After mulling this a bit, the whole movie is a metaphor for women's equality. It's over the top at some points, especially the final 'fight' with Yon-Rogg. We get it, women are equal with men....and that's been a thing for a while. Anyway, about how this ties in with Avengers Endgame: Spoiler Many theories center around how the Avengers are going to time travel to save the 1/2 of the universe that was wiped out by Thanos. These theories were all about the Quantum Realm's 'Time Storms'. With Captain Marvel, we have a different angle; light speed travel and time dilation. We know that in the movie, everyone is after this spaceship engine that can go light speed. Carol shoots it and absorbs it's power...which comes from the Tesseract, which ends up being the Space Stone. The Tesseract has almost unlimited power, and can destroy worlds and see the future. That's why Captain Marvel is such a badass. She's uber on a scale even past Superman. Back to time dilation and time travel. Carol takes off at the end of the movie with the Skrulls to find them a new homeworld. We know that the key to getting them far enough away is lightspeed. We can suppose that she's going lightspeed at the end of the movie (and probably using the jump points in space we've seen with other Marvel Movies) to get the Skrulls to new territory. Special relativity indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference. This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the time dilation between one another, with the rate of time reaching zero as one approaches the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s). This causes massless particles that travel at the speed of light to be unaffected by the passage of time. This is why Captain Marvel doesn't look to have aged at all when she shows up in modern time at the midcredit scene. For her, time has been going MUCH much slower. How does this all tie in? Captain Marvel has power from the Space Stone. She can find Thanos this way. She also can go lightspeed AND see the future. You tie that in with 'Time Storms' in the quantum realm, and you have time travel to the past. I'm sure there will be hurdles and plot points that make it much harder for them to do it, but it will probably be how they end up beating Thanos and reversing the snap. (Oh, and Cap picking up Thor's hammer and wielding his power somehow, but that's another thread)
Spoiler She would technically need to be faster than light if the Marvel universe is anything in size like our own. The nearest star to Earth besides the sun for instance is Alpha Centauri. It's roughly 4 light years away. Let's assume the Skrull are located there. If she's been gone 20 years, she spent almost half of it doing space travel. Also it would take 4 years for the signal to reach Captain Marvel and would take 4 years for CM to come back then. It's better to not apply real world physics in a cinematic universe. That said, the ability to go faster than light implies being able to go back in time which she might very well be able to do. There's your quantum physics time travel scenario using a classical physics theory (like General Relativity) that isn't based on probabilities. I would think since her power is derived from the space stone, she could basically teleport anywhere in the universe faster than light. Instead we see her booster rocket herself out into space presumably to the Skrulls. I get it looks cooler than creating a wormhole to the remains of the Skrull empire otherwise it's a long space flight journey for our hero.
7/10 It entertained me for 2 hours, but certainly far from the best in the MCU. Definitely a lot of forced "girl power" messages, but that's OK being the father of a daughter myself...lots of 9-13 year old girls in the theater where I saw it. My biggest complaints was Brie Larson's sort of wooden acting. I never really connected with the character. I enjoyed younger Nick Fury, but the eye origin kind of sucked.
6.5/10 is a fair shake. There were too many cooks in the kitchen for this one and the womyns equality metaphors were too heavy handed and as outdated as their time period...it's OK to acknowledge and work off the success of your rivals! Sisterhood unite or something... I didn't like the fast cuts everywhere. It made the dialogue stilted and reminded you that every interaction was as micromanaged as their hand to hand combat sequences. The dialogue was so spliced that some of the best people scenes in the trailer were the exact line for line replay in the movie. That's not what a 'teaser' is supposed to be... When you have someone like Samuel L. Jackson taking up prime screentime, a wide shot with them just interacting and reacting like pulp fiction seems more organic and natural. I left without knowing what Brie Olson's character was about, which is a big fail for a marvel origin movie. I think it's because they tried too hard for her to pick up a big mantle and sacrificed nuance in her character. Speaking of lack of nuance, they didn't have any for the races. With BP's popularity and Ragnorak cleverly inserting shade against colonialism and imperialism, I think the audience is smart enough to recognize it without old school heavy handed liberation metaphors. It would've set up nicely for future space conflicts, which in turn makes this movie more likely of a future rewatch(unlikely) I wish they had a stronger director who knew comic books like WW. This movie is the mediocre love child of GL and WW. I hope Larson gets a personality enhancement rather than a embodying a platform for a generic and stuffy rights issue. Not as fun as Ant man+ Wasp
What if Captain Marvel got snapped away? I hope they address this in Endgame. It can be a throwaway line for all I care, but I just wanna know if there was even a chance of Danvers not making it. Otherwise, it'd be too neat and tidy.
