Half in the Bag: Captain Marvel Film Review

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Say what you will about Brie Larson, but you really have to admire her for being the first woman to be in a movie. That’s really brave.

 

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nope mr. plink it gets his furnace fixed

soon we have another 36 weeks of winter

left what it says here they’re thinking

about holding the 2020 Democratic

National Convention here in Milwaukee

really yeah it’s between Milwaukee and

two other cities

uh what are the other cities Houston in

Miami but Miami says that Milwaukee

isn’t classy enough what Milwaukee’s

classy is [ __ ] what are they talking

about yeah Milwaukee is the most bars

per capita approximately one bar for

everyone people should everyone could

get so [ __ ] loaded yeah and out of

the 20 most drunken cities in America

Wisconsin claims ten of them that’s

nearly a third Jay we’re talking about

Milwaukee not Wisconsin which one’s the

city in which one’s the state is it

Wisconsin Milwaukee no is Milwaukee in

Minnesota or Michigan is there a

Michigan Wisconsin who cares all people

really know is that Chicago is down

there in Iowa right but what says classy

more than art and no I’m not talking

about the Calatrava Art Museum I’m

talking about a statue honoring a

Milwaukee legend the bronze funds a

fictional TV character from 40 years ago

we also have a statue of a cancerous

tumor and no I’m not talking about

Dustin Diamond hey remember when he

drunkenly stabbed a guy in a bar fight

that was me how embarrassing Milwaukee

also boasts the least deadly pedal

tavern accidents and

something to be proud of and don’t

forget you every Friday a bunch of

Fatso’s all get together in a large room

and eat unlimited amounts of fried fish

and french fries it’s called a fish fry

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and Mike what says class and

sophistication more than calling a

drinking fountain a bubbler

that’s right Jay and Milwaukee’s going

green too in fact just last year we

installed our very first solar panel

it’s being used to light the open sign

to the walk her in drag her out pub

that’s a real place we’ve also finally

removed all the lead and Cryptosporidium

from our drinking water thankfully the

water still contains 5.6 percent alcohol

and after nine months of a cold

miserable sunless winter Milwaukee sure

knows how to party in the summertime we

have some of the best festivals around

that’s right Mike Summerfest is the

world’s largest music festival it lasts

for 11 days has 6,000 bands and over 200

million people attend in the evening

though it turns into a literal nightmare

world of drunken riots and if Summerfest

isn’t enough drunk people noise and

Street vomiting for you literally every

day there is some kind of [ __ ]

festival going on festivals like locust

street festival Bastille days Festa

italiana mexicana Fiesta Polish fest

irish fests Brady Street festival and

cream puffs and cheese curd fest

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like motorcycles while Milwaukee is the

