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latest controversial comic book movie Captain Marvel was directed by Anna Boden
and Ryan Fleck the team behind the criminally underrated half-nelson really
great indie film if you've never seen that strongly suggest you check that one out that one's
really really good and Marvel has had a really good track history with taking
directors and writers who are primarily from an indie background and putting
them in this universe and letting them shine so I was really excited to see what
this team could bring to this story and here the MCU finally is introduced to
Carol Danvers played by brie Larson she learns about her past she discovers who
she is and she finds herself caught in the middle of a war between two alien
race sand realizes she's more powerful than she ever knew she knew I feel
like a lot of reviews are going to say this but I'm going to say it anyway
because it's on my mind there's a lot of hype surrounding this movie from two
different groups some people really want the film to fail and some people
really want the film to succeed for various reasons it seems like a lot of
agendas are involved with this movie which is something that's becoming very
common now for Marvel films I just want to see a good film I don't care if it
fails I don't care if it succeeds I want to see a well-made film made by people
who respect the art form who are trying to tell a good story that communicates
a good message to the people who are going to see this movie whether that's for
girls who don't usually get the chance to see a female hero on screen or your an average audience member who just wants to be entertained and Captain Marvel is
entertaining in spurts there are sequences throughout the first act and second an act that I thought was really well done namely the chemistry between brie
Larson and Samuell Jackson as a younger Nick Fury their arguments were clever
they were funny both of them played really well off of each other there was a
fish out of water scenario once Carol Danvers is on earth it reminded me a little bit of Terminator 2you promised me we're gonna kill anybody why because
you just can't why because you just can't okay it's not that exaggerated or
anything but there were scenes where she does things that are normal to her and
people are looking at her like what
the hell what is going on here and that was
really entertaining also one of the most praiseworthy elements of this film is
the truly groundbreaking CGI de-aging work that was done to Samuel l
Jackson and Clark Gregg it's stunning after the first few scenes I didn't even
notice anymore it just blended into the background which is what the best CGI
does the best computer-generated stuff is the stuff you don't even notice
that's when a CGI artist has truly met their goal when their work is so
seamless that it doesn't even capture your attention necessarily it just
becomes part of this world and that is just we're in the future we're in the
fucking future it is insane what they've done here really amazing CGI work I also
liked aspects of the opening moments you have Jude Law and her training you
have this fight scene where she has these metal brace son her hands and she's
trying to break them by busting her hand against a spaceship wall and them
won't shatter so she just has to punch people really fucking hard to try to get
these things off of her hands that was a badass scene probably my favorite the fight scene in the movie I also like the musical score it felt different from
other Marvel films there was an electronic hue to it I guess it was most akin
to Thor Ragnarok score perhaps and goose the cat I like cats I
don't know what else to say the cat was fucking cool but I got to be honest I
thought this was a pretty bland and disappointing movie otherwise especially
visually the film doesn't have much of a style this is something that was very
disappointing to me because you look at a movie like Thor Ragnarok that Taika
Waititi directed or James Gunn's work on the gardens the galaxy or the Russo
brothers and they're a very visceral intense style that they've brought to their
Marvel films you have come to expect something of a Marvel movie of the style of
feel of voice I didn't experience any of those things in Captain Marvel this the film felt like a series of setups where the actors are in frame and they're
performing and they were captured on film doing something but there's no visual
style to it it's a very bland looking movie very dark and murky there's a fight the scene in a spaceship where it's this very dark area with white lights on the
wall and a pop song is playing won't spoil it for you although the song choice
I thought was particularly obvious and I couldn't tell what was going on I
legitimately could not tell who was who there were a few shots where you could
see close-ups and you're like oh okay so that's Captain Marvel oh okay that's
the other person could not tell what was going on besides that opening sequence
where she has those metal braces on her fists there is not a single memorable
fight in this movie not just from a visual perspective but from a choreography perspective
