 15:26 I knew she’d go soft for Goose the moment he shows up. 😂 31:04 😂😂😂 Hope you’d react to Lessons in Chemistry. It’s a miniseries based on a book.
Captain Marvel in the comics was originally male, named Mar-vell. Carol Danvers becomes the 2nd female Captain Marvel after starting out as the original Ms. Marvel, later known as Binary and then Warbird. I was stoked to finally see Carol Danvers in live-action after being in animated form (1990s, 2010s) as an omnipresent character. Even if this was a backstory in the MCU, the growth of it was substantial and much take in. Carol disappeared in 1989 and returned to Earth in 1995, Tony Stark mentions 3 different special projects with one of them being 'Pegasus' in a deleted scene of Iron Man (2008), the secret base where Danvers & Fury go to is actually The Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility from the first scene in The Avengers (2012) and the flying vehicle that Danvers & Fury use happens to be a prototype Quinjet. Of all that was introduced in the movie, i think Goose was the weirdest yet cutest and did sell a lot of merchandise too. Stan Lee's passing did hit pretty hard as he is one of the fathers of American mythology and got to see his creativity finally reach the cinematic realm.
Third female Captain Marvel, Phyla-Vell was second (of seven!), but it was a fairly short run. Carol holds the title for the longest time in Captain Marvel's history.
Movies are usually released long after they are shot. Stan completed his cameo for this movie and passed away before post production was complete, allowing them to dedicate to the memory and tanks to him, even though he lived to be in the film. Dog tag reads Carol Danvers, most of it was separated from the part they recovered, so they called her by something connected to the name "vers" which was converted to "Veers" 36:40-36:46 "She wasn't on Earth so she's fine." Thanos didn't wipe out half of life on Earth, he wiped out half of life in the universe. Just because she wasn't on Earth and Fury messaged her before he disappeared. Didn't guarantee she's still out there, there were many seconds between when 2 people in close proximity to each other were eliminated. All we got from that post credit scene of Fury messaging her was effectively the same as when you send a message and it reports "Delivered" It means it was received by a device. It's not even a guaranteed "Seen" notification to indicate it's been actually opened. I don't think Nirvana would be considered "women" (Post credit scene here, though, does confirm she's back. And also the way she came back, very serious "Where's Fury?" would indicate it's bigger than Earth. Contrary to some people's beliefs, the universe doesn't revolve around this world.)
A better movie than its overall reputation would suggest. Not the best of the MCU Infinity Saga by a long shot, but it’s got stiff competition. It suffered because so much of the recent MCU output had been sensational and it was just a decent superhero romp. For me it’s big the least of the Infinity Saga movies, and far better than some of the new saga (which is so beige that I can’t even name it at the moment).
I think the biggest problem was its timing. Not only did it split Infinity War and Endgame, but also introduced a new character that people assumed they were shoehorning in an 11th hour hero that would solve all the problems. If they had introduced her, maybe between the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, while they were introducing space elements to the universe; giving another connection to Earth and space, it might have been better received.
Same Kree guy as from Guardians. He transferred to a different job between movies. If you missed the connection, the friend becomes the head of SWORD. Her daughter is Monica the investigator in Wandavision. If you missed it, there was a lot of divisive politics when the movie was released.
Of course, at the end of Infinity War, Fury didn't know the 50% thing. And besides, there isn't much he could have done anyway -- press the button, and if she's still around she'll probably come.
Delightful reaction! Great early catch of Yon-Rogg's gaslighting. This movie is one of my two go-to Marvel movies just for spins and grins. I very much enjoy it. (The other is Thor Ragnarok.)
Hey, Evie! There are two sacred cows in Marvel comics who have DIED and NEVER returned! One is Uncle Ben and the other is.....Mar-Vell! As a Caucasian-looking Kree, he was a second-class citizen among his own people where blue skin was considered superior. Sent to spy on humans, he took a shine to the people of Earth and betrayed his mission resulting in his exile here. He was the ORIGINAL Captain Marvel, went by the alias Walter Lawson and found a human ally in Carol Danvers whom Brie Larson plays. He was one of Marvel's great cosmic characters who was deeply respected by all the other heroes. Fighting a villain called Nitro, he's exposed to a chemical that causes him to develop a cancer so terrible that no science of Mr. Fantastic and no magic of Doctor Strange can cure. All the Marvel heroes stand vigil at his bedside helpless to prevent his passing. In a final show of respect to the character, the writer, Jim Starlin, had Mar-Vell's mortal enemy, Thanos, who happened to be dead himself at the time, greet the soul of his nemesis in spirit form and escort him into whatever lay beyond. It's a watershed moment in Marvel history and a landmark graphic novel called "The Death of Captain Marvel". Carol Danvers was originally an Air Force officer who discovered Mar-Vell's alien origin and allied with him. Accidental exposure to a Kree device called the Psyche-Magnitron hybridized her DNA giving her abilities and she became Ms. Marvel. She was devastated by Mar-Vell's loss and never felt worthy to assume his mantle as was expected. She joined the Avengers and, in a very controversial story, was abducted by an extradimensional being who brainwashed her into being his lover. No one came to her rescue because she was mind-controlled into behaving as if her abductor were someone she truly loved. When she was finally freed, she was so aggrieved that her teammates accepted her out-of-character behavior as normal that she quit the Avengers in disgust and moved to San Francisco to become a private detective. While there, Rogue, a mutant who can drain others' powers, attacked her but held on too long stripping Danvers of her Kree power and putting her into a coma while permanently absorbing her abilities. X-Men leader Charles Xavier took personal responsibility for Carol's care to make amends for a mutant's involvement. She slowly recovered but with a tragic consequence: her memories were restored without any of the attendant feelings. Her emotional ties to friends and family were severed. This is the sole trait retained by the character in the movie. During an X-Men adventure, her Kree DNA was amplified to the staggering levels seen in the film and she changed her name to Binary. When Rogue was inducted into the X-Men, she felt betrayed by her new family for choosing her assailant over her so she wandered space for years with the pirates known as the Starjammers. Upon returning to Earth, she drained her Binary powers aiding the cosmic hero Quasar to stabilize the Sun. She rejoined the Avengers under the name Warbird but found the transition difficult, struggled with alcoholism and was booted from the team. After years as a government liaison, she was inducted into a new iteration of the Avengers as Ms. Marvel again. Finally, after helping to topple Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, Captain America encouraged her to adopt her mentor's title: Captain Marvel. This movie's aim was to create a Marvel analog to Wonder Woman who is a magnificent heroine and a unique combination of Thor and Cap over at DC. Feige foolishly tried to shoehorn this character into that mold but it doesn't fit and robs the Carol Danvers character of her rich heritage. This movie was also made to advance a feminist agenda by gender-bending one of Marvel's esteemed icons, Mar-Vell, and making Carol into an all-powerful Superman-type. All the Marvel heroes struggle with the burden, the responsibility, the ethics of power. Throughout the MCU, the characters are forced to find strength when reduced to their humblest state such as Spidey lifting himself out of the rubble after being scolded that he shouldn't be wearing the suit if he's nothing without it, Banner filled with dread and self-loathing of his raging alter-ego, Stephen Strange finding new purpose when robbed of his hands, Thor earning his hammer through humility and sacrifice, Cap being selected by Erskine for his spirit and heart despite his weak body, Natasha continually seeking redemption for her Red Room past, Scott continually striving to be his daughter's hero, Tony endlessly wracked by guilt and anxiety masked by snark, T'Challa chagrined by the folly of his personal vendetta and the short-sightedness of his forebears, Quill choosing mortality over omnipotence. Carol may not need to prove anything to Yon-Rogg but she NEVER PROVES TO US that she's a hero without resorting to her immense power. She feels its her birthright and she has been kept from achieving her potential by a succession of oppressive men. Moreover, she's contemptuous and suspicious of anyone who questions her superiority. These aren't the attributes of a HERO. These are the classic attributes of a VILLAIN. The last four sins committed by this mangled misfire: 1. It made the Skrulls into cuddly good guys when any comic reader knows they are a vile and warlike imperial race who loathe humanity. 2. It bungled a golden opportunity to show the true form of the Supreme Intelligence as a massive, tentacled protoplasmic blob similar to "Dune" navigators! 3. It gives us just a brief taste of the landmark KREE-SKRULL WAR squandering what could have been an EPIC SPACE OPERA! 4. It made spymaster extraordinaire, Col. Nick Fury, into a total buffoon. He's a career soldier and intelligence agent notorious for being the MOST PARANOID man on Earth discovering extraterrestrials exist! Yet, Jackson's all chummy, cooing at a kitty and singing doo-wop! The dark secret of his eye? A cat scratched it! It's a totally different character! Where's the scowling, foul-mouthed killer from the previous movies? Was it Jackson's choice or the directors' orders? Who knows? Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck co-directed a really great dramedy called "It's Kind of A Funny Story" but their roots are indie films and the pair seem out of step with the established MCU. Brie Larson is spectacularly miscast! Comic Carol is extraordinarily beautiful, statuesque and voluptuous. When you cast Superman, you expect Henry Cavill's granite jaw! Additionally, the antagonistic nonsense she publicly spouted contributed to her negative reception. The supporting cast is as talented as ever but Annette Bening as Mar-Vell aka "Wendy" Lawson and Jude Law as Yon-Rogg are wasted. Lee Pace's Ronan the Accuser and Djimon Hounsou's Korath, who both have yet to become the radicalized zealots seen in "Guardians of the Galaxy", make their first chronological appearances in the saga as does a digitally de-aged Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson. Gemma Chan does a nice villainous turn as Minn-Erva. The remainder of Carol's Starforce unit, Rune Temte of "The Last Kingdom" as Bron-Char and Algenis Perez Soto as Att-Lass, barely make more than a physical impression and her unconflicted willingness to thrash them makes them even more inconsequential. Ben Mendelsohn is amusing both as Talos and Director Keller. Matthew Maher as 'science guy' Norex and Sharon Blynn as Talos' mate, Soren, round out the Skrulls. LASHANA LYNCH as Maria Rambeau is the one bright spot! There is DEFINITE UNSPOKEN ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY between Maria and Carol but I'm glad the filmmakers didn't go the lesbian route because Carol is straight in the comics and this movie butchered her origin enough as it is. Delightful Akira Akbar plays the precocious child version of Monica Rambeau and the charming Mckenna Grace plays a young Carol. TRIVIA: 1. The bar called Pancho's where Fury and Danvers meet is a tribute to the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a ranch/hotel owned by female aviation pioneer Pancho Barnes and frequented by many Edwards Air Force Base test pilots since the 1940's such as Chuck Yeager and Buzz Aldrin. 2. The security guard Carol questions outside the Blockbuster is actual Marvel security chief Barry Curtis. 3. Brie Larson is allergic to cats so, whenever she had a scene with Goose, the cat was either a visual effect or a puppet. EASTER EGGS: 1. When Monica is cycling through color options for Carol's suit, the first selection is red and gold as a nod to Fawcett Comics' original Captain Marvel now known as DC's Shazam, the second selection is black and gold as a nod to Carol's Ms. Marvel costume and the fourth selection is green and gray as a nod to Mar-Vell's Kree uniform. 2. Maria Rambeau's call sign is 'Photon' which is a nod to Monica's moniker in the comics, when she acquires her powers, at first calling herself Captain Marvel but later going by Pulsar and Photon. Nowadays, she's called Spectrum.
