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I went into this one expecting the worst of self-congratulatory "rah rah girl power" especially seeing Endgame first, but what I got was a decent enough film. Captain Marvel is a lot more interesting and personable here than in Avengers: Endgame, and the throwbacks to the 90s are pretty fun and give this movie a slightly different feel from other MCU stuff. BUT the villain is wasted and everything from the movie that isn't dealing with happenings on Earth is kinda dull and unmemorable. I'll take Asgard over whatever space tripe Captain Marvel comes from every time.

Mega Mana
First Scene That Comes to Mind: The flerkin revealed.

I just watched Captain Marvel for the first time yesterday, and I thought it was good. It's a day later, and I've already written a novel about the first Iron Man, but I cannot come up with much to say about Captain Marvel. The action and humor were good, with Carol Danvers' and Nick Fury's instant camaraderie the best part of the movie. The Kree/Skrull plot and trickle-in of backstory was well-handled. I quite enjoyed the early training and Earth happenings through past the Pegasus base. The Skrull memory-device was a startling and cool feature. As an Agents of SHIELD fan, I loved what we got of Coulson. I thought Brie Larson was wonderful. It was a Phase One origin story in some of the best ways.

Then things started falling apart a bit right about when the Skrull showed up in the house drinking a juice box. Best friend Maria Rambeau felt very wooden, neither shock nor familial chemistry ever vibing. The Skrulls turned from dangerous spies and terrorists into plucky comic relief far too casually. Jude Law and his Kree team were forgettable at best, and the ship fights rather boring. The cat/flerkin had too many points of acknowledgment before the reveal that it lost a sense of surprise or anticipation for the reveal. The stakes both felt way too dramatic and were done away with far too easily, especially in the case of the Accusers' portion, though the Skrull family-in-hiding was excellent and hit perfect emoitonal buttons. And the Supreme Intelligence stuff was easily the worst, with off-putting casting and absolutely hackneyed nothing story beats (SI: "You are a failure who fails." CD: "I am a human who gets back up!") that actually began to detract from the story.

It was good. Not great. I will remember it for Brie Larson's great dialogue with Sam Jackson, maybe some Coulson, but I don't think much beyond that.

Corrik7
This movie is decent. It leaves me with questions though. Why did a blast of energy create this hero of this power magnitude? Like, she basically becomes the strongest person in the entire universe almost from a random blast. Why isn't everyone out there doing this to themselves? I mean, there is some cool stuff as far as shapeshifting and mind erasing and so on. Honestly though, I hate that they created a hero in which nothing tangibly seems to possibly be able to defeat her. The movie isn't that fun when you know she can't lose. It also makes the usage of her questionable all throughout the universe also later on.

MetalmindStats
An uneven movie stitched like a patchwork quilt around a strong cast topped by a magnetic central character. Sadly, it tends to meander in a pacing-independent way whenever Carol Danvers isnt front and center, and too often even when she is.

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