On topic though:
This is what I feared. Idk this reviewer guy from Adam but I believe him that while he acknowledges the culture war shitstorm
surrounding this movie, he wants or has no part of it and is just reviewing the movie for the movie's sake and, well... verdict? He thinks it's kinda a dud
and that the movie has a feminist agenda. Yet you still have people in
this thread and on
this forum that think it's just a bunch of incels / toxic white males who are overreacting to SJW shit? Wake up ya goobers; a lot of this crap is more connected than you realize. GG/SJW shit isn't just some fringe conspiracy theory stuff people like Chuk and Lithose are bringing up here... it's a slow leak like air in a tire into the mainstream collective consciousness. Remember all of this years down the line...
/Soapbox Off
So Sevens review guy may not have any part of the culture war stuff but he's still a white male on YouTube! Clearly, the MSM won't be reviewing the film
this bluntly. So I was curious how a more
MSM blue site would review it:
Time Magazine said:
Weeks before its release, Larson’s portrayal of Captain Marvel was
attacked by trolls on Rotten Tomatoes who hadn’t even seen the movie. (Their dumb-ass vitriol prompted Rotten Tomatoes to remove, for the first time, the option for users to rate a movie before they’ve even seen it—which doesn’t answer the question of why anyone should ever be allowed to rate a movie he hasn’t seen, but whatever.)
Okay good, so they're calling people like me trolls... that's left enough for me; What was their consensus on the movie itself though?
Time Magazine said:
But by the time I got to the end of Captain Marvel—after watching Larson bash her way through phalanxes of wrinkled green aliens with her glowing fists, offer bathroom-mirror Post It-note words of encouragement to a little girl who beams at her adoringly, and hover in the air like Stan Lee’s version of the Blessed Virgin shimmering in the grotto before the future Saint Bernadette—I wasn’t thinking, Wow! Instead, I heard the voice of my own inner superhero, Peggy Lee, whispering in my ear: Is that all there is? The most heinous supervillain of all is Boredom.
Ouch.
Chuk and Rogosh already mentioned two damning soundbites from the review vid so no need to rehash that but I like how he also mentions that we were spoonfed the notion that Captain Marvel was the most powerful superhero in the MCU and yet there was nothing demonstrable in the actual MOVIE to show that, unlike Thor taking a dying star's energy right to the chest. I.E. show us something amazing to make us believe it, and if this films lacks that, then what's the fucking point?
So yeah, culture war crap aside, dammit... I
wanted it to be good, I did~ Based on Sevens review, the Time review I linked, the huge spoiler I read earlier, and this entire thread basically (LoL), I'm sold: Not seeing this in theatres. My money will go to Disney via End Game, not this film.