CAMEOS: 1. Stan Lee appears as a passenger on the train where the Skrull Carol is chasing has adopted the form of an elderly woman. He's reading the screenplay for Kevin Smith's "Mallrats" which is a movie in which he had a cameo as himself! All of Stan's cameos are shown as part of the opening Marvel logo as a tribute to the co-creator's passing. 2. Contemporary Captain Marvel scribe Kelly Sue DeConnick is the red-head passerby in the train station after Carol disembarks. END-CREDIT SCENES: 1. The one about the pager is set in 2018 and bridges "Infinity War" and "Endgame". 2. The one relevant to this movie has Goose the flerken cough up the Tesseract like a hair ball onto Fury's desk! The next chronological stop is Ang Lee's 2003 proto-MCU "Hulk" for the optional origin of the Hulk.
Thank you for this epic comment. You nailed everything that needed saying, particularly the comic history and how the movie completely destroyed not only the legacy of Mar-Vell but the war raging between Kree and Skrull. But I think the one thing that irks me the most is how badly they did Fury and how his eye injury came to be. He went from, "The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye", to a space cat clawing his face. Well done on the comment of the year!
@@WheresWaldo05 and you know this how? I've been reading comics since 1977 and the guy was spot on in his review of events in the comics and the film. Care to refute even a single thing he posted??
Funny stories about the name and character. First the character was originally male, then got gender swapped. The name originally belonged to a character from Fawcett Comics, then moved to DC. Marvel fought and got the name. The original DC Captain Marvel doesn't really have a super hero name now but is known as Shazam, another great movie you should watch.
If you go back to avengers age of Ultron movie Fury is in the Barton's kitchen eating toast cut diagonally which means he's not human in that movie which makes sense because this would have taken place after Captain America the Winter soldier film when he was shot three times so he's probably not fully healed during the events age of Ultron.
Hello Evie, nice to see you!😊 There are several aspects of this film I really like. Being set in the 90s is a nice twist to introduce someone we don't know. Great to see Coulson alive again in a film, and a younger Nicholas Fury. There is ONLY 1 Blockbuster left, Evie. It is in Bend, Oregon. Great reactions to this film which rewrites MCU history, Evie!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Carol has been one of my favorite Marvel characters since I first met her back in the 1980s. Since then a number of writers of written her story, each with their own personal take on the character, but certain core elements have always been there. When Kelly Sue DeConnick, the writer who took her from a perennial C-Lister to a commercial success, was explaining Carol to Kevin Feige at the start of the movie production, she said Carol always goes in first and often gets knocked on her ass, like Captain America. But "Cap gets back up again because it's the right thing to do. Carol get back up again because fuck you." Anywho, I really enjoyed the version of Carol depicted in this film, and the movie made me happy. Glad you enjoyed it too. Thanks for sharing :)
"Commercial success" is a bit of a stretch. Marvel had been slowly wanting to make Ms Marvel a major player since way before KSD got her mits on the character. During the House of M storyline Ms Marvel was known as "Earths mightiest Hero" this was back in 2005 and subsequently given her first solo title since the 70s in 2006 (selling 43,000) after the conclusion of the storyline and then named leader of the Mighty Avengers in 2008. KSD's first issue of Captain Marvel was the 447th best selling title of 2012 selling less than 50,000 copies. #2 sold 30,400 (ranked 904). FYI the numbers are per comichron, before publishers fudged number and did all sorts of manipulation of the numbers like in recent years. To put in simple terms: Captain Marvel (the character) was heavily pushed to the forefront when the character itself was not worthy of such push. But because of the name she carries and the growing audience of the MCU, Marvel desperately wanted to make CM a thing, but the sales never reflected this and her series has been cancelled and relauched like half a dozen times since that initial relaunch in 2006. Some say KSD made the character unlikable which carries over into her characterization in the MCU.
The name "Captain Marvel" (now known as Shazam) started in Whiz Comics. DC Comics sued Whiz because the character is similar to Superman. Marvel created their own Captain Marvel (Captain Mar-Vell). DC Comics eventually aquired Shazam. Carol Danvers (originally named Ms Marvel) took the manle of Captain Marvel recently.
She took the mantle of Captain Mar'vell. Then, because lawyers are the stupidest people on the planet, Marvel just stole "Captain Marvel" from DC illegally and lawyers somehow decided that DC now can't use the title "Captain Marvel" for their Captain Marvel comics, although they "get to" keep using the name Captain Marvel for the character of Captain Marvel. Cool. I really, really hate that. It's stupid, and it's equally stupid that Marvel is so pissy about wanting to rename Miss Marvel; it's a fine name (I mean, not exactly all that evocative, but neither is Captain Marvel, is it?) so why do they "need" to change it? But they already had been really lazy about giving her the name Carol Danvers, calling to mind Supergirl's Kara Danvers, so... why expect creativity? (Because there's a difference between similar names and illegally stealing a copyrighted name/title, I guess, so the latter being allowed to happen is so fucking stupid and incomprehensible?)
Brie Larson was great and I was excited to see her in future Captain Marvel movies. But they decided to derail her character by throwing in Marvel tots that no one asked for, which was a major setback for Brie's chance of turning Carol Danvers into the household name that Tony Stark became. If anyone could've done that, Brie could. She has the likeability and acting chops to make Captain Marvel a multi movie franchise comparable to Iron Man. But someone at Marvel obviously is still afraid to trust strong women in leading roles.
Remember the pop she got when she was announced as Captain Marvel at SDCC? Yeah, that enthusiasm quickly went away once ms. Brie Larson showed her "likeability" lol
@@BatFan1 She is playing a character who in the comics: Walked away from the Avengers because they did nothing when she acted out of character after being kidnapped and mind-fracked into being her kidnapper's lover. She then gets put in a coma by Rogue When she recovers she has all her memories but no emotions for family and friends. Without all that canon baggage on screen, Brie was then told to display that emotionless character. How else would anyone portray that kind of emotionless character and still be likable without the backstory to go with it?
R.I.P Stan Lee so sad. I am glad that you liked it,so did I but sadly many people don't like this one and think that Brie is a bad actress who didn't deserve the part. They are all nuts in my opinion because I thought she did an amazing job at this. Goose is so cute and the fact that he is an alien was surprising haha. Yes She is the one that inspired him to call it Avengers and she is one of the most powerful characters as well. I love the soundtrack is brings me back to when I was younger haha and the movie it's self is good with good humor and action as well. Sadly Brie will no longer will play this character..they have found someone new but personally I am not interested in any of that. Brie did play her in End Game and another movie called The Marvels that came out last year as her before that decition was made. Brie said that Samuel was the nicest of people and that he even gave her the lightsaber he used when he was in Star Wars which is cool.
