Brie Larson the frontrunner for Captain Marvel - Page 28

*ZariusTwo* · 03-09-2019, 02:22 PM

*Autbot_Benz* · 03-09-2019, 06:51 PM

I know it probably won't happen in Endgame but I hope Thanos Bitchslaps Captain Marvel so hard she is sent through buildings like in Dragonball Z

*drgon78* · 03-09-2019, 08:27 PM

I would love something like that to happen Autbot_Benz.

**Jester** · 03-09-2019, 08:35 PM

Just read the wikipedia article on the 2nd (and 1st female) Captain Marvel, flippin Monica Rambeau, who is a kid in this movie. Why is she not as well know as Carol? She seems like an interesting character

*Turo602* · 03-09-2019, 09:43 PM

lol

*TigerClaw* · 03-09-2019, 10:12 PM

Saw it today. It was pretty good. Goose is the real MVP of the movie.

*snake* · 03-09-2019, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Just read the wikipedia article on the 2nd (and 1st female) Captain Marvel, flippin Monica Rambeau, who is a kid in this movie. Why is she not as well know as Carol? She seems like an interesting character

Monica is pretty well known to comic fans. I remember her more than the other Captain Marvels (besides Kamela).

*Papenbrook* · 03-09-2019, 11:58 PM

Does anyone have a grasp on Capt. Marv's current box-fice numbers?

*Redeemer* · 03-10-2019, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Papenbrook

Does anyone have a grasp on Capt. Marv's current box-fice numbers?

Yeah its doing really well despite the reviews.

150 MILLION in North America.

*Andrew NDB* · 03-10-2019, 01:22 AM

Saw "Captain Marvel." Pretty good, not great. A lot of... interesting choices with regard to how they told the story (it's not linear, exactly). All of the characters had a good amount to do, even Sam Jackson. Probably 80% of the jokes fell flat, though I'm not quite sure if it's because they just plain weren't funny or if it was because of Brie Larson's fairly dry delivery. It's really impressive the amount of de-aging work done here... I don't think there's been a movie yet where it's there from beginning to end like this. The 3D was also particularly impressive. Always good (and rare!) to come out of a 3D movie and say, "That was worth it!" Because you never know. I remember watching "Tron: Legacy" expecting it to be tailor made for 3D and the 3D was lame as all can be.

I agree that anyone worried about it being a super feminist agenda thing shouldn't worry. I also appreciated that while there was jokes (if again, only about 20% landed... the theater I was in was packed but it was dead silent for the other 80%) the movie itself wasn't trying to be jokey. If "Thor: Ragnarok" is a 10 on the jokey/campy side of things and "Guardians of the Galaxy" is like an 8... "Captain Marvel" is like a 4 or a 3. And that's good.

I would agree with others that it's hard to worry too much about her when...

Spoiler:

*Papenbrook* · 03-10-2019, 03:03 PM

Captain Marvel DEFEATED the trolls!!!!

*Candy Kappa* · 03-10-2019, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Papenbrook

Captain Marvel DEFEATED the trolls!!!!

They're called Skrulls

*neatoman* · 03-10-2019, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Papenbrook

Captain Marvel DEFEATED the trolls!!!!

So I guess this means Marvel Studios learns they can get away with not trying to make decent movies anymore?

**Jester** · 03-10-2019, 03:36 PM

Am I alone in finding the "1st MCU movie to have a female headliner" a bit overdone? Sure, it's true, but there are female led superheroe movies, though to be fair, none but Wonder Woman were actually any good (looking at you Supergirl, Electra, and Catwoman.)

*Autbot_Benz* · 03-10-2019, 03:39 PM

thankfully someone uploaded the Stan Lee Tribute to youtube. Its the Marvel 10 years logo but filled with all of Stan's Cameos. Don't worry Captain Marvel will be forgotten like dust once Endgame Month comes out that will be the talk of the town.