This was my biggest gripe on the car ride back. Why not... Spoiler Make her personality change more gradual and pronounced as she regained more memories? I get you're an elite soldier, but the movie sold on the mystery of her past life. A cardboard box of scrap book memories is not a legit payoff for that mystery. In that ten minute scene, they could've replaced it with a reunion chat with her bestie that implied they talked all night. Instant license for Larson to start relaxing. Then at the end, she could've been more visably pissed at what she lost over the last six years with the boss encounter. Extra points for then seeing her accept her human side, her elite soldier side, and her new super powered side all at once. When she left, a single line from her bestie about it not as being as bad as thinking she had lost her 6 years ago pulls it back full circle. Starlord and Thor are allowed critical personality flaws, why can't she? Because she was raised by the Miss Perfects of her previous generation?
For all the keyboard culture warrior types who were cheering for this to fail as a rebuke to the evil liberals at Marvel... from Gizmodo: It wasn't too long ago that some were smugly proclaiming it was going to bomb with "only" $60 or $80 million for opening weekend, IIRC.
Spoiler Have not seen it yet but when I saw the spoiler for the cat puking on Furry's desk all I can think of is please don't let the cat be reason for the eye patch.
saw it yesterday, it was alright my favorite parts were her interactions with Nick Fury, and I liked the Skrulls fight scenes were underwhelming, but whatever, on to Endgame how Nick Fury lost his eye was wack AF, I wish they’d never shown us if that was gonna be the reason 6.5/10
I think it’s funny people could actually spend the time and money to watch this movie but declare the girl-power as heavy handed. Please, let it threaten your masculinity realizing that women go through this **** regularly in 2019. That a woman is probably going to “save the day” in endgame and is the ultimate character. That it was actually part of the story, wasn’t overbearing in the least and dwindling testosterone in your body just can’t handle it. It was an ok movie. The 90s nostalgia was great.
it did feel forced at times, but that didn’t bother me...if people want to get so angry about that type of stuff, that’s on them really I’ve seen people getting angry because they felt the movie was forcing a Skrull/illegal Mexican immigrant comparison...people out here like “Keep feminism and politics out of my superhero movies!”...some people really just need to relax, it’s not that serious
Marvel has set a high standard. Compared to most summer blockbusters it was pretty good, by Marvel standards it was below average. Kind of what I expected once the initial reviews started coming out. Nothing spectacular, won't even remember most of the movie a week from now, but I certainly enjoyed it. The solo movies are just glorified primers for the main event Avengers films.
I mean...refugees been around since before “the Wall” and everywhere in the world so that’s pretty short sighted. Heroes need villains so playing off kinda stereotypical situations should be almost an expectation rather than a “keep politics out of....” territory. How disingenuous anyway, coming from American people in 2019 who quite literally inject politics into every situation, conversation, every medium possible? What’s really funny is men complaining about it probably missed more nuanced feminine power/equality themes and symbols than they saw but because on a base level it was about women being strong, weak men feel threatened and can’t help but to identify themselves. It wasn’t forced, it was the whole point. Don’t watch titanic if you don’t want to watch a boat sink.
I expect a lot from marvel movies because many of them seem to click. I'm always disappointed when they could do more and I generally nitpick the heck out of them in these threads. Not sure why you think it's weird for people to give their honest opinion after spending time and money to do something. New to internet?
