Captain Marvel
Mar. 10th, 2019 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteShort version: not my favourite MCU film, but really good fun. Killer soundtrack, too!
Mostly I am ridiculously proud of myself for not ruining one of the best twists for everyone in my social circle. Ever since people started talking about the cat in the film I have been suppressing the urge to say 'oh, you mean the flerken!' Seeing the looks on my friends' faces in the cinema was completely worth waiting for, though. (Also worth it: the true story of how Nick Fury lost his eye not by being a badass, but because he was teasing an alien he knew could kill him.)
Fury turned out to be one of the highlights of the movie for me - I'm so glad that Marvel have finally dropped the idea that every movie has to have a love story shoved into it with a crowbar. (Not that I haven't enjoyed several of the MCU love stories, but if we never get anything like that Steve/Sharon kiss in Civil War again it will be too soon.) Instead, Carol has a bunch of platonic relationships - a buddy story with Fury and a mentor-turned-enemy story with Yon-Rogg and her renewed friendship with Maria and aunthood with Monica. All of which was a lot more satisfying than centring her emotional life on some guy just because action movies have to have romantic sub-plots according to Screen-Writing 101. I think the scene at the end where she's doing the dishes with Fury and he sings Please Mr. Postman to her is straight up one of my favourite MCU scenes ever.
Other than that - I still can't believe that Ben Mendelsohn has a big Hollywood career. Not that he doesn't deserve it, it's just massively disconcerting every time he appears in one of these things. I am delighted that they let him use his own accent to play Talos. Why shouldn't Skrulls sound Australian? Speaking of which - if they are ever going to do Secret Invasion in this universe, it's going to be a very different film from the one I was vaguely imagining. Not that we've never seen sympathetic Skrull characters in the comics, but this was a very different take on the Skrull/Kree conflict than we usually see there.
Anyone who watches Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. walked into this knowing that the Kree were going to be the bad guys (if they hadn't already guessed from the trailers and/or googling comics storylines) but it was still handled well. It's not like Carol had any way of knowing what they were really like, and the film does a good job of not making her look dumb for not figuring it out. Great performance from Jude Law, too, and I hope we see him again in the sequel. (I mean, he knows he's no match for Captain Marvel in a fair fight, but surely that's just going to inspire him to find some other way to deal with her if they have to cross paths again ...
Oh, and I squealed out loud when we first saw Monica. Spectrum solo film when, Marvel??? (I would also settle for Nextwave. But somehow I don't see that happening ...)
Mostly I am ridiculously proud of myself for not ruining one of the best twists for everyone in my social circle. Ever since people started talking about the cat in the film I have been suppressing the urge to say 'oh, you mean the flerken!' Seeing the looks on my friends' faces in the cinema was completely worth waiting for, though. (Also worth it: the true story of how Nick Fury lost his eye not by being a badass, but because he was teasing an alien he knew could kill him.)
Fury turned out to be one of the highlights of the movie for me - I'm so glad that Marvel have finally dropped the idea that every movie has to have a love story shoved into it with a crowbar. (Not that I haven't enjoyed several of the MCU love stories, but if we never get anything like that Steve/Sharon kiss in Civil War again it will be too soon.) Instead, Carol has a bunch of platonic relationships - a buddy story with Fury and a mentor-turned-enemy story with Yon-Rogg and her renewed friendship with Maria and aunthood with Monica. All of which was a lot more satisfying than centring her emotional life on some guy just because action movies have to have romantic sub-plots according to Screen-Writing 101. I think the scene at the end where she's doing the dishes with Fury and he sings Please Mr. Postman to her is straight up one of my favourite MCU scenes ever.
Other than that - I still can't believe that Ben Mendelsohn has a big Hollywood career. Not that he doesn't deserve it, it's just massively disconcerting every time he appears in one of these things. I am delighted that they let him use his own accent to play Talos. Why shouldn't Skrulls sound Australian? Speaking of which - if they are ever going to do Secret Invasion in this universe, it's going to be a very different film from the one I was vaguely imagining. Not that we've never seen sympathetic Skrull characters in the comics, but this was a very different take on the Skrull/Kree conflict than we usually see there.
Anyone who watches Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. walked into this knowing that the Kree were going to be the bad guys (if they hadn't already guessed from the trailers and/or googling comics storylines) but it was still handled well. It's not like Carol had any way of knowing what they were really like, and the film does a good job of not making her look dumb for not figuring it out. Great performance from Jude Law, too, and I hope we see him again in the sequel. (I mean, he knows he's no match for Captain Marvel in a fair fight, but surely that's just going to inspire him to find some other way to deal with her if they have to cross paths again ...
Oh, and I squealed out loud when we first saw Monica. Spectrum solo film when, Marvel??? (I would also settle for Nextwave. But somehow I don't see that happening ...)
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Date: 2019-03-13 07:43 am (UTC)I don't know why, but his accent always throws me out of movies at the start. He's just so very...Aussie!
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Date: 2019-03-14 12:25 am (UTC)