I'm just wondering why its so important for some people to try to portray the film as a failure, and why they think transparent fibs about how popular it is are even worth telling.
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I'm just wondering why its so important for some people to try to portray the film as a failure, and why they think transparent fibs about how popular it is are even worth telling.
Captain Marvel was clearly made for children...and men who like seeing fit, shapely women in painted on leather costumes that serve only to draw attention to their feminine curves. I'm in one of those camps, but I'm not saying which.
Thors more of a looker, spends screen time topless as well.
Try to stay on topic, Stigbob.
Hehe. And some of us - of a certain age - might even have had a long, long term thing for Annette Bening (American Beauty anyone?) I'm not saying who either!
And I'd NEVER go out with a girl who can do this on a dime. True or not you decide lol
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Transparent fibs? About crowd size? Driven by political outrage, frustration, fear of a strong female figure, and failure to predict because of a lack of facts?
Gosh, no idea where that example might be set these days.
I do equal opportunities lechery.
Well...
Not at ALL keen on all the "virtue-signalling" that Brie Larson, among others, have engaged in recently.
Having been to see the movie this evening, though, I have to say that I thought it was alright.
Despite all the controversy about Rotten Tomatoes, and allegedly prejudiced reviews on either side, the overall outcome is roughly where the movie probably deserves to be (IMO, at least).
It's not an epic movie but it's enjoyable enough and competently produced.
Seems like a lot of people took issue with Bre Larson's acting ability but I can't say I had any real problem with it.
I thought the whole "you're just a girl, you're bound to fail" trope was a bit cheesy but, in total, it's one flashback and one tiny montage which, together, make up about 30 seconds of screen-time.
The way some people have been ranting about it, you'd think it was a recurring theme throughout the entire movie.
On a related note, I did think the use of No Doubt's "I'm Just a Girl" song during part of the "final battle" was a poor choice.
Sure, it was a bit "on the nose" but, more importantly, it just didn't fit the mood of the scene.
That was a bit bizarre to watch/listen to.
The movie's a bit bland and a bit predictable but it's a decent 7/10 film, IMO.
Not at ALL keen on all the "virtue-signalling" that Brie Larson, among others, have engaged in recently.
Having been to see the movie this evening, though, I have to say that I thought it was alright.
Despite all the controversy about Rotten Tomatoes, and allegedly prejudiced reviews on either side, the overall outcome is roughly where the movie probably deserves to be (IMO, at least).
It's not an epic movie but it's enjoyable enough and competently produced.
Seems like a lot of people took issue with Bre Larson's acting ability but I can't say I had any real problem with it.
I thought the whole "you're just a girl, you're bound to fail" trope was a bit cheesy but, in total, it's one flashback and one tiny montage which, together, make up about 30 seconds of screen-time.
The way some people have been ranting about it, you'd think it was a recurring theme throughout the entire movie.
On a related note, I did think the use of No Doubt's "I'm Just a Girl" song during part of the "final battle" was a poor choice.
Sure, it was a bit "on the nose" but, more importantly, it just didn't fit the mood of the scene.
That was a bit bizarre to watch/listen to.
The movie's a bit bland and a bit predictable but it's a decent 7/10 film, IMO.
If you can watch the scene in WW where she forces her way across no-man's-land without a shiver running down your spine, you're dead inside.
Yes, it's very silly and completely implausible but it's also flippin' EPIC cinema.
There's a scene at the end of Captain Marvel where she wipes out a bunch of alien ships and saves the Earth, forcing the baddies to retreat, but there's nothing about it which is terribly emotive in the same way that the scene from WW was.
[video=youtube;5Ql9Lcdllv8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ql9Lcdllv8[/video]
I watched it, but honestly by the time I got to that part I was kind of rolling my eyes; for a movie that was so proud of it's feminism empowerment, they were sure eager to fall into the typical trap of shoehorning the stunningly perfect and always so beautiful character into a metal bikini that was little more than a sop for all the male sex fantasies out there. How could anyone with a straight face think that was empowering women in a realistic way? If I had watched the movie completely oblivious to all the talk surrounding it I probably would have enjoyed it more, but as it was it just seemed like a big cliche to me and ultimately sapped the enjoyment. I found it so bad that I almost left the theater to go back to hanging rain gutters for the day with thirty minutes left on the reel.
I guess that's something you'd need to ask the movie makers rather than the fans.
Let's face it, if you want to see a movie that's "empowering women in a realistic way" then a movie based on a comic-book superhero probably isn't your best bet.
Neither Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman "empower women" any more than Superman or Spiderman "empower men".
no but don't you see that if a movie isn't catering to my tastes personally then that makes it objectively a bad movie
All I keep seeing is mid-30s comic book dudes mad that comic books aren't just for them any more, with pretty good odds of them referring to women as "females"
Got to admit that right there blows away Captain Marvel completely.
A single metal bullet flying in becomes a real dramatic threat, compared to the visual fluff of a whole alien battlecruiser pew-pewing 5000 times the energy, with the danger and weight of cotton candy.
Because you know instinctively that the bullet is lethal. That the combined flight of the fire is enough to make hardened men hide in a muddy hole rather than brave the sudden shock of impact that we can all imagine in our chest. Just watching them get up out of the muck into the air is a triumph. Yep, great scene.
Jason's observations about the utility of the costume are practical.
They tried to get around the implausibility with the shield, instead of bracelet kung-fu and for this scene it works IMHO. The gunmen cannot change to get a flank shot cause they are stuck in their trench. It's a one-shot opportunity to get this to work just for a few moments, and it feels precariously like it could fail abruptly if her guys don't pull through.
I suspect that the overwhelming majority of mid-30's comic book dudes would be absolutely elated at the thought of anything that might encourage women to adopt similar interests.
I'm pretty sure that the whole "sexists don't like female-led stuff" thing is just nonsense and the reality is more that fans, of either sex, simply don't like seeing crappy things which attempt to use gender-politics to capitalise on franchises they love (see "ghostbusters 2016" for further details).
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tbh most of the time it seems to turn out that the extremely mad online types are just disproportionately louder about the things they don't like than the people who actually like things
Some movie goers actually care what pointy headed nerds think of a movie before they see if for themselves? And these same movie goers go ballistic over so called spoilers. These idiotic political reviews are the definition of spoilers. Watch this movie for yourself without the pre-baggage expectations. Life is too short.
Agree, it is a great scene, a good movie and Wonder Woman herself a AAA character (up there with Batman and Superman imo, as one of the all time classics).
Captain Marvel definitely isn't a AAA character and the 'threat' presented much more internal for me as for half the film Danvers doesn't even realise she's being manipulated by the Kree. So the arc seems purely an escape, get free and now the wider audience knows what she can do, a suitable threat can be introduced .. it will never be the Somme of course but I think the studio has been pretty good at coming up with challenges for Rogers, Stark, Barnes even Banner if the Hulk won't come out.
So while it's an epic scene, and while these bullets present a threat to Wonder Woman, they'd be no threat to Captain Marvel (we assume). A Snap is kind of Universal but No Man's Land bullets - a mortal danger to Black Widow - would bounce off the Hulk. There's one character though who has no threats whatsoever .. Rocket Raccoon's love interest!
[video=youtube;ljxbeAd7zgg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxbeAd7zgg[/video]
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Some of us could tell that it was going to be meh from the trailers. Actually, it looks dreadful, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
Sound advice..... no doubt.
The same could be said for all the movies in my bucket list to watch.
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