home of harley-davidson and every August

is the Milwaukee rally were over 600,000

motorcycles from all over the country

come to Milwaukee to ride around and

clog traffic and cause horrible

accidents one of the bikers struck a

squad car Milwaukee Police say the

bikers were driving fast and dangerously

all across town and Rev all their

engines who doesn’t love the sound of

six hundred thousand motorcycles

constantly but Mike let’s talk about

food we all know that Milwaukee is

famous for cheese and sausage but we

also have some of the finest chain

restaurants in all the worlds that’s

right Jake and let me show you an

example of a plate from the chef de

cuisine of one of Milwaukee’s finest

restaurants this is pasta rings with red

sauce served with meat done three ways

simply exquisite and in terms of

Commerce Milwaukee imports more

sweatpants than anyone in the world even

Cleveland Milwaukee is proud to keep all

those Indonesian children employed

that’s right Jay

but sadly one statistic I’m not proud of

is that Milwaukee is some of the most

disgusting and noisiest movie theaters

in the whole world well that’s

unfortunate I just bought tickets to

Captain Marvel Oh Oh in fact I think it

starts in like 15 minutes

Oh oh [ __ ] we better go bye [ __ ] you

Miami

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[ __ ] you

despite being the blandest movie ever

Captain Marvel is a lot of things to a

lot of people it’s the movie Rotten

Tomatoes doesn’t want anyone to have an

opinion on the movie dumb bearded white

guys are protesting they’re so scared of

people actually calling this movie out

for what it is which is feminist

propaganda now I haven’t seen it the

movie other dumb bearded white guys are

white knighting the movie brie Larson

doesn’t want us to see I do not need a

40-year old white dude I don’t hate

white dudes am i saying that I hate

white dudes no the movie that inspired a

ton of cheap clickbait articles from

terrible online journalists who have no

idea how rotten tomatos works the movie

easily manipulated twitter obsessed

weirdos have given a ton of free

publicity to by convincing themselves

this corporate product is a feminist

cause the movie that had charity started

for it in order for underprivileged

little girls to be able to see which

benefits absolutely nobody but Disney

buy these [ __ ] poor kids some food

instead you [ __ ] it’s Captain Marvel

if the movie is a hit it’s because

Society has become enlightened enough to

celebrate a female lead action movie

finally if the movie is a flop it’s

because of toxic online trolls finally

no other explanations exists eat the

multi-billion dollar corporate slop and

pretend it’s social justice you weirdos

thanks for making the world an

embarrassing nightmare everyone what did

you think of Captain miscast

that jake has to have been made by

somebody already right it’s too obvious

I thought the movie was adequate and

then I watched a clip of brie Larson

speaking and now I hate the movie

there’s a clip of her it’s like have you

ever heard of the Wired auto-complete

interviews or they take Google and they

take the celebrity’s name and be like is

brie Larson and then you know it gives

you the autofill options so she did one

of those and she comes across like just

the most dismissive nasty snarky person

is that like a personal attack or

something is brie Larson left-handed why

do you need to know I’m actually

right-handed kind of ambidextrous and I

I can’t believe you even have to google

that duh I mean why and it comes across

in her performance a little and I don’t

know why like sometimes she’s bratty

sometimes she’s a Tony Stark kind of

smart aleck II you know wiseacres its

cracking jokes congratulations agent

fury you have finally asked a relevant

question Oh sometimes she’s a confused

alien mm sometimes she’s stoic I mean

they’re they’re I got a lot of the

guardians of the galaxy vibe

not because of the soundtrack but a

little bit in her character too like

well that’s what they were going for

yeah

that’s that’s the weird thing about this

movie it’s all the the usual kind of

Marvel hallmarks are in place but it

never really gets off the ground at

least in my opinion a lot of it because

of her performance whereas I don’t know

