Oh, and the opening MCU animation with all of Stan Lee's cameos instead of the Marvel characters totally made me cry. That was such a nice touch.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
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Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises
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Steph L. - Mar 09, 2019 5:58:21 am PST #2491 of 4006
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2019 7:37:06 am PST #2492 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Even if the presence of the refugee Skrull on Mar-Vell's ship didn't make much sense to me...
My head cannon is that The Skrulls were on Mar-Vell's ship the entire time. Mar-Vell was transporting Skrull refugees to safety, when they came across C-53 and detected the Tessaract's energy signature. Mar-Vell realized she could use the Tessaract to power an FTL drive, so she went to the surface and either stole the Tessaract, or "borrowed" it from Howard Stark in exchange for helping him invent the quadjet, and he helped her set up her research.
The irony is that if she had realized the Tessaract was the goddamn SPACE STONE, she could have just used it to open a portal instead of trying to invent a FTL drive.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2019 3:28:57 pm PST #2493 of 4006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What I wondered is if Mar-Vell had her own Kree interstellar cruiser, couldn't they have just kept going in one direction until they were either too many jumps ahead or too far away from a jump point for the Kree to ever follow that far and look for them?
Jesse - Mar 09, 2019 4:34:49 pm PST #2494 of 4006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I liked it fine, but I really wish that montage of Carol getting up had come a half-hour in, instead of a half-hour from the end. I'm all set with origin stories, I guess.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2019 4:59:31 pm PST #2495 of 4006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I feel bad about not liking it more.)
msbelle - Mar 09, 2019 5:04:20 pm PST #2496 of 4006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse, that is how I was with Wonder Woman. Not sure when I'll get to the theater for this.
billytea - Mar 10, 2019 3:32:58 am PDT #2497 of 4006
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I took Ryan to see Captain Marvel this afternoon. We enjoyed it very much. So did the rest of the audience; in the closing credits scene, where she turns up in the Avengers HQ, the audience broke into applause. Looks like there's a lot of good feeling for the prospect of spending more time with Carol Danvers.
Question for those more in the know than I am: in the comics, do the Skrulls and Kree get presented the way they were in this movie? I only remember hearing about the Skrulls as bad guys.
Tom Scola - Mar 10, 2019 7:14:44 am PDT #2498 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In the comics, the Kree and Skrulls are both antagonists, but the Skrulls tend to be the worse of the two races. Presenting the Skrulls as sympathetic and the Kree as straight-up genocidal is a switch from the comics. Some comic fans are upset that Marvel is signaling it won't be adapting the "Secret Invasion" storyline from the comics, while other comic fans are relieved.
P.M. Marc - Mar 10, 2019 9:43:10 am PDT #2499 of 4006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
As Secret Invasion was DUMB, I am relieved.
Also, there have been sympathetic Skrulls in the past. Also also, I haven't given up hope for an eventual Young Avengers thing. (Totally related.)
Jessica - Mar 10, 2019 10:34:25 am PDT #2500 of 4006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really wish this movie had been made before Iron Man, because the weakest parts for me were the careful tiptoeing around MCU canon to make sure they didn't break anything. (And, as I said on Twitter, I could have done without Uncanny Valley Coulson - just because de-aging CG exists doesn't mean it has to be used EVERYWHERE.
And I remain annoyed that the last scene wasn't given to the title character. Give her the big hero moment and END THE MOVIE. Put the fanservice Avengers scene in the post-credits.
That said, I recommend seeing it twice because the mytharc stuff (important for keeping track of things before Endgame but not so much for this specific movie) was much easier to ignore the second time around, and as a character movie, it's GREAT.
(I was also iffy on the I'm Just A Girl music cue the first time, but now I love it, and wish they'd leaned in even more and made it diegetic. The ship was already full of 90s memorabilia, how hard would it have been for someone to bump into a CD player during the fight?)