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It was quite good. It was one of the better Marvel single-hero movies. Plot was perhaps bit more ambitious than these usually have. In the trailers, Brie Larson came across like she doesn't have any range, but it worked better in the film itself as her character was written somewhat blunt and Kree are supposed to be less emotional than humans.For the most part, Kree didn't feel alien enough, though pink Kree are almost indistinguishable from humans in the comics too.
De-aging made the old cast look somewhat lifeless, particularly Gregg. Talos was made too much of a wuss IMO. Setting the movie in the '90s was neat, though much of that humour prolly won't work 20 years from now.

Are there indeed 2 post credits sequences? No spoilers, I just want to know if I should hang around.

Yes, mid-credits and at the very end. As usual, latter is not really important if you're in a hurry.

I think it was the best character intro movie so far outside of maybe Spiderman: Homecoming.
Definitely stronger than the Phase 1 movies, even Iron Man (which is the strongest, but comes across a little dated in comparison to how good phase 3 has been).

Brie Larson was excellent. Her character is a bit arrogant and hotheaded. Sarcastic and dry as well. The mid credits scene was amazing, my entire theatre erupted at the end of it.
As a whole, the movie was undoubtedly better than Wonder Woman. Not perfect by any means, some moments were a bit meandering, but it didn't ever just peter out the way WW did during the final act at any point.

Highlights


I see the largest criticisms being that Danver's is a dry, sarcastic character, the girl power themes (they don't reduce the film at all imo), and Danver's final power level being "too high".

On the last bit.

 Ouze wrote:
Are there indeed 2 post credits sequences? No spoilers, I just want to know if I should hang around.

Yep. Mid-credits is plot-relevant, post-credits is just a joke scene if you want to get out early.


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As for the movie itself IMO it's a pretty generic but well executed superhero film, about what you'd expect from the MCU at this point. Nothing too bad to criticize, but nothing terribly innovative either. But as a pilot I'm fangirling so hard over her origin story.

Got me a free Odeon ticket, which I'll be using tomorrow!

Rather looking forward to this.

Presumably we have to talk in spoiler tags incase someone who hasn't seen Captain Marvel clicks on the Captain Marvel thread somehow not expecting to see people talking about Captain Marvel in the Captain Marvel thread that's about Captain Marvel?

My chief complaint is the fight scene on the cruiser when she goes up against the Kree. Like the very first thing she does is throw a dude into a Jukebox, but the music started like five or ten seconds before that. Hitting the jukebox should have caused the music to start playing. Total missed opportunity.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Presumably we have to talk in spoiler tags incase someone who hasn't seen Captain Marvel clicks on the Captain Marvel thread somehow not expecting to see people talking about Captain Marvel in the Captain Marvel thread that's about Captain Marvel?

Yes, thats standard practice.

There's a difference between general chit chat, mentioning scenes, and giving away twists.

So spoiler tags pls

I got to see this for free at a midnight showing (Movie theater owner is a friend who owed me a favor).

My honest review: It's a Marvel Movie. Followed a somewhat set template.

The CGI was a bit choppy in a couple places, but that's happened in other MCU movies too (Iron Man in Civil War).

Compared to other Marvel movies in quality, I'd put it just above The Incredible Hulk, and below Thor: The Dark World.

Really liked it. Slow burner to begin with, but Larson was fun to watch throughout and had great chemistry with Samuel L Jackson.

The bit where her powers finally click into top gear was a proper cinema goosebumps moment for me. Helps that I'm a fan of that No Doubt song.

Hopefully the movie can smash through the senseless online negativity that has preceded it. It certainly deserves to.

Oh, by the way, the opening “Marvel” intro was very nice and well done.

So basically...ignore the trolls online and enjoy a fun movie? RT audience numbers are low, critics are high. Sounds like I'll just go and enjoy a fun movie. Plus, seeing Ronan and Korath back on the screen again should be fun!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So basically...ignore the trolls online and enjoy a fun movie? RT audience numbers are low, critics are high. Sounds like I'll just go and enjoy a fun movie. Plus, seeing Ronan and Korath back on the screen again should be fun!

Ignore the RT "fan reviews." If you actually read through them, it sure looks like a lot of the negative ones were written by people who haven't actually seen it. No detail other than what you would get off the trailers.

For full disclosure I have no interest in seeing this film, I am just not a fan of the hit thats been put on it before its even out.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Presumably we have to talk in spoiler tags incase someone who hasn't seen Captain Marvel clicks on the Captain Marvel thread somehow not expecting to see people talking about Captain Marvel in the Captain Marvel thread that's about Captain Marvel?

This makes sense the opening weekend / first week or so of a movie release, when you get people going into the thread just wanting to see if the movie was any good or not (and nothing else).

