Captain Marvel - Literally, from "her" to "hero"

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I don't know if I'm alone, but isn't it too early to make predictions about this film's financial future?

The movie may not break a billion like Black Panther did, but I do think that it will make a decent profit.

That said, I do think that superhero genre as a whole may start to decline after "Endgame". Every jumping on point creates a jumping off point as well.

Agreed. I think the movie will do fine, but nowhere near the blockbuster glass ceiling-shattering ect ect that some people are claiming it will. Though if Brie doesn’t absolutely nail this, I’ll doubt the future of the MCU as I don’t thing she has nearly the same amount of charisma and pull that RDJ did, if she gonna be the replacement as the “figurehead” of the movie’s from now on....

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Just checked my local cinemas and they have the same thing - nothing but Captain Marvel from the Friday, and over the weekend. That's, uh, unusual.

Not usually one to jump on conspiracy theories but that's a bloody consistent scheduling issue.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

My local theater hasn't put up times for any other movie yet, but based on how many showings they're advertising, they're only playing Captain Marvel on 2 of their 10 screens.

From my experience, theaters only advertise new releases a week or more in advance. If you're worried about your local theater, I'd give them until Tuesday or Wednesday to fill out their schedule.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Speaking as someone who worked in a movie theater years and years ago, save for big name releases, the schedule for movies didn’t really get planned out too far in advance, a week at most. It was so we’d know what movies to move to smaller theaters, what need more/less showing based on turnouts, ect.

If the schedules are still like that come Monday/Tuesday, then it’ll be suspicious.

 

[Kyria the Great]

All I know is that something smells very fishy considering that the owner of Fandango, who owns rotten tomatoes is run by an ex-Disney executive, it does start to really feel like Disney is really exerting their Goliath control over cinemas. It is ultimately for that reason that I won't see the movie opening weekend no matter the positive word of mouth.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I will point out too, as @SteelPlatedHeart says, cinemas tend to have set changeover days, unless they know something is going to have half decent demand.

In the case of Marvel movies, they tend to be dead certs for people piling in. With Black Panther being a near disaster with demand versus available screens in some areas of the US and UK.

In the UK's case, schedule changeover day is Thursday, ready for the heavy weekend traffic and people piling in. However, they've opened up booking early for what they expect will be the usual money-printing exercise.

Thing is though, there's usually a heavy promotional bliztkreig in the week/fortnight leading up to the movie's premier at the Chinese Theatre and London BFI's Southbank Cinema.

I've heard radio-fucking silence on this one.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Despite the woke bullshit the online film people are pushing, do you all think that Captain Marvel will have a RT score range between 80-85%?

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Black Panther has a RT score of 97% with an average rating of 8.26 and that movie was the definition of mediocre.

I think Captain Marvel will have to be a truly, undeniably awful film to get under an 80%.

 

[Absolutego]

Despite the woke bullshit the online film people are pushing, do you all think that Captain Marvel will have a RT score range between 80-85%?

It's going to be a repeat of Black Panther where the critic score is 100% for a few days post-embargo and there's an extremely forced media controversy the first time one of the more minor critics dares to admit it's ok but not amazing.

One interesting thing I noticed is, in my area, all the theaters that are listed on, but don't sell tickets through, Fandango have scheduled screenings of non-Captain Marvel movies. I almost wonder if it's a bug related to some ticket promotion they were running in conjunction with the film's release.

 

[Muttnik]

I don't understand this shit. I just really don't. I don't know why they could fling such a blank-slate female protagonist at us with utterly no flaws and expect us to eat it up. Remember what they did with Rey? Yeah, people don't appreciate it when your main character is completely boring, regardless what gender they are.

~Powerlevelling a little

So when I was a kid, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had just entered the scene. I was too little to understand all of it but when I got older, I was able to. THAT was a great female lead. Yeah, Whedon's a wet fart and we all hate him, me included. But you had a female protagonist that went through a lot of heavy shit, does some pretty horrible things herself, but still manages to make it through everything while remaining likable. Buffy herself is pretty goddamn OP but through training, hard-work, and the strong desire to protect others. She dies like two times over the course of the series and each time it fucks her up, requiring a lot of time to emotionally recover from the trauma. Needless to say, she continued the legacy of Ripley and Sarah Connor by being exactly what a great strong female character should be--vulnerable, scared, but willing to push past those feelings to be the hero people need.

When I see Captain Marvel or Rey or whatever boring burned-toast female protag Hollywood lobs at me these days, it's boring as FUCK and condescending towards everyone else. No one wants a walking talking machine that just goes through the motions of the plot with little to no effort exerted. No one wants some smug smirking asshole that explains to you why being a man means that you're awful by default. No little girl wants to look at such a dull, boring film and go "Oh yeah, that's what I wanna be like when I'm grown up!". People recognize the room for emotional weakness or fear and the powerful sensation of overcoming it. People recognize warmth and characters that embrace everyone out of their innate sense of responsibility or morality. People want someone LIKABLE.