And the answer to the cockpit question is "because that's where the cockswain's (from old French and English coque - swain meanint boat - servant) station was located". Corollary is, the dude was a moron, but it was obvious from the very beginning.
It's a fun story but they really laid on the GRRL Power thick. They also made her too powerful, there's no sense of danger if the god guy is invinsible.
I hate the bad rap this movie got, it was really unfounded. I think the fact it came between Infinity War and Endgame really hurt it's reception because people were eager for Endgame. It's not the best movie in the series but it's solid and there are definitely worse ones (*cough* Dark World *cough*).
Aside from the Captain America movies (and some would say the First Avenger was just "ok") all the movie franchises have had duds and recovered from them, although the consensus is Iron Man only kept going down in quality, but with Cap we got Winter Soldier and Civil War as sequels that were some of the best of the MCU as a whole. Captain Marvel is not bad, it's a solid B. But c'mon, dont pretend they didnt go overboard with the "girl power" thing. I've seen the argument made "if Captain Marvel was a dude the character would have gotten over" and there lies the problem with how they portrayed her. They key to making a "strong female character" isnt about making her a guy in drag.
glad you enjoyed Captain Marvel, Evie. was a bit flat when i saw it in cinema, but that was totally on me, and mf Thanos, damn post Infinity Wars funk🤭 but after buying the bluray and watching it a few times i really like Captain Marvel now.
This movie was review bombed out of its mind when it came out. I went to the theater trying not to have expectations and I enjoyed it. Is it perfect? I don’t think so. But I enjoyed the soundtrack and I found the story overall pretty good. Was glad to have both Fury and Coulson back as well. There were some cheesy one liners but that was ok. And a lot of people hated the fact that Fury had his eye injured from the flerken as a “joke”. I definitely would have made his injury more epic but I won’t cry about how it happened either. Carol is definitely one of the most powerful people and I would be curious to see a Wanda/Carol Danvers fight.
My issue with Fury's eye is that it cheapens his character as shown across multiple movies to a one-off joke in a single movie. It just...wasn't necessary, and turns him from a badass into a hypocrite, spending his life pretending to be tough and mysterious.
I found the story behind Fury's eye to be great character building. He let an embarrassing situation morph on its own into a legend, creating a mythos around himself as a cosmic badass.
In the comics, why are some Kree blue and others not? Is it just species variation? And why do the non-blue Kree look so human (aside from blue blood, apparently -- which, shockingly, doesn't change the tint of their skin)?
I wasn't a fan of this when I first saw it on release but it's grown on me to one of my faves over time as I rewatch it and also watch reactors do their thing, still get teary at the "just a human" montage and Maria's speech to Carol so it was great to see your enjoyment of it from the start. I know that it got a lot of flak about having "too much female empowerment" when it was released so I always wonder if my first viewing was coloured by that or if seeing things like the "don't you have a smile for me" comment represented and called out in the movie just let hit more impactfully for women.....not sure where I'm actually heading with this but thanks for yet another great reaction and looking forward to Endgame. You need to watch Mallrats at some stage for a great Stan section, it downplays it too much to call it a cameo and I loved the comment about the soundtrack being all female, especially Nirvana :D As for Carol, she's great and all and would be a good fight with Thanos but she ain't no Squirrel Girl (and I'll keep holding out for an SG movie till they stop making them lol)
This movie typifies a core trend in a certain 'type' of media. Instead of using the story and characters to 'convey' the message, the creators decide The Message (capitalisation intended) is SO important that it can 'replace' story and characters. Eveything else bends to The Message. Internal continuity, plot and character consistency, logic, all things must bend to service The Message.
10:41 - 😳😱🤩 *_You started watching Agents of SHIELD!!?!! When are those reactions coming to the channel?(You have NO IDEA how many people follow AoS reactions on RUclips!) Please say they are coming soon! Please & Thank you!_* 🙏
This movie is probably the worst of the first 3 phases of Marvel. The first 20 mins or so (until they land on the Skrull refugee planet, whenever that is) are SO BAD. Just the worst kind of expository dialogue - hence why everybody's acting is so wooden, I guess. Annette Benning is really noticeably bad in that sequence; once she's able to be a character in the rest of the movie, suddenly you don't notice her acting anymore. Not only that, but treating the audience like we're idiots by dumping exposition on us in such a clunky way has the opportunity cost of not getting us at all invested in the relationship between Carol and her teammates; that would've been a much better introduction because then when we found out that the Kree had been manipulating Carol, we'd feel betrayed [had we been invested in their camaraderie]. Such a wasted opportunity, I can't believe how dumb they were in not writing a better introduction. AND of course, that short sequence where Carol is kind of a bitch to Fury could've been used to dump the bare minimum of exposition if the director/writer/whomever had really felt we needed something, which would've helped make that scene a lot less weird. Just wasted potential all the way around. After that, it's fine. A bit on the nose at times, but fine. Although I'll also say I'm baffled by Brie's acting choice in the "I can't sleep/wanna fight?" scene; she acts like she's genuinely troubled, then she acts like she isn't, she was just angling for a sparring match the entire time. It's like the American Psycho "Willem Dafoe interrogates Patrick Bateman" scene, except the multiple takes serves no purpose in Captain Marvel. (Maybe it wasn't her choice, might've been a bad editing choice. Either way, it's weird.) And finally: I just think the movie is out of place. I would've had Black Panther and Captain Marvel BEFORE Infinity War... before Thor: Ragnarok, actually. (Black Widow should've been before Thor: Ragnarok too.) Then Ragnarok leads neatly into Infinity War, then Ant-Man and the Wasp was a perfect low-stakes intermission in between Infinity War and Endgame, then Endgame. I think Captain Marvel being in between those two was really out of place, it didn't serve any purpose (unlike Antman and the Wasp, which wonderfully got you to forget about the gut-punch ending of Infinity War, until the after credits hit). An added bonus in that order would've had Fury's page at the end of Infinity War make sense to viewers; I get that it's, like, an Easter Egg for those few people who would get it, but not enough people got it, and the vast majority of those who did *didn't care*. Have the Captain Marvel movie BEFORE Infinity War so that people actually got excited when they saw it, rather than simply recognizing the symbol for a few, and being confused for most.
I'm glad you enjoyed Captain Marvel. She is one of my favorite Marvel characters. Even back when she was known as Ms Marvel. In the comics, Carol took over the mantle of Captain Marvel after the original Captain Marvel (Mar'vell) died. Next up is Endgame. Can't wait to see your reaction.
In the actual comic book stories, many if not most of the Marvel characters are MORE powerful than in the films. They’ve been powered down so that movie audiences won’t be overwhelmed.
@dustyb58 She got her powers from a concentrated form of primodial space energy, one of six that was used by thanos to destroy half of all universal life, how powerful should she be?
Now that I see this reaction after not watching this movie in a while I just realized that fury calling themselves shield isn't that a continuity mistake? Since they first started calling themselves shield at the end of the first Iron Man movie and Captain Marvel is way before?
This was the beginning of the end for the MCU. This is the first movie where Marvel (Disney) decided "From now on, men only exist as comic relief, sidekicks, sexist pigs, or weak villains so that women can be more amazing than any of these lame men. Oh, yeah, and our movies only exist to promote the destruction of the toxic patriarchy." Luckily Endgame was half made and the characters already existed or it would share that fate. As it is, Endgame is the last time Marvel (Disney) did anything good until just last month. This movie had promise, and the Avengers needed some more girl bosses, but this was not the way. Things I would have changed: Let Brie Larsen have some fun and smile a little, NOT turned Nick Fury into a comic-relief sidekick mainly there to be put to shame by Danvers, Given Jude Law something to do at the end besides being yeeted out of the landscape by the girl-boss, Dialed down Captain Marvel's powers to be equal to the other Avengers, rathe than more powerful than the entire Avengers group put together. Not made every flashback memory of Carol Danvers be about men being douchebags. But that's just me. My wife liked it much more than I did. She says all these movies were full of hot guys in leading roles but didn't have any women where were superheroes, except maybe Scarlet Witch, so she's glad Marvel balanced it out. Fair enough. The MCU used many of the most-popular characters from 50+ years of comics. Makes sense. Use the ones we liked the most and that already had a huge fanbase. But they did have lady heroes in the comics they could have brought in instead of Hawkeye or Falcon. While i agree on that point, the right way to add more girl-power would have been to make them valuable and likeable team-members, just like the guys are. This movie has way too much of the former("valuable" didn't have to mean "100x more powerful than any of them") and almost nothing of the latter (Brie Larsen had none of the charm or personality of any of the Avengers so far, men or women - not sure if it's just her or if it's what she was told to do). Oh well. Disney is the monster that devours franchises and sh!ts them out in ruins. Even their own IP gets the Disney Digestive Tract Treatment these days. I can't wait for you to react to Endgame. At least THAT movie is worth your time and mine.
