The Marvels - MCU

As usual the trailer shows too much. Guess I won't be watching another one.

Me neither. They are airing the last episode this week. Not liking phase 5. 

It's so frustrating though isn't it? Like, I want to be able to watch trailers for stuff I'm excited about, but they throw so much information in there that can ruin all the anticipation for a movie in about 3 minutes. I find when I go to the cinema now I end up having to look at my feet and try not to take in the audio after about a minute of each trailer!

I held off watching the Marvels trailer until after episode 6 of Secret Invasion, and while episode 6 of Ms Marvel lifted my spirits after the disappointing Love & Thunder, this trailer didn't have the same effect, the first teaser was better. I'm still hyped for the film though, I reckon Iman Vellani is going to steal the show.

Are you okay?

Where are these man babies? I haven't heard anything negative about this movie in real life, and the trailers seem to be flying now. The comments are very positive. This movie will do very well.

Even today, there are plenty of men in forums, YouTube, and elsewhere who take pot shots at Larson and Captain Marvel either claiming that the film was the worst of that phase, a failure, that she's hated by the rest of the marvel cast, that she's a horrible individual etc etc. They're not coming out of the woodwork yet, but they will.

To be fair captain marvel was awful so whatever potshots it took were well merited. Its easy to dismiss the criticism as mysogyny, i just think it was simply a bad movie. Bre larson can act, anyone who's seen "Room" can testify to that but she was ill suited to the role. Emily blunt would've been perfect for it but if it was offered to her at some stage I can understand why she passed.

I'll watch this new movie but my expectations are low considering its predecessor.

It's a plodding hodge podge of a film. Would agree on the kids movie aspect mentioned.

Bottom line: it's a poorly made movie.

Light and fun movie - I'd rate it a good bit higher than the original and probably around middle of the post Endgame group.

Can't go into too much of the positives without spoilering. The three characters work well together and Iman Vellani is fantastic, which will be unsurprising to anyone who saw Ms Marvel. She should be one of the stars of the MCU going forward. Felt the fight scenes were great, given their uniqueness and were a smart way to depower Captain Marvel. Comedy was good, though a few did fall flat.

There will be complaints from the usual 'man babies', as described earlier in the thread, who will moan that this is an attack on them simply for a film existing that stars women, especially ones of different races. Having said that, there are plenty of actual flaws. Standard Marvel forgettable villain. The tight run time makes it feel rushed at times, but likely were the right decision. Special effects were hit and miss, mostly hit for me though the giant IMAX screen I saw it in always makes it better than smaller screens.

Feel it is a film that should and deserves to do a lot better that it will, but totally understand why it is tanking, some due to their choices and also elements beyond their control. Believe when people get to watch it on Disney+ later it will be pretty well received, presuming the effects hold up.

For those going to see it, the 'post credit' scenes are a bit strange. There is a scene before the credits which looks like it would have been perfect to slot into the credits yet they have it in the main film and then have only one mid credit scene and none at the end. Makes me think one scene might have been pulled very late given the current reshuffle going on within the MCU. The mid-credit scene is however a big one

Fully agree on not needing to see the other shows. Obviously you'd have more background to the characters but you don't miss much.

I'd argue that given some flashbacks that you could even go in without seeing the original Captain Marvel.

I think for many the 'feeling' that they are missing something key is often far, far bigger than anything they are missing out on in reality. This tends coming from people, like that guy from Twitter, who got every reference in the past when they watched everything and it now annoys them that they are experiencing the movie like the majority of the general audience have since day 1.

be interesting to see how the numbers will turn out this weekend, I had a quick look on the booking sites of Dundrum and the Point a few minutes before they started (8pm showings) and they only looked 1/6th booked, cant be a good sign as word of mouth isnt going to help the movie?

Lowest ever for the MCU.

thats a long way of saying the films are average- at best. The bar has been raised is true though, yet the success of the 2 big summer movies show that if you put out movies that capture the imagination, people will go to the cinema. What Marvel cant do is spend the bones of $300m on a non tent pole film and expect it to be a success, its designed to fail.