When I realized that the lead Skrull was being played by Ben Mendelsohn, I thought to myself, “this guy is a good actor, but he is always typecasted to be a villain. I would love to see him portray a different kind of role.” 30 minutes later...
I like how they left earth too, great characters, a great race to help and be friends and partners to humanity. But having them around as citizens of earth would completely negate the threat that HYDRA posed. Before going into CM I thought ”Great shapeshifting aliens undercover in SHIELD, how many secret groups have infiltrated humanity and none of these groups have found out about each other” But nope subverted and all the better for it, because how easy would it have been if a race of benevolent shapeshifting aliens actually operated in SHIELD as internal affairs just going everywhere making sure everything is on the up and up reporting to Fury. I suppose it's always possible they return and found S.W.O.R.D though. A potential S.W.O.R.D reference got dropped in Agents of shield. But the reference is made as question by a shield agent called YO-YO to Coulson. And Coulson replies basically ”No there's no reference to any such organization left to me in by fury in his files”
She didn't get the power because she was standing next to an engine that happened to explode. She got her powers because as a human she choose to destroy the engine to keep it out of the hands of an evil empire involved in a war she barley understood. She trusted Mar Vel and was willing to die to protect her invention from being taken. Symbolically she TOTALLY earned those powers....
Captain marvel didn't just stand next to an engine as it blew up. She shot it to explode it to prevent the enemy getting it. She was willing to die to stop him getting it
Jason Barnes Kane was stood right next to a jet engine? And besides did she think the stranger who just killed her mentor would spare her after destroying what he wanted
Tesseract was found by Howard Stark. During his time at SHIELD he founded PEGASUS to explore clean energy with the Tesseract. Then Marvell started to work(infiltrate) with SHIELD. That's how she got the Tesseract
They showed that at the end of Captain America the first Avenger. Stark was looking for Cap but found the Tesseract. Then years pasted and Shield found Rogers.
Is this all shit that happens in the TV shows and stuff like that? I don't remember Howard Stark creating PEGASUS at all. I don't think I had even heard of PEGASUS until this film. I have watched a few seasons of Agents of Shield and I don't think it was established in that but if it was on Agent Cater it was probably during the times I started day dreaming.
lol Captain Marvel didn’t just stand next to the engine and it blew up. She shot at it so that Jude Law’s character wouldn’t get it, and then it exploded. She didn’t know if she would live or die after that, but she still went through with it anyways.
@@jasonbarnes6898 bruh it's the engine of a prototype ship that Mar-vell said was capable of ending a war. I would think the explosion could be enough to kill me or at least blow some limbs off seeing as it's just a few feet away.
@@NaomiTCOOKIES you can expect a kick back but not death when an engine blows out it's never an explosion don't get engine mixed up with the gas tank and we all thought she meant the technology could change the world not that it was a nuke
@@jasonbarnes6898 In movies, cars explode at the drop of a hat. Anything happens to the engine and ka-boom even though it's very unrealistic and the explosions should hardly be that enormous but the characters always know to clear 20 feet away at the first sign of trouble. It's not so hard to think that, in a fictional film, shooting an advanced engine with an unknown laser gun at close range could be pretty lethal.
I really liked this movie. It has a rough start and some rubbery third act cgi but was pretty solid all around. I don't really get the complaint with how she got her powers. It wasn't just an accident that she was caught in that blast, it was because she chose to put her life at risk to save others by shooting the core. And it was that selfless act that directly led to her getting powers. I thought it was actually a great demonstration of character and a way to establish that she was heroic before getting powers... a very "Cap" moment. And while she dishes out damage she doesn't take very many big hits, so I'm wondering if she'll be more of a glass cannon.
She does take a few shots from ship blasters when out in space, but quickly recovers, but hits from Thanos or other Marvel big bads would probably make those blasters feel like nothing.
Good analysis. Aren’t the stones sentient? So it would add more to explain why her sacrifice was what made her capable of absorbing the power? Like how the tesseract directly sent Red Skull away, it chose her.
Sesshomaru474 If it was set in the first captain America film, it’s not retcon at all since it had been...ya know set since that long ago... that moment in Captain America had been one of the most questionable moments for so long.
Movie and Game reviews That’s clearly not it because he trusted the Avengers to save New York when the council didn’t in the first Avengers movie and Winter Soldier took place after that movie which is when Fury said that quote.
The engine's core was created with the Tesseract but that's like me building a reactor and using lightning in my Frankenstein lab to create a new kind of fission material to put in the reactor and Lois Lane falls in the reactor and becomes Fission Woman and you go "She's was given her powers by lightning!"
@Xetren It's my exact point that the lightning doesn't give the powers so it's a good comparison. Lightning isn't powering the fission material or the reactor, the material is in the reactor to react and give power. My point is that Carol isn't absorbing Tesseract-energy, she is absorbing lightspeed-engine-core-energy. The core was created by Mar-Vell using Tesseract-energy and understanding of the Tesseract but Carol is not a walking second Tesseract, she is a walking lightspeed-engine-core. Did the movie ever say anything about the Tesseract having the same energy signature?
This is how I like to think of Carol's powers: The tessaract chose to give her powers. This is the same tessaract that chose to not give Red Skull powers and banish him onto Vormir.