@@bensenzo I don't. I haven't seen any Disney movies for a couple years now, except Deadpool and Wolverine which, surprisingly, they made a good movie. Ryan Reynolds money and production values probably had a lot to do with that. But you're wrong Somebody cares. Maybe not you. But lots of people care. And when Disney does it right, like Deadpool and Wolverine, we all show our appreciation by spending money to watch it. Over a billion and climbing. For other things, like The Marvels which only made 200 million. The people who cared largely stayed home on that one. We followed your advice. But we all care. We want Disney to make good movies instead of crap. We'd all much rather enjoy good movies than ignore bad ones.
I really liked this movie, but i didnt know marvel was now part of some culture war or that the goal post had shifted to women being the enemy. Thankfully some strong independent thinking, online intellectuals explained how super hero movies could be the downfall of society and were actually brainwashing me. I naively thought some movies just didnt hit like others, cough *thor 2*.... I really did like this movie in all honesty, thought it was great. Soundtrack killed it.
@Hybridial84 Douchebag characters getting karmic comeuppance is definitely not a common trope in movies and tv spanning decades. Walter White just really hated convertibles.
The fact about this movie that I find most interesting is that only misogynists dislike it. They see a female lead and go "Yuck!", despite the movie being inarguably better than say any of the ant-man movies. Is it the best Marvel movie, no. But it's better than MANY but gets way more criticism than any. Even Thor Dark World was rated better than this. That's how you KNOW people are letting their hateful biases skew their perception, if only subconsciously. My advice to you is to take a long hard look in the mirror, recognize your shortcomings, and start working on them. Your behavior is problematic, even if no one calls you on it.
@@HappyMonkeyYT It wasn't in general. Only some men felt alienated. If you are a man that thinks like that, you deserve to be alienated by not just the movie, but all of society. Having lived through the days when certain servicemen made comments about 4th Battalion Graduates like me... There isn't even anything weird about that aspect. And having read the comics... Captain Marvel is supposed to make your blood boil. There was a storyline where she was abducted and brainwashed into being his lover, so her character has always been around to "alienate" certain men who think that is okay.
SUCKS 😜 nobody likes this or asked for this. The biggest crime is Captain Marvel is a Supergirl ripoff. They’re almost identical in power set and color design from head to toe. Plus they even have the same name! Carol/ Cara DANVERS!!! Wtf 😡
This film had great potential, but the writers dropped the ball. I was quite disappointed. Much of the film was about Danvers sticking it to men. The story's agenda was to make Carol Danvers great specifically because she was a woman. It was completely unnecessary. The best female superheroes, such as Natasha Romanoff and Wanda Maximoff, are innately strong and heroic. Their sex is not an issue at all. They just do their jobs and kick ass. Carol Danvers should have been written the same way.
I am so surprised and yet not really by the comments on this movie. I thought the story was very compelling, I loved the twist of the skrulls not being the villains, I was so invested in it and I enjoyed the 90's feel it had. Apart from the scene where the guy tells her to give him a smile and then she steals his bike (lol) which I thought was simply a funny thing to happen since getting unwanted attention on the street is more often than not, part of the woman experience. I'm the first to cringe at an overly stated woman power message because it then makes it feel disingenuous and cheap, but in this one I really didn't get that, even during the two times I edited it (for Patreon and later on for RUclips). I feel like she appeared to be a bit cold, but then I thought it was normal since she was basically brainwashed to forget who she used to be and her life up to this point. So to me, the story was Carol getting back to her roots and doing the right thing by the skrulls, and she simply happened to be a woman😂 Should Rogg have been a female villain for it not to feel like she was sticking it to men? Personally I enjoyed this one more than Ant-Man and the Wasp, to each his own!😋
@@eviereacts ….THANK YOU for the awesome reply, Evie. 👍 I liked a lot of things in the movie, and the story of Carol Danvers finding herself was really good. I erred in using the phrase “stick it to men”. I should have said “competing with men”. Some scenes (like the “cockpit” putdown) as well as the soundtrack implied that Carol’s quest was about competing against men. I welcome disagreements about a movie. If we always agree, conversations would be boring. 😆
@Stogie2112 It’s a movie about a woman. Girls and women face sexist comments their entire lives. This is just a facet of reality that the story focused on. Unfortunately bigotry is a big part of human society past and present and how that affects people influences how they perceive the world and how they are perceived by the world. Ask some women in your life about times they faced that type of behaviour, it’s often surprising how prevalent it is and how normalized and little it’s acknowledged. This part is just to preempt any pedantic weirdos: Yes this counts for men too, men are harassed, abused, belittled and ignored, talking about one issue isn’t necessarily ignoring or minimizing others.
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That was the real Stan (not CGI). He passed after that scene was shot. (And he was reading the script for Kevin Smith's 1995 film Mallrats, in which Stan had a wonderful cameo.)
"Mallrats" was Stan's first acting apearance on screen. He played himself.
This was the first movie after Stan Lee had died, but because his health had been failing they actually filmed a batch of cameos before he died, so this will not be the last time you see Stan in the MCU.
Endgame is his last cameo scene.
RIP Stan!
Endgame is the last cameo in release order, but this was the last one he filmed.
The film order also explains Captain Marvel's incongruence.
Captain Marvel had yet to be filmed.
@34m: "She's really strong" - Evie - We know from the first Captain America and Avengers movies the Tesseract can transfer energy: to Hydra weapons and Shield "phase 2" weapons. In this film, Carol got two doses of Tesseract energy. The first was when the lightspeed engine in the plane blew up. The second was when she was fighting to get out of the Kree restraints, and the Tesseract was in the lunchbox right next to her. That's what makes her so strong.
Other Infinity Stones have powered up characters. The Mind Stone did that to Wanda when they experimented on her. The Dark Elf Malaketh temporarily gained the power of the Aether when he absorbed it. The Time Stone took Doctor Strange from a beginner sorcerer to a master in a short time.
@Post-credit scene: Goose ate the Tesseract and the bad guys because she was hungry. She stopped eating bad guys the second time because she was full. Since the Tesseract couldn't be digested, she coughed it back up. We find out in a later film that the Flerkin got a kind of power up from holding an infinity stone, but details will have to wait.
@40m30: Yon-Rogg's failure as a character is from the start to the end of the film he was trying to control Carol by telling her to control her emotions and doubt herself. Even when her massive powers were exposed, he still kept to the same tired lines like a robot.
About Stanley Lieber (aka Stan Lee): I had the privilege of being a guest at the Dragoncon Sci-fi and media convention and met Stan and George Takei in the "green room", the suite with snacks and drinks for invited guests to rest and get away from the crowds. Stan's personality in real life is exactly the same as his movie cameos.
My fave hero! Love Captain Marvel ❤
38:00 "Pretty sure the whole soundtrack has been women singing, right? Like hits from the '90's from women?"
Pretty close except for _Come As You Are_ by Nirvana...
I tear up every time the avengers music plays during the “avengers initiative” end credits scene.
I’m such a nerd 😂
the "blip" was across the universe, not just earth. the kree play their part in the mcu and agents of shield. won't spoil any thing else. :)
Agents of Shield is not MCU
@@AlexandruCarjan not one person has ever said agents of shield isn't cannon! prove me wrong? then tell me why daredevil is but aos isn't. i've made these challenges for over 5 years and no one has linked where it has been said that aos isn't cannon.
@@craiglortie8483 Kevin Feige himself said it. Also again inhumans DO NOT exist in the MCU, Chornicoms DO NOT exist in the MCU, tons of other species from the last season DO NOT exist in the MCU, NONE of the events specific to Agents of Shield have ever been mentioned in the MCU. Also last but not least, Agents of Shield IS NOT in Disney+ MCU timeline, it's separate as a Marvel show. Same as Agent Carter. Just because Jarvis made a cameo in Endgame does not mean anything
@@AlexandruCarjan and that is wherwe you are wrong! agent carter is cannon.
@@craiglortie8483 Agent Carter is not in the MCU timiline either
You should absolutely watch the movies that Kevin Smith directed. He did his own connected universe long before the MCU.
Mallrats (timeline wise this movie takes place the day before clerks but it was released 2nd)
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Bob Strike Back
Clerks 2
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Clerks 3
11:18 Stan was able to film some more cameos before he died. I think he have one until End Game.
15:26 I knew she’d go soft for Goose the moment he shows up. 😂
31:04 😂😂😂
Hope you’d react to Lessons in Chemistry. It’s a miniseries based on a book.
FWIW, Flerkens have pocket dimensions inside them, and Goose has a tentacle monster inside one of his pockets. He isn’t the tentacle monster itself.
Captain Marvel in the comics was originally male, named Mar-vell.
Carol Danvers becomes the 2nd female Captain Marvel after starting out as the original Ms. Marvel, later known as Binary and then Warbird.
I was stoked to finally see Carol Danvers in live-action after being in animated form (1990s, 2010s) as an omnipresent character.
Even if this was a backstory in the MCU, the growth of it was substantial and much take in.
Carol disappeared in 1989 and returned to Earth in 1995, Tony Stark mentions 3 different special projects with one of them being 'Pegasus' in a deleted scene of Iron Man (2008), the secret base where Danvers & Fury go to is actually The Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility from the first scene in The Avengers (2012) and the flying vehicle that Danvers & Fury use happens to be a prototype Quinjet.
