Captain marvel is the only marvel movie I watched and couldn’t finish it, it was that bad to me ...everything else by marvel I enjoyed tbh
You're right. She says 'I have nothing to prove to you.' Same message: she (woman) doesn't have to prove anything to him (men). She's fine on her own. I have zero problems with being a feminist. In fact, I am a feminist. I just think this was a ham-fisted attempt at a metaphor.
It was certainly in the lowest tier of Marvel movies. I'm not one who really complains about such things, but the girl power stuff in captain marvel and then the over top scene in endgame bugged me. Plus they really made the character far too OP. Hopefully they do things more organically in this one. Brie Larson is perfectly capable of carrying a great movie if the writing is better.
There's still hope for this franchise as I think most of us have collectively wiped the first two Thor movies from our minds when Ragnarok came out. New director and screenwriter this time with the latter being a part of the WandaVision creative team.
Captain Marvel 1 felt like an entire movie of the final speech from Falcon and Winter Soldier. It had an important message but the poor writing and heavy handedness completely suffocated that into being almost comical. My wife is super woke and said it was the worst Marvel movie she's seen. Part of the problem the MCU is going to have is that some of these characters (or iterations of characters) were never that popular among even comic book fans. People just aren't as excited about Captain Marvel as they were about Ironman or Captain America.
It's pretty direct, but it's also appropriate in context. Dude's been literally holding her back with the thing in her neck and manipulating her, and is trying one more time to keep from being beaten into a pulp. I had more of a problem with the all women scene in endgame. There is no reason for only the girls to show up at that moment but then I remember that representation matters... especially for kids and young teens and remind myself it's a superhero movie, not Taxi Driver or Raging Bull as Scorsese would like us to remember. Good for them, I think.
The neck thing is another (terrible) metaphor for men controlling women. Her quote is a statement of women's equality and emancipation from men. Google it, I'm not the only person to think that and others can clarify far more eloquently than me. The A-Force (all-woman Avengers team) moment was a fan nod and fun point for the movie. It said 'these women are badasses' not 'we're just as good as men!' (like they tried to do with CM1). Again, I have no problem with women's equality, I just think as a message it wasn't handled very smoothly in CM1. And that's part of what I didn't like about it. It was poorly directed, IMO.
A Force could be a bad ass movie and yeah I thought Captain Marvel was a bit heavy handed and it came as close to a true filler movie than I have seen Marvel do. It was totally place setting.
lol to each his own but I think Love and Thunder can/will replace those two movies for you when Portman shows up to be Thor.
I’m rewatching the entire phase one thru three in order. I’ve skipped this movie, because it was meh, but still need to make myself watch it. Hopefully the 2nd is better. side note: I really enjoy the movies and what they did throughout. I’ve seen movies several times, but going back and watching in order...Holy hell are they really good. The details that were used along the way to paint their whole story actually blow my mind. I’m totally digging the rewatch.
