The plot, although a little tiring and repetitive, being part of a formula that we have seen multiple times before, is OK and I agree with that. I never said I don’t.
Except when they aren’t.
OK, gonna say this without provoking a debate or a rant: CM as a movie is good, but is easily one of the weakest movies in the MCU since Thor: Dark World.
I am part of a minority, and I recognise this. That’s why this topic exists in the first place, to express our unpopular opinions. However, open Youtube, search ‘Captain Marvel review’ and link me 5+ good video reviews of CM, five reviews who can ignore the numerous flaws. Chances are that you won’t find more than five. And I am pretty sure it’s not only YT. A lot of people hate CM, not because of the… let’s call it the original reason, but because of it’s numerous flaws.
I left the cinema wishing I went with my parents at Dumbo. I liked some things at this movie. It’s the MCU after all (although this movie seems more out of place than the Incredible Hulk), but if these things were not there, I would have left the theatre one hour into the movie.
I can see where you’re coming from, but then again you do have to understand that if it tied up every single hole in the story, then Endgame and the rest of the planned movies would be unnecessary.
I really don’t understand where you came with that from. You can have an origin story without rendering every upcoming movie useless! Just look at every origin movie from the MCU! Do they rend the whole universe useless? No. CM isn’t even that tied with Endgame!
Fixing the plotwholes would not destroy Endgame, would make CM better.
Maybe
Then again, though, I don’t think they’re putting as much emphasis on the importance of CM as they are on Endgame.
So it’s not really a wonder why it’s not as good as, say, Infinity War.
Then Black Panther should have been a bad movie. Same for Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: Winter Soldier. All of these movie came out before Avengers movies, but all of them were good.
Nononono.
What I meant was that Endgame and CM were in production around the same time.
Marvel is putting more work into Endgame.
Black Panther, Captain America… those were all crucial to Infinity War, as well as other Avengers movies.
CM isn’t as important to Endgame as those were to the Avengers movies.
Metacritic gives it a 64 score, which is not that bad.
Also, funny enough: the 50k reviews that were removed only rose the overall score with like 3%. The score grew to what we have today the following days.
I was talking audience. The critics are always biased to “diverse” movies. (Even though we’ve had hundred of female led movies and around 40 female lead action movies.) And many critics admit to having been payed off by Disney and other companies in the past.
[spoiler]I personally think the whole incident with Fury and Goose may have been, hands down, the FUNNIEST thing in Marvel. I think it’s important to remember:
A- That it’s not a cat. Like, literally. It’s only the same in appearance and nothing else.
B- It’s remarkably intelligent. It didn’t attack any of the Skrulls, seems to listen to Fury (occasionally), and could tell when Talos was disguised as a Kree. I think the reason it didn’t attack the Kree at first is because it’s best friend was one.[/spoiler]
Winter Soldier: Last time I trusted someone Imlost an eye.
Captain Marvel: Ouch! Goose!
So all those moments when Fuey was dramatic about the loss of his eye were actually him lieing so that he would be more edgy in front of Captain America.
[spoiler]There is a part in Captain Marvel where Fury says, “I trust you not to eat me.” While that part may be a little dumb, I still find it hilarious.
Okay, well, Fury said one line about it, and you could kind of see it as being serious. He befriended an intelligent alien who betrayed him. Lookalike cat or no, that’d be upsetting.[/spoiler]
[spoiler] The thing is, these movies are written in a way meant to match the tone they’re going for.
Obviously Winter Solider was very focused on being a gritty espionage drama. Mentioning that Fury lost his eye to a space cat wouldn’t really fit with that.
Captain Marvel is more meant to be a fun buddy-cop movie. So, they used a younger Fury to fit that tone.
The rule here really is tone comes first, continuity comes second. I know some people are really hung up on that, but I don’t really mind as long as it makes some degree of sense and works in their respective movies.[/spoiler]