Posted on 02/13/2019 8:26:11 AM PST by EdnaMode
Low-hanging fruit.
I was a comic book nut as a kid. Spent all my paper route-coke bottle deposit-lawn mowing money on them and model cars, etc.
I will not ruin my fondest childhood memories on some liberal reinterpretation of what America is, was or will be........................
Of course she has to be perfect because they are making a statement: girl power! if they made her flawed or having weaknesses that wouldn't work for the message. But people don't like to just be sitting there saying "oh, she messed up that guy! oh, now she wrecked five guys at once! Can't wait for the next awesome thing she does" for the whole movie.
Luke Skywalker was impatient and reckless and consequently got his tail kicked in Empire Strikes Back yet everyone considers that the best one. Flaws and growth past them is essential. It set up the next film where Luke has learned and grown and is ready to triumph. And even then, he struggles and almost lets himself be corrupted before ultimately winning. But they took all that out of these new movies to make a point.
Now they are doing the exact same thing with the Marvel movies.
Hairstyle is marginally better, but still wrong for her...............
Youzza! I see no sag!!
I am not a comic book fan so these comics made into movies have little appeal to me.
However what does irritate me about this is Captain Marvel had established canon - a large body of work with the character as male. Ok Hollywood can’t stand the idea of Captain Marvel as a male character fine ignore the work. Retire it. Hollywood show some creativity and dream up a new superhero character. Show some of that artistic genius you’re always claiming that exists in Hollywood! Trouble is they won’t show any creativity because they can’t. It doesn’t exist here any more. Too easy to just copy! Just slide into the sea Hollywood you won’t be missed. At least in your present form.
She’s been out since the 70’s and was a support character since the 60s prior to having powers. Been retconned multiple times as the art/writing was usually mediocre and couldn’t get momentum.
Movie will do okay , but don’t think it will surpass WW. Its supposedly a setup for the next Avengers movie in some way, so that will likely draw ticket goers.
We’ll see how it turns out, but it won’t lose money of that I’m certain.
So depends on which Captain Marvel.
The original was a Fawcett character similar to Superman, now known as Shazam.
Fawcett didn’t renew the rights in the 60s and Marvel comics created a new male character from space. Likely the one your thinking of. He died of cancer - big to do in the late 70s/early 80s.
This character got her powers from being around him as a supporting character somehow (as I recall) and has been around since then.
More feminist garbage.
Marvel is for sissies. Don’t waste your money.
“Captain Marvel had established canon - a large body of work with the character as male.”
Which Captain Marvel do you mean? The original Fawcett character who would say SHAZAM? He was the alter ego of Billy Batson, a boy who, by speaking the magic word “SHAZAM” (acronym of six “immortal elders”: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury), transformed himself into a costumed adult with the powers of superhuman strength, speed, flight and other abilities. He was the most popular superhero of the 40’s sand sold more comics than even Superman.
The original Captain Marvel went kaput in 1953 because Fawcett got sued by DC who claimed the the character was just a copy of Superman.
That character out of the picture allowed Marvel to take over the name and make its own version of a Captain Marvel of which there have been at least 3 Marvel iterations.
I can appreciate how anyone could be fund of the original character because he was a great superhero. He sold tons of comics. But I can’t fault Marvel for taking the opportunity to hijack the name. It made sense for a company named Marvel to do so.
My favorite Captain Marvel was the Kree, originally name Mar-Vell. The character was pretty lame until Jim Starlin took him over and gave him cosmic power. Great, great character who unfortunately died of cancer.
Still, Marvel owned the rights to the name and used it for a long time until they found a character who could be made successful. I think they found it with Carol Danvers, but I honestly don’t know how that character had done commercially...until now. I’m sure this movie will be very successful.
You know far far more about the Captain Marvel canon then me. However you made my point there is a canon - a body of past work. Why copy it! Unless one is intellectually & creatively lazy. Which is Hollywood to a T now!
Did she iron that dress before she took it off?
They didn’t copy it. They just used the name. Everything else about the characters is different.
Ironically DC, who put the original Captain Marvel out of business somehow got the rights to it. They just can’t use the Captain Marvel name. He is now called Shazam who also has a movie (from DC/Warner) coming out this year. Maybe that original canon will be built upon. I’m looking forward to that movie, but DC has had mixed success, at best, with their comic book adaptations.
She also needed an ass stand in because her’s is flat.
She has BIG muscles. My mouth is watering just looking at them.
“She claims it was nine months of working out that did it.”
Gotta give kudos to her plastic surgeon ... 9 months of working with her doctor fixed her rack right up.
Thank you for the warning...I guess that can happen without me.
If everything is different then they should use a different name!
Anyway enough ranting by me. Because I am not going to see the movie. I have equal disdain for what has happened to Dr Who, and I am not a Who fan at all!
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