we've come to expect more out of a Marvel film than this feels like a phase
one almost and that's not a disservice to Iron Man there was a feel to those
early Marvel movies that felt like they were still sort of figuring out what
they were doing kind of like Captain America the First Avenger but even those
films Jon Johnston had a visual flair and a style it felt like a Joe Johnston
film it felt like the filmmaker who made the Rocketeer made the First Avenger
when it comes to this movie I can't tell who directed it doesn't feel like it has any real voice of its
own even from a storytelling perspective the film comes off very messy this is
a big risk whenever you have a character that has elements of their past they
can't remember and they're trying to piece together a movie like The Bourne Identity
I think did that really well because we have someone and we just see who they
are now and they slowly learn who they used to be and it was told in a very
interesting way because we find out who Jason Bourne used to be through his actions
when he grabs that flashlight that a guard tries to smack him with and then he
just takes him out in a second through those actions you're like oh okay this guy
used to be something fucking badass in this movie though we learn of carol
Danvers pasts more through audio and quick flashes of things that may have
happened to her before she goes to this realm and visits this intelligence and
is supposed to show her what she most desires and that arc feels really wasted
in the movie, by the way,
I won't get into it because it's spoilers but whenever
you have a character like Carol Danvers with a fragmented asked it can be very
difficult to tell this story in a way that feels cohesive while also having her
punch things every10 minutes in a really entertaining way it also doesn't seem
to know what it stone is or what its messages there's 90s nostalgia for like
10minutes and then it's sort of a buddy cop movie between her and Nick Fury and
then it's kind of a movie about sisterhood between her and one of her past
friends and those scenes were really kind of cute and adorable and heartwarming
if there was more of an emotional pull to them that I actually felt and I just
didn't feel it felt very forced and
there just wasn't enough backstory or information to really give a shit about
those characters then the main villains in the films are Scrolls they can
shape-shift they can turn into anybody they can make themselves look like
anyone as long as they've seen that person this makes for one of the most entertaining
chase sequences in the film with Nick Fury on the road trying to catch up to a train that Captain Marvel is trying to infiltrate because there's an old lady
that we've all seen the trailers one of the better scenes in the movie for sure
but they really wasted a lot of the potential that they could have done with
these Scrolls in shape-shifting into different things and creating an air of
mystery and deception it's a few scenes where they use that to their advantage
but it just sorts of disappears really quickly and another story is put in its a place that also doesn't really feel owned or warranted but I think the biggest the issue with this film is really not what I wanted to say and I mean this
honestly, I am sad to say that
I feel like brie Larson just did not do a great
job in the movie she is definitely trying super hard to be a good Captain
Marvel and a good Carol Danvers she's giving a lot of dedication to this role
and I do not know if it is the direction or her choices but her character is so so
wooden this is a fish-out-of-water scenario this is somebody who doesn't know
what's going on who reacts to things differently we've seen that in Thor we've
seen it as I said Terminator 2 all of those movies played those scenes for
comedy and it made those characters more likable here it feels like the movie
is almost afraid to make light of Carol Danvers character or show a hint of the vulnerability of human emotion which led to a performance that felt uneven to
me I think brie Larson is crazy talented as an actress and I really do think
they have set up great potential I'm excited to see what else they can do with
this role and brie Larson in the future I'm excited to see a more fleshed-out version
of this character now that this film has been established it just feels like a
stepping stone movie it doesn't feel like that incredibly powerful film that a
lot of us wanted to see it just feels like filler leading to other things
featuring Captain Marvel which is one of the most disappointing elements of the movie is it entertaining at times absolutely will people watch the movie and
find enjoyment in it of course but as someone who has seen multiple Marvel films
now I expect way more out of them I'm gonna give Captain Marvel a see guys
thank you let me know what you think of Captain Marvel if you do see it I'm
curious to see how this one pans out for audiences and fans alike thank you so
much guys as always for looking forward and if you like this you can comments
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