The reason Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are the strongest women in cinema history, is because they were vulnerable first. They had to overcome fears and failure, and grow into stronger, warrior type characters. These elements are completely lacking in modern story telling.
You just described every strong character, period. This is why James Bond become much, much more likeable from Casino Royale onwards because it showed his vulnerability and weakness but he said got up and did his job.
Some could argue it's also the likelihood of someone to be that kickass that makes them a fun character.For example,Ripley's journey into being a badass was also organic(apart from also having her be vulnerable).She wasn't a know it all who excelled at everything instantly.She was a smart,capable woman to begin with,who used her brains to win.I think that even if she wasn't beat around so much,she would still be an awesome protagonist because she does her best,without ever being superhuman or unnatural. Rey is just godlike from the get go.She easily defeat Kylo,a trained Force user with NO force training,something not even Anakin could ever do,and he was practically Force Jesus.Even without ever failing,her success is overwhelming,she completely obliterates ANY opposition and is perfect in everything she does with no real set up,reason,or training.
“ She was once a strong independent woman who keeps getting knocked down in life because she refuses to follow basic safety instructions while participating in high risk activities.” 😂
Why? Why the hell do people quote a line from the video they just watched? We all just heard that like 2 minutes ago and had a chuckle ourselves. Is it lack of creativity? Do you people have ADHD and must get that comment in before the next shiny piece of crumpled tinfoil whisks you off to another video?
@@davidmurphy1207 the same thing could be said to those who flip the shit out over people simply quoting a line from the video they find the most funny or amusing and want to share it to people so they can laugh in agreement.
There's a scene in 'Winter Soldier' where Fury takes off his eyepatch and tells Alexander Pierce that he "needs to keep both eyes open". It was so bad-ass and made you imagine that his blind eye is a scar from some dark event in his past. But NOPE - 'Captain Marvel' made it just a cat scratch. Nothing to take seriously.
yup, that really piss me off too, they could make that scar come from Fury trust some Skrull disguide as somebody he trust and lose someone because of it, but no, he has to lose it by the most stupid circumstance possible
kinda sad they even put the eye thing in there. they could've done it in another movie before the events of the Avengers. C'mon. A cat? You guys could've done better.
And this is a surprise? I would think that by the time "Captain Marvel" came about, MCU made it VERY clear that they were gonna sacrifice character depth for cheap laughs... or is it that you didn't saw "Thor: Ragnarok" or "Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2"?
Never forget that black widow has been a strong confident, female marvel character bad-lass since before it was cool. She should've had a solo film years ago.
@Cat Mouth thats what you may think but all the actual marvel fans(not including people who go watch them becuase why not) have wanted a standalone black widow movie for ages, myself included. Marvel is owned by Disney so now their main objective is to stay PC rather than make a good story
@@D4NIELXOXO no she’s not. She is described MULTIPLE times in the film as emotionally unstable and struggles to control herself. She did a fucking horrible job conveying this and every point the Drinker brought up is valid. She did not fail, ever, she was boring, the movie was boring as well. She’s a classic example of a “Mary Sue”, people don’t hate strong female leads, case in point Sarah Connor or Ripley. What may blow your mind is that what people don’t like is bad writing.
Except that's a misquote which misses the point that was being made. What The Drinker actually said was, “Watching Brie Larson tying to be funny is like watching a Ferrari tying to plough a field. It just seems like really hard work for her and it reinforces my belief that she was really miscast in this role.”
Can't agree with you more. I usually rewatch all the marvel movies but this one was hard to sit through in the theatre. There's something about Brie Larson's portrayal as Captain Marvel makes the character really unlikable. At least with Wonder Woman you always feel like she's really sincere, warm and wanted to help others. CM just looks like she's smug about her powers and can't wait to show off.
She gives off an "I'm better than you and if you don't believe me ask me" kinda vibe and it just makes her arrogant as hell which is a shame cause I liked Brie in Kong Skull Island but Oh Well 🤷🏻♂️
@Clifford Terrell Giving a bunch of the traits of toxic masculinity to female characters does not equal writing strong female characters. Character strength is not judged by muscle mass or a flat ratio of wins versus losses, but on the well roundedness of the personality and the amount of depth in thoughts and actions portrayed in what is intended to represent the kinds of complexities that are present in real people. Captain marvel is not a strong female character, she is a strong female caricature.
(Tony Stark) tell me her name again. (Bruce Banner) Captain Marvel. -She’s a plague, Tony. She invades cinematic universes, she takes what she wants, she wiped out half the Fanbase. The rotten tomatoes score, that’s her!
It always makes me laugh when I see that scene on the bus, it just makes no god damn sense. If you were impersonating an old woman like that, wouldn't the most logical thing be to pretend you're old and frail, especially when Captain Marvel soccer punches you to the face, all you have to do is reel back into the seat with your hands clutched to your face and whimper. I'm pretty sure at that point everyone on the bus is gonna think Captain Marvel is just some mental case having a go at old ladies and someone will step in to try and restrain her. If nothing else it might make her question whether she's even got the right person, or if she's just targeting innocent civilians now. Instead this old granny just takes the punch like it's nothing and then starts going toe to toe with Captain Marvel, cos ye that was a great disguise wasn't it.
@Subi_fan It was done for the trailer, pure and simple. In the movie itself it just makes no damn sense. Typical moronic hollywood smoking drugs while they think this shit up in dark room somewhere, laughing it up.
Carol Danvers is a psychopath. She'd probably just continue wailing at the poor innocent old lady. She legit has absolutely no problem killing thousands.
The sad thing is that Brie is capable of better stuff. She did win an Oscar for Best Actress. The writing and directing didn't allow her to bring out any actual acting qualities.
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@MKMW C ...what A list celeb are you talking about with regards to Star Wars lol? The only one that kinda fits that is Harrison Ford and thats like 15 years late and he literally did demand to be written out so he wouldn't be in them. Everyone else from the previous movies has little to no career to speak of (besides Hamill w voice acting), and all of the new people were signed onto 3 movie contracts as basically nobodies (except Oscar Isaac, who wasn't exactly A list but had some solid movies under his belt). Who exactly should have "known better" AND been in a position to reject the greatest opportunity they'd ever get, in your mind? And also as someone who has family in the film industry, you speak like a person who has literally no clue how a movie is made but really wants to pretend you do despite research being readily available on the same device you're whining into. Let me be clear Brie Larsen is a dumbshit moron who I personally dislike, but "she read it so she should get the hate for the character" is at least as dumb as anything Brie has said lol. Scripts go through dozens of rewrites both before and after casting. Characters can become entirely different things based on directing - a "bad" script can be elevated by choices the director or anyone else in production makes (Baby Driver), and a "good" script can be tanked by the same thing (Oldboy 2013). What you're doing is the equivalent of a Karen screaming at a McDonald's employee that she expects Black Angus steak between the buns of their burger. There's SO many different parts of the supply chain she has nothing to do with you're ignoring just to throw your tantrum, feel superior, and not actually use your brain much in the process. And again, that's coming from someone who thinks Brie Larsen is an absolute nitwit and insufferable as fuck.
'Any man who must say "I am the King" is no true king' A great character once told us. This statement holds true regardless of what statement you put there.
I wasn't ready to accept a female Star Trek captain, but K. Mulgrew did a great job as Capt. Janeway. She didn't go around telling everyone what a strong woman she was. She just was.
@ - I would even throw in Private Vasquez from the same series as a badass. One of my all time Favorite lines is "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a Man?" "No, Have you? Man I loved that character.
how did you know? have you gone to a movie theater on the opening week? I did, and its always full. Give it up toxic fans. Your constant bashing will one day tear MCU apart. Fuck you
@@AndrewBoniface09 I am not a fan of Marvel so I don't care what happens to Marvel. But a lot of people do and they care about this Disney pushing this feminist nonsense. But I do know someone at my local cinema and she says Captain Marvel has not drummed up much business when compared with recent movies like Bohemian Rhapsody or Aquaman, both of which were drawing in healthy audiences weeks after their releases. Seems to me that is Disney that is going to hear the MCU apart
Even if Brie's character was better scripted than it was here, I'd still have a problem separating her character from her personal life as an egotistical narcissistic activist self-absorbed SJW wahman.
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I was wondering where that came from you know. It's still not the angry "GO AWAY NOW" in it's final form but it's orders of magnitude over the weak "please consider subscribing " of Black Panther. It's nice to have been able to witness such a pivotal event in RUclips, nay, world history.
5:18 Don't forget the fourth step, it's just as important: "When someone inevitably calls your flawless, hyper-competent, personality-deprived protagonist a Mary Sue, just label the term sexist and the people who use it sexist, while completely ignoring whatever argument the term's attached to."
"The MCU has become the cinematic equivalent of McDonalds, dishing up reliable predictable products that satisfy your needs, but rarely give you unpleasent surprises; but when you get right down to it, they're just standard templates assembled from stock ingredients by people who've been doing it for so long they know exactly what works and what doesn't." Hit the nail on the head. Could not have found a better description for Marvel.
And yet, they can still make the same movie, with different characters of course, and people will still pay money to sit and watch THE SAME EXACT MOVIE
Oh they made a trainwreck which will irritate many white people - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with that awful Mackie who can act even less than Brie Larson.