Of all that was introduced in the movie, i think Goose was the weirdest yet cutest and did sell a lot of merchandise too.
Stan Lee's passing did hit pretty hard as he is one of the fathers of American mythology and got to see his creativity finally reach the cinematic realm.
Third female Captain Marvel, Phyla-Vell was second (of seven!), but it was a fairly short run. Carol holds the title for the longest time in Captain Marvel's history.
Movies are usually released long after they are shot. Stan completed his cameo for this movie and passed away before post production was complete, allowing them to dedicate to the memory and tanks to him, even though he lived to be in the film.
Dog tag reads Carol Danvers, most of it was separated from the part they recovered, so they called her by something connected to the name "vers" which was converted to "Veers"
36:40-36:46 "She wasn't on Earth so she's fine."
Thanos didn't wipe out half of life on Earth, he wiped out half of life in the universe. Just because she wasn't on Earth and Fury messaged her before he disappeared. Didn't guarantee she's still out there, there were many seconds between when 2 people in close proximity to each other were eliminated. All we got from that post credit scene of Fury messaging her was effectively the same as when you send a message and it reports "Delivered" It means it was received by a device. It's not even a guaranteed "Seen" notification to indicate it's been actually opened.
I don't think Nirvana would be considered "women"
(Post credit scene here, though, does confirm she's back. And also the way she came back, very serious "Where's Fury?" would indicate it's bigger than Earth. Contrary to some people's beliefs, the universe doesn't revolve around this world.)
A better movie than its overall reputation would suggest.
Not the best of the MCU Infinity Saga by a long shot, but it’s got stiff competition. It suffered because so much of the recent MCU output had been sensational and it was just a decent superhero romp.
For me it’s big the least of the Infinity Saga movies, and far better than some of the new saga (which is so beige that I can’t even name it at the moment).
I think the biggest problem was its timing. Not only did it split Infinity War and Endgame, but also introduced a new character that people assumed they were shoehorning in an 11th hour hero that would solve all the problems. If they had introduced her, maybe between the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, while they were introducing space elements to the universe; giving another connection to Earth and space, it might have been better received.
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Very good point
To your comment about Sam singing, you may enjoy Soul Men, he and Bernie Mac play soul singers, the soundtrack is great especially I’m Your Puppet
Great reaction. Some don't like it, but I have always enjoyed the heck out of this movie.
“MuthaFlerken!!!”🤣
Same Kree guy as from Guardians. He transferred to a different job between movies.
If you missed the connection, the friend becomes the head of SWORD. Her daughter is Monica the investigator in Wandavision.
If you missed it, there was a lot of divisive politics when the movie was released.
How can she miss things in does she hadn't watched yet?
Of course, at the end of Infinity War, Fury didn't know the 50% thing. And besides, there isn't much he could have done anyway -- press the button, and if she's still around she'll probably come.
Delightful reaction! Great early catch of Yon-Rogg's gaslighting.
This movie is one of my two go-to Marvel movies just for spins and grins. I very much enjoy it. (The other is Thor Ragnarok.)
Also another power Captain Marvel doesn't really age so that's why she looks the same.
when you said she was safe as she was on another planet, that made no difference thanos wiped out half the universe not just earth
Hey, Evie! There are two sacred cows in Marvel comics who have DIED and NEVER returned! One is Uncle Ben and the other is.....Mar-Vell! As a Caucasian-looking Kree, he was a second-class citizen among his own people where blue skin was considered superior. Sent to spy on humans, he took a shine to the people of Earth and betrayed his mission resulting in his exile here. He was the ORIGINAL Captain Marvel, went by the alias Walter Lawson and found a human ally in Carol Danvers whom Brie Larson plays. He was one of Marvel's great cosmic characters who was deeply respected by all the other heroes. Fighting a villain called Nitro, he's exposed to a chemical that causes him to develop a cancer so terrible that no science of Mr. Fantastic and no magic of Doctor Strange can cure. All the Marvel heroes stand vigil at his bedside helpless to prevent his passing. In a final show of respect to the character, the writer, Jim Starlin, had Mar-Vell's mortal enemy, Thanos, who happened to be dead himself at the time, greet the soul of his nemesis in spirit form and escort him into whatever lay beyond. It's a watershed moment in Marvel history and a landmark graphic novel called "The Death of Captain Marvel".
Carol Danvers was originally an Air Force officer who discovered Mar-Vell's alien origin and allied with him. Accidental exposure to a Kree device called the Psyche-Magnitron hybridized her DNA giving her abilities and she became Ms. Marvel. She was devastated by Mar-Vell's loss and never felt worthy to assume his mantle as was expected. She joined the Avengers and, in a very controversial story, was abducted by an extradimensional being who brainwashed her into being his lover. No one came to her rescue because she was mind-controlled into behaving as if her abductor were someone she truly loved. When she was finally freed, she was so aggrieved that her teammates accepted her out-of-character behavior as normal that she quit the Avengers in disgust and moved to San Francisco to become a private detective. While there, Rogue, a mutant who can drain others' powers, attacked her but held on too long stripping Danvers of her Kree power and putting her into a coma while permanently absorbing her abilities. X-Men leader Charles Xavier took personal responsibility for Carol's care to make amends for a mutant's involvement. She slowly recovered but with a tragic consequence: her memories were restored without any of the attendant feelings. Her emotional ties to friends and family were severed. This is the sole trait retained by the character in the movie. During an X-Men adventure, her Kree DNA was amplified to the staggering levels seen in the film and she changed her name to Binary. When Rogue was inducted into the X-Men, she felt betrayed by her new family for choosing her assailant over her so she wandered space for years with the pirates known as the Starjammers. Upon returning to Earth, she drained her Binary powers aiding the cosmic hero Quasar to stabilize the Sun. She rejoined the Avengers under the name Warbird but found the transition difficult, struggled with alcoholism and was booted from the team. After years as a government liaison, she was inducted into a new iteration of the Avengers as Ms. Marvel again. Finally, after helping to topple Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, Captain America encouraged her to adopt her mentor's title: Captain Marvel.
This movie's aim was to create a Marvel analog to Wonder Woman who is a magnificent heroine and a unique combination of Thor and Cap over at DC. Feige foolishly tried to shoehorn this character into that mold but it doesn't fit and robs the Carol Danvers character of her rich heritage. This movie was also made to advance a feminist agenda by gender-bending one of Marvel's esteemed icons, Mar-Vell, and making Carol into an all-powerful Superman-type. All the Marvel heroes struggle with the burden, the responsibility, the ethics of power. Throughout the MCU, the characters are forced to find strength when reduced to their humblest state such as Spidey lifting himself out of the rubble after being scolded that he shouldn't be wearing the suit if he's nothing without it, Banner filled with dread and self-loathing of his raging alter-ego, Stephen Strange finding new purpose when robbed of his hands, Thor earning his hammer through humility and sacrifice, Cap being selected by Erskine for his spirit and heart despite his weak body, Natasha continually seeking redemption for her Red Room past, Scott continually striving to be his daughter's hero, Tony endlessly wracked by guilt and anxiety masked by snark, T'Challa chagrined by the folly of his personal vendetta and the short-sightedness of his forebears, Quill choosing mortality over omnipotence. Carol may not need to prove anything to Yon-Rogg but she NEVER PROVES TO US that she's a hero without resorting to her immense power. She feels its her birthright and she has been kept from achieving her potential by a succession of oppressive men. Moreover, she's contemptuous and suspicious of anyone who questions her superiority. These aren't the attributes of a HERO. These are the classic attributes of a VILLAIN.
The last four sins committed by this mangled misfire:
1. It made the Skrulls into cuddly good guys when any comic reader knows they are a vile and warlike imperial race who loathe humanity.
2. It bungled a golden opportunity to show the true form of the Supreme Intelligence as a massive, tentacled protoplasmic blob similar to "Dune" navigators!
3. It gives us just a brief taste of the landmark KREE-SKRULL WAR squandering what could have been an EPIC SPACE OPERA!
4. It made spymaster extraordinaire, Col. Nick Fury, into a total buffoon. He's a career soldier and intelligence agent notorious for being the MOST PARANOID man on Earth discovering extraterrestrials exist! Yet, Jackson's all chummy, cooing at a kitty and singing doo-wop! The dark secret of his eye? A cat scratched it! It's a totally different character! Where's the scowling, foul-mouthed killer from the previous movies? Was it Jackson's choice or the directors' orders? Who knows?
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck co-directed a really great dramedy called "It's Kind of A Funny Story" but their roots are indie films and the pair seem out of step with the established MCU.
Brie Larson is spectacularly miscast! Comic Carol is extraordinarily beautiful, statuesque and voluptuous. When you cast Superman, you expect Henry Cavill's granite jaw! Additionally, the antagonistic nonsense she publicly spouted contributed to her negative reception.
