You could maybe make a case for the Scarlet Witch.
Well, she kinda did in the big CGI blur that served as the third act climax.
(Still can’t believe they missed a chance for a Zeppelin fight there. How do you make a movie set during WWI and not have a Zeppelin fight?)
Why have a fight in a Zeppelin when you can have it in a parking lot?
Naah, she’s the same psi powerset as, say, Jean Grey in X-Men, not what I’d call “multi-superpowered”
That wasn’t fighting “ugly aliens”, though. AFAIR, when fighting ugly aliens (whether parademons or Doomsday) she’s just using super strength (I’m including her bracelet blasts in that), not actual flying and blasting.
Reviews are coming in,
Io9 likes it: Captain Marvel Review: Brie Larson Stands Tall as a Superhero
A French website did not: First Captain Marvel Review: Cold, Disappointment, Unworthy | Cosmic Book News
Meh. What do the French know about cinema?
91% with 68 reviews in at Rotten Tomatoes. Excited to see it on Sunday.
Even the spousal unit, who generally hates super-hero movies, is semi-stoked to see this one. Mainly for Goose, but that will suffice.
86% sounds about right to me.
Just based on the trailers, the movie doesn’t look all that particularly good, but, of course, even Marvel’s misses are better than most movies.
When this current iteration of the MCU is all said and done I feel it’s going to live in the middle. It’s not Iron Man 2 or Thor 2, but it’s no Winter Soldier either.
Curiously enough, this was the first Captain Marvel title I ever read. Appalling nonsense.
To be honest, the early Billy Bateson stuff (and the 1968 green-and-white Marr-Vell) were pretty poor as well. The first good iteration was the revamp by Roy Thomas, imho.
I guess it says a lot about the quality of the MCU when being around 90% on RT is considered “Medium.”
Also, I recently rewatched Iron Man 2 and I really liked it. There were some definite missteps, but it was a lot of fun. Thor 2 is still pretty boring.
Just watched Captain Marvel. It’s good, and fun, but it didn’t hit me in the right places. It’s like if you take the lesser scenes from Guardians of the Galaxy and combine them with the lesser scenes of Captain America. There’s something in there, almost peeking out, but they never quite find it.
I got a ticket to a fan premiere event tomorrow at my local AMC theater. I’ve never been to anything like that—I rarely see movies on opening weekend. I hope I can get out of work early enough to make it on time. I have no idea what they will do.
So they didn’t do this story from the comics?
I just got back from seeing this on the giant IMAX and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Honestly I hadn’t really been *that *psyched for it (I’m not really a big Marvel fan) but I had a great time!
It was a pretty good movie. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay past the credits. Was there something I missed?
Heh. In our sold out theater of 500 people I think *maybe *less than 5 people left before the end of the credits.
The mid-credits scene
took place after the end of Infinity War and showed Captain Marvel returning from the distress call Fury sent out at the end of that film.
The after-credits scene
was Goose the cat horking up the Tessaract on Fury’s empty desk, in what looked to also be post-Infinity War.
Eyebrows 0f Doom said:
The after-credits scene
was Goose the cat horking up the Tessaract on Fury’s empty desk, in what looked to also be post-Infinity War.
Yeah, that was totally unbelievable, because…
…any self-respecting cat would have located absolutely vital paperwork to puke on. Or priceless artwork, a Persian rug, etc.
lol spoiler 2 is soooo true…