That whole train car scene shows how the shapeshifter falls into the "stupid aliens" trope. All it had to do was make a big hysterical screamy fuss as Marvel wailed on the 'old woman' and as passengers intervene and get inevitably killed by Captain Marvel, she'd become America's Most Wanted; The Train Car Massacre. That's how you play it smart.
Something like that is needed? Isn't it enough that the new wahman in the franchise is the most powerful and perfect person/god in the entire universe?
@@gobzdzilla Damn, Mary Sues everywhere. Just a random thought here, every alien race that encounters Earth just automatically insults us, and yet we are appearently the only planet in the universe who has something like internet. Sorry just needed to write that somwhere. That thought walked around in my brain for way too long.
@@michaelx8486 That's a really good argument though. We have social policies, constitutions, health care, human and animal rights, internet, freedom of information, faith and thought but comes an alien without representing anything better and suddenly we're the inferior.
@@gobzdzilla Cool that you agree. Well then other thought, why is every alien planet always like one big country with some sort of king, Cesar or something alike at the top? That's just something that still needs an answer for me.
I just want to know how the past 10 years of strong powerful women characters in the MCU feel about suggestion that they’ve been lacking prior to this film?
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I will say this: it IS bullshit that the first MCU movie with a female lead is the 21st one. It's just too bad it's this one.
@ I think that has a lot to do with most of the (relatively) well-known heroines being on teams and/or connected to franchises the MCU didn't have the rights to make movies from (Scarlet Witch being an outlier since her rights are split). I don't know if the push for Danvers in the comics was an attempt to drum up fame for the movies, but it didn't work as they wanted.
@@MirecU Now i imagine someone making a prank out of this. "Hey. I bet 100 $ that my Ferrari can plow a field!" "HA! That i want to see! Deal!" *shows him a Ferrari tractor which is plowing a field* :D
Or highly advanced AI trying to take over the world? Or another alien invasion that might result in Thanos snapping his fingers? Also how did they find the pager and knew it belongs to nick Fury?
Original Fury lost his eye in a grenade blast in WWII. But that would make him 90 odd now. So forever in the MCU, Nicolas J Fury lost his eye to a goddamn Flurkin!
@@NotDecided420 Plus it kind of ignores Nick Fury's line from another movie (I think it was either Iron Man 2 or Winter Soldier) "Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye." So you were talking about a cat?
@@joshfatal I legit laughed out hard at this. He really said this in a previous movie? And here he lost his eye to a fucking cat? That would make them seem like sacrifice consistency just to portray this black man whom they deem worthy of talking to Captain Marvel, but still a wimp that got his eye took out by a cat.
My nans lived through world war 2, the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and to current day and she never had gender issues through her life. she worked in a field for years and came home to cook for the family and did till they all grew up or died off. I have never heard her complain like these misandr..."feminists" about equality, she just worked her arse off and lived a good life. we've grown so weak as a species lol.
If a so called "feminist" calls Cities sexist, because they grow up into the sky and look (her statement) like penisses... you're right. Humanity had grown weak since social media was inventet
Same. But Drinker DOES know how to make sarcasm work. He owns even Doug Piranha! (If you don't understand the reference, I can't help you. I've been on a bit of a Monty Python bender since my boy, Terry Jones passed. RIP Harry "Snapper" Organs of Q Division)
Iam so with this statement! During my childhood I live next door to family with 17 of them and they only took a shit in my backyard! Until I had a sling shot!
Oh my god. I started watching this review out of curiocity if it is nevertheless worth to experience for myself. It took me almost 5 minutes to relize that I have already watched this movie. That is how much insignificant it was to me on some unconcious level. As if I had pushed it out of my memory and only after watching some scenes I started to remember, kind of like amnesia flashbacks...
"I can't empathize with this woman because I don't really know who she is--because who she is keeps changing from one scene to the next." And let's face it, this kind of thing is RAMPANT in modern screenwriting, regardless of the character's gender.
This also a product of the formula of hero movies. Very little, if any, character development interspersed with ACTION!!!, followed by half assed narrative segments that bridge to more action.
So I recently watched this for the first time and found it fell flat on many levels: Fundamentally the movie does not successfully get you behind Danvers as a character - it kinda felt as though the narrative was being told the wrong way around as you really don't get to see Danvers as an interesting character. We don't get a good sense of who she was (although the film repeatedly has other characters telling us how funny she was - why not show us her being funny?) and the only development is that she figures out the life she had forgotten. She's a pretty dull protagonist to be honest. The cat. Is the ...uh ... CGI stuff supposed to be funny? It's as though an outlandish comic element rejected from Guardians of the Galaxy was transplanted into a different sort of film. And the whole Fury thing was lame. I kept thinking 'where did that come from?' or 'how does that work?' E.g. Danvers' photon blasts at one point can suddenly jump start a car (I think it was a car). Danvers goes into a house in civvies and then walks out in her Kree suit despite not having had any apparent means to carry it for the last hour. These moments became jarring. Mary Sue: i've been re-watching a lot of the MCU in the last week or so and I think this is the only film in which the hero wins simply by beating up the bad guys at the end. There's always a trick or a MacGuffin, starting in Iron Man 1 where ironmonger is killed by blowing up the Arc Reactor, up to Endgame (tony uses his nanosuit to pinch the stones off Thanos). For Marvel to simply destroy Ronan's troops only serves the rather forced 'she's been held back' narrative, which isn't really a compelling way to end a heroes' journey story imo and it just feels forced in as a deliberately feminist element that feels narratively regressive. It also paved the way for a similar unearned victory moment in Endgame. Retcon the origin of the Avengers intiative. No thanks. Not necessary. Again, feels forced.
Carol Danvers doesn't have a character aside from "badass woman". It's that way in the comics too and surprise, surprise! Marvel keeps trying to force her into becoming a popular character. Your observation about the heroes not just winning by beating the bad guy up is a good one and not something I've ever seen many other people notice. That's actually how most of the best superhero stories work. Sure their powers help but in the end the hero's intelligence and/or heart is what makes them successful. One of my favorite tropes in Batman stories is the villain thinking they're going to have one final showdown fight with each other. The bad guy thinks they're going to finally see who the better fighter is...and then Batman more or less cheats (in the sense of not fighting with "honor") and quickly defeats them. They're superheroes and supervillians not two guys fighting over a UFC belt.
I'm so glad I didn't spend any money on this movie. Downloaded, watched and deleted right after to never be seen again. It never happened, Fury lost his eye in battle not from some stupid cat.
@@iamtheruraljuror9257 and by shit I mean all this nerd culture. Of course girls my age do because of nerd culture became pop culture. Dont expect most chicks your age to be into all these things.
Much like the Drinker, I didn't have much of a problem with Captain Marvel. I didn't think it was that great, but I didn't hate it either. I wasn't really interested in the feminism angle, because I watched plenty of movies with strong female characters growing up (Ripley in the Alien franchise, Valeria in Conan the Barbarian, Sarah Connor in Terminator, etc.), so the idea of a strong female character was nothing new to me. The only thing that was new was the media hype suggesting that this was something revolutionary, which was cynically exploited by the studio to increase ticket sales. I only had two main gripes with the movie. The first was turning Dr. Lawson/Mar-Vell into a woman, which I felt was disrespectful to the source material. There was also no need for it, since the character's gender is irrelevant to the plot. I suspect it was only done so that Carol Danvers wouldn't owe anything to a man, while in the comic, she chose the costumed identity of Ms. Marvel (remember, it was the '70s) to honor a man she respected and who she'd been through a lot with. The second had to do with Brie Larson's performance. It's okay, as far as it goes, but I don't think it goes far enough. She's a human who has been brainwashed by aliens and thinks she is one, but she doesn't act in a remotely alien manner. The Kree are an intensely war-like militaristic species. One would think she'd be a soulless, ruthless killing machine, a soldier to the core, much like Kurt Russell in Soldier, because she has no memories of anything else. She should have been more of a fish-out-of-water after she arrived on Earth, because humans are aliens to her. That would have given the character an arc, rediscovering her lost humanity and what it means to be human. But that would have meant giving her a flaw, and apparently, female characters aren't permitted to have flaws, for fear of looking weak.
I bought this movie, watched a few minutes of it, turned it off... and haven't had the desire to watch it since. So, there it sits, on the shelf. My wife had to explain to me who Captain Marvel was in Endgame and what she could do.
I was excited to see that Jude law was in it, but sadly, it's like he wasn't in it, like he served no other purpose than just serving as an antagonist to kill
The best parts of Captain Marvel was the Stan Lee tribute in the opening credits (though I kinda wish they saved it for Avengers Endgame) and the Stan Lee cameo where he's reading the Mallrats script, making the View Askewniverse part of the MCU.
LOL see all you guys believed Disney's PR crap, you wonder why Stan was taking Disney to court? because they made him into a mascot like Mickey Mouse. The tribute was more to play on your guys feelings rather than respecting Stan Lee. www.grunge.com/32935/false-facts-stan-lee-always-believed-true/
Well, it really doesn't make anything part of the MCU, it just cements that mallrats was in fact, a movie that came out, and that the watcher had a cameo in it.
Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, and Thor had more compelling origin movies than Captain Plank. The writers of those four movies really made you see the four men as who they were as characters and how they changed to the world around them. Tony starts out as arrogant and uncaring to the world around him until he almost dies and is captured by terrorists who were using his weapons. After being rescued, Tony changes and decides to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. Bruce starts out as a man who has been transformed by a version of the super soldier serum and has to learn how to adapt and control himself so he doesn’t Hulk out. Thor starts out very arrogant and doesn’t think before he acts. He nearly starts another war with the snow giants and, in turn, loses his powers and hammer. During his journey, he becomes more humble and caring to others and earns his powers and hammer back. Steve starts out as a small, sickly but determined man who is hell-bent on fighting in the war. He wants to protect his homeland and people and he hates bullies. Steve already had a good heart and courage, which is why the super soldier serum transforms him into basically Hercules, but he has to learn how to balance his powers and not lose himself. During the war, he loses people, like Bucky, his brother from another mother, and makes the ultimate sacrifice by plunging a plane full of warheads into ice, knowing he probably wouldn’t survive. When he wakes up in the modern time, he learns he’s lost everyone but Peggy and Bucky (who Steve didn’t know was alive until Winter Soldier.) In a nutshell, Captain Plank has nothing on these four in regards of story and character growth. She starts and ends the same. The only difference is that she fights for the Skrulls instead of the Kree. Her character is very bland and her growth is nonexistent.
Vae Victis Hulk was given a version of the super serum in the movies. They were trying to make another soldier like Cap but it resulted in Bruce turning into the Hulk.
Screaming Lord Sutch Give it up trolls. Captain Marvel is doing waaaay okay both critically and in the box office. I tell you, for box office records, in speaks for itself... with third largest opening for March. Source: www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-opening-weekend-box-office-breaks-records-1202571905/amp/ And about Rotten Tomatoes: its still damn fresh dudes! Marvel wins! Trolls lose!
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The Formula is very accurate & is why these characters never connect with the audience. On the other hand the small details that they have given Scarlet Witch is the reason I'm getting Disney+. She has real character development and hasn't been a primary player in the MCU so far yet you feel for the different things that have happened to her (being tricked/used by Ultron, Quicksilver dying, joining the Avengers, the incident where she saved Cap but killed innocent civilians, Hawkeye being the wise friend to look out for her & her relationship with Vision). Those are all things that have helped shaped a connection the viewer has with her character.
Agree 100% on your assessment of the Marvel Universe being stale and formulaic. Disagree 100% with giving Disney any of your money. Money better spent on alcohol!
I don't think he ever said he paid for a ticket for that Captain Marvel. He just said he sat down in his mostly empty cinema. He could have done what most people said they would which was pay for something they actually looked forward to watching and sneak into it afterwards.
Her role in Endgame reminds me of that one person that takes credits for everything after other people took full weight on their back to "carry the world" and in this case to carry the whole movie, previous story, villain and everything else...thats why i hate Cpt Marvel character. Same thing in JL when only Superman could defeat Steppenwolf even if other characters carried the entire movie.
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@@Phangmaster Alita was a way smaller movie with the media against it. They barely talk about the movie and when they did was to say bad things or to make the good news look insignificant ("china can't turn alita into a hit" "why 400M isn't enough" and a lot of articles out there). This movie had also some poorly managed marketing. On the other hand, Captain marvel was a movie everyone was talking about and promoting for years. It had all the support of the media, the heavy weight Disney behind its ass and the connection with endgame, and of course the fact that is a MCU movie, and just that is enough to guarantee its success. So, the box office argument is really nonsense. Alita was supposed to he a failure, to make around 200M and become the biggest bomb of the year and for fox. But it doubled expectations and moved so much the fandom all around the world, making millions of people rewatching the movie over and over again and supporting it in any way possible. What did captain marvel? It made the obvious box office that was supposed to, nothing else
I LOVED ALITA. I'm not into Manga so no Preconceived notions. I enjoyed it for what it is. A decent Kick ass action film with a female lead who CAN ACTUALLY ACT!! She also has a very broad selection of Facial expressions, way more than Brie Larsons constipated range of 3 (Three) facial expressions!!!
Rewatching this review 2 years later and I still crack up. Will, you need to include more "Don't know" "Eh whatever" "and anyway" comments in your newer revviews, please!!!
You can actually tell when someone has weak arms by how the elbows are positioned in certain movements. This girl has weak arms and I doubt she even needed to exert herself in this movie, yet it remains quite obvious. And I have to be convinced she's that strong. Mmmmm, ok? Anyways, great video.
Brie Larson is not athletic. She can't even fake running good. But, she's got the fists clenched, standing legs apart and scowling down pat. She's no Wonder Woman, that's for sure.
@@milton1448 She got offended when a fan asked her if she works out. She replied with something along the lines of "Is this in insult? I work out. A lot, actually". Too bad no one can tell by looking at her.
She gets offended a lot it seems. Hope all men know not to look at her, talk to her, ask her out or even question her very existence. All too much for little Brie to handle.
@@milton1448 When she clenches her fists, her elbows tends to over-extend which I think would be very apparent if not for her battle suit. Flimsiest arms in the MCU. Closing the fist hides weak fingers and helps tense the arms. Strong arms can tense up while open-handed. Little things but are instinctively apparent. Her balled up hands even look silly. All the while, her face is trying to be as intimidating as they can be. If you're not convinced like I am, it's the body language. A tightly balled up hands while only standing shows insecurity in strength. As a picture, it's ok. The picture might've taken in a fist clenching moment. But in moments where she's standing up, fist tightly clench, she's hiding her fingers and insecurity.
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
This joke was funny the first time I read it, but since that was about a decade ago and lots of people have been similarly 'inspired' since then, I just can't help but think you may need some new material
I couldn't agree more. I absolutely love Buffy, both the show and character. I think season 5 episode 16 of Buffy is possibly the most shocking and best episode of television I've ever seen. It disturbed me deeply and changed me in ways no other movie or show did, as I've been through a similar experience in real life. As a character, at the very least, Buffy was a more realistic super hero. She had flaws, many of them. She had fears, she doubted herself. She was a real person, not a caricature of a perfect woman. She didn't hate on men to seem superior.
Her inconsistencies weren't limited to her acting. The character literally rewired a payphone into an intergalactic communicator, but didn't know what a pager was. She patiently waited at an Internet cafe for a dial-up connection, but didn't understand the loading meter of a CD drive.
A lot more like a video essay than a review, I really enjoyed your work. While something can be said about the harshness and level of your sarcasm and I don't find all of it warranted, I feel like there is a need for more of this. I hope you find your niché, because this was really good. Keep it up ^^
So, I've been watching a lot of your content, in no particular order. I love your style, and the older stuff certainly has a more straightforward attempt at commentary with less of your personal style. This seems to be the point at which that really started tipping over to your style now. Awesome to see/hear that evolution. Love what you're doing! Especially love it when you review older, possibly missed classics like Falling Down.
I bought a ticket to Cold Pursuit, and instead snuck in and saw this. Not only were there plenty of seats opening weekend, but this nowhere near lived up to it's hype...not even close. The movie was entertaining...as are most, but honestly I'd wait for this to come out at Redbox or cable. Larson is nothing to write home about - I don't see her as a star in the making.
This is the ONLY Marvel movie that I completely disliked. It brings absolutely nothing new on the table, the lead actress is a miscast, the film feels overlong and VERY boring, and it collapses even more when compared to flawed but vastly superior Wonder Woman.
brie larson acting all tough = cringe portraying a fighter pilot = cringe punching/kicking/anything remotely athletic = cringe trying to have personality = cringe her interviews = embarrassing, just go away
Going back through some of your older videos as I have watched the most recent ones and can't get enough. You should review Community, class series with some epic writing (forget about S4).
Your sarcasm is better than that damn movie. Thank you for this, buddy. You just earned yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the honest outstanding work! 😎👍🏾
Your end comments I 100% agree with. I’m beginning to appreciate your criticism....only because this is the first time I’ve heard you. Time to subscribe
@safe space I stated it. They seem to have forgotten Wonder Woman, Alita, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Etc etc....had strong female leads who didn't rely on feminist propaganda to sell their movies
Just discovered your channel, along w/a bunch of other indie critic darlings, but you've become part of MY Unholy Trinity (1st among equals w/Lord Doomcock & Nerdrotic Gary...😍). What sets you apart from the shills is your bitter sarcasm, chuckle-worthy nicknames of characters &, well, how much you're willing to risk yourself for your art. I mean, wow, how many livers have you been through?...😁. That said, I know all about Marvel Burnout. Sure, some folks say it's not really a thing, but if an old school Marvel fanboy like ME is feeling it, it's real. I still have faith in the megafranchise, but where else is there to go once you hit the summit? Are there more hills to climb? I think yes - X-Men could factor into building the next "Big Bad", but they really need to let it sit on the shelf a year or 2 at least. FF? Maybe the same. And, let's not sugarcoat it, we the fans are starting to see the stress fractures in the MCU. "Guardians" wasn't a pressing thing for me, though that may be down to personal taste. I liked the 1st Ant-Man well enough, but the character himself may be too mediocre to be an A-level hero. And if you think an MCU movie is BORING, that's bad.