The supporting cast is as talented as ever but Annette Bening as Mar-Vell aka "Wendy" Lawson and Jude Law as Yon-Rogg are wasted. Lee Pace's Ronan the Accuser and Djimon Hounsou's Korath, who both have yet to become the radicalized zealots seen in "Guardians of the Galaxy", make their first chronological appearances in the saga as does a digitally de-aged Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson. Gemma Chan does a nice villainous turn as Minn-Erva. The remainder of Carol's Starforce unit, Rune Temte of "The Last Kingdom" as Bron-Char and Algenis Perez Soto as Att-Lass, barely make more than a physical impression and her unconflicted willingness to thrash them makes them even more inconsequential. Ben Mendelsohn is amusing both as Talos and Director Keller. Matthew Maher as 'science guy' Norex and Sharon Blynn as Talos' mate, Soren, round out the Skrulls. LASHANA LYNCH as Maria Rambeau is the one bright spot! There is DEFINITE UNSPOKEN ROMANTIC CHEMISTRY between Maria and Carol but I'm glad the filmmakers didn't go the lesbian route because Carol is straight in the comics and this movie butchered her origin enough as it is. Delightful Akira Akbar plays the precocious child version of Monica Rambeau and the charming Mckenna Grace plays a young Carol.
TRIVIA:
1. The bar called Pancho's where Fury and Danvers meet is a tribute to the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a ranch/hotel owned by female aviation pioneer Pancho Barnes and frequented by many Edwards Air Force Base test pilots since the 1940's such as Chuck Yeager and Buzz Aldrin.
2. The security guard Carol questions outside the Blockbuster is actual Marvel security chief Barry Curtis.
3. Brie Larson is allergic to cats so, whenever she had a scene with Goose, the cat was either a visual effect or a puppet.
EASTER EGGS:
1. When Monica is cycling through color options for Carol's suit, the first selection is red and gold as a nod to Fawcett Comics' original Captain Marvel now known as DC's Shazam, the second selection is black and gold as a nod to Carol's Ms. Marvel costume and the fourth selection is green and gray as a nod to Mar-Vell's Kree uniform.
2. Maria Rambeau's call sign is 'Photon' which is a nod to Monica's moniker in the comics, when she acquires her powers, at first calling herself Captain Marvel but later going by Pulsar and Photon. Nowadays, she's called Spectrum.
CAMEOS:
1. Stan Lee appears as a passenger on the train where the Skrull Carol is chasing has adopted the form of an elderly woman. He's reading the screenplay for Kevin Smith's "Mallrats" which is a movie in which he had a cameo as himself! All of Stan's cameos are shown as part of the opening Marvel logo as a tribute to the co-creator's passing.
2. Contemporary Captain Marvel scribe Kelly Sue DeConnick is the red-head passerby in the train station after Carol disembarks.
END-CREDIT SCENES:
1. The one about the pager is set in 2018 and bridges "Infinity War" and "Endgame".
2. The one relevant to this movie has Goose the flerken cough up the Tesseract like a hair ball onto Fury's desk!
The next chronological stop is Ang Lee's 2003 proto-MCU "Hulk" for the optional origin of the Hulk.
Thank you for this epic comment. You nailed everything that needed saying, particularly the comic history and how the movie completely destroyed not only the legacy of Mar-Vell but the war raging between Kree and Skrull. But I think the one thing that irks me the most is how badly they did Fury and how his eye injury came to be. He went from, "The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye", to a space cat clawing his face. Well done on the comment of the year!
Yeah but you did not read a single comic to figure any of this out. You just went on youtube or a website and copy pasted it.
@@WheresWaldo05 and you know this how? I've been reading comics since 1977 and the guy was spot on in his review of events in the comics and the film. Care to refute even a single thing he posted??
@@damon6126 Did i address you? Please learn to read. Thanks.
@@WheresWaldo05 so you CAN'T refute anything said above. Got it. 😆
Funny stories about the name and character. First the character was originally male, then got gender swapped. The name originally belonged to a character from Fawcett Comics, then moved to DC. Marvel fought and got the name. The original DC Captain Marvel doesn't really have a super hero name now but is known as Shazam, another great movie you should watch.
If you go back to avengers age of Ultron movie Fury is in the Barton's kitchen eating toast cut diagonally which means he's not human in that movie which makes sense because this would have taken place after Captain America the Winter soldier film when he was shot three times so he's probably not fully healed during the events age of Ultron.
Hello Evie, nice to see you!😊 There are several aspects of this film I really like. Being set in the 90s is a nice twist to introduce someone we don't know. Great to see Coulson alive again in a film, and a younger Nicholas Fury. There is ONLY 1 Blockbuster left, Evie. It is in Bend, Oregon. Great reactions to this film which rewrites MCU history, Evie!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Stan reading his lines from Mallrats tells us this is probably 1994, maybe 95.
Carol has been one of my favorite Marvel characters since I first met her back in the 1980s. Since then a number of writers of written her story, each with their own personal take on the character, but certain core elements have always been there. When Kelly Sue DeConnick, the writer who took her from a perennial C-Lister to a commercial success, was explaining Carol to Kevin Feige at the start of the movie production, she said Carol always goes in first and often gets knocked on her ass, like Captain America. But "Cap gets back up again because it's the right thing to do. Carol get back up again because fuck you."
Anywho, I really enjoyed the version of Carol depicted in this film, and the movie made me happy. Glad you enjoyed it too. Thanks for sharing :)
"Commercial success" is a bit of a stretch. Marvel had been slowly wanting to make Ms Marvel a major player since way before KSD got her mits on the character. During the House of M storyline Ms Marvel was known as "Earths mightiest Hero" this was back in 2005 and subsequently given her first solo title since the 70s in 2006 (selling 43,000) after the conclusion of the storyline and then named leader of the Mighty Avengers in 2008.
KSD's first issue of Captain Marvel was the 447th best selling title of 2012 selling less than 50,000 copies. #2 sold 30,400 (ranked 904).
FYI the numbers are per comichron, before publishers fudged number and did all sorts of manipulation of the numbers like in recent years.
To put in simple terms: Captain Marvel (the character) was heavily pushed to the forefront when the character itself was not worthy of such push. But because of the name she carries and the growing audience of the MCU, Marvel desperately wanted to make CM a thing, but the sales never reflected this and her series has been cancelled and relauched like half a dozen times since that initial relaunch in 2006. Some say KSD made the character unlikable which carries over into her characterization in the MCU.
@@BatFan1 Hey, her comic had like 6 'Issue #1s' in 7 years. What could more commercially successful than that?
There actually are still a few Radio Shacks, one is like an hour away from me.
Yes thats him from my movie
This is new 2 marvel movies back to back let’s gooo
Holy Sh!t, a Tesseract shaped hairball!
"She wasn't on Earth, so she's fine"
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Peter Parker wasn't on Earth either.
FUNNY CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019 ) FILM - MOVIE REACTION !!!
The name "Captain Marvel" (now known as Shazam) started in Whiz Comics. DC Comics sued Whiz because the character is similar to Superman. Marvel created their own Captain Marvel (Captain Mar-Vell). DC Comics eventually aquired Shazam. Carol Danvers (originally named Ms Marvel) took the manle of Captain Marvel recently.
She took the mantle of Captain Mar'vell.
Then, because lawyers are the stupidest people on the planet, Marvel just stole "Captain Marvel" from DC illegally and lawyers somehow decided that DC now can't use the title "Captain Marvel" for their Captain Marvel comics, although they "get to" keep using the name Captain Marvel for the character of Captain Marvel. Cool.
I really, really hate that. It's stupid, and it's equally stupid that Marvel is so pissy about wanting to rename Miss Marvel; it's a fine name (I mean, not exactly all that evocative, but neither is Captain Marvel, is it?) so why do they "need" to change it?
But they already had been really lazy about giving her the name Carol Danvers, calling to mind Supergirl's Kara Danvers, so... why expect creativity? (Because there's a difference between similar names and illegally stealing a copyrighted name/title, I guess, so the latter being allowed to happen is so fucking stupid and incomprehensible?)
"She wasn't on earth, so she'll be fine." Faulty logic. Thanos destroyed half of all life in the entire universe!
Half the Guardians were turned into dust on Titan.
Hi Evie. Good movie choice. BTW I really like what you've done with your hair.
Brie Larson was great and I was excited to see her in future Captain Marvel movies. But they decided to derail her character by throwing in Marvel tots that no one asked for, which was a major setback for Brie's chance of turning Carol Danvers into the household name that Tony Stark became.
If anyone could've done that, Brie could. She has the likeability and acting chops to make Captain Marvel a multi movie franchise comparable to Iron Man. But someone at Marvel obviously is still afraid to trust strong women in leading roles.
Remember the pop she got when she was announced as Captain Marvel at SDCC? Yeah, that enthusiasm quickly went away once ms. Brie Larson showed her "likeability" lol
@@BatFan1
She is playing a character who in the comics:
Walked away from the Avengers because they did nothing when she acted out of character after being kidnapped and mind-fracked into being her kidnapper's lover.
She then gets put in a coma by Rogue
When she recovers she has all her memories but no emotions for family and friends.