 

[MI 814]

Just leaving this indigenous trash here.

Also Rey was from Star Wars which people were hyped for and always had strong female characters, just they didn't know how bad of a character she would be.

And Ghostbusters 2016 was a failure and isn't She-Ra unpopular?

 

[friedshrimp]

LOL strawman everywhere. Literally almost nobody criticizes Wonder Woman and the criticism of Rey came to be AFTER the Force Awakens hit theaters, not before.

And, like, yeah, there are women out there who don't give a shit about these female characters, but funny how they're never taken into account by these people.

 

[Absolutego]

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Just leaving this indigenous trash here.

Also Rey was from Star Wars which people were hyped for and always had strong female characters, just they didn't know how bad of a character she would be.

And Ghostbusters 2016 was a failure and isn't She-Ra unpopular?

\>Portraying characters created by multinational corporations as messianic to own the manchildren

 

[Ruin]

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Just leaving this indigenous trash here.

Also Rey was from Star Wars which people were hyped for and always had strong female characters, just they didn't know how bad of a character she would be.

And Ghostbusters 2016 was a failure and isn't She-Ra unpopular?

Is this Tumblr art or someone making fun of Tumblr art? I can't tell.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

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Just leaving this indigenous trash here.

Also Rey was from Star Wars which people were hyped for and always had strong female characters, just they didn't know how bad of a character she would be.

And Ghostbusters 2016 was a failure and isn't She-Ra unpopular?

This is one steaming pile of ass right here.

 

[damian]

That's crazy, it's happening in the Caribbean too

Decided to check, nothing but Captain Marvel for the Caribbean from the 7th to the 11th (most stop showing dates up to the 11th)

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[RockVolnutt]

\>Portraying characters created by multinational corporations as messianic to own the manchildren

Is that really abnormal when the representation argument has hyped itself up to the point that people are claiming your entire path in life is determined by fictional characters "who look like you" and the default assumption is that people only enjoy media as self-insert "power fantasies" as if they lacked a sense of self?

I rather have manchildren complaining about their toy's arm being miscolored tbh.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Not sure if this is late but Tim Pool posted a video about Captain Marvel and her role in Endgame that showed some leaks behind the scenes. The leaks he got were from a Reddit user,

Apparently the script for Endgame had massive rewrites because the Russo brothers and the writers for Infinity War didn't want her in the movie because they wanted to ended with the original characters. However, Disney and Marvel forced them to include Captain Marvel in Infinity War, which the Russos refused. So Disney and Marvel agreed to the Russos that Captain Marvel didn't appear in Infinity War but had to be in Endgame.

Also, Endgame's budget apparently went up so they had to cut some of Brie Larson's action scenes out and replaced them with Captain America and Black Window in order to save costs. However, Larson threw a temper tantrum about it and Marvel filmed those scenes anyway.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Not sure if this is late but Tim Pool posted a video about Captain Marvel and her role in Endgame that showed some leaks behind the scenes. The leaks he got were from a Reddit user,

Apparently the script for Endgame had massive rewrites because the Russo brothers and the writers for Infinity War didn't want her in the movie because they wanted to ended with the original characters. However, Disney and Marvel forced them to include Captain Marvel in Infinity War, which the Russos refused. So Disney and Marvel agreed to the Russos that Captain Marvel didn't appear in Infinity War but had to be in Endgame.

Also, Endgame's budget apparently went up so they had to cut some of Brie Larson's action scenes out and replaced them with Captain America and Black Window in order to save costs. However, Larson threw a temper tantrum about it and Marvel filmed those scenes anyway.

As true as this sounds, I'm pressing X to doubt until I see more evidence: Disney's handling of the MCU (and the Russo brothers) has been pretty hands off so far, and this seems like a significant shift in attitude w/r/t their golden goose. This story sounds... not too good to be true, but possibly too on the nose to be true.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

My mother saw the poster to Captain Marvel and remarked, "Is that Nicole Kidman?" Good job Brie for getting mistaken for a woman twice your age.

Not sure if this is late but Tim Pool posted a video about Captain Marvel and her role in Endgame that showed some leaks behind the scenes. The leaks he got were from a Reddit user,

Apparently the script for Endgame had massive rewrites because the Russo brothers and the writers for Infinity War didn't want her in the movie because they wanted to ended with the original characters. However, Disney and Marvel forced them to include Captain Marvel in Infinity War, which the Russos refused. So Disney and Marvel agreed to the Russos that Captain Marvel didn't appear in Infinity War but had to be in Endgame.

Also, Endgame's budget apparently went up so they had to cut some of Brie Larson's action scenes out and replaced them with Captain America and Black Window in order to save costs. However, Larson threw a temper tantrum about it and Marvel filmed those scenes anyway.

The post he talks about is here:

r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers - I have some things to share about Avengers Endgame.

530 votes and 573 comments so far on Reddit

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and a follow up with plot spoilers:

r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers - A couple corrections to today's leaks...

79 votes and 61 comments so far on Reddit

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