It's, uh, a little harder to justify when people complain about a movie that has been out 6 months, let alone stuff like Game of Thrones - bruh, you had like 20 years to read the book.

I quite enjoyed it, would definitely recommend it.

I had read a lot of criticism that Brie was wooden or without emotion but I thought she came across as pretty relatable.

Also hope that Goose gets his own movie.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So basically...ignore the trolls online and enjoy a fun movie? RT audience numbers are low, critics are high. Sounds like I'll just go and enjoy a fun movie. Plus, seeing Ronan and Korath back on the screen again should be fun!

Yes, if you have liked recent Marvel output, I don't see why you wouldn't enjoy this.

 Souleater wrote:
I quite enjoyed it, would definitely recommend it.

I had read a lot of criticism that Brie was wooden or without emotion but I thought she came across as pretty relatable.

In fairness I had my doubts after trailers, where she looked really wooden...but it worked considerably better in the context of the entire movie. It's quite different from comics Carol Danvers, but I liked it overall, not every superhero needs to be Peterparkeresque wisecrack machine.

Absolutely loved it, though there was a continuity error I'm still kinda scratching my head on

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

Spoiler:

If someone else has a better theory to explain what happens to it between Captain Marvel and Avengers I'd love to hear it

 LordofHats wrote:

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

Spoiler:

If someone else has a better theory to explain what happens to it between Captain Marvel and Avengers I'd love to hear it

Spoiler:

I thought that was found when they found caps body at the end of The First Avenger? Am I imagining that?

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

Spoiler:

If someone else has a better theory to explain what happens to it between Captain Marvel and Avengers I'd love to hear it

Spoiler:

I thought that was found when they found caps body at the end of The First Avenger? Am I imagining that?

Spoiler:

That's how they make it seem, but we can clearly see in Captain Marvel that Fury has the Tesseract for almost 20 years

The Norse people had it
then the Red Skrull
.....well Tony Starks Dad found the tesseract at some point after WW2.(that was the scene underwater)
Then the Kree got it.
then Shield
Then Loki
Then Loki again
Then Thanos

I think that is right

Oh yeah you're right. I forgot about the submersible scene with Tony's dad.

I Gave the movie a b-. It was not on the level of Iron Man 1, AntMan, Avengers 1, Black Panther.

I loved the side characters and hidden comic book geek gems. The main did a satisfactory job. Just nothing to blow you away.

I wish the Kree were Kree super powered foes and not just glowing stick wielders.

It was a very entertaining movie, but near the bottom of the MCU


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If you looked at Alita Battle Angel and how that character dealt with memory loss and compare it to Captain Marvel.....this movie was a much lower sophistication of pulling that aspect off.(and clunkier too)

 admironheart wrote:

.....well Tony Starks Dad found the tesseract at some point after WW2.(that was the scene underwater)

This is correct. Stark found it while looking for Cap in the late 40s early 50s. What happened to it from there over the next 40-50 years is a mystery. But it's a lot of time for a lot of things to happen.

 admironheart wrote:

If you looked at Alita Battle Angel and how that character dealt with memory loss and compare it to Captain Marvel.....this movie was a much lower sophistication of pulling that aspect off.(and clunkier too)

Yikes and I thought Alita dealt with it in an incredibly bad fashion up to the point I was rolling eyes all the time (it didn't help I thought pretty mch all the actors in that movie were terrible). Did it harmed the story severely though?

Rumors have it that Marvel now has two versions of Avengers Infinity War Endgame. They supposedly have an altered version that cuts some scenes with Captain Marvel and replaces her with other Avengers to downplay her somewhat. Which version they end up having as their theatrical release is depending on how well reviewed Captain Marvel is.

Also, rumors state that some of the existing actors have taken issue with Larson.

This film was in the okay-ish category for me. All this makes me wonder if Larson's 7-film contract might be in question.

I doubt that very much. Making alternate versions of a movie would be very expensive, and Infinity War/Endgame were expensive enough as it is.

What Marvel has to ensure is that Carol doesn't beat Thanos down the way Superman curpstomped Steppenwolf.

 AduroT wrote:
My chief complaint is the fight scene on the cruiser when she goes up against the Kree. Like the very first thing she does is throw a dude into a Jukebox, but the music started like five or ten seconds before that. Hitting the jukebox should have caused the music to start playing. Total missed opportunity.

I think fear of being seen as copying GoTG is what stopped the music in this film being used diegetically. It's a shame really, because so many of the great songs in the film were just "Here! 90's song! Geddit!" with, I think, only one song playing on the radio (when Carol and Fury first approach the plane Maria is working on).

I still smiled every time a new song started playing, but they could have melded them into the movie a bit more without stealing GotG shtick.