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Post by robeiae on Apr 3, 2019 8:22:08 GMT -5
Finally saw it. I thought it was quite good. Certainly, it was no Winter Soldier, but I thought it was as good as most of the other origin-type films in the Marvel universe. It was better than Thor, though not as good as Black Panther.
In the realm of outragey people and (needless) comparisons to Wonder Woman, I thought it was much better than the latter and I thought it basically shrugged off the whole woman-as-lead-superhero angle. Captain Marvel's sex just wasn't made an issue, at all. I thought that was a good approach.
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Post by nighttimer on Apr 3, 2019 21:22:33 GMT -5
By any measurable standard, Captain Marvel is a 2nd-tier Marvel movie. It's fun and it moves briskly, but nobody's writing longform thought pieces on the deeper meaning of the movie (except for one part). But any movie that crashes a BILLION DAMN DOLLARS cannot be sold short. It does what it does and it does it very well. Here's the thing: there is a glut of super-hero flicks. In 2018 I passed on Ant-Man and the Wasp, Venom and Aquaman. Just the way I'll pass on the Shazam! and Hellboy films that will come out before Avengers: Endgame sucks up all the oxygen even as it breaks the billion-dollar bank. Maybe these movies are good. Maybe they're bad. Maybe I don't care. I can only deal with so many talented actors slumming in material that is clearly beneath them. How many CGI fights am I supposed to sit through in a calendar year ( which is why while I enjoyed Black Panther, the final fight looked cheap and sloppy, I had no choice but to dock it from an low "A" to a high "B.") Still. a check is a check and if you're Michael Douglass, Michelle Williams, Tom Hardy, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, or Nicole Kidman, you've got to take the jobs that meet your salary demands. I don't know when the wave of super-hero films will crest. Maybe the next Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Joker or Dark Phoenix will crash and burn. More than likely though, its superheroes and nothing else keeping Hollywood afloat.
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Post by Vince524 on Apr 4, 2019 12:17:21 GMT -5
I've heard good things about Shazam, but it looks a little too comedy for me.
Banking on Avengers.
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Post by robeiae on Apr 5, 2019 8:23:34 GMT -5
Shazam looks like PG Deadpool...which very well might be fun.
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