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Spoilers Captain Marvel - Grading & Discussion

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Even though Us dethroned Captain Marvel for the weekend with nearly double the gross, Captain Marvel is now in the top 10 for MCU films after just 24 days. The next big milestone will be one billion dollars globally and that shouldn't take too much more time (it's at $910.3 million at the moment).
 
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Even though Us dethroned Captain Marvel for the weekend with nearly double the gross, Captain Marvel is now in the top 10 for MCU films after just 24 days. The next big milestone will be one billion dollars globally and that shouldn't take too much more time (it's at $910.3 billion at the moment).
Million, I'm sure Disney would be praying at Brie and Anna's feet if it were 910 billion.
 
The RLM guys made a criticism of the movie I noticed also: that, from the start of the movie, long before she regains her memories and sense of self, Danvers acts like a modern American woman, tossing off quips and generally being blasé. Given that her actual character arc (from someone who doesn't remember her past, to someone who does, but is perfectly happy to leave her homeworld indefinitely without bothering to check up on anyone apart from a friend and her daughter) is pretty flat, had she started with a more alien and haughty/theatrical demeanor, her performance might have been rather more interesting. Maybe Marvel thought that'd be too reminiscent of Thor's evolution from the haughty Asgardian of his first movie to the casual quipster of Ragnarok/Infinity War, but, still. As the RLM guys point out, Fury has the more dramatic character arc, and more growth, than the title character.

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The RLM guys made a criticism of the movie I noticed also: that, from the start of the movie, long before she regains her memories and sense of self, Danvers acts like a modern American woman, tossing off quips and generally being blasé.
Well, it's not just this movie's fault, but more a trope of sci-fi movie/tv genre where aliens behave exactly as Earthers. American Earthers.
 
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The first female led film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Vers, a member of the Kree Starforce, goes on a journey of self discovery when she pursues Skrull infiltrators to Earth. She finds that there is a lot more to know; about herself, about the Kree, and about the Skrulls than she wanted to know. It is also about Nick Fury, Agent of SHEILD, finding out that there is a lot more to the world than he expected, when he runs into Vers after she lands on Earth. Both of these plot-threads are well done, with plenty of hints throughout.
Although the teasing about Fury's eye was a little on the nose. No, it wouldn't be via a car accident. The first act, on Hala and on a contested border world was a rather good introduction to Vers and the world she has lived in since her rescue. (But was it really a rescue?) The world building of the Kree was rather well done. And the roles of the Supreme Intelligence and Yon-Rogg were established very well, effectively setting up their roles at the end of the film. The scene with the Skrull leader, Talos, after Vers' capture was also well done.
As was the sequence were she escapes from their clutches and lands in Los Angeles. The introduction of the younger Fury and Coulson was also up to par. But that's an aside. Fury's incredulity at the situation was portrayed very well. That Fury would help Vers in her quest to chase the Skrulls and find out her identity was believable. The hints were very well done. The scenes at Project Pegasus were appropriately tense. The revelation that Vers was actually Carol Danvers, an airforce pilot didn't come out of nowhere.
But had been hinted at throughout the film. The scenes in Louisiana, at the Rambeau's residence were excellently written and acted. Very believable. As is the twist that comes soon after. That the Kree aren't the good guys that Danvers thought they were, and that the Skrull's are refugees looking for a home. (I didn't really expect to see that. Or to find that her powers actually come from the Space Stone via some experimental Kree technology.) In any case the final scenes where she remembers her past and comes into herself, were very well done.
Certainly a good way to write a strong female character Her last line to Von-Rogg was very on point. 9.5/10.
 
Saw it tonight. An A from me, I saw the twist early on since Jude Law tends to play sexy but dodgy rogues in his roles. Love the cat, Goose for President!
 
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So she showed evidence of her old personality all along? I'm not seeing the problem. Her brain wasn't totally wiped to begin with, or otherwise she'd never have remembered anything at all.
Plot-wise, it indeed makes sense. But, in the context of her minimal character arc (she doesn't really evolve, just changes sides), it makes for a not very interesting or charismatic performance. IMHO.
 
:cardie: Holy idiotic Rule 63, Batman. Yeah, its not Mar-Vell if the character is a woman. You can change the race of a character with generally no real effect, but gender swapping does just make it a different character, full stop. Also, while I removed it from the quote, good job using the term "triggered" like you're the kind of 13 year old troll who hates on female lead stuff like this.
It's simply shocking to see you have this opinion.
 
What? K5 writing a diatribe over an irrelevancy? Say it ain't so!
To be fair I am not a fan of these arbitrary changes from comics, but what the hell. I am over it. Certainly not worth writing over and over and over and over to a bunch of strangers.
 
I fail to see, how the story would have changed in any significant way, if Mar-Vell had been male.

This complaining about gender switching (especially for an alien race) is a little bizarre to me. It would have been a more profound change if Lawson had been a human scientist, wouldn't it? And for comics purists, shouldn't the big issue be that Captain Marvel wasn't Lawson first? The complaint seems entirely arbitrary at least, and appears misogynistic as the argument has been written.
 
This complaining about gender switching (especially for an alien race) is a little bizarre to me. It would have been a more profound change if Lawson had been a human scientist, wouldn't it? And for comics purists, shouldn't the big issue be that Captain Marvel wasn't Lawson first? The complaint seems entirely arbitrary at least, and appears misogynistic as the argument has been written.
And it's not like the other MCU movies were perfectly faithful adaptation of the comics...
 
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