Without all that canon baggage on screen, Brie was then told to display that emotionless character.
How else would anyone portray that kind of emotionless character and still be likable without the backstory to go with it?
@@ChibiHoshiDragon get better writers
Love the bangs Evie! ❤
You should definitely do reactions for Agents of Shield. It’s a great show with some great characters
Agents of SHIELD is a show that gets better and better the further you get into it. Definitely worth watching.
Absolutely!
The Flerken was named Chewie in the comics, after Chewbacca, Han Solo's co-pilot.
In the movie, it was renamed to Goose, Maverick's co-pilot.
Thanks
Are you going to post any agents of shield videos? I love that show
R.I.P Stan Lee so sad. I am glad that you liked it,so did I but sadly many people don't like this one and think that Brie is a bad actress who didn't deserve the part. They are all nuts in my opinion because I thought she did an amazing job at this. Goose is so cute and the fact that he is an alien was surprising haha. Yes She is the one that inspired him to call it Avengers and she is one of the most powerful characters as well. I love the soundtrack is brings me back to when I was younger haha and the movie it's self is good with good humor and action as well. Sadly Brie will no longer will play this character..they have found someone new but personally I am not interested in any of that. Brie did play her in End Game and another movie called The Marvels that came out last year as her before that decition was made. Brie said that Samuel was the nicest of people and that he even gave her the lightsaber he used when he was in Star Wars which is cool.
We're in the endgame now.
And the answer to the cockpit question is "because that's where the cockswain's (from old French and English coque - swain meanint boat - servant) station was located". Corollary is, the dude was a moron, but it was obvious from the very beginning.
she is the most powerful, we think, Wanda might say differently
36:41 literaslly the whole story in Infinity War is that Thanos wants to wipe out half of life in THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Not just Earth...
Agents of shield is really good. And no one reacts to it rarely.
It's a fun story but they really laid on the GRRL Power thick. They also made her too powerful, there's no sense of danger if the god guy is invinsible.
I hate the bad rap this movie got, it was really unfounded. I think the fact it came between Infinity War and Endgame really hurt it's reception because people were eager for Endgame. It's not the best movie in the series but it's solid and there are definitely worse ones (*cough* Dark World *cough*).
Aside from the Captain America movies (and some would say the First Avenger was just "ok") all the movie franchises have had duds and recovered from them, although the consensus is Iron Man only kept going down in quality, but with Cap we got Winter Soldier and Civil War as sequels that were some of the best of the MCU as a whole.
Captain Marvel is not bad, it's a solid B. But c'mon, dont pretend they didnt go overboard with the "girl power" thing.
I've seen the argument made "if Captain Marvel was a dude the character would have gotten over" and there lies the problem with how they portrayed her. They key to making a "strong female character" isnt about making her a guy in drag.
35:56 It's no joke! 🤣
There is one more Stan Lee cameo after this movie.
Not sure if carols flight name being avenger is a movie only thing but I fucking love it 🫡 Carol motherfucking Danvers baby
"my grampa had a pager"
Ugh, I feel old. I had one in college.
"Does he have multiple?" 😲😳
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Don't feel bad for jumping. A lot of people weren't expecting that sudden pan around to Carol lol
glad you enjoyed Captain Marvel, Evie. was a bit flat when i saw it in cinema, but that was totally on me, and mf Thanos, damn post Infinity Wars funk🤭
but after buying the bluray and watching it a few times i really like Captain Marvel now.
enjoyed your reaction 👍☺
So cool that you've watched the first episode of Agents of Shield. It's such a good show. I hope you watch the rest of it.
This movie was review bombed out of its mind when it came out. I went to the theater trying not to have expectations and I enjoyed it. Is it perfect? I don’t think so. But I enjoyed the soundtrack and I found the story overall pretty good. Was glad to have both Fury and Coulson back as well.
There were some cheesy one liners but that was ok. And a lot of people hated the fact that Fury had his eye injured from the flerken as a “joke”. I definitely would have made his injury more epic but I won’t cry about how it happened either. Carol is definitely one of the most powerful people and I would be curious to see a Wanda/Carol Danvers fight.
My issue with Fury's eye is that it cheapens his character as shown across multiple movies to a one-off joke in a single movie. It just...wasn't necessary, and turns him from a badass into a hypocrite, spending his life pretending to be tough and mysterious.
You saw a Captain Marvel and Wanda fight. What do you mean?
I found the story behind Fury's eye to be great character building. He let an embarrassing situation morph on its own into a legend, creating a mythos around himself as a cosmic badass.
In the comics, why are some Kree blue and others not? Is it just species variation? And why do the non-blue Kree look so human (aside from blue blood, apparently -- which, shockingly, doesn't change the tint of their skin)?
The Kree Empire spans a bunch of planets with their own intelligent life.
My all female cousins like this movies 😅👍🏻
Cant believe I spent money to see this in cinema
The look on your face in the cover picture sums up this movie perfectly.
13:13 I asked the same thing when I first saw this movie Evie.
Great flick, gets a lot of flack from certain segments but I like it a lot.
10:41, please continue watching it, make a reaction to it or watch it for yourself but i'm telling you that show was good
Great movie, lot of fun.
the cat stole every scene
Much better actor than Brie Larson.
Soumdtrack is 🔥
I wasn't a fan of this when I first saw it on release but it's grown on me to one of my faves over time as I rewatch it and also watch reactors do their thing, still get teary at the "just a human" montage and Maria's speech to Carol so it was great to see your enjoyment of it from the start. I know that it got a lot of flak about having "too much female empowerment" when it was released so I always wonder if my first viewing was coloured by that or if seeing things like the "don't you have a smile for me" comment represented and called out in the movie just let hit more impactfully for women.....not sure where I'm actually heading with this but thanks for yet another great reaction and looking forward to Endgame.
You need to watch Mallrats at some stage for a great Stan section, it downplays it too much to call it a cameo and I loved the comment about the soundtrack being all female, especially Nirvana :D
As for Carol, she's great and all and would be a good fight with Thanos but she ain't no Squirrel Girl (and I'll keep holding out for an SG movie till they stop making them lol)
Smart woman EV -- very fun watch! Great editing
When can we expect Avengers: Endgame Reaction on RUclips?
Pleaaaaseeee! Make endgame in two parts! I know is a lot of work...but it worth it.
You became my favorite reactor!!
This movie typifies a core trend in a certain 'type' of media. Instead of using the story and characters to 'convey' the message, the creators decide The Message (capitalisation intended) is SO important that it can 'replace' story and characters. Eveything else bends to The Message. Internal continuity, plot and character consistency, logic, all things must bend to service The Message.
Poor misogynist
Never seen a Marvel movie I didn't like 😊
She so pretty
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Endgame 2 part reaction
10:41 - 😳😱🤩 *_You started watching Agents of SHIELD!!?!! When are those reactions coming to the channel?(You have NO IDEA how many people follow AoS reactions on RUclips!) Please say they are coming soon! Please & Thank you!_* 🙏
Excellent movie, great entertainment and top tier Marvel. Sadly the last great marvel movie to date
Captain Marvel is my favorite superhero
First pre Endgame Marvel film that truly sucks.
This movie is probably the worst of the first 3 phases of Marvel.
The first 20 mins or so (until they land on the Skrull refugee planet, whenever that is) are SO BAD. Just the worst kind of expository dialogue - hence why everybody's acting is so wooden, I guess. Annette Benning is really noticeably bad in that sequence; once she's able to be a character in the rest of the movie, suddenly you don't notice her acting anymore.
Not only that, but treating the audience like we're idiots by dumping exposition on us in such a clunky way has the opportunity cost of not getting us at all invested in the relationship between Carol and her teammates; that would've been a much better introduction because then when we found out that the Kree had been manipulating Carol, we'd feel betrayed [had we been invested in their camaraderie]. Such a wasted opportunity, I can't believe how dumb they were in not writing a better introduction.
AND of course, that short sequence where Carol is kind of a bitch to Fury could've been used to dump the bare minimum of exposition if the director/writer/whomever had really felt we needed something, which would've helped make that scene a lot less weird.
Just wasted potential all the way around.
After that, it's fine. A bit on the nose at times, but fine.
Although I'll also say I'm baffled by Brie's acting choice in the "I can't sleep/wanna fight?" scene; she acts like she's genuinely troubled, then she acts like she isn't, she was just angling for a sparring match the entire time. It's like the American Psycho "Willem Dafoe interrogates Patrick Bateman" scene, except the multiple takes serves no purpose in Captain Marvel. (Maybe it wasn't her choice, might've been a bad editing choice. Either way, it's weird.)
And finally: I just think the movie is out of place. I would've had Black Panther and Captain Marvel BEFORE Infinity War... before Thor: Ragnarok, actually. (Black Widow should've been before Thor: Ragnarok too.) Then Ragnarok leads neatly into Infinity War, then Ant-Man and the Wasp was a perfect low-stakes intermission in between Infinity War and Endgame, then Endgame. I think Captain Marvel being in between those two was really out of place, it didn't serve any purpose (unlike Antman and the Wasp, which wonderfully got you to forget about the gut-punch ending of Infinity War, until the after credits hit).