Saw it tonight. I rank it just above The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2 and Thor: The Dark World with 6/10 My Son hit it on the head that this felt like the "Solo" movie in a Star Wars universe. PROS: The cat (comedy moments) Samuel L. Jackson (comedy moments) Samuel L. Jackson's (relationship with the cat) De-aging technology Skrulls being sympathetic for a change Mendelsohn's performance as head Skrull Kinda cool the Tesserect was the power source Mar-Vell was working with Stan Lee cameo reading script to Mallrats Stan Lee opening CONS: Brie Larson's performance: Wooden for the most part 90's nostalgia needless changing of Mar-Vell's character completely out of place soundtrack How Fury loses his eye Carol's emotional relationship with friend was forced too much panning of the camera and cuts during fight scenes Less focused than other movies in the universe Carol's past wasn't defined enough apart from she gets up when knocked down
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The reason Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are the strongest women in cinema history, is because they were vulnerable first. They had to overcome fears and failure, and grow into stronger, warrior type characters.
These elements are completely lacking in modern story telling.
stonedvillain79 yes! I couldn’t agree more!
You just described every strong character, period.
This is why James Bond become much, much more likeable from Casino Royale onwards because it showed his vulnerability and weakness but he said got up and did his job.
When was Ripley vulnerable at first? She's rock solid from the get-go as far as I remember?
@@alexrennison8070 Alien. She became the Final Girl, but you wouldn't know that seeing it the first time.
Some could argue it's also the likelihood of someone to be that kickass that makes them a fun character.For example,Ripley's journey into being a badass was also organic(apart from also having her be vulnerable).She wasn't a know it all who excelled at everything instantly.She was a smart,capable woman to begin with,who used her brains to win.I think that even if she wasn't beat around so much,she would still be an awesome protagonist because she does her best,without ever being superhuman or unnatural.
Rey is just godlike from the get go.She easily defeat Kylo,a trained Force user with NO force training,something not even Anakin could ever do,and he was practically Force Jesus.Even without ever failing,her success is overwhelming,she completely obliterates ANY opposition and is perfect in everything she does with no real set up,reason,or training.
“ She was once a strong independent woman who keeps getting knocked down in life because she refuses to follow basic safety instructions while participating in high risk activities.” 😂
Why? Why the hell do people quote a line from the video they just watched? We all just heard that like 2 minutes ago and had a chuckle ourselves. Is it lack of creativity? Do you people have ADHD and must get that comment in before the next shiny piece of crumpled tinfoil whisks you off to another video?
@@davidmurphy1207 To point out that they found that quote in particular funny.
@@davidmurphy1207 the same thing could be said to those who flip the shit out over people simply quoting a line from the video they find the most funny or amusing and want to share it to people so they can laugh in agreement.
I also heard this line, and enjoyed it very much. Thanks for putting it into written form so I could enjoy it again.
Brilliant line. And she has to overcome the oppression of Gravity.
There's a scene in 'Winter Soldier' where Fury takes off his eyepatch and tells Alexander Pierce that he "needs to keep both eyes open". It was so bad-ass and made you imagine that his blind eye is a scar from some dark event in his past.
But NOPE - 'Captain Marvel' made it just a cat scratch. Nothing to take seriously.
yup, that really piss me off too, they could make that scar come from Fury trust some Skrull disguide as somebody he trust and lose someone because of it, but no, he has to lose it by the most stupid circumstance possible
kinda sad they even put the eye thing in there. they could've done it in another movie before the events of the Avengers. C'mon. A cat? You guys could've done better.
And this is a surprise?
I would think that by the time "Captain Marvel" came about, MCU made it VERY clear that they were gonna sacrifice character depth for cheap laughs... or is it that you didn't saw "Thor: Ragnarok" or "Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2"?
@@Kewryn shut your bitch ass up are you really defending this sorry excuse for a movie
@@Kewryn so you telling me you actually liked what they did with his eye
The thing I've noticed about truly tough people (I think women are people) is that they never talk about how tough they are.
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Then Trump is actually the weakest person who's ever lived. ;)
If you have to say it, you're not tough
@@laurene988 Then Trump is the weakest person in the world.
Never forget that black widow has been a strong confident, female marvel character bad-lass since before it was cool.
She should've had a solo film years ago.
@J.L.W She barely has any character development in the movies, so I don't know where you pulled that from lol
@@christian779 Probably the comics
@J.L.W the only development wanda has in the mcu is having a sexual preference to robots. Just another agenda being pushed.
I wouldn’t hold too much hope for the Black Widow stand alone film either lol
@Cat Mouth thats what you may think but all the actual marvel fans(not including people who go watch them becuase why not) have wanted a standalone black widow movie for ages, myself included. Marvel is owned by Disney so now their main objective is to stay PC rather than make a good story
Bro, toxic feminism is EVERYWHERE nowadays.
Ikr?
Nah still toxic masculinity just it comes mostly from women now
Should have made the movie about Goose, would have been a hit
there was nothing feminist in the movie.
@@mr.ganguly2624 yeah, because the movie itself is entirely an example of bad writing.
"Watching Brie Larson try to act is like watching a Ferrari try to plow a field." That statement is gold!
yall know she was DIRECTED to be cold and unfeeling right...yall will defy all laws of logic in order to hate on women you don't like
@@D4NIELXOXO no she’s not. She is described MULTIPLE times in the film as emotionally unstable and struggles to control herself. She did a fucking horrible job conveying this and every point the Drinker brought up is valid. She did not fail, ever, she was boring, the movie was boring as well. She’s a classic example of a “Mary Sue”, people don’t hate strong female leads, case in point Sarah Connor or Ripley. What may blow your mind is that what people don’t like is bad writing.
@@solarflare4345 i liked brie larson's acting as captain marvel.
Except that's a misquote which misses the point that was being made. What The Drinker actually said was, “Watching Brie Larson tying to be funny is like watching a Ferrari tying to plough a field. It just seems like really hard work for her and it reinforces my belief that she was really miscast in this role.”
@@bobblehat6603 no one cares
"Just another stock movie from the Marvel assembly line." Exactly.
But this one was a Ford Pinto.
It really wasn’t. It wouldn’t be hated so much.
Marvel knows what their audience wants. This movie shit on them.
@@PotatoeSnow no lol
@@fisher2536 He's not that wrong
Nope. It's way worse than the others.
Can't agree with you more. I usually rewatch all the marvel movies but this one was hard to sit through in the theatre. There's something about Brie Larson's portrayal as Captain Marvel makes the character really unlikable. At least with Wonder Woman you always feel like she's really sincere, warm and wanted to help others. CM just looks like she's smug about her powers and can't wait to show off.
That shit eating smile, it's obnoxious
Reminds me of her role in endgame (or was it IW?) whenever she shows up, she gave off and very arrogant vibe and it always didn't sit well with me.
She gives off an "I'm better than you and if you don't believe me ask me" kinda vibe and it just makes her arrogant as hell which is a shame cause I liked Brie in Kong Skull Island but Oh Well 🤷🏻♂️
I'm glad she got punched back to the Stone Age in Endgame. If she actually finished the saga and defeated Thanos, I would've been SO disappointed
@Clifford Terrell Giving a bunch of the traits of toxic masculinity to female characters does not equal writing strong female characters. Character strength is not judged by muscle mass or a flat ratio of wins versus losses, but on the well roundedness of the personality and the amount of depth in thoughts and actions portrayed in what is intended to represent the kinds of complexities that are present in real people.
Captain marvel is not a strong female character, she is a strong female caricature.
(Tony Stark) tell me her name again.
(Bruce Banner) Captain Marvel. -She’s a plague, Tony. She invades cinematic universes, she takes what she wants, she wiped out half the Fanbase. The rotten tomatoes score, that’s her!
AZ Battle School this needs to be higher
I literally read that in Ruffalo's voice.
Omg bruh💀
This was the best comment ever. 😄
I wanna see this guy as the new White House press secretary.
as long as he allowed to drink adult beverages during the press conferance
I know! He could tell Jim Acosta to "go away" in a really thick Scottish burr! I'd pay to see that!
That would be great.
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Honestly? Trump would probably go for it.
It always makes me laugh when I see that scene on the bus, it just makes no god damn sense. If you were impersonating an old woman like that, wouldn't the most logical thing be to pretend you're old and frail, especially when Captain Marvel soccer punches you to the face, all you have to do is reel back into the seat with your hands clutched to your face and whimper. I'm pretty sure at that point everyone on the bus is gonna think Captain Marvel is just some mental case having a go at old ladies and someone will step in to try and restrain her. If nothing else it might make her question whether she's even got the right person, or if she's just targeting innocent civilians now.
Instead this old granny just takes the punch like it's nothing and then starts going toe to toe with Captain Marvel, cos ye that was a great disguise wasn't it.
@Subi_fan It was done for the trailer, pure and simple. In the movie itself it just makes no damn sense. Typical moronic hollywood smoking drugs while they think this shit up in dark room somewhere, laughing it up.
SSBroly965 Exactly. Spot on in every way 👍
"Soccer punch"? You can't use your hands in soccer!
Carol Danvers is a psychopath. She'd probably just continue wailing at the poor innocent old lady. She legit has absolutely no problem killing thousands.
She already knows. And you say keep lying
Brie Larson. An actress who makes Kirsten Stewart look charismatic.
The sad thing is that Brie is capable of better stuff. She did win an Oscar for Best Actress. The writing and directing didn't allow her to bring out any actual acting qualities.