*ZariusTwo* · 03-10-2019, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by neatoman

So I guess this means Marvel Studios learns they can get away with not trying to make decent movies anymore?

They made decent movies to begin with?

(I'm only half-joking)

~~Leo656~~ · 03-10-2019, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

They made decent movies to begin with?

(I'm only half-joking)

I like a few of 'em. I liked the first Iron Man, Captain America and Avengers movies okay. I saw a lot of potential but I wasn't thrilled with the follow-up when everything became a quip-fest with no stakes. After Age of Ultron I just see them on DVR if I'm interested, but too many of them are similar.
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Jester mentioned the Supergirl movie, and frankly I'm shocked that it still has such a poor reputation. It certainly isn't very good, but it's extremely goofy and cheesy. I figured that by now people who like that kind of thing would have embraced it, since that kind of adaptation has become fashionable.

I own it, but it's a slog.

Could've been alright. They really didn't try very hard but the pieces were there.

*ranger_scout* · 03-10-2019, 08:15 PM

I saw the film last night and I thought it was pretty good. I don't think it was the strongest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it was still a solid one. I liked that this was a film set in the 90's since my entire childhood took place during that decade.

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*raph27* · 03-11-2019, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

thankfully someone uploaded the Stan Lee Tribute to youtube. Its the Marvel 10 years logo but filled with all of Stan's Cameos. Don't worry Captain Marvel will be forgotten like dust once Endgame Month comes out that will be the talk of the town.

Just like everyone forgot about Black Panther after Infinity War?

I don't think it's too overblown about this being the first female MCU movie. As you said, the other female-led movies have either been fairly bad or pretty obscure. The Supergirl movie, in particular, is never mentioned outside of niche circles.

As for the movie:

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Overall I liked the film, though it could have been better. I liked Brie as Danvers a lot, though I will admit she didn't have a very fleshed out character arc. Young Nick Fury was great the whole way through, along with just enough bits of Coulson to not feel overdone but still fun to see him again. Yon-Rogg was my favorite new character of the bunch honestly. My biggest disappointments are 1) the climax seemed half-baked, and 2) Ronan was way underused from what I was expecting.

*Autbot_Benz* · 03-11-2019, 01:16 AM

I love when people say on twitter. Why don't people get mad at Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans they have the same Political stance as Brie.

Simple Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans don't use their MCU Press Junkets to push their political agendas like Brie did.

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Autbot_Benz Hellblazer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ventura California Posts: 9,193	I know it probably won't happen in Endgame but I hope Thanos Bitchslaps Captain Marvel so hard she is sent through buildings like in Dragonball Z __________________ I respect what FW cartoon did for the turtles franchise but it is the most overrated and hard to watch of the 3 turtles cartoons.

03-09-2019, 08:35 PM	#544
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,301	Just read the wikipedia article on the 2nd (and 1st female) Captain Marvel, flippin Monica Rambeau, who is a kid in this movie. Why is she not as well know as Carol? She seems like an interesting character __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

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Turo602 The King of Kings Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Chicago Illinois Posts: 2,931	lol __________________

03-09-2019, 10:12 PM	#546
TigerClaw Mutant Tiger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Hialeah, Florida, USA Posts: 14,165	Saw it today. It was pretty good. Goose is the real MVP of the movie. __________________ Follow me on my Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@tygerclaw305

03-09-2019, 08:27 PM	#543
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,409	I would love something like that to happen Autbot_Benz.

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Papenbrook I'm leaving. Goodbye. :) Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: No comment -_- ... Posts: 2,754	Does anyone have a grasp on Capt. Marv's current box-fice numbers?