what her character is really she can’t

remember her pasts but early on the bad

guys

tap her brain so we see her pasts so

then we have to spend half the movie

with her trying to remember her past but

we already know so there’s no mystery or

tension yeah which is a problem I think

we should talk about the elephant in the

room and and that’s like the controversy

quote/unquote surrounding this movie and

brie Larson’s comments at some kind of

women in film event and she got a big

old case of foot-in-mouth syndrome

well her comments essentially were first

thing I saw was a black woman was

interviewing her and she says how

important is women in film what does it

mean to be a woman in film

it means it’s really hard I remember

reading when when Captain Marvel was

about to come out or even in production

early stages of it brie Larson cast as

Captain Marvel right and it was it was a

finally moment you know the Marvel

franchise of 37 movies my female lead

yeah but she’s white and so there was

there is that kind of like they deflated

everybody and there is there is a school

of thinking within feminism that if you

are a white woman you can’t be a true

feminist because you are not doubly

oppressed all I know is that she’s white

lady and she and they’re not quite there

well hold you think about that interview

clip is it’s yeah it’s a black woman

interviewing her and then brie Larson’s

like it’s hard for women in the industry

especially black women and if you’re a

woman of color then it’s really really

hard like flip that microphone around

let the black woman talk about that like

is that a race splaining could we call

it that perhaps then so then you have

this like kind of awkward moment you

know where it’s like we didn’t get a

hundred percent of what we wanted and I

feel a little like then brie Larson had

the spotlight on her therefore she

starts to do a little virtue signaling

uh and then she turns on the white guy’s

beat to show that she is down with the

struggle only 2.5 percent of those top

critics were women of color this blonde

white woman from Southern California

sure and then then it turns into like

this rant about film critics that 67% of

the top critics reviewing the 100

highest-grossing movies in 2017 were

white males film critics being mostly

white men right and then there’s there’s

she broke down the statistics right and

then she’s like I don’t care what a 40

year old white guy has

to say about right dude white dude had

to make it sound more condescending yes

I don’t care what a 40 year old white

dude has to say about a wrinkle in time

because that movie wasn’t made for him I

do not need a 40 year old white dude to

tell me what didn’t work for him about a

wrinkle in time it wasn’t made for him I

want to know what that film meant to

women of color too biracial women to

teen women of color to teens

I’m sure there’s lots of white male

critics that have watched movies that

quote weren’t made for them and said

that there were great films well I think

there’s there’s a the kernel of what she

was probably trying to say is a positive

thing but I think the way she expressed

it was like the worst possible way sure

I watched the documentary you’re

certainly called horde and waar it’s

only streaming on shutter we’re not

sponsored by shutter but it’s a horror

streaming service it’s a documentary

about the history of african-american

representation in horror kind of framed

from like naive Living Dead to get out

and so it’s all interviewing you know

black filmmakers black actors and

there’s one part it’s a really good

documentary but there’s one part in

particular where they’re talking about

the movie Candyman which is one of my

favorite horror movies of the 90s and

they bring up things about Candyman that

I never would have thought of because

they come from you know a different life

experience different background

different history I was like that’s

great

like I just they’ve made me look at this

movie in a way that I wouldn’t have

otherwise some more voices is a good

thing that’s all she had to say but by

like making it this weird condescending

snarky like I don’t need to listen to

white dude it just comes across so

bizarre different movies speak to

different people of different races ages