@MKMW C ...what A list celeb are you talking about with regards to Star Wars lol? The only one that kinda fits that is Harrison Ford and thats like 15 years late and he literally did demand to be written out so he wouldn't be in them. Everyone else from the previous movies has little to no career to speak of (besides Hamill w voice acting), and all of the new people were signed onto 3 movie contracts as basically nobodies (except Oscar Isaac, who wasn't exactly A list but had some solid movies under his belt). Who exactly should have "known better" AND been in a position to reject the greatest opportunity they'd ever get, in your mind?
And also as someone who has family in the film industry, you speak like a person who has literally no clue how a movie is made but really wants to pretend you do despite research being readily available on the same device you're whining into.
Let me be clear Brie Larsen is a dumbshit moron who I personally dislike, but "she read it so she should get the hate for the character" is at least as dumb as anything Brie has said lol. Scripts go through dozens of rewrites both before and after casting. Characters can become entirely different things based on directing - a "bad" script can be elevated by choices the director or anyone else in production makes (Baby Driver), and a "good" script can be tanked by the same thing (Oldboy 2013).
What you're doing is the equivalent of a Karen screaming at a McDonald's employee that she expects Black Angus steak between the buns of their burger. There's SO many different parts of the supply chain she has nothing to do with you're ignoring just to throw your tantrum, feel superior, and not actually use your brain much in the process. And again, that's coming from someone who thinks Brie Larsen is an absolute nitwit and insufferable as fuck.
Y think Brie needs a antagonist role to make a good film, i really like her role in Scott Pilgrim, it fit with her personallity
@@Ivan_Berni she did great in room she just needs a script that isn't dogshit lol
@Rob Melrose So... what? Women can't be powerful? is that what you're trying to say?
'Any man who must say "I am the King" is no true king'
A great character once told us. This statement holds true regardless of what statement you put there.
Best line from GOt.
Basically GOT version of "show dont tell"
This makes me sadder how far GoT fell. Used to be awesome.
@@cundiffrich3556 i met ian Beattie (ser meryn trant) and i was saying about how no season of GoT got boring. Then along came season 8.
You are a good man with a good heart, and it is hard for a good man to be a king- King T'chaka
U used to sound more sober. U sound like a legit drunk in the last videos (in a good way).
selam incel
@@djozaimusic heh
This movie drove him to drinking.
Maybe this movie broke him😶
He legit sounds depressed in this(or maybe he was just about to pass out and managed to record everything before doing so)😁
I wasn't ready to accept a female Star Trek captain, but K. Mulgrew did a great job as Capt. Janeway. She didn't go around telling everyone what a strong woman she was. She just was.
Exactly.
Two words: Ellen Ripley.
@ She was my least favorite capt. Maybe it was because of the script she is a fine actor.
Sisko
Kirk
Picard
Janeway
I haven't seen the other 2 series.
@@danielzoller6911 Yes it was the script. Have no issues with the actor herself. It was the character she played.
@ - I would even throw in Private Vasquez from the same series as a badass. One of my all time Favorite lines is "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a Man?" "No, Have you? Man I loved that character.
Captain Marvel must be the first movie in cinematic history to break box office records with near-empty cinemas
Sounds a lot like Marvel /Disney the house of mouse droppings Shillery to me.
Odd thing, that.
how did you know? have you gone to a movie theater on the opening week? I did, and its always full.
Give it up toxic fans. Your constant bashing will one day tear MCU apart. Fuck you
@@AndrewBoniface09
I am not a fan of Marvel so I don't care what happens to Marvel. But a lot of people do and they care about this Disney pushing this feminist nonsense. But I do know someone at my local cinema and she says Captain Marvel has not drummed up much business when compared with recent movies like Bohemian Rhapsody or Aquaman, both of which were drawing in healthy audiences weeks after their releases.
Seems to me that is Disney that is going to hear the MCU apart
@@davidthomas3826 I went every theater was full
Even if Brie's character was better scripted than it was here, I'd still have a problem separating her character from her personal life as an egotistical narcissistic activist self-absorbed SJW wahman.
And nobody should separate them. Instead, we should stop giving money to people who hate us.
The Skrull memory probe can only find fragments of a Gillette commercial.
And Scott Pilgrim and Skrull came to the idea lets make capt. Emo
🤣🤣🤣
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@@CowyGriffon I think I understand it all now.
@@crypticscrutiny1153 Dhem alt-right altar-boys are behaving like a bunch of squirrelly skrulls
OMG your review was more enjoyable than the entirety of the movie you are reviewing haha, I'm so glad I found your channel
Truth!
They should have just released this instead of the movie.
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@@CowyGriffon I knew you'd say some next level shit like this. I expect nothing less
Pedro Alberto Contreras I feel you. This is slowly becoming my favorite channel on the platform
This video marks the very first time The Drinker says "go away" at the end of his video. Truly it is Brie Larson we must thank for this outro
The movie finally broke him
I was wondering where that came from you know. It's still not the angry "GO AWAY NOW" in it's final form but it's orders of magnitude over the weak "please consider subscribing " of Black Panther. It's nice to have been able to witness such a pivotal event in RUclips, nay, world history.
5:18 Don't forget the fourth step, it's just as important:
"When someone inevitably calls your flawless, hyper-competent, personality-deprived protagonist a Mary Sue, just label the term sexist and the people who use it sexist, while completely ignoring whatever argument the term's attached to."
"The MCU has become the cinematic equivalent of McDonalds, dishing up reliable predictable products that satisfy your needs, but rarely give you unpleasent surprises; but when you get right down to it, they're just standard templates assembled from stock ingredients by people who've been doing it for so long they know exactly what works and what doesn't."
Hit the nail on the head. Could not have found a better description for Marvel.
And yet, they can still make the same movie, with different characters of course, and people will still pay money to sit and watch THE SAME EXACT MOVIE
Oh they made a trainwreck which will irritate many white people - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with that awful Mackie who can act even less than Brie Larson.
Infinity war and endgame were good n surprising cap 2 as well
McMarvel 🍟🍔🚀🌌
But saying all this is disproven by Captain Marvel. Clearly they don't know what works, otherwise this movie would've been at least liked ...
That whole train car scene shows how the shapeshifter falls into the "stupid aliens" trope. All it had to do was make a big hysterical screamy fuss as Marvel wailed on the 'old woman' and as passengers intervene and get inevitably killed by Captain Marvel, she'd become America's Most Wanted; The Train Car Massacre. That's how you play it smart.
"who never fail at anything" > except when they fail at personality, depth and growth department.
Something like that is needed?
Isn't it enough that the new wahman in the franchise is the most powerful and perfect person/god in the entire universe?
@@michaelx8486 I think they thought exactly that, to give her the most powerfulest power of them all and it'll make a case.
@@gobzdzilla Damn, Mary Sues everywhere.
Just a random thought here, every alien race that encounters Earth just automatically insults us, and yet we are appearently the only planet in the universe who has something like internet.
Sorry just needed to write that somwhere. That thought walked around in my brain for way too long.
@@michaelx8486 That's a really good argument though.
We have social policies, constitutions, health care, human and animal rights, internet, freedom of information, faith and thought but comes an alien without representing anything better and suddenly we're the inferior.
@@gobzdzilla Cool that you agree.
Well then other thought, why is every alien planet always like one big country with some sort of king, Cesar or something alike at the top?
That's just something that still needs an answer for me.
I just want to know how the past 10 years of strong powerful women characters in the MCU feel about suggestion that they’ve been lacking prior to this film?
I will say this: it IS bullshit that the first MCU movie with a female lead is the 21st one.
It's just too bad it's this one.
@ I think that has a lot to do with most of the (relatively) well-known heroines being on teams and/or connected to franchises the MCU didn't have the rights to make movies from (Scarlet Witch being an outlier since her rights are split). I don't know if the push for Danvers in the comics was an attempt to drum up fame for the movies, but it didn't work as they wanted.
@@CowyGriffon from where did you gain this power? Is there no end to your influence?
@@CowyGriffon : "tymbør"?
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Danny devito should’ve been captain marvel
If nothing else we would have our memes
Hot
But he is the trashman.
But he's already a hero: he's the Trash Man.
@@JadeEyes1 Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Chris Evans have all played multiple different superheroes. I don't see why Danny couldn't~
At least seeing a Ferrari try to plow a field would be funny.
Well.. they are used to plow fields... but not the racing cars... the tractors are :)
@@MirecU Now i imagine someone making a prank out of this. "Hey. I bet 100 $ that my Ferrari can plow a field!" "HA! That i want to see! Deal!" *shows him a Ferrari tractor which is plowing a field* :D
Sounds like a Top Gear episode
Just found out ferrari tractors are a thing
"Promises to come back if there's ever an emergency"
Like that Alien Invasion in Avengers Assemble?
Or highly advanced AI trying to take over the world? Or another alien invasion that might result in Thanos snapping his fingers? Also how did they find the pager and knew it belongs to nick Fury?
They had the avengers, other planets didn’t
they really messed up the lore/history here.
You can't justify a shoehorn or a retcon. You just can't.... They messed up.
Well would you rather help people who have a 1% chance or help people with a 0% chance.
“Watching Brie Larson try to be serious is like watching a Ferrari try to plow a field.” ***Platinum
The cat exists specifically to ruin Samuel L Jacksons eye.
I honestly wonder if that was a "bad pussy" joke.
however it occurred, you can believe brie larson caused it somehow.