An added bonus in that order would've had Fury's page at the end of Infinity War make sense to viewers; I get that it's, like, an Easter Egg for those few people who would get it, but not enough people got it, and the vast majority of those who did *didn't care*. Have the Captain Marvel movie BEFORE Infinity War so that people actually got excited when they saw it, rather than simply recognizing the symbol for a few, and being confused for most.
Also, "Vers" is such a stupid nickname.
I'm glad you enjoyed Captain Marvel. She is one of my favorite Marvel characters. Even back when she was known as Ms Marvel. In the comics, Carol took over the mantle of Captain Marvel after the original Captain Marvel (Mar'vell) died. Next up is Endgame. Can't wait to see your reaction.
Lol your face in the thumbnail is pretty much my reaction to Captain Marvel in general
they made her WAY too powerful
In the actual comic book stories, many if not most of the Marvel characters are MORE powerful than in the films. They’ve been powered down so that movie audiences won’t be overwhelmed.
@dustyb58
She got her powers from a concentrated form of primodial space energy, one of six that was used by thanos to destroy half of all universal life, how powerful should she be?
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great reaction :)
Now that I see this reaction after not watching this movie in a while I just realized that fury calling themselves shield isn't that a continuity mistake? Since they first started calling themselves shield at the end of the first Iron Man movie and Captain Marvel is way before?
Thats a cute face you do haha. My ex did one of those faces when she wanted to joke around and every time i died laughing
Yeah... that thumbnail seems about right 😂
This was the beginning of the end for the MCU.
This is the first movie where Marvel (Disney) decided "From now on, men only exist as comic relief, sidekicks, sexist pigs, or weak villains so that women can be more amazing than any of these lame men. Oh, yeah, and our movies only exist to promote the destruction of the toxic patriarchy."
Luckily Endgame was half made and the characters already existed or it would share that fate.
As it is, Endgame is the last time Marvel (Disney) did anything good until just last month.
This movie had promise, and the Avengers needed some more girl bosses, but this was not the way.
Things I would have changed:
Let Brie Larsen have some fun and smile a little,
NOT turned Nick Fury into a comic-relief sidekick mainly there to be put to shame by Danvers,
Given Jude Law something to do at the end besides being yeeted out of the landscape by the girl-boss,
Dialed down Captain Marvel's powers to be equal to the other Avengers, rathe than more powerful than the entire Avengers group put together.
Not made every flashback memory of Carol Danvers be about men being douchebags.
But that's just me.
My wife liked it much more than I did. She says all these movies were full of hot guys in leading roles but didn't have any women where were superheroes, except maybe Scarlet Witch, so she's glad Marvel balanced it out.
Fair enough.
The MCU used many of the most-popular characters from 50+ years of comics. Makes sense. Use the ones we liked the most and that already had a huge fanbase.
But they did have lady heroes in the comics they could have brought in instead of Hawkeye or Falcon.
While i agree on that point, the right way to add more girl-power would have been to make them valuable and likeable team-members, just like the guys are.
This movie has way too much of the former("valuable" didn't have to mean "100x more powerful than any of them") and almost nothing of the latter (Brie Larsen had none of the charm or personality of any of the Avengers so far, men or women - not sure if it's just her or if it's what she was told to do).
Oh well.
Disney is the monster that devours franchises and sh!ts them out in ruins.
Even their own IP gets the Disney Digestive Tract Treatment these days.
I can't wait for you to react to Endgame. At least THAT movie is worth your time and mine.
Boohoo get over it. No one cares. Just don't watch. No one is forcing you
@@bensenzo I don't.
I haven't seen any Disney movies for a couple years now, except Deadpool and Wolverine which, surprisingly, they made a good movie.
Ryan Reynolds money and production values probably had a lot to do with that.
But you're wrong
Somebody cares.
Maybe not you.
But lots of people care.
And when Disney does it right, like Deadpool and Wolverine, we all show our appreciation by spending money to watch it. Over a billion and climbing.
For other things, like The Marvels which only made 200 million.
The people who cared largely stayed home on that one.
We followed your advice.
But we all care.
We want Disney to make good movies instead of crap.
We'd all much rather enjoy good movies than ignore bad ones.
I don't watch MCU reactions (burned out on them years ago), but I'm here to see why you made that face in the thumbnail. 😄
It's right in the title: "Captain Marvel" 😏
I really liked this movie, but i didnt know marvel was now part of some culture war or that the goal post had shifted to women being the enemy. Thankfully some strong independent thinking, online intellectuals explained how super hero movies could be the downfall of society and were actually brainwashing me.
I naively thought some movies just didnt hit like others, cough *thor 2*....
I really did like this movie in all honesty, thought it was great. Soundtrack killed it.
Seriously.... yikes!! I also thought it was really good and fun, I giggled a lot!
So, man is being a douche and you can steal his bike. My HERo.
yeah, consequences!
She was looking for a vehicle to commandeer. He helped her choose.
@Hybridial84
Douchebag characters getting karmic comeuppance is definitely not a common trope in movies and tv spanning decades.
Walter White just really hated convertibles.
This showed how bad the mcu Universe would become after end game, this movie was just a bad intermission between infinity wars & end game 😢
The fact about this movie that I find most interesting is that only misogynists dislike it. They see a female lead and go "Yuck!", despite the movie being inarguably better than say any of the ant-man movies. Is it the best Marvel movie, no. But it's better than MANY but gets way more criticism than any. Even Thor Dark World was rated better than this. That's how you KNOW people are letting their hateful biases skew their perception, if only subconsciously.
My advice to you is to take a long hard look in the mirror, recognize your shortcomings, and start working on them. Your behavior is problematic, even if no one calls you on it.
@@SircoleYT Yeah, it definitely didn't alienate men in general.
@@HappyMonkeyYT
It wasn't in general. Only some men felt alienated.
If you are a man that thinks like that, you deserve to be alienated by not just the movie, but all of society.
Having lived through the days when certain servicemen made comments about 4th Battalion Graduates like me... There isn't even anything weird about that aspect.
And having read the comics...
Captain Marvel is supposed to make your blood boil. There was a storyline where she was abducted and brainwashed into being his lover, so her character has always been around to "alienate" certain men who think that is okay.
This is the beginning of the downfall of the Mcu and the rise of the horrible MSheU.
SUCKS 😜 nobody likes this or asked for this. The biggest crime is Captain Marvel is a Supergirl ripoff. They’re almost identical in power set and color design from head to toe. Plus they even have the same name! Carol/ Cara DANVERS!!! Wtf 😡
And no one cares about your opinion. Why did you even click on the video if you don't like it? Seems like you need a life 😅😅
This film had great potential, but the writers dropped the ball. I was quite disappointed.
Much of the film was about Danvers sticking it to men. The story's agenda was to make Carol Danvers great specifically because she was a woman. It was completely unnecessary. The best female superheroes, such as Natasha Romanoff and Wanda Maximoff, are innately strong and heroic. Their sex is not an issue at all. They just do their jobs and kick ass. Carol Danvers should have been written the same way.
I am so surprised and yet not really by the comments on this movie. I thought the story was very compelling, I loved the twist of the skrulls not being the villains, I was so invested in it and I enjoyed the 90's feel it had. Apart from the scene where the guy tells her to give him a smile and then she steals his bike (lol) which I thought was simply a funny thing to happen since getting unwanted attention on the street is more often than not, part of the woman experience. I'm the first to cringe at an overly stated woman power message because it then makes it feel disingenuous and cheap, but in this one I really didn't get that, even during the two times I edited it (for Patreon and later on for RUclips). I feel like she appeared to be a bit cold, but then I thought it was normal since she was basically brainwashed to forget who she used to be and her life up to this point. So to me, the story was Carol getting back to her roots and doing the right thing by the skrulls, and she simply happened to be a woman😂 Should Rogg have been a female villain for it not to feel like she was sticking it to men? Personally I enjoyed this one more than Ant-Man and the Wasp, to each his own!😋
@@eviereacts ….THANK YOU for the awesome reply, Evie. 👍 I liked a lot of things in the movie, and the story of Carol Danvers finding herself was really good.
I erred in using the phrase “stick it to men”. I should have said “competing with men”. Some scenes (like the “cockpit” putdown) as well as the soundtrack implied that Carol’s quest was about competing against men.
I welcome disagreements about a movie. If we always agree, conversations would be boring. 😆
@Stogie2112
It’s a movie about a woman. Girls and women face sexist comments their entire lives. This is just a facet of reality that the story focused on.
Unfortunately bigotry is a big part of human society past and present and how that affects people influences how they perceive the world and how they are perceived by the world.
Ask some women in your life about times they faced that type of behaviour, it’s often surprising how prevalent it is and how normalized and little it’s acknowledged.
This part is just to preempt any pedantic weirdos: Yes this counts for men too, men are harassed, abused, belittled and ignored, talking about one issue isn’t necessarily ignoring or minimizing others.