1960s Captain Marvel comic: 
Posted on 02/16/2019 3:44:42 PM PST by Widget Jr
I previously wrote how Brie Larson is a huge gamble for Disney and Kevin Feige - especially following the failure of Star Wars: The Last Jedi - and now the Captain Marvel movie looks to be in big, big trouble, unfortunately.
Back in January, following the NCAA trailer, it was reported that Captain Marvel was projected to have a massive $160 million opening weekend with some estimates even offering $180 million.
However, the bad news for Kevin Feige and Captain Marvel is that those projections have now dropped upwards of $80 million (note: article has been updated to reflect million and not percent), as it is reported the flick may only open around $100 million...
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Both DC comics and Marvel comics created unrelated characters named “Captain Marvel”. The confusion lead to DC to rename their version as “Shazaam”. Interestingly enough, there’s also a Shazaam movie being released soon.
In another weird coincidence, both the UK and USA have completely unrelated comic strip characters called “Dennis the Menace”, which were both created in 1951. Their “Dennis the Menace” is a psychopath who would most likely beat up and torture our “Dennis the Menace”, who is just a pesky blond kid.
Yep, exactly. The argument seems to be that its "feminist propaganda" because the actress they cast in the title role is a far-left loon in real life. Well, who isn't in Hollywood? That literally describes about 90% of their actors.
Anyway I plan to see the movie in March and I got invited to some premiere party where we get free popcorn and a medallion. Looks like it will be a lot more fun than Wonder Woman. Love the retro 90s marketing. They're not only setting the movie in 1995, they're making it look like it was filmed in that era and the marketing reflects that. Seems to me they're marketing it more towards our age demographic (people who were teens in the 90s) than men-hating third wave feminists.
$100 million opening is still massive.
1960s Captain Marvel comic:
Nope, never watched “Shazam.” I wasn’t a comic book kid (other than for the likes of Garfield or Heathcliff), so I was never ga-ga for super hero stuff. I remember going to Opryland around 40 years ago and some buff dude was in Captain America garb (or one of those characters) and he picked me up and grabbed my midsection so tightly I thought I was going to have a bowel movement right there. There’s a photo of it in the family album, and you can tell I was none too happy about it.
Given the picture of the character, she looks more like she should’ve been played by Margot Robbie or Alice Eve. Brie Larson doesn’t look anything like her.
The only Marvel/DC/whatever comic book movie I’ve seen is the first “Iron Man”. It was fine, but I have no interest in any other of these movies.
I can save you some time. Iron Man 2 and 3 were lousy and not worth the hype (especially 2!), but there are a number of good marvel films - high points for were Captain America 1 and 2, Ant Man, and Dr. Strange.
You don’t need to see them all or any of the “team up” movies, as they tend to be overstuffed and messy, and you’ll miss certain references and plot points if you haven’t watched all the previous movies. I thought Guardians of the Galaxy was WAY overrated and too silly with no likeable characters except one that they killed off. Black Panther was decent but the second coming that the “African American community” seems to think it is. The Incredible Hulk is underrated, as were all three Thor movies. It took me forever to get used to the liberal douchbag actor that replaced Edward Norton as The Hulk, so I’m glad there hasn’t been another stand alone Hulk movie.
What irks me is I’m far more of a DC fan but with a few rare exceptions, DC hasn’t done a decent adaptation of their characters in years. Marvel has been much more successful at making great movies from obscure characters, like Ant Man.
Granted, I never read any "Captain Marvel" comics as a kid but the movie looks fun.
The Ant-Man series is great. I loved the Dark Knight trilogy, and while I’m ostracized for saying so, I actually liked Justice League.
If I want to be preached to I’ll go to a church.
Excuse me, what did I say to you?
Someone who resembles that more recent version, and has the physique for it, is a soap actress on B&B named Courtney Hope. They have her on the show with a terrible red dye job, but she looks good with blonde hair.
Nothing FRiend. :)
I was responding to the makers of the movie and the SJW political propaganda underlying the movie.
I’m actually in close agreement with you.
Well, to be fair, Carol Danvers back then was known as Miss Marvel, not Captain Marvel (that was a man. An alien disguised as a man, but male nonetheless). She adopted the Captain Marvel moniker in 2012 after the original Captain Marvel died.
We’ll see. I’ll acknowledge your point that Hollywood’s composed of far-left lunatics, though. And quite frankly, I’d be a lot more concerned if a far-left loon was actually helming the film, not merely an actor in it. At least the actor can, you know, act like they’re not a leftist on the silver screen (unless they play a big role in the film’s development, like how Emma Watson insisted that Belle’s dress be toned down in the 2017 BATB remake). I’ve learned my lesson when learning George Lucas based the Rebels on the Vietcong and the Empire on Americans, and was clearly rooting for the Vietcong (and worse, implied in an AMC interview that he knew the VC were a terrorist group when he did it).
Eh, not really. Solo made little more than that amount, and even Disney wrote it off as an utter flop.
Now, maybe in the 1980s or 1990s, I could agree it would be considered a hit (after all, The Little Mermaid made near that amount and was considered a runaway hit), but right now? If Disney wrote Solo off as a flop, it’s a flop.
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