Original Fury lost his eye in a grenade blast in WWII. But that would make him 90 odd now.
So forever in the MCU, Nicolas J Fury lost his eye to a goddamn Flurkin!
@@NotDecided420 Plus it kind of ignores Nick Fury's line from another movie (I think it was either Iron Man 2 or Winter Soldier) "Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye." So you were talking about a cat?
@@joshfatal I legit laughed out hard at this. He really said this in a previous movie? And here he lost his eye to a fucking cat? That would make them seem like sacrifice consistency just to portray this black man whom they deem worthy of talking to Captain Marvel, but still a wimp that got his eye took out by a cat.
All of this could've been solved by having the skrulls explain to her what's going on when they captured her.
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@@zarthbacon ...👍exactly what I was thinking
No brie was a shitty choice for this roll
My nans lived through world war 2, the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and to current day and she never had gender issues through her life. she worked in a field for years and came home to cook for the family and did till they all grew up or died off.
I have never heard her complain like these misandr..."feminists" about equality, she just worked her arse off and lived a good life.
we've grown so weak as a species lol.
If a so called "feminist" calls Cities sexist, because they grow up into the sky and look (her statement) like penisses... you're right. Humanity had grown weak since social media was inventet
I'm gonna screenshot this comment because its an honest and true statement with a good story👍
Maybe she didn’t have time to stand up for herself because she was slaving away lol
@@LS-cz1cd if thats the case then my pop slaved away the most, poor guy was broken towards the end of his life, probs why my nan outlived him.
@@kona8832 as Paris Hilton once said “stop being poor”
"My deep hatred for cats and people own more than zero of them."
I'm a cat owner and that cracked me up lol
Same. But Drinker DOES know how to make sarcasm work. He owns even Doug Piranha!
(If you don't understand the reference, I can't help you. I've been on a bit of a Monty Python bender since my boy, Terry Jones passed. RIP Harry "Snapper" Organs of Q Division)
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Iam so with this statement! During my childhood I live next door to family with 17 of them and they only took a shit in my backyard! Until I had a sling shot!
@Dogman tossed my salad Never! Thank You! Mate I can smell em a mile off!
The best Captain Marvel movie will be when Rouge sucks her powers from her.
Whoooooo?🤷♂️
I can't wait to search for that on Pornhub.
Might actually happen at some point, now that the X-men are getting absorbed into the MCU, along with Blade and The Fantastic Four.
@@PocketDrummer nope sorry, but Carol does go into a coma for months. Lol.
Rogue taking carols powers could happen in the second Ms. Marvel film.
Oh my god. I started watching this review out of curiocity if it is nevertheless worth to experience for myself. It took me almost 5 minutes to relize that I have already watched this movie. That is how much insignificant it was to me on some unconcious level. As if I had pushed it out of my memory and only after watching some scenes I started to remember, kind of like amnesia flashbacks...
"I can't empathize with this woman because I don't really know who she is--because who she is keeps changing from one scene to the next."
And let's face it, this kind of thing is RAMPANT in modern screenwriting, regardless of the character's gender.
THANK YOU. It seems like all the characters now are either static or wildly fluctuating.
@@polyhymnia701 : It's hack writing. And it's everywhere.
This also a product of the formula of hero movies. Very little, if any, character development interspersed with ACTION!!!, followed by half assed narrative segments that bridge to more action.
Since I only watch movies an shows that have a good reputation, don’t have to be complex or are animes, I don’t notice problems like that
They are written specifically so that the events in the movie can happen the way screenwriters say it happens
I missed the ending. Woke up to see the credits roll.
What's that line from The Incredibles? "We keep finding new ways to celebrate mediocrity".
@calvin masters It's ironic since they're both Disney lol
Great comment, only problem is it’s less than mediocre. I don’t even remember this movie though I only saw it a few months ago
So I recently watched this for the first time and found it fell flat on many levels:
Fundamentally the movie does not successfully get you behind Danvers as a character - it kinda felt as though the narrative was being told the wrong way around as you really don't get to see Danvers as an interesting character. We don't get a good sense of who she was (although the film repeatedly has other characters telling us how funny she was - why not show us her being funny?) and the only development is that she figures out the life she had forgotten. She's a pretty dull protagonist to be honest.
The cat. Is the ...uh ... CGI stuff supposed to be funny? It's as though an outlandish comic element rejected from Guardians of the Galaxy was transplanted into a different sort of film. And the whole Fury thing was lame.
I kept thinking 'where did that come from?' or 'how does that work?' E.g. Danvers' photon blasts at one point can suddenly jump start a car (I think it was a car). Danvers goes into a house in civvies and then walks out in her Kree suit despite not having had any apparent means to carry it for the last hour. These moments became jarring.
Mary Sue: i've been re-watching a lot of the MCU in the last week or so and I think this is the only film in which the hero wins simply by beating up the bad guys at the end. There's always a trick or a MacGuffin, starting in Iron Man 1 where ironmonger is killed by blowing up the Arc Reactor, up to Endgame (tony uses his nanosuit to pinch the stones off Thanos). For Marvel to simply destroy Ronan's troops only serves the rather forced 'she's been held back' narrative, which isn't really a compelling way to end a heroes' journey story imo and it just feels forced in as a deliberately feminist element that feels narratively regressive. It also paved the way for a similar unearned victory moment in Endgame.
Retcon the origin of the Avengers intiative. No thanks. Not necessary. Again, feels forced.
Carol Danvers doesn't have a character aside from "badass woman". It's that way in the comics too and surprise, surprise! Marvel keeps trying to force her into becoming a popular character.
Your observation about the heroes not just winning by beating the bad guy up is a good one and not something I've ever seen many other people notice. That's actually how most of the best superhero stories work. Sure their powers help but in the end the hero's intelligence and/or heart is what makes them successful. One of my favorite tropes in Batman stories is the villain thinking they're going to have one final showdown fight with each other. The bad guy thinks they're going to finally see who the better fighter is...and then Batman more or less cheats (in the sense of not fighting with "honor") and quickly defeats them. They're superheroes and supervillians not two guys fighting over a UFC belt.
Captain Marvel was bad and Brie Larson was miscast as Captain Marvel.
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@@CowyGriffon what is that, the language of Mordor?
@@jasonrhodes9683 *You Say Rotten Tomatoes, I Say Fungal Toes
They must put Jenifer Lawrence there... plz
That's for damn sure. Emily Blunt was one of the actresses considered for the role and she would have been a much better choice.
I'm so glad I didn't spend any money on this movie. Downloaded, watched and deleted right after to never be seen again. It never happened, Fury lost his eye in battle not from some stupid cat.
I watched so many movies during this pandemic. This movie never crossed my mind until recently. And I'm a woman.
@@iamtheruraljuror9257 Well most women do not watch this shit.
@@iamtheruraljuror9257 and by shit I mean all this nerd culture. Of course girls my age do because of nerd culture became pop culture. Dont expect most chicks your age to be into all these things.
@@thedelordhimselfgokublack Shut up.
Much like the Drinker, I didn't have much of a problem with Captain Marvel. I didn't think it was that great, but I didn't hate it either. I wasn't really interested in the feminism angle, because I watched plenty of movies with strong female characters growing up (Ripley in the Alien franchise, Valeria in Conan the Barbarian, Sarah Connor in Terminator, etc.), so the idea of a strong female character was nothing new to me. The only thing that was new was the media hype suggesting that this was something revolutionary, which was cynically exploited by the studio to increase ticket sales. I only had two main gripes with the movie.
The first was turning Dr. Lawson/Mar-Vell into a woman, which I felt was disrespectful to the source material. There was also no need for it, since the character's gender is irrelevant to the plot. I suspect it was only done so that Carol Danvers wouldn't owe anything to a man, while in the comic, she chose the costumed identity of Ms. Marvel (remember, it was the '70s) to honor a man she respected and who she'd been through a lot with.
The second had to do with Brie Larson's performance. It's okay, as far as it goes, but I don't think it goes far enough. She's a human who has been brainwashed by aliens and thinks she is one, but she doesn't act in a remotely alien manner. The Kree are an intensely war-like militaristic species. One would think she'd be a soulless, ruthless killing machine, a soldier to the core, much like Kurt Russell in Soldier, because she has no memories of anything else. She should have been more of a fish-out-of-water after she arrived on Earth, because humans are aliens to her. That would have given the character an arc, rediscovering her lost humanity and what it means to be human. But that would have meant giving her a flaw, and apparently, female characters aren't permitted to have flaws, for fear of looking weak.
Like a Ferrari plowing a field
This line is classic.
@ ur not wrong
Like Tractor at a race track...!
Hey a Ferrari is still a Ferrari. I would have compared her to a Ford Focus trying to plow that field
Yeah that metaphor is comedy gold
I didn't jump to 3:08, you owe me a bevey. Good review, just the right amount of sarcasm as usual.
Why so critical??
I bought this movie, watched a few minutes of it, turned it off... and haven't had the desire to watch it since. So, there it sits, on the shelf. My wife had to explain to me who Captain Marvel was in Endgame and what she could do.
"Watching Brie Larson trying to be funny is like watching a Ferrari try and plow a field." Brilliant!
