Didn't people complain for the gender bender of the Ancient One in Doctor Strange too? Or it was the whitewashing? Or both?
Or is it the fact that Tilda Swinton is a legit space alien who has managed to pass as human? (Seriously, she's not even bothering with her usual human wig!)
Yeah, I got all that; I just didn't find it very compelling. The movie underplays the arc too, IMO, as Carol never seems particularly shocked or haunted by the possibly innocent lives she's presumably taken offscreen, and when she turns against Jude Law, she only seems mildly peeved at him.
And the whole hero-realizes-that-she's-working-for-the-bad-guys-and-switches-sides isn't even unique for female MCU heroes, since we've already got Gamora, Nebula, Mantis, Scarlet Witch, and maybe even Valkyrie depending upon how much you classify the Grandmaster as a villain.
Maybe it wasn’t made for you and that’s why it’s not connecting.
And just who, pray tell, is the movie made for? Seriously, let's spell it out.
If the implication is supposed to be that the movie is made for women, then why was the audience something like 60% men? I think that, while it's true that movies can be made for a certain audience, it's more a matter of genre, not gender.
But the end goal is to just get rid of the scary lady who attacked all men by saying we should have more female movie reviewers.
Brie Larson has referred to white men in a way that, if she were speaking about any other identity group, would have been immediately condemned as hate speech. Her goal may be merely more diversity but that's not how she said it. If she had some women and minority critics whose work she wanted to promote, by all means go for it. But a lot of people seem to think that promoting diversity is too hard, so they just settle for denigrating white men and figure, "Meh, basically the same thing. Good enough."
Why did Come as You Are by Nirvana play in Carole's Supreme Intelligence vision despite the song being released in 1992, three years after she left Earth meaning she would have no knowledge of it?
Also, didn't she have a flashback in the bar of playing
Street Fighter II, a game that didn't come out until after she left Earth?
Overall, the movie was a mediocre Marvel effort. I don't think that the 1990s aesthetic was enough of a hook to hang the movie on. Brie Larson had some decent bits, mostly with Maria, but seems to have very little screen charisma compared to the rest of the MCU. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelssohn are fairly entertaining, although reducing Nick Fury's eye to a joke was very disappointing. Jude Law is normally one of my favorite actors but seemed to be a non-presence here. "Just a Girl" was a bit on the nose but at least it's not as clichéd and overused as "Bad Reputation."
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