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Dull and empty

posted 5 years ago by VanZan (840)
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I'm not in the States and don't know anything about any controversy around the film referred to here.

I found the film a bit dull and sometimes bizarre. I can't tell whether Larson is a bad actor or the Captain Marvel character is supposed to be like this. At times cold and emotionless then all of a sudden humour at random times.

Strange strange film. Danvers didn't come across as very human and relatable. Like a uber Mary Sue.

Only moment that stood out for me was the space battle at the end. I found the rest of it very ho hum.
It's not a bad film but it's no Winter Soldier.

[–] HushPuppy (142) 5 years ago

I think all these comic book movies have a sort of autistic quality where there are jarring shifts in tone and character. They appear to be thoughtless betrayals, but the fanboys will argue that the "story arc" calls for her to be "wet behind the ears" as she learns to cast aside emotion or something. Not very compelling, but certainly convenient, and unfalsifiable.

I heard the same thing with the newer James Bond movies as an excuse for why he seems to bear an inconsistence resemblance to previous James Bond's, a well traveled middle aged man ready to fall in love and change his whole life around, because they need to show he makes impulsive decisions sometimes? More likely it's just a shoehorned origin story targeting a hipper younger and more female audience and they haphazardly mixed qualities from the books and the modern era to check some boxes. The result is a very inauthentic character.

In cases like Captain Marvel this stuff is probably there because it's a rule in scriptwriting that there should be moments of levity, and so that's what we get in the most crude form imaginable in spite of her character. Mrs Marvel is a cypher and could have been acted out just as well by a glass of water. There's zero depth here.