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Lance845 wrote: Im fine with peoples thoughts and feelings about the trailer. I just think its bizarre to have critiques about the number of smiles in a movie at least partially about a war.
Nobody asks why tony wasnt smiling in the im3 trailer or cap in civil war. Your opinions are good to hear Gorgon. But those kinds of opinions are nonsense.
yep the smile thing is nonsense.
Still think she was miscast though, she lacks personality and seems very boring, I hope she surprises me though, this is pretty much the same thing I thought with Batfleck, and while he did an ok job, he was still the wrong choice for the role.
It's been my experience that casting is pretty low on the list of things that go wrong on a film and when it does, its almost always when they go for a "hot" name for the role over anything else. It wasn't that long ago that the internet was awash in comments about how impossible it was for Gal Gadot to pull off Wonder Woman. More often than not its the castings that fans are exited for that actually fail miserably.
Still think she was miscast though, she lacks personality and seems very boring
Isn't this the same thing?
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LunarSol wrote: It's been my experience that casting is pretty low on the list of things that go wrong on a film and when it does, its almost always when they go for a "hot" name for the role over anything else
Did you watch Valerian? I say that both leads were badly miscast.
I think Brie Larson was a fine choice for Captain Marvel, even if she's no Mar-Vell...
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying its rapidly dropped down my list of reasons why a movie fails behind things like directing, studio tampering, etc.
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Sure, hence Valerian as the example. The movie had great visuals from a lavish budget, without obvious studio meddling. Besson can certainly direct. But the leads could have been cast better, particularly the titular Valerian.
Still think she was miscast though, she lacks personality and seems very boring
Isn't this the same thing?
Nope, the smile thing is just nitpicking, lacking personality and being boring is a critique of brie larson as an actress, every film i have seen her in she has the same issue, but lets see if she has the same problem in this movie, like i said before ben afleck surprised me, but still think he was a bad choice.
LunarSol wrote: It's been my experience that casting is pretty low on the list of things that go wrong on a film and when it does, its almost always when they go for a "hot" name for the role over anything else
Did you watch Valerian? I say that both leads were badly miscast.
I think Brie Larson was a fine choice for Captain Marvel, even if she's no Mar-Vell...
I didn't think Cara Delevingne was especially great, nor especially poor. She did... adequately.
But hoo boy, Dane DeHaan just had absolutely zero screen presence, none. No charisma whatsoever. The whole subplot about her wanting to marry him seems bizarre because his appeal seemed nonexistent.
I thought he was OK in Chronicle so maybe it was just a one-off, but looking through his IMDB page he's been in a few movies I've seen and I don't remember him in any of them so... maybe not.
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LunarSol wrote: It's been my experience that casting is pretty low on the list of things that go wrong on a film and when it does, its almost always when they go for a "hot" name for the role over anything else
Did you watch Valerian? I say that both leads were badly miscast..
I didn't think Cara Delevingne was especially great, nor especially poor. She did... adequately.
But hoo boy, Dane DeHaan just had absolutely zero screen presence, none. No charisma whatsoever. The whole subplot about her wanting to marry him seems bizarre because his appeal seemed nonexistent.
I thought he was OK in Chronicle so maybe it was just a one-off, but looking through his IMDB page he's been in a few movies I've seen and I don't remember him in any of them so... maybe not.
The girl was passable, very pretty (like in Suicide Squad), but nothing special. Not like Milla as Leeloo.
The kid was terrible, zero edge, no charisma. Not believable at all, neither as an action star, nor as a love interest, nor as a philanderer. So far from Willis as Dallas.
Which is too bad, because you get such a glorius opening montage...
Lance845 wrote: Im fine with peoples thoughts and feelings about the trailer. I just think its bizarre to have critiques about the number of smiles in a movie at least partially about a war.
Nobody asks why tony wasnt smiling in the im3 trailer or cap in civil war. Your opinions are good to hear Gorgon. But those kinds of opinions are nonsense.
yep the smile thing is nonsense.
Still think she was miscast though, she lacks personality and seems very boring, I hope she surprises me though, this is pretty much the same thing I thought with Batfleck, and while he did an ok job, he was still the wrong choice for the role.
It could be argued that critiquing a lack of smiling is simple misogyny as women in modern western society are always expected to smile and be happy no matter the circumstances.
Galactic war? Not smiling enough!
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JohnHwangDD wrote: Which is too bad, because you get such a glorius opening montage...
... and it's basically all downhill from there.
Yes. With this we should probably end this digression, but I was very excited for this movie, and I strongly agree, the opening was amazing. That was about all that was amazing, though.
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...an interview with directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck in which they were asked about what sort of tone fans should expect from the Marvel Studios movie. Quizzed on where it lands between the darker nature of Avengers: Infinity War and the goofy Ant-Man and The Wasp, the filmmakers explained that it's very much its own thing.
"We approached this movie as being, at the heart of it, this mystery of self-identity for Captain Marvel," Anna explained. "It has a lot of playfulness in it, and that kind of buddy-cop vibe that Captain Marvel has with the Nick Fury character was really an important touchstone for us."
"Yeah," Ryan agreed. "Like the '80s and '90s buddy-cop movies, like 48 Hrs. or Lethal Weapon. We have some of that. Those movies, even the serious ones, they have a really terrific sense of humor, and we wanted to maintain that as well."
The latest trailer does certainly seem to show this...
Again ... never under estimate Disney... Good or bad....
Spoiler:
But apparently the Captain marvel toy line will include Grey Gargoyle .. Not sure if he is in the movie but
We are starting to see members of the masters of evil show up so maybe a story line there also...
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Every time they release the toy line batches they include comic versions and comic characters that are not in the movies. Winter Soldiers batch of figures included serpent society members. I would pay that no mind.
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Lance845 wrote: Every time they release the toy line batches they include comic versions and comic characters that are not in the movies. Winter Soldiers batch of figures included serpent society members. I would pay that no mind.
The toy lines to watch out for for spoilers are the funko pops. Those will ruin you.
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Personally, I'm still underwhelmed, just because so far it feels like most Marvel solo intro films. "Hard-bitten bad-a** warrior crashes on Earth and rediscovers her humanity" seems like only a slightly reformulated Stark/Strange/etc. "self-centered jerk has crisis and discovers the meaning of heroism" story. *shrug*
My initial thought is it's rather the opposite; Iron Man, Captain America and Doctor Strange all had an ordinary person learn what it takes to become a hero. In this, it looks like the hero needs to remember what being a person is.
That's my thought. Brainwashed super soldier has to learn to relate to normal humans, and in doing so she finds out how bad she was brainwashed and used, so cuts ties to stick with the humans.
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AegisGrimm wrote: That's my thought. Brainwashed super soldier has to learn to relate to normal humans, and in doing so she finds out how bad she was brainwashed and used, so cuts ties to stick with the humans.
I assume it ends with her somehow back in space. Returning to the Kree to find a better way or some other thing. On the way back to earth to respond to Fury's page, she'll run across Tony adrift in space to put her in the plot of Endgame proper.
So if Brie Larson is a miscast Captain Marvel, who would be a good pick for Carol Danvers? And I do agree that Brie Larson is one of the blandest actors in Hollywood. I don't understand her appeal at all.
I think Emily Blunt or Charlize Theron would have crushed it. They've both proven that they can play military personnel and/or bad asses. Larson just doesn't fit at all. There's like a laundry list I would've picked before her.
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Brie Larson might be just fine - we won't know until we watch the movie. Charlize is kinda old for the role? Sometimes better to just pick someone new.
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