Since Disney now owns Marvel, that opens up an interesting possibilty.
I bought tickets! I’m going 2 nights in a row. On Thursday the 7th I’ll see it in 2D at the Navy Pier IMAX (a REAL IMAX), and the next night I’ll see it in 3D at Block 37 Dine In. Thank you AMC A*List! I’m so excited. Thanks everyone for all the background info
Oh man, I would be down for that. There may be one big difference between That Cat From Outer Space and Captain Marvel’s Cat though:
Captain Marvel’s Cat
So…her cat is outwardly a horrible demon from outer space as opposed to regular cats who are just horrible demons from outer space…but keep it quiet?
Also, thank you for the “first look” thing Marvel. That was the first trailer that made me think this movie actually looked GOOD.
Showed during last night’s game. I wasn’t as impressed with it as with the prior trailer.
Captain Marvel Featurette. A behind-the-scenes look at the movie. Brie Larson is smiling!
Marvel’s new Captain Marvel website has a “retro” look:
I bought a ticket for opening weekend and I saw a trailer for it recently. One question, though. I think the trailer described Captain Marvel as the most powerful of the Marvel characters. Is that correct?
And I never read the comics, so I went to Wikipedia to catch up. I was amused that the upcoming DC superhero movie is about Shazam, who is also called Captain Marvel, although I’ll bet that will never get mentioned in the DC movie, because that would be way too confusing.
I’ll give it 9/10 but it got dinged a point for lacking an animated “Under Construction” workman sign gif.
That’s a loaded question, presuming you mean in the source comics. To clarify, and presuming we’re excluding ‘cosmic’ entities, short answer is no, with a but:
As Ms Marvel/Captain Marvel/Warbird she’s certainly up there in power terms, but definitely not the most powerful.
In her Binary incarnation, she is easily within that top echelon of ‘most powerful’ characters.
My problem with the trailer - well, I hjave a lot of problems, but this is the biggest one - is that for the great, great majority of people, who don’t know anything about Captain Marvel, the heroine appears to have an unlimited set of powers. She can fly, and is super strong, and lasers shoot out of her eyes and phasers out of her hands and there’s electric stuff. What the hell is her superpower?
So she’s going to be this incredibly multi-superpowered lady who fights ugly aliens. Meh, it’s been done.
For the movies, yes.
And no unrelenting midi song playing.
You know, it really makes me feel old to see the '90s as a time when things can be set. By my standards, it’s just part of the broad range of “around now”.
Time for us nouveau-geezers to get used to the idea. There are children who were born after the first Harry Potter book was published that can now legally purchase alcohol.
you take that back - you take that back RIGHT NOW.
It has? In a recent movie? Which one?
I wouldn’t count* Wonder Woman* in the DC movies, she doesn’t really have the same flight+blasting powerset. Supergirl, sure, but that’s TV.
Almost every movie has been done. That’s not a predictor of whether a movie will be good.
Was the world screaming for Jason Bourne or John Wick or Ethan Hunt? Those are all pretty much the same concept.
I’m not a fan of most of those movies, either. “Mission: Impossible” movies are reliably entertaining, but forgettable.
I LIKE most Marvel movies, I just don’t get the drooling anticipation. They are reliably well-structured punchfests. There is something to be said for that.
Who’s the biggest movie star who hasn’t yet been in a Marvel movie? I guess Tom Hanks.
Okay. But that’s a different point. “It’s been done before” isn’t a strong criticism of concept. Remember Roger Ebert — whether a movie is good isn’t based on what it’s about but how it’s about what it’s about.