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Okay I took a few days to process after watching #CaptainMarvel and my take, not that anyone asked, is it was good MCU but not great MCU. Ant-Man/first Cap level, not Black Panther/Thor Ragnarok. It centers women—this is good.
All of its WOC are pushed to the edges. Not as good.
All of its WOC are pushed to the edges. Not as good.
The storytelling was complicated—maybe more than needed—and there were plot flourishes that felt forced (like Goose as Flerkin and the Supreme Intelligence’s projective avatar). It felt like with fewer such Whoa! moments it could’ve had more time to spend developing character.
Specifically, more time examining the relationship between Carol and Maria/Monica (we only really see brief montages and hear exposition on their relationship as kids...yeah Carol kept getting up when she fell but Maria grew up to be a single mom and test pilot, BACKSTORY PLEASE)
Honestly I was also hoping for the movie to be a backdoor origin story for Photon, some kind of energy transfer occurring when kid Monica manages to save Carol? And then we see the power manifesting in a credit reel sequence? How cool would that have been?
Last thing I’ll say is #CaptainMarvel felt like it underscored the identity hierarchy of Hollywood (and culture in general)—“OK we can have a woman now that black <entity> has proven itself—but it has to be a white woman. If that works THEN maybe we can try Asian/Latino” etc 🤷🏻♂️
Still, I enjoyed it, and I think @BrieLarson was great. And my younger son loved it and was pretending he was #CaptainMarvel in the lobby so that’s kind of awesome?
