Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

I thought they made the case fairly clearly when she wiped out fleets of fighters and flew the long way through a dreadnought-style warship?

For sure. It was also minutes after she broke from the Supreme Intelligence.

I really loved that scene. It really captured how Carol “fights” in the comic. She runs into objects and they explodes!

“they explodes"

In other words, SHE FLY @ U FACE.

My favorite crazy example of this was the Captain America villain Solarr, who...got lost in the desert in Nevada, got real hot, and woke up shooting fire blasts from his hands.

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IIRC Electro was literally just struck by lightning and *bam* electricity powers.

Plus the thing where Hank Pym went from having to use a variety of chemical supplements until it finally dawned on him to avoid the science altogether and just think real hard about changing his size.

But we could be here all day on this topic if I get started.

The other side of the road isn't much better. They've got a guy who can do nearly anything because the sun on his home planet was... different

uh the energy from the sun is pretty fuckin incredible man have u ever ~~~~~~~~thought about it~~~~~`~```~`

too often

I thought everybody would know by know taht there were extra scenes during and after the credits of Marvel films. I was the only person to see the last one.
Are people not seeing this as worth waiting for. GUess there weren't a massive amount of people in the screening anyway.

BUt quite fun and ties in elsewhere.
Maybe the bits of the film that do tie in elsewhere are not as totally important to be tied up as to change things massively.

you can just read what happened in them on your phone from the lobby or in the line for the restroom

tbh I should have done that. restroom line was ridiculous

Disney was fairly canny re: the release date for this one inasmuch as it leads in to the next Avengers film and won't be (legally) viewable anywhere but the theater before Endgame is released next month. So that probably cranked up the urgency a bit with at least some of the audience.

oh noes legalities

Ah, misread the thrust of 'Are people not seeing this as worth waiting for'. But yeah, most people in my theater had also already split before the post-credit scene. You can't imagine at this point that this is everyone's first MCU rodeo so who knows what they're thinking.

that the scenes are small and relatively ephemeral?

I mean, one was a teaser for a film that's coming out in less than two months with the implication some version of that scene will be in the next movie, and the final one was there for laughs

I've left as the credits rolled a few times now

Yeah the credit crawls have ceased to have "new shocking info" since all of the origin stories are now done and Thanks actually showed up. Still fun tho.

I dunno, maybe it's just my obsessively completist mindset but the notion of leaving a movie while there's still more movie left to watch is just anathema. Can't walk in late, either.

leaving a movie before it's over can feel quite liberating

Re: consequentiality of end credits: Well if the flerken contains multiple universes it’s possible the tesseract from the CM universe just appeared in the current Fury-less universe. I just thought of this I don’t know how flerken guts work FYI but I will revisit this in the future if I am right

I thought they made the case fairly clearly when she wiped out fleets of fighters and flew the long way through a dreadnought-style warship?

i meant, like, vis a vis thanos, not the other heroes

The implication at the end of Infinity War is that he's burnt out the gauntlet, so he's probably just like super-super-powerful now instead of God Mk. II.

ohhhhh

the notion of leaving a movie while there's still more movie left to watch

the credits junk isn't part of the movie! it's inherently extraneous to the movie! it's like saying you didn't really watch a home release if you didn't watch every extra on the disc/download

Pssssh.

Yeah, I said it.

If it's a part of the story and it's featured in the theatrical release, it's part of the movie. Although I'll concede that eg the mid-credits scene (which is actually a preview scene plucked from Endgame) and others of that ilk don't really count. You may not deem a scene of the Avengers having dinner important enough to stick around for but it's still the final scene of that particular film.

if you walk out of Wild Things when the credits start, you miss like 5 plot twists

ok, now I'm sol

*sold

Sorry, I left the theater before you had a chance to throw that 'd' out there so now I think you're actually the star that provides light and warmth to our planet DO U SEE

well, the marketing did that with HER going to HERO so it seems apt

the final, post-all-credits blip nearly made me hop out of my chair in an attempt to get that animal off the desk and on to a spot on the floor without a rug

You say blip, it felt like it took 10 minutes.

the credits junk isn't part of the movie! it's inherently extraneous to the movie!

part of the film, always

this 'product' idgas

You have a funny way of demonstrating that ydgas.

i liked this a lot. IMO Marvel has an incredibly surprising hit to miss ratio; only one Iron Man movie and one Thor movie have been 'eh' for me, everything else they've done has been good to exceptional.

passed by two adult men on the street the other day (before I saw this) who were saying 1) they didn't like the main character because she was smarmy 2) they thought she and her friend were going to kiss 3) 'too much politics, it's all in your face' (????).

I think you may have accidentally mistyped 'adult' there.

tfw your masculinity is so fragile that a fairly traditional superhero movie gets under your skin because it stars a woman who has mentioned feminism in interviews about it

yeah I couldn't tell after seeing the movie if they were talking about that, or about the refugee situation; either way, that's the sort of mentality we are up against.

The kind of mentality which can only be cured by keeping air-filled hypodermic needles on one's person at all times imo.

This was passable, but (keeping in mind I've only seen most of them once) probably the most inert and dull of the Marvel movies since the first Thor, and the direction particularly without distinction, at best. And at worst, well ... worse. Might have made a better mini-movie?

Question I had: why did it take until the end for her to notice and/or do anything about the dongle behind her ear?

Question my daughter had: if they had to digitally de-age Nick Fury for this one, won't they have to make Captain Marvel digitally older in the next Avengers movie?

I have lots of other questions, too, but whatev, it's a movie.

Because up until the latter half of the movie, she thought she was Native Kree and viewed that thing as the source of her powers rather than the thing limiting the powers she acquired from the blast

I mean they literally say "that which can be given can be taken away" at the beginning

magic flying power blast people don’t age

If she does a lot of FTL travel after the movie's events, one year for her might be 25 on earth.

But she's the only one with the ear dongle, right? Or, for that matter, laser fist powers? And she never acknowledges it, does she? Or does she react to it as some sort of inhibitor in that first sparring session? I already forgot (clearly). Anyway, kind of wacky that she's just, at the end, all, well, I suppose I'll just take this thing off my neck. Pop. Also, she could blast with her fists with the dongle on, but without it she could ... blast harder? And fly? Not clear how she's the most powerful character in the MCU or whatever, anymore than Hulk or Thor or other nigh impervious creatures. I guess we'll find out?

Do they explain (or did I miss) why she and (more or less) Jude Law look human but all the other Kree are blue?

Did I see somewhere that Feige gave some explanation for why Fury wouldn't have called her earlier, for previous alien invasions and stuff?

All this stuff is not uniquely problematic or anything. This one could have been airtight and still would have been pretty dull. I really do blame the directors in this instance.

A couple of times during this I flashed back to "The Hidden." I wonder why no one has remade that one?

the problem with this movie is, it’s a story about her, but it’s not her story.

The MCU's Kree problem, I will concede, is that every single Kree depicted prior to this film has been blue. It's well established in the comics that there are both blue- and pink-skinned Kree, but yeah, it's hard to put that notion across when we only ever see one example of the latter onscreen.

And the Kree have been used extensively on Agents of SHIELD so they've had ample opportunity to establish this state of affairs before now.

who cares, there are human-looking ones

this is the stupid crap that gets chalked up as “plot holes” by fastidious idiots now but are just points not specifically spelled out

they show a Kree that looks human in Jude Law, so we know some look human. whatever!