Watched Captain Marvel. I can see why it's getting a lot of bad reviews. Not up to the humor or sense of jeopardy found in current MCU movies. Its predicatable in a lot of scenes so much so that you can probably get up from your seat and use the rest room and not feel like you are missing a thing. I saw a few people get up and use the rest room more than I ever saw during a movie and I didnt think they missed anything. The lead never feels relatable and isn't a person you get to empathize with. There is just so much wrong with how they wrote this movie. And if you are a comic book fan then this movie can be like "The Last Jedi" for you. I liked the action scenes but the problem was they don't fit the story it's as if they said, here is something cool we can do who cares if it doesn't make much sense why it's happening. It's more of a bad story/script in my opinion than actually bad directing or acting. If you love special effects like me than it can be worth a watch but its not a must see not even for MCU fans. I cant recommended spending money to see it I'd say wait for red box.
To be clear, it's not getting bad reviews. It has a 65/100 on Metacritic which puts it above some other Marvel movies like "Thor: Dark World", "Iron-Man 2", "Ant Man", "The Incredible Hulk"...
It's certainly on the lower tier of the MCU catalog, but it's not getting panned.
What's happening is that it's getting brigaded by internet trolls on review sites. In general, user reviews are completely useless because of things like self-selection bias and how easily they are to manipulate... but this is pretty malicious and targeted.
Brie Larson made some comments a while ago in support of diversity in the film critic community. Statistically, it’s primarily white men. Her point was that with a movie like “Wrinkle in Time”, which celebrated diversity and made for a diverse audience, there aren’t many professional critics who reflect that audience. Her actual quote: “I don’t want to hear what a white man has to say about ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ I want to hear what a woman of color, a biracial woman has to say about the film. I want to hear what teenagers think about the film. If you make a movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is a chance that a woman of color does not have access to review and critique your film.”
Now to be fair... I thought "Wrinkle in Time" was a garbage movie was garbage acting all-around and some weird interpretations of a book I loved as a kid, but I understand her point. If you make a movie specifically to pander to a certain demographic, perhaps that demographic should be reflected in the body of professional critics. I don't think anything about her intended message is really bad.
The internet took that quote out of context and labeled her “racist” for “hating white people”. Even before Captain Marvel came out there were internet trolls ready to bash this movie, “because Brie Larson hates white men and doesn’t care about our opinion”. That combined with the movie being strongly pro-feminist has resulted in a toxic mix of online hate for an ok Marvel movie.
This is unfortunate, but should be ignored:
It's not one of their best, but definitely not their worst. One valid piece of criticism I agree with is that her character was a little dull. I don't blame that on Brie Larson. She's a great actress. It's the character... she spends the entire movie with amnesia. She's supposed to be a solider. There's not a lot of room for her to have a personality.
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