genders but she’s she’s making it out at

least from what I saw that there needs

to be more diversity in film criticism

which is such a small like it’s the

least important thing in the whole wide

world you know what I mean and we’re

saying that as people that review movies

but it’s very very true in terms of in

terms of social justice yes it is the

least important thing film criticism

yeah and and that’s the other thing to

point out too is that what we’re

talking about movies like a wrinkle in

time like I know that was based on a

book but it’s like Captain Marvel the

Star Wars movies like these are big

generic entertainment we know we’re not

talking about moonlight like tangerine

which is a movie from a few years ago

that I really loved that was about

african-american trans prostitutes and

it’s a fantastic movement and what are

what are their review scores Jay a movie

about a black transgendered prostitute

doesn’t speak to a 40 year old white man

but I could betcha

dollars to doughnuts a whole bunch of 40

year old white men gave that movie a

good review her logic was comparing the

demographics of film critics to the

demographics of the population this is a

huge disconnect from the US population

breakdown of 30 percent white men 30%

white women 20 percent men of color and

20 percent women of color final note on

this diversity good white dudes bad well

that’s that’s the thing is like she did

those comments and it blew up and then

you have the like like the angry

internet nerds that like have dwelled on

it since like I heard those comments I

was like wow she sounds like a dingbat

and then I moved on but then you have

these like there are people that do like

YouTube videos every day complaining

about brie Larson like she’s just

another Hollywood actor so it’s like you

know it’s just like everybody’s just

lost their mind

it does feel that way yeah because

you’re you’re taking a struggle a

legitimate struggle in in many arenas

and many jobs and professions and you’re

kind of like pushing it into other areas

where well you’re pushing into something

that she knows a good review can change

your life it changed mine

and that’s like the she was one of the

people that was pushing for the the kind

of crowd funding to pay for

underprivileged little girls to go see

Captain Marvel this is the least

important movie that’s ever been made in

the history of cinema

this is empowering if you have

superhuman abilities and can fly into

space

Captain Marvel only has power because

she stood too close to an engine that

exploded in the face

not because of feminism yeah and so it’s

it’s essentially a very bad message

other people besides white dudes like

Star Wars and would love the opportunity

to do a set visit did you enjoy playing

such a strong heroic female character

and if so why please welcome Kelly Marie

Tran also known as Rose chica so I’m

doing the rest of the cost today as well

and of course there’s going to be some

Star Wars fan boys that know everything

about these films like one of the most

pleasurable things to sit there

yesterday at Skywalker Ranch and see you

come on screen in your character thank

you so much general Hux what’s his

relationship going into the last Jedi

with kylo Ren is it really hard to kind

of like be in this movie and not say

anything I mean you’re walking a really

thin line here first of all congrats

you’re in a Star Wars movie this is

insane stories I can you tell me a

little bit about the movie about your

character in the movie I can tell you a

lot about my character you say I only

know one truth it’s time for the Jedi to

end and I’m also saying I don’t hate

white dudes I’m just saying we need to

be conscious of our bias and do our part

to make sure that everyone is in the

right

there’s there’s a there’s a very easy

way to say more diverse voice when it

comes to criticism film criticism art

criticism is a great thing because then

you get more perspectives and more point

of view say I just said it

underrepresented people women go out and

become film critics cuz we need we need

those voices too I’m brie Larson that’s

my statement and then she walks

backwards out of the room

[Laughter]

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would you like to know what you really