And she's not even close to Ferrari's beauty
Fun fact: Enzo Ferrari started his brand by building tractors
@@flippert0that was Lamborghini
Epic. This is easily the BEST review I have seen or heard. Stay drunk, ya bastard! Cheers!
Sobriety is for people who can’t handle drugs.
@@brunskies92 Dawg what
@@pikasonic9402 lol it’s a Hunter S. Thompson quote
I was excited to see that Jude law was in it, but sadly, it's like he wasn't in it, like he served no other purpose than just serving as an antagonist to kill
Much like Ewan McGregor in Harley Quinn and the fifty other word title.
@@jimthar17 Ewan was cool in Harley Quinn. At least ten times better than Jude here
@@Vario69 wait, that was Ewan? Holy crap
How come Brie Larsen looked so much better in Kong: Skull Island than in this movie?
She was PERFECT IDEAL FIT for THAT ROLE. Apparently, playing herself.
Because she's the sole primary protagonist or focus
because she's an actual character with goals and flaws
That’s the only movie (Kong) I actually liked her in
@@sonofaquack6987 It was? I just remember her being... there
He lost his eye.. to a CAT!? Really? Reeaaaally....?? Ugh..
I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it myself
It wasn't a cat, it was a vicious alien monster!
Wasn't fury supposed to lose his eye in a battle?
SavageRush012 he said he lost the last time he trusted someone. Which if you squint kinda works in the lamest way possible.
Lajk Bušwyk Byl (ʌv ðe Getow Bojz) Nyg Fjuri hæd tu lūz æn āj tu si þỹngz klirli: /watch?v=U-UYXWjyNeE
The reason why she has no „consistency“is because she has no „personality“
The best parts of Captain Marvel was the Stan Lee tribute in the opening credits (though I kinda wish they saved it for Avengers Endgame) and the Stan Lee cameo where he's reading the Mallrats script, making the View Askewniverse part of the MCU.
LOL see all you guys believed Disney's PR crap, you wonder why Stan was taking Disney to court? because they made him into a mascot like Mickey Mouse. The tribute was more to play on your guys feelings rather than respecting Stan Lee.
www.grunge.com/32935/false-facts-stan-lee-always-believed-true/
@@disposable_hero1725 Like duh...
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. Shut the Fuck up fucknut
Well, it really doesn't make anything part of the MCU, it just cements that mallrats was in fact, a movie that came out, and that the watcher had a cameo in it.
Movie was all downhill after the stan lee intro
"I guess, the actor was free that day". lol
Leave Jude Law Alone
@@CowyGriffon ? Jude Law ? Didn't say anything about him.
Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, and Thor had more compelling origin movies than Captain Plank. The writers of those four movies really made you see the four men as who they were as characters and how they changed to the world around them.
Tony starts out as arrogant and uncaring to the world around him until he almost dies and is captured by terrorists who were using his weapons. After being rescued, Tony changes and decides to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. Bruce starts out as a man who has been transformed by a version of the super soldier serum and has to learn how to adapt and control himself so he doesn’t Hulk out. Thor starts out very arrogant and doesn’t think before he acts. He nearly starts another war with the snow giants and, in turn, loses his powers and hammer. During his journey, he becomes more humble and caring to others and earns his powers and hammer back. Steve starts out as a small, sickly but determined man who is hell-bent on fighting in the war. He wants to protect his homeland and people and he hates bullies. Steve already had a good heart and courage, which is why the super soldier serum transforms him into basically Hercules, but he has to learn how to balance his powers and not lose himself. During the war, he loses people, like Bucky, his brother from another mother, and makes the ultimate sacrifice by plunging a plane full of warheads into ice, knowing he probably wouldn’t survive. When he wakes up in the modern time, he learns he’s lost everyone but Peggy and Bucky (who Steve didn’t know was alive until Winter Soldier.)
In a nutshell, Captain Plank has nothing on these four in regards of story and character growth. She starts and ends the same. The only difference is that she fights for the Skrulls instead of the Kree. Her character is very bland and her growth is nonexistent.
Hulk, super soldier serum? Thought it was gamma rays, or did they change that too?
Vae Victis Hulk was given a version of the super serum in the movies. They were trying to make another soldier like Cap but it resulted in Bruce turning into the Hulk.
@@khfan4life365 what movie was this in? I haven't watched all of the MCU so I may have missed that one, or didn't pay it much attention. Thanks
"Honestly" my toaster has more personality than Brie Larson!
Brie Larson > gary larson
A wet carrot has more personality and charisma than her.
Sammy Carrier my grandmother's Kickstart dildo has more personality.
@@rosiegratz8377 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣LMFAO!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Our thanks to you for selflessly watching this movie and save us from having to do so. Clearly you are the sarcastic drunken white male hero we need!
Screaming Lord Sutch ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Screaming Lord Sutch
Give it up trolls. Captain Marvel is doing waaaay okay both critically and in the box office. I tell you, for box office records, in speaks for itself... with third largest opening for March.
Source: www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-opening-weekend-box-office-breaks-records-1202571905/amp/
And about Rotten Tomatoes: its still damn fresh dudes! Marvel wins! Trolls lose!
Avengers Endgame: marysueperman returns
Andrew Farmkid you don’t have to be a troll to be bored by this cookie cutter film
Even if êveryone hates #Her for it
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Šhe/z not beĩng æ #Hero
Šhe/z beĩng someþhĩng more
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Æ galæktik protεktor
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The more I see of Brie Larsen preaching online about her "issues", the less I like this film.
The movie was like a 'whammy' burger.
Flat and tasteless.
Yes, 'Falling Down' is still quite relevant.
Leave McMarvel Studios Alone
It's a sensitive trigger!
YOU FORGOT THE BRIEFCASE
I'm the bad guy..?
Ah Ah, your name's not Mud!
Is it possible that Captain Marvel is a sequel to "the Cat from Outer Space"?
OMG I was sooo young then, but I totally LOVED that movie!!! (and I think it had a sequel!!!)
I just watched that yesterday on Disney+ 😂😂😂
The Formula is very accurate & is why these characters never connect with the audience. On the other hand the small details that they have given Scarlet Witch is the reason I'm getting Disney+. She has real character development and hasn't been a primary player in the MCU so far yet you feel for the different things that have happened to her (being tricked/used by Ultron, Quicksilver dying, joining the Avengers, the incident where she saved Cap but killed innocent civilians, Hawkeye being the wise friend to look out for her & her relationship with Vision). Those are all things that have helped shaped a connection the viewer has with her character.
Agree 100% on your assessment of the Marvel Universe being stale and formulaic.
Disagree 100% with giving Disney any of your money.
Money better spent on alcohol!
I don't think he ever said he paid for a ticket for that Captain Marvel. He just said he sat down in his mostly empty cinema. He could have done what most people said they would which was pay for something they actually looked forward to watching and sneak into it afterwards.
@@davidmurphy1207 lol...good point.
It feels worth it for this review alone, this got more laughs out of me than the film would if I were to watch it :P
That's why bootlegs exist!
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She refuses to follow basic safety instructions while taking part in high risk activity
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@@CowyGriffon ,.mhekj5,32453h,mno07908d7f98dr!!!~~~~~::++_PP:p ;)
Yeah, cause no male character has EVER done that.
@@nicholasbella7459 No one said they didn't. It's just that the film acts like she's 'oppressed'.
Her role in Endgame reminds me of that one person that takes credits for everything after other people took full weight on their back to "carry the world" and in this case to carry the whole movie, previous story, villain and everything else...thats why i hate Cpt Marvel character. Same thing in JL when only Superman could defeat Steppenwolf even if other characters carried the entire movie.
Katee Sackhoff would have been an awesome casting choice. Real presence, gravity, charm, and bad-ass. Geek cred off the charts.
Too old unfortunately
@@helderoliveira2994 Deaging works, and .... hell, no. Even without it she WOULD be great!
And she's bitch pudding
Yeah, but that still wouldn’t have saved the script. This was never going to be better than. Meh
Helder Oliveira Perhaps, but an older Sackhoff would still have been a million times better.
"Watching a Ferrari plow a field, it just seems like hard work"
LMFAO. Never change dude.
I guess Disney has never heard of the hero's arc.
Oh like WW 84 did better
@@biguy617 TF does WW 84 have to do with this bruh 💀
@@autistichades5552 it was worse than Capt Marvel
"There's no real consistency to how she behaves. Her attitude and demeanor can switch on a dime." That doesn't sound at all like any women I know.
LMAO In.ter.net. .... just got won.
Lol the crazy ones
Well with Captain Marvel I couldn't even tell she shows no emotion at all
Hahah genius
personslity switches, isn't that normal with women? My wife does it all the time.
Yf aj hæd æ mjolńir aj/d smæš kâpytølyst pêjťriαrki
😂😂😂
@@CowyGriffon what kind of accent is that
In 2016, 10.5 litres of pure alcohol were sold per adult in Scotland, equivalent to 20.2 units per adult per week. The UK Chief Medical Officers’ low risk alcohol guidelines advise against men and women drinking more than 14 units a week on a regular basis. This means that enough alcohol was sold last year in Scotland for every adult to exceed the weekly guideline by 44%, every week of the year. In Scotland, sales of alcohol per adult per week are 17% greater than in England and Wales.
People should watch "Alita: Battle Angel" instead.
@Angelo Morte Alita worldwide taking $400m. Captain Marvel $946m and still rising. Sorry to say.
