Captain Marvel - March 2019

[DaveGrohl]

The morning after I'm still so indifferent to the character that I'm now wondering if it's gonna take the shine off IW2 for me, having been so eager to see it for the last few months.

[DaveGrohl]

Btw, how many post credit scenes were there? I was under the impression there were two but everyone got up and walked out after the first one so we did too. Did we miss anything?

[SpudLink]

DaveGrohl said:

Btw, how many post credit scenes were there? I was under the impression there were two but everyone got up and walked out after the first one so we did too. Did we miss anything?

Final scene begins with camera focused on Nick Fury’s desk. The cat climbs onto the desk, then throws up the Tesseract.

[techguyone]

DaveGrohl said:

So, back to CM. Just been to see it and erm......

Prob the most disappointing Marvel film for me. Part of this is the fact I'd only heard of the character in the last few months. I grew up reading the comics in the 70s, Avengers, FF, Spidey, X Men, Gawd even Iron Fist and Captain Britain ffs. This character just left me thinking they'd specifically dreamt her up for IW2. Obv I know she's been in existence a bit longer than my perception but I just struggle to care about the character having seen the movie. Her amazing powers just make you wonder why we're bothering with the likes of Spidey never mind non entities like Black Widow or Hawkeye.

Oh and after the hoohaa about the True Lies poster, I couldn't believe you've all made such a big thing about a split second in this film. I actually did blink at the crucial moment and almost missed it.

I always felt that Black Widow should have had an origin story movie first (ok I know it;s finally going to happen next couple of years) felt like it should have been 4-5 films earlier though.

I'd never heard of captain Marvel before, granted my comic book days ended likely mid 70's but even the name feels a bit... ste, after all, the name of the comics is Marvel, doesn't show a lot of thought.

[Halb]

SpudLink said:

Never an a-list star, but Ms Marvel had her own book, with the same creative team that made the New X-Men famous (Claremont & Cockram). She was in the avengers. She is intrinsically linked with the origin of Rouge of the X-Men.

Yeah, I think her lipstick was the strongest.;)
when I started reading comics Rogue was all that, one of the strongest members of the X-Men. Even when the film was made, I didn't know that Rogue's power as I knew them were stolen, I was, 'why is Rogue all st?'
Also, my Cap Marvel was a black lady who could change into light, brilliant character, we actually see her in the film as the kid of Carol's flight buddy. Carol Danners has been around since the 70s, though as Ms Marvel she was sidelined or something, what with Rogue doing the dirty, a bit like the real Jean Grey.

yt has thrown up a greta nerd video from one of my fave yt nerds.
Captain Marvel vs Avengers Special Powers and Abilities Breakdown
Emergency Awesome Published on 20 Mar 2019
https://youtu.be/6H1GbUtvjZY

edit
EA ranks the power levels.
Avengers Endgame Most Powerful Avengers Breakdown - Marvel Phase 4
Emergency Awesome Published on 23 Mar 2019
https://youtu.be/jTucwQxocaE

as an aside, Ms Marvel issue 1 was on my fb feed this week, from the '70s.

Edited by Halb on Sunday 24th March 12:14

[Shakermaker]

I saw this again on Sunday evening as my wife was keen to see it, and it was a good excuse to test out Horsham's newly opened Everyman Cinema. Which was lovely. Worth the 80p extra than the cost of Cineworld in Crawley and I can just walk there in under 10 minutes.

My question is this, which I meant to ask after the first time I saw it, and links in with GOTG as well

Do the numbers that they give under the various planets in space actually mean anything? I know they are designed to look like co-ordinates, but do they have any further significance?

[wjb]

With endgame literally around the corner I managed to finally see this.

Really enjoyed it, good mix of story, action & humour.

Love Goose

7.5/10

[Antony Moxey]

In Sky Store today, watched tonight. Think Nick Fury acts like a bit of a berk throughout and unlike his previous Marvel outings where he’s serious throughout. His constant cooing over the cat seemed stupid to me.

Otherwise enjoyable but will need to see it again I think.

[ashleyman]

Antony Moxey said:

In Sky Store today, watched tonight. Think Nick Fury acts like a bit of a berk throughout and unlike his previous Marvel outings where he’s serious throughout. His constant cooing over the cat seemed stupid to me.

Otherwise enjoyable but will need to see it again I think.

I think he's great. Remember this is set before a lot of the other Marvel films so his character will be different as he hasn't yet experienced everything that makes him Nick Fury in the future films.

[InitialDave]

Antony Moxey said:

In Sky Store today, watched tonight. Think Nick Fury acts like a bit of a berk throughout and unlike his previous Marvel outings where he’s serious throughout. His constant cooing over the cat seemed stupid to me.

That's the entire point. It's Nick Fury before he had to be Serious Business Samuel L Jackson.

It's aimed at the same people who see rookie-shield-agent Clark Gregg and immediately go "Yeah boyyyyyyy".

[Antony Moxey]

ashleyman said:

Antony Moxey said:

In Sky Store today, watched tonight. Think Nick Fury acts like a bit of a berk throughout and unlike his previous Marvel outings where he’s serious throughout. His constant cooing over the cat seemed stupid to me.

Otherwise enjoyable but will need to see it again I think.

I think he's great. Remember this is set before a lot of the other Marvel films so his character will be different as he hasn't yet experienced everything that makes him Nick Fury in the future films.

Yeah I understand that, just found him a bit annoying that's all. Not a deal breaker though and I will have a rewatch at some point to pick up the bits I undoubtedly missed from the first viewing.

[skeeterm5]

I watched this on a flight back from the USA the other day, and thought it was dreadful. IMHO even worse than Venom, which is saying something....