are

should we just get into spoilers ok

spoilers now that we’ve ranted about

brie Larson there’s a plot revelation

that is literally right out of space cop

where the evil aliens turn out to be

good aliens actually and like that guy I

liked him I like this a little bit more

he’s trying to get back to his family

oh this is kind of sweet no bad guy

switcheroo yeah it was fine yeah I think

it was kind of a spoiler essentially

because the Kree are villains already

their films and guardians of the galaxy

we see the I don’t know the actor’s name

but the guy that in the first guardians

of the galaxy note we’ll Ronan’s in it

too but even before he shows up we see

in free Larson’s kind of her team

there’s the the one guy that was at the

very beginning of guardians of the

galaxy star-lord who legendary outlaw

when star-lords like I’m starting oh

yeah that guy’s Batman drew Houseman

it’s like oh so these are bad guys the

Amistad guy was he now was that I think

that was his first room oh well I I

didn’t like her performance cuz I didn’t

know what she was doing I don’t know how

much of that is her and how much is the

direction cuz that’s the other thing

that kind of fell flat for me like I

said it had all the typical Marvel

hallmarks the occasional like kind of

light-hearted humorous moments and none

of those landed for me at all like

everything just felt off yeah it’s like

like like autopilot like the movie was

made on autopilot and no pun intended

yeah

in the clouds I mean I know that that’s

kind of a complaint about a lot of the

earlier Marvel movies they’re all just

kind of bland but what they usually get

right at the very least is that the main

character there’s usually like Ant Man

like that is the most forgettable movie

ever but you know Paul Rudd’s great is

that man he’s better in the later movies

but still it does a good job of

establishing that character I mean the

big overall theme of the movie is you

know obviously her breaking free from

her control by Jude Law yeah and and

really unleashing the full potential of

her Captain Marvel powers and she’s

being used her memory suppressed being

used by the Kree as part of a like elite

squad to take I guess eliminate the

scroll yes the Kree and the scroll yeah

again I’m confused I kept mine you say

the crawl which which is confusing both

of those names together but normally I

would kind of like be okay with a

nonlinear storytelling method of jumping

around and oh you got to find ways to

get her on the fact that you’re making

another origin movie exactly and the

origin movie you know goes from A to B

yeah and and this one I kind of would

have preferred if it started off like

you know come on Carole you can’t you

can try to the go-carts with the boys

Carole you’re just a little girl her

father or you know and then Carroll or I

draw and crashes it I told you not to

ride the go-carts with the boys and then

her struggles in the Air Force and get

to know the character so you care about

them yeah yeah yeah all that you know

like hey she’s in the Air Force they’re

in the bar they’re singing karaoke and

then they have they that’s all done in

like yeah the one guy was like he’s like

hey lady you can’t fly with the big boys

yeah Iceman character and you know it’s

like the struggle and then the the

struggle of the harder it is the more

satisfying it is when it pays off one

sure

you have a little scene where you know

she’s flying against Iceman and you know

he you can’t make Mach 1 you’re just a

girl and then she’s flying the plane and

he’s he’s I’m a man you can’t do better

than me and she cuts him off and the guy

he crashes into a manure truck why not

sure Carol did it she bit him in the

races just like she did in the link yeah

we’re gonna do we brought it brought in

the special scientist lady

her name’s Annette Bening and she’s

working on a secret project and since

you won that race you tracted the

attention of the higher-ups in the air

force and you’re gonna be the first

female ever to to fly this top-secret

test mission I want to bring along my

friend black lady come on cuz she’s a

damn good pilot too okay bring along

your friend black lady so that she knows

how to fly the spaceship at the end of

the film and then you know the accident

happens and then maybe like while she’s

going on her adventures with Jude Law we

know she’s doing some bad stuff and she

doesn’t know it I don’t know

and then she’s redeemed at the end yeah

but you can’t you can’t build up a

movies worth of characterization in a

little like snippet at the end yeah yeah

that’s what was weird is like there’s

that montage ever standing up and that’s

really all we get tell me about this

dream

anything you know it’s closing you down

makes you going well that’s the other

thing too I was thinking of because it

starts in space and she’s got her space

crew and they go on missions and stuff

and she’s just acting like a modern

earth woman you know and like there was

like a disconnect there for me where

it’s like if and then she comes to earth

and is like well if you’re gonna be the

fish-out-of-water stuff she should be

because she’s raised by aliens or her

memories been wiped and all she knows is

this alien life ever be different and

then she regains her humanity or

something you know but I enjoyed it

everything everything all the pieces are

there but everything’s just off you

needed to have that scene yeah where she

acts I’m trying to think of a movie

that’s that’s almost similar to that

where a human is is raised completely