@@Phangmaster Alita was a way smaller movie with the media against it. They barely talk about the movie and when they did was to say bad things or to make the good news look insignificant ("china can't turn alita into a hit" "why 400M isn't enough" and a lot of articles out there). This movie had also some poorly managed marketing. On the other hand, Captain marvel was a movie everyone was talking about and promoting for years. It had all the support of the media, the heavy weight Disney behind its ass and the connection with endgame, and of course the fact that is a MCU movie, and just that is enough to guarantee its success. So, the box office argument is really nonsense. Alita was supposed to he a failure, to make around 200M and become the biggest bomb of the year and for fox. But it doubled expectations and moved so much the fandom all around the world, making millions of people rewatching the movie over and over again and supporting it in any way possible. What did captain marvel? It made the obvious box office that was supposed to, nothing else
I LOVED ALITA. I'm not into Manga so no Preconceived notions. I enjoyed it for what it is. A decent Kick ass action film with a female lead who CAN ACTUALLY ACT!! She also has a very broad selection of Facial expressions, way more than Brie Larsons constipated range of 3 (Three) facial expressions!!!
Matt Stickelberger 5 times for me!
Matt Stickelberger no I won’t
"Real women support each other because no one else will"
Damn
Rewatching this review 2 years later and I still crack up. Will, you need to include more "Don't know" "Eh whatever" "and anyway" comments in your newer revviews, please!!!
So true.
Her character changes back and forth in the whole movie. There is no character development.
Bad acting, no matter sjw or not.
Huh... you gonna be in trouble. You said she'd become superMAN at the end of the movie.
Kαmræd Mαrvøl hæz ôwvøriz ʌv stīøl
“After a couple pints of wine”
Can we talk about how brilliant that line is?
You can actually tell when someone has weak arms by how the elbows are positioned in certain movements. This girl has weak arms and I doubt she even needed to exert herself in this movie, yet it remains quite obvious. And I have to be convinced she's that strong. Mmmmm, ok? Anyways, great video.
Brie Larson is not athletic. She can't even fake running good. But, she's got the fists clenched, standing legs apart and scowling down pat. She's no Wonder Woman, that's for sure.
Right? It's always far more believable in the X-Men films whenever Mystique is kicking ass
@@milton1448 She got offended when a fan asked her if she works out. She replied with something along the lines of "Is this in insult? I work out. A lot, actually". Too bad no one can tell by looking at her.
She gets offended a lot it seems. Hope all men know not to look at her, talk to her, ask her out or even question her very existence. All too much for little Brie to handle.
@@milton1448 When she clenches her fists, her elbows tends to over-extend which I think would be very apparent if not for her battle suit. Flimsiest arms in the MCU. Closing the fist hides weak fingers and helps tense the arms. Strong arms can tense up while open-handed. Little things but are instinctively apparent. Her balled up hands even look silly. All the while, her face is trying to be as intimidating as they can be. If you're not convinced like I am, it's the body language. A tightly balled up hands while only standing shows insecurity in strength. As a picture, it's ok. The picture might've taken in a fist clenching moment. But in moments where she's standing up, fist tightly clench, she's hiding her fingers and insecurity.
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
Awesome
@Marc M- I'm still offended. How... How... How... COULD YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO HURT AND OFFENDED?!?!?!?!
(P.S. That was a GREAT comment you made!)
You deserve this like.
This joke was funny the first time I read it, but since that was about a decade ago and lots of people have been similarly 'inspired' since then, I just can't help but think you may need some new material
AeneasGemini gets me every time
Mr. Drinker, 1st time viewer here. Your critique makes me want to drink! Great work! Thank you.
Her personality switches without notice? You don't spend much time with women do you? LOL
Big Bike Adventures 😂 good point
those type of woman are called "nutscase"
lol fair point.
hahahahaha!
Or moody men.
Yes, my expectations have truly been subverted, and I cannot wait for the next one. Your video, that is.
“I just thought I’d throw it in there because I’m pretty sure that’s what the writers did” had me rolling
Buffy is the best Superhero ever written.
Nah
Thank you, Joss Whedon.
Buffy Summers > Captain Marvel
Sarah Michelle Gellar > Brie Larson
I couldn't agree more. I absolutely love Buffy, both the show and character. I think season 5 episode 16 of Buffy is possibly the most shocking and best episode of television I've ever seen. It disturbed me deeply and changed me in ways no other movie or show did, as I've been through a similar experience in real life.
As a character, at the very least, Buffy was a more realistic super hero. She had flaws, many of them. She had fears, she doubted herself. She was a real person, not a caricature of a perfect woman. She didn't hate on men to seem superior.
@Keely Chow Whedon is possibly the best writer in Hollywood today
your comparison to McDonald's is so accurate I almost barfed my Oreos...
Love your videos man. Definitely see the growth from the older ones.
Her inconsistencies weren't limited to her acting. The character literally rewired a payphone into an intergalactic communicator, but didn't know what a pager was. She patiently waited at an Internet cafe for a dial-up connection, but didn't understand the loading meter of a CD drive.
A lot more like a video essay than a review, I really enjoyed your work. While something can be said about the harshness and level of your sarcasm and I don't find all of it warranted, I feel like there is a need for more of this. I hope you find your niché, because this was really good. Keep it up ^^
So, I've been watching a lot of your content, in no particular order. I love your style, and the older stuff certainly has a more straightforward attempt at commentary with less of your personal style. This seems to be the point at which that really started tipping over to your style now. Awesome to see/hear that evolution. Love what you're doing! Especially love it when you review older, possibly missed classics like Falling Down.
"laid back Australians" made me laugh.
I bought a ticket to Cold Pursuit, and instead snuck in and saw this. Not only were there plenty of seats opening weekend, but this nowhere near lived up to it's hype...not even close. The movie was entertaining...as are most, but honestly I'd wait for this to come out at Redbox or cable. Larson is nothing to write home about - I don't see her as a star in the making.
Brie Larson > burt lancaster
This is the ONLY Marvel movie that I completely disliked. It brings absolutely nothing new on the table, the lead actress is a miscast, the film feels overlong and VERY boring, and it collapses even more when compared to flawed but vastly superior Wonder Woman.
Thank you! It is NOT essential to Avengers: Endgame at all!
brie larson
acting all tough = cringe
portraying a fighter pilot = cringe
punching/kicking/anything remotely athletic = cringe
trying to have personality = cringe
her interviews = embarrassing, just go away
Going back through some of your older videos as I have watched the most recent ones and can't get enough. You should review Community, class series with some epic writing (forget about S4).
Hey...I saved $15 by avoiding this when it was in the theater. "Thank you veeeery much!" 👍✌️
Your sarcasm is better than that damn movie. Thank you for this, buddy. You just earned yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the honest outstanding work! 😎👍🏾
Your end comments I 100% agree with. I’m beginning to appreciate your criticism....only because this is the first time I’ve heard you. Time to subscribe
D.C. comics-"Thank You,Marvel"
Grab 'Em By The DC
Ahaaahaaaaa! Gud one
The Long Kiss Goodnight did it better. Same premise, no feminist propaganda.
@safe space I stated it. They seem to have forgotten Wonder Woman, Alita, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Etc etc....had strong female leads who didn't rely on feminist propaganda to sell their movies
The Long Kiss is honestly one of my favourite action movies
Just discovered your channel, along w/a bunch of other indie critic darlings, but you've become part of MY Unholy Trinity (1st among equals w/Lord Doomcock & Nerdrotic Gary...😍). What sets you apart from the shills is your bitter sarcasm, chuckle-worthy nicknames of characters &, well, how much you're willing to risk yourself for your art. I mean, wow, how many livers have you been through?...😁.
That said, I know all about Marvel Burnout. Sure, some folks say it's not really a thing, but if an old school Marvel fanboy like ME is feeling it, it's real.
I still have faith in the megafranchise, but where else is there to go once you hit the summit? Are there more hills to climb? I think yes - X-Men could factor into building the next "Big Bad", but they really need to let it sit on the shelf a year or 2 at least. FF? Maybe the same. And, let's not sugarcoat it, we the fans are starting to see the stress fractures in the MCU.
"Guardians" wasn't a pressing thing for me, though that may be down to personal taste. I liked the 1st Ant-Man well enough, but the character himself may be too mediocre to be an A-level hero. And if you think an MCU movie is BORING, that's bad.
Saw it tonight. I rank it just above The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2 and Thor: The Dark World with 6/10
My Son hit it on the head that this felt like the "Solo" movie in a Star Wars universe.
PROS:
The cat (comedy moments)
Samuel L. Jackson (comedy moments)
Samuel L. Jackson's (relationship with the cat)
De-aging technology
Skrulls being sympathetic for a change
Mendelsohn's performance as head Skrull
Kinda cool the Tesserect was the power source Mar-Vell was working with
Stan Lee cameo reading script to Mallrats
Stan Lee opening
CONS:
Brie Larson's performance: Wooden for the most part
90's nostalgia
needless changing of Mar-Vell's character
completely out of place soundtrack
How Fury loses his eye
Carol's emotional relationship with friend was forced
too much panning of the camera and cuts during fight scenes
Less focused than other movies in the universe
Carol's past wasn't defined enough apart from she gets up when knocked down
Honestly, I think your comments are fair. Thank you.