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Captain Marvel made a boatload at the box office this weekend, but how was the movie? Our review of Carol Danvers' origin story.
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Hello y'all, I'm Corbin Ford, welcome to Adventures in Poor Taste and I'm here to
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review the movie Captain Marvel with y'all. So Captain Marvel came out a couple days ago on March 8th, International Women's Day
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and is the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is written and directed by Anna Boden, Marvel's first female director, and Ryan Fleck
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and stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Lee Pace
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Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law. The story is set in 1995 and follows Carol Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel while
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also attempting to save the Earth from becoming the center of a huge space war between two
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alien worlds. So far, the movie has only been out a couple days and has already grossed $456 million
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worldwide making it the second highest grossing film of 2019. So I'm going to go through some positives here with y'all real quick and then you know
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touch on some negatives. Positively, I think this movie gives you a little bit of everything
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There's some humor, there's some fun quips and banter, you have your action, some emotional
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scenes, and the plot twists were simply excellent. You seriously never see some of this coming and that was a pleasant surprise to me
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I also thought Jude Law personally stole every scene he was in and I loved Ben Mendelsohn
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as well. He made me laugh out loud so many times. Lastly, Marvel aging Samuel L. Jackson worked so well aesthetically for me
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It looked to me as the best de-aging in movies ever done
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Bold statement? I think not. There were a few negatives I have to touch on
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The editing is a disservice at some points, especially in fight scenes. A lot of sudden cuts that kind of correspond with each blow and that really did nothing
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to add to the viewing experience for me personally. I don't really understand why it was there, it just sort of was
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Another issue I noticed is that just as with most other movies that have origin stories
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it just takes a long time to really get that movie going. You have to get past the origin story and then progress to the actual movie and storyline
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going forward. This film attempted to achieve that task by going back and forth between current action
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and sudden flashback scenes and in my opinion just didn't work. Also the antagonists in this movie were completely lackluster which is almost to be expected
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when the main character is one as powerful as Captain Marvel is
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However, even having that knowledge going into the theater, I still found it a bit disappointing
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Ultimately, you want the fight to have some stake. fight in any movie but especially in the climatic scenes where that stuff matters and
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ultimately I did not get the feeling that it did. Now this is a point that was neither good or bad but Brie Larson's performance I found okay
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I didn't think it was great, I didn't think it was horrible. There was a lot of flack kind of floating around the internetverse about whether her
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performance was too dry and whether she had enough character arc and actual development
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and yada yada yada and I thought it was decent. There was moments that I thought could have been done better
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I think finding her personality was an issue but to me I attribute that more to a flaw
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in the writing than I do in her performance. The writing really relied a lot upon her reflecting and her having basically amnesia and that
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impacted who she was as a character. Sometimes she would be sassy, quick, witty with clever comebacks
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Other times she'd be very grim and something of a DC movie
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And that back and forth, while I understand it due to the amnesia in her discovering herself
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also did itself a disservice because it didn't allow Brie Larson to be whichever Captain
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Marvel is supposed to be as a character. So hopefully you do have Avengers Endgame coming out next month, you do have other movies
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hopefully that she'll be a part of. Maybe now that she knows who she is she can grow as that character, show more of her personality
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in that way and we can all appreciate it for what it is
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Two last notes for the comic book purist. Number one, if you're looking for the storyline this movie is based off of the most, look
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no farther than Roy Thomas' 1971 Kree-Skrull War comic book storyline. I really think that that was well done, even for the 70s, but also so integral to the plot
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of the story. I think you'll be able to kind of delve into that, take what you see as similar plot points
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what you see as differences, but that to me is the storyline most in line with the actual movie
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Also, if you're coming into notes of Captain Marvel's origin in your hand, leave them at
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the door of the theater because you're going to be in for a surprise. It is just one of the many plot twists in this movie and although this may not be a
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great one for the purist who loved Captain Marvel for who he is and what he stood for
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and how he became a character and how Carol Danvers inherited her powers and all of that
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jazz, you do have to understand that Captain Marvel's been dead for like 30 something years
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The fact that there was a twist in this story did little to me as far as affect me in a
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negative way and aside from being a diehard comic purist, it really won't mean anything
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to you either. I just want to let you know that moving forward if you're reading and doing your homework
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to understand the history of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, binary, look into that guys
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and girls, more for that later, if you're trying to do research on that, just take it
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all with a grain of salt because this movie will definitely surprise you in that regard
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Ultimately, I'd give this movie a 7 out of 10 relative to my initial expectations
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It wasn't amazing, it just wasn't, but it was an enjoyable romp despite its shortcomings
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and with Avengers Endgame coming out next month, that's all I needed
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I am perfectly fine with that, it continues the Marvel tradition of pretty solid movies
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and I think you will enjoy it. Well thanks a lot for spending a few minutes with me reviewing this movie, appreciate your time
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Corbin Ford signing off with Avengers in Poor Taste and enjoy great movies y'all
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Watch em, review em, leave em in the comments, let me know what you think. Y'all have a good one
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