Right. Jude Law kept telling her that the Kree had given her her power and could take it away.
As did the Supreme Intelligence.
Anyway, I thought it was Bening who stole the show, not Mendelsohn, though he was excellent.
Am I the only one who wanted her to stick with that neon look?
I certainly hope so.
With the fiery mohawk? I loved it, and it “went” with the 90s punk/riot grrl callouts in the movie.
RE: the toast controversy: Isn’t the simplest explanation that Fury has aged about 20 years between CM and Ultron and has grown out of his thing about triangular bread? You know, the same way we all change as we age.
It kinda bugs me that no only did nobody call her “Captain Marvel”, the actual name of the movie, but also there is no reason for anyone to ever call her that and specific reasons not to (“My name is Carol Danvers!” and “It’s pronounced Mar-vell, two different words”.
That’s just continuing and extending the trend of “superheroes don’t use code names.” That’s how it’s going to be for now. I don’t mind it. A story’s title or the name of a series can just be a description. A character doesn’t have to be addressed that way in-world.
It’s not though. It’s literally naming the movie after another character, “Mar-Vell”, while also inexplicably expecting us to think of the main character as “Captain Marvel” for no apparent reason besides it being the movie title.
As I said earlier, it would be as though Tony Stark’s old piano tutor was named Iro Nman so let’s call this movie (and Stark) “Iron Man”.
Kevin Smith reacts to Stan Lee’s cameo: https://youtu.be/2j0gsV9J7Ts
Everyone else uses their code name though, or their name in case of Thor and Dr. Strange.
Look, if you really care about this then go that’s your worry, I guess. I think it works fine the way they handled it. In a genre that is ripe with reboots, retcons, continuity faults, I’m happy to go with it. This is a fantasy genre, just go with the flow. The title of a movie isn’t in-world, so there’s no problem here, so far as I’m concerned. It’s just a label for a series.
One of my favorite movie series was called the Pink Panther. The star of the series was a character called Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The only in-story “character” named the Pink Panther was a MacGuffin in the first movie that was never mentioned again. Each movie began with a cartoon featuring the Saturday morning cartoon character the Pink Panther who had nothing to do with the story.
Works for me.
You seem to keep skipping the fact that it’s a nonsensical label as presented in the film.
Maybe no one calls Natasha “Black Widow” but it’s no stretch to figure out that fighting woman in black with red is probably the person “Black Widow” refers to. More importantly, no one else is named Black Widow. In contrast, not only is there a Mar-Vell in Captain Marvel but they even have a scene where Fury is saying “Hey, let’s call her Marvel instead!” – referring to a completely different person than the hero. A hero who we are, for some reason, now supposed to think of as “Captain Marvel”.
It’s dumb and poorly executed. And maybe you’re okay with dumb and poorly executed but that doesn’t actually make it better.
Specially when they had a perfect set up with her calling the little girl “Lt. Trouble”.
It was too TRON for me.
Also the “really care about this” jab is silly. We’re talking about it here because this is the thread to talk about it. I doubt anyone is shaking their fists or interrupting family dinners over it. No one is even saying it made the movie terrible. People are just saying it was dumb and poorly executed.
And I disagree. I think it was clever and well-executed. I chuckled. It nodded to comic-book continuity … Carol Danvers inherited the Captain Marvel legacy from a line that included a Kree called “Mar-Vell.” It was a feint. “Hey, here’s where we’re tying in that whole thing with this movie, but, surprise, no one thinks (yet?) of calling Carol ‘Captain Marvel.’”
It works for me.
I didn’t make a “jab” or mock anyone for talking about the issue. I just think you’re wrong. I don’t consider this a knock against the movie at all.
Just to be clear I did love the movie, that was just one minor thing that jumped out at me.
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The implication is also that since she can do that, if she were a Skrull, he’d be dead already.
Not entirely.
The phrase “too TRON” does not compute.