outside of Earth and they come back yeah

but you need that scene where her and

her friend come on let’s go let’s go

back to that bar and do karaoke and then

they put on like girls just want to have

fun or something Cyndi Lauper and she’s

still acting alien like girl she’s like

yelling into the thing no no no no no

and then like maybe like the music kind

of like brings her back a little yeah

she gets into it something a thaws her

out and to be more human again

yes you’re exactly right yeah she’s

basically the same through the holes

just sassy – Jude Law in the beginning

and then then they go to earth and not

much change there no not a lot of care

that’s the most surprising things that’s

usually even the weaker Marvel movies

that’s what they usually get right did

you have a rough day agent fury

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yeah and it’s also weird

that this because this takes place in

the 90s and so aside from I guess we can

talk about the 90s references or

whatever but more than that the fact

that they’ve now kind of retro actively

because it Marvel movies have been going

on for over ten years now they’ve retro

actually made her like the most

important person in the entire Marvel

Universe the Avengers is named after her

she’s technically now the first event

she’s technically now the first avenger

they got to retitle that are very titled

Captain America movie this is what we

learned from the film how the tesseract

got to earth which ties in with the

first Avengers movie which is important

not really inside the tesseract is one

of the Infinity stones yes so it’s not

important it’s a MacGuffin

it’s a MacGuffin that fuels the plots of

several films right so it’s said how

Nick Fury realized that space aliens are

real and that we need an avenging team

Avengers how Nick Fury got his eyepatch

Nick Fury using a piece of scotch tape

to pull a fingerprint off from when the

guy his his a badge then using that on

the doorknob the control panel thing

yeah was the most clever thing I’ve seen

and then Captain Marvel says I just blow

the doors open with my laser hands yeah

and she could have done that the whole

time so her not doing that to help him

out earlier just kind of makes her look

inconsiderate she also steals a

motorcycle early on but but J well the

guy was being the guy was being a douche

he was being douchey it was okay so it’s

okay to steal his vehicle but then

they’re hanging out in the bar and she

shoots her laser fists at the jukebox so

she destroys private profits or his

property not paying for it yeah I think

they’re trying to make it like cute and

funny but it’s just not if it were else

yeah it all falls flat but remember the

90s they don’t go too overboard with it

early on there was like there’s

blockbuster and then there’s RadioShack

and though there’s some songs that was

like oh no I think I may ease up I think

the tipping point was

no doubt just a girl that was cringing

that that made my skin crawl

yeah I made my eyes roll back in my head

I mean in the guardians of the galaxy

movies they these all sorts of pop songs

but sort of motivated by something you

have a Peter quill with his you know his

cassette play is yes man he has an

emotional connection to those songs

because they remind him of his mom and

here just no doubt starts playing for no

reason I mean I guess you can do that

other movies these pop songs but in in

that instance if it was a action scene

on earth maybe be fine but in that

situation it just seemed bizarre it was

it was diabetic music it was just it was

a weird choice well it’s just a girl you

know it’s I’m just a girl oh I get it

yeah oh I get a message I don’t know if

there was a message with Nirvana

come-as-you-are maybe that’s how she

learns to be who she really is

come as you are is that like a personal

attack or something I actually I

actually like shifted in my seat because

I could feel Kurt Cobain rolling in his

grave underneath me Kurt Cobain was

incinerated j-o and his ashes scattered

to the wind

after Courtney Love

and doesn’t have a strong female

character just as an empty shell that

can do anything by the end of the movie

my same problem with Superman

he’s not interesting because he can do

anything and he’s completely

impenetrable well they they made her I

mean she’ll be less interesting in the

next film I guess but they made her

powers sort of subdued a little well

yeah you have to or you don’t have a

movie but then at the end she goes full

force yeah but that was the end so I’m

okay with that I really don’t care that

I mean like this was the connective

tissue between Avengers infinity war and

avengers endgame like just to tell you

who this super powerful ultra being is

that’s going to come and help the

Avengers stop Thanos I guess right yeah

I would prefer if the Avengers didn’t

have Captain Marvel and they just had to

do it themselves their little ragtag

group of mismatched characters and and

that we spent years developing that’s

the other weird thing like I said the

idea that she’s now like the center of

the entire cinematic universe just by

retconning so then the idea that yeah

she’s gonna come into endgame it feels

like that should be kind of a closure to

this kind of chapter of the Marvel

movies all these characters are fenced

along with I think after this like

Robert Downey jr. is out I think Captain

America’s out some have a send-off and

then yeah and then take a break from all

these [ __ ] movies but the idea of

like yeah and now we got a shoehorn in