03-10-2019, 01:22 AM	#550
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,573	Saw "Captain Marvel." Pretty good, not great. A lot of... interesting choices with regard to how they told the story (it's not linear, exactly). All of the characters had a good amount to do, even Sam Jackson. Probably 80% of the jokes fell flat, though I'm not quite sure if it's because they just plain weren't funny or if it was because of Brie Larson's fairly dry delivery. It's really impressive the amount of de-aging work done here... I don't think there's been a movie yet where it's there from beginning to end like this. The 3D was also particularly impressive. Always good (and rare!) to come out of a 3D movie and say, "That was worth it!" Because you never know. I remember watching "Tron: Legacy" expecting it to be tailor made for 3D and the 3D was lame as all can be. I agree that anyone worried about it being a super feminist agenda thing shouldn't worry. I also appreciated that while there was jokes (if again, only about 20% landed... the theater I was in was packed but it was dead silent for the other 80%) the movie itself wasn't trying to be jokey. If "Thor: Ragnarok" is a 10 on the jokey/campy side of things and "Guardians of the Galaxy" is like an 8... "Captain Marvel" is like a 4 or a 3. And that's good. I would agree with others that it's hard to worry too much about her when... Spoiler: ... she unlocks her full powers. Apparently, yeah, she is full-on God Mode... invulnerable with powerful arm blasts and flight able to punch through the hulls of ships, yet she seems to wince with pain when a normal, non-powered person hits her? And she still needs her mask to breathe/survive in space... but only sometimes? I'm not sure what to make of it, but I know that nothing was really presented at the end to make us concerned for her well-being. She just slices up the bad guy fleet with ease and that's that. An interesting -- very strange? -- choice to make the Skrulls into sympathetic refugees when what little I know of them in everything else, they're usually anything but. That makes me think that the next time we see them, they'll be the opposite... and will have had 25 years (in our present) to develop plans to prevent what happened to them from happening ever again ("Secret Invasion" or whatever shape it will take). Between Fury, Coulson, and Ronan I was worried we might have been misled as to how much we'd get to see any of them in the movie (except maybe Fury, I remember seeing an article affirming he'd be in the whole movie). Lots of Fury, maybe... a minute or two of combined footage of Coulson, and what barely registers as a cameo for Ronan -- but it's effective. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

03-10-2019, 03:03 PM	#551
Papenbrook I'm leaving. Goodbye. :) Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: No comment -_- ... Posts: 2,754	*Captain Marvel DEFEATED* the trolls!!!!**

03-10-2019, 03:36 PM	#554
Jester Rat-faced Dude-guy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 26,301	Am I alone in finding the "1st MCU movie to have a female headliner" a bit overdone? Sure, it's true, but there are female led superheroe movies, though to be fair, none but Wonder Woman were actually any good (looking at you Supergirl, Electra, and Catwoman.) __________________ "Clearly, you're Ninja Turtling incorrectly." - Leo656

03-10-2019, 03:39 PM	#555
Autbot_Benz Hellblazer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ventura California Posts: 9,193	thankfully someone uploaded the Stan Lee Tribute to youtube. Its the Marvel 10 years logo but filled with all of Stan's Cameos. Don't worry Captain Marvel will be forgotten like dust once Endgame Month comes out that will be the talk of the town. __________________ I respect what FW cartoon did for the turtles franchise but it is the most overrated and hard to watch of the 3 turtles cartoons.

03-10-2019, 08:15 PM	#558
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	I saw the film last night and I thought it was pretty good. I don't think it was the strongest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it was still a solid one. I liked that this was a film set in the 90's since my entire childhood took place during that decade. Spoiler: Since I am not avid comic-book reader I was not one of the people who the people who was surprised to find out that the Skrulls would be the good guys. I might have seen them once in the 1967 *Fantastic Four* cartoon series, but that was so long ago that I just didn't remember them.

03-11-2019, 01:16 AM	#560
Autbot_Benz Hellblazer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ventura California Posts: 9,193	I love when people say on twitter. Why don't people get mad at Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans they have the same Political stance as Brie. Simple Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans don't use their MCU Press Junkets to push their political agendas like Brie did. __________________ I respect what FW cartoon did for the turtles franchise but it is the most overrated and hard to watch of the 3 turtles cartoons.