Captain Marvel I’m not sure if this is a

proper comparison but I was thinking

about you mentioned infinity war was

similar to Empire Strikes Back okay so

in between Empire Strikes Back and

Return the Jedi we have solo a Star Wars

story that’s what this kind of felt like

yeah well yeah it’s not like you’ve

learned anything super important in this

movie that you need to know for endgame

this is the backstory of the guy who’s

going to blow up the shield generator on

Endor not the best comparison cuz you

know I see what we’re going you see what

I’m going when I do you see what I’m

going away I thought where it’s like

okay okie and game is the perfect name

for there

the next film and take a break well but

they share all we have spider-man far

from home coming out I am though that’s

going to be I assume that’s going to be

a pre infinity war storyline

I don’t know spider-man turn to dust

just like Kurt Cobain okay got him so

yeah it’s got to be pre infinity or it’s

post and the entire existence of the

movie is a spoiler yes this this takes

place after endgame

oh well there’s the beat Thanos and

change history

now spider-man’s in Rome it’ll end with

the other 50% of life in the universe

dissolving and then everybody’s is dead

and then it’s just then we just like

watch like ultra time-lapse of the

universe like just stars burning out

cold death as they call it right just

all the lights going out in the universe

like and then the screen just goes black

like the end of lars von trier’s

melancholia and then it just stays black

screen for like an hour and everyone’s

like when’s the post-credits scene gonna

happen through this way for the

post-credits scene yeah

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I’m not going to fight your war

I’m gonna end it well Jay how do we wrap

this up well Mike what would you

recommend Captain Marvel you liked it a

little more than me I guess you seem to

be okay with the actual movie itself

like I said it was okay I had some fun

moments and some good set pieces and a

little clunky in the narrative way in

developing her character which is a big

problem because it’s the centerpiece of

the film but it’s certainly the only

thing that’s gonna make the movie stand

out between infinity or an end game yeah

I kind of fumbles that in my opinion I

think like this movie is heavily reliant

on a crutch because it is a Marvel movie

one it’s got that stamp and its

connective between two big Marvel movies

and it has all the history for a while

like when these characters were running

around I kept thinking of that Jupiter

ascending movie for some reason I think

it was like the elf ears or the dog nose

or something I have more in common with

a dog than I have with you you’re the

first person to think of that movie in

three years I know but it was a lot of

the you know the spaceships and you know

and I was like okay what if it took

Jupiter ascending and then just like

through Nick Fury in there and a

tesseract and you know and then then

just said hey this is not a movie the

this a you know a Channing Tatum with

the dog knows his is a superhero that

you never heard of – just trust us and

then everyone would be like this was

great 89% around tomatoes score you’re

not a man I kind of had that feeling

like this if if completely removed from

the Marvel Universe yeah as a 100%

standalone film no other comic-book

movies were in existence and they said

here’s our science fiction film about a

lady who stood too close to an engine

that exploded in her face and and then

turned into a space spaces laser and and

then a cat ate a cube and had tentacles

come out of its mouth

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what the [ __ ] is this yeah it’s terrible

well that’s why Marvel was smart to ease

into the cosmic stuff they didn’t really

go full into it and sold guardians of

the galaxy that had the benefit of

having a really great writer behind it

that could flush it out and make it

interesting and and knew how to handle

the humor a little better yes the

tongue-in-cheek fish-out-of-water or fun

of that kind of fun stuff that audiences

can relate to yeah I guess I would

recommend Captain Marvel looking at it

as a standalone film no but as a piece

of the MCU puzzle

yeah it’s watchable I’m just saying what

I think sure that’s what I do I’ll say

what I think so J direct then Captain

Marvel

I’m gonna say no I think it was the

first Marvel movie I haven’t recommended

it was just it was just a whole lot of

nothing I was kind of bored just because

you know I mean it moved it a

decent-enough pace but I just wasn’t

engaged by anything did you find Sam

Jackson to be more of a protagonist I

thought he was great in the movie I

guess we didn’t mention him but Nick

Fury just sort of pops in and out but

him as like when he first shows up he’s

just like an agent man yeah I’m the very

very early stages of forming some kind

of something and what’s going on and

then by the end of the movie he’s

changed man he truly has a character arc

yeah more so than the protagonist when

she learns that all she gotta do is pull

that thing off actually become laser

lady I destroy the cosmos

I’m laser lady

so yeah I’m sure captain marvel it’s

it’s a it’s not a resounding like

recommendation but it’s a yeah yeah well

because I’m at least when you watch

endgame you’ll know who the [ __ ] is

showing up because that’s what I’m

really looking forward to that final

Avengers movie

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