I saw Captain Marvel Wednesday night (in Australia) and really enjoyed it. Brie was great, seeing more Fury and Coulson was fun, Goose was scary (LOL) and the Skrull twist was pretty brilliant. I really liked Maria "Photon" Rambeau and her relationship with Carol. I teared up when they spoke about their past friendship and Monica, Maria's daughter, is just my kind of sassy. Like an even mini-er version of Shuri from Black Panther. I just love how capable and self-assured the upcoming generation of superhero is compared to the current line up. They're so much more proactive, like they want to create and help, without being blasted by alien tech or being born a God or being bitten by a spider and they're both girls which makes it even better, it'll be nice for boys to see girls with aspirations and the brains to back those dreams up 😊
Her power gain is like Flash. Flash was hit by random chemicals and lightning and got powers... and she got hit by an explosion of unknown alien tech powered by an infinity stone. Her powers are as "earned" as the Flash. Of course she started with her powers suppressed and then she got freed... so she's like the athlete who practiced with an overly heavy shot put and then when he throws a normal one, he throws it much farther as he has less restraint.
A thought on Ronan the Accuser: at the end of Captain Marvel, he retreats saying that he'll be back for the weapon (Carol Danvers). Since his character arc ends at Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 1, I think he realized that Carol got her powers from the Space Stone housed in the Tessaract and that is why he ends up ravaging the galaxy looking for the power stone which he can weaponize as a true pure power.. I think that's how his whole story links up to the MCU continuity.. Unless I am missing something 🤔🤔
@@swanpride The potential for such an arc can be really amazing. After all, we don't know what Carol Danvers did between '95 and the Endgame Timeline. Maybe she had a run-in with Ronan a couple of times considering she went back to Hala to 'handle' the Supreme Intelligence and shake up the Superiority of the Kree. And considering GotG#1 has Ronan working for Thanos, there might be the idea of CM fighting Ronan in Hala before having Him go over to Thanos. My question now is, does Danvers defeat the Supreme Intelligence, since Ronan has shifted his allegiance to Thanos for the sake of the Scroll war? That's to be seen. As for GotG, it wouldn't be hard to see them meeting up with CM before GotG Vol.1 when they actually formed and had their squabble with Ronan
@Estan Oboch Well, at some point between it, the Kree/Xandar war apparently ended, and most likely the Kree/Skrull war, too. So I just assume that Carol went and fulfilled Mar-Vel's promise to end a war. And maybe take down the Supreme Intelligence in the process. Plus, Carol is better suited out there fighting against enemies which are extremely powerful....
Thank god the Blind Wave community is great and doesn't shit on this film basing it on something that is not even factually correct in the context of the film. First being the complaint of Carol having no emotion and being a ''machine''. Literally in the first scenes of the movie she is told to hold her emotions in when she cracks jokes and smiles etc. This kind of training makes a person stoic for sure regardless but she still kept having cheeky smiles and joking around while being rather serious about her mission. Which she was trained to be. FFS. She also had great banter and connection with Fury, which would not work if she was this ''machine'' these people were making her out to be. 2nd, this movie being some sort of feminist propaganda. This movie has nothing of that sort, except daring to show two female badass fighter pilots being friends and telling the daughter that she is cool and stuff. Otherwise this is a very standard superhero film and that's it. TL;DR I'm pretty sure people who think this movie is feminist propaganda and Carol has no emotion at all have no eyes an/or ears.
@@Gulonine And WW having more makes sense too since it takes place during the World War. Not mentioning the gender during those times would actually make it LESS realistic
Vesimias I fully agree! I’m a woman who grew up in the 60s and early 70s and saw some really awful objectification of women in films and on tv 📺. However, modern style feminism drives me nuts. I feared this film would be a sermon for a shrill modern creed....it wasn’t it was just a good story where the hero was a woman. Which is how it ought to be. Loved this movie.
In other words, "thank god blind wave agreed with me and liked the film". Just because someone hates, dislikes, or shits on the film doesnt mean its for no reason or a misunderstanding. This was a bad film. Its fine if they or others like it but dont try to wave away actual criticism about a bad film just to be a clown.
Maria Hill would’ve been 10 years old. It was not her. Coulson in his 50’s and Fury in his late 60’s. Maria is only in her late 30’s, way to young to be near this movie.
Around 18 min you guys talk about where the tesseract has been. I believe(not 100% on this) that Tony starks dad found it after it was lost in Cap. America and then gave/shared it with Mar'Vell.
The idea of her getting back up again after every fall didn't bother me much. I think it was really inspiring since anyone of any gender or race or age can relate to it - picking yourself up and not giving in to defeat. I get that at first glance it can seem really cheesy or cliche, but it's sort of the root of her character you know? Never giving up is a huge character trait of hers and it makes sense in the moment - she's had enough of being knocked down over and over again.
Actually Thor is an alien race, Shields tv show reference Asgardians as aliens. Odin himself said they’re not Gods since they are born and die; Loki chimes in that it would take a couple thousand years 🤷🏾♂️
Even after this movie, we could still get Secret Invastion on MCU with evil Skrulls, since the Secret Invasion in the comics was led by a desperate large extremist faction of the Skrulls, while some of the other Skrulls helped out Earth's heroes during the Secret Invasion.
That's what I was thinking. It seemed to me like these Skrulls in the movie were just tired of war and wanted to find a new home. There could still be evil skrulls out there.
In Captain America the first avengers it was shown that tony stark sr found the tesseract which he later continued testing it which become project pegasus which I'm guessing that's how Dr. Lawson got or stole the tesseract as in the movie it was shown that she worked on project pegasus. Captain America first avengers - Tony’s dad finds the tesseract and Creates S.H. I.E.L.D Captain marvel - Somehow the tesseract is stolen from S.H. I.E.L.D Iron man 2 - Fury gives tony his dads old research papers on Project Pegasus which is what helps tony create the new element for his arc reactor. Avengers(2012) - Opening scene of avengers where loki attacks shows the same shield base that was in captain marvel which held the tesseract
It seems more that Lawson was in charge of Project Pegasus since she brought results so she could do whatever she wanted with that artifact Howard Stark had put on the backburner.
@@thelightningking9640 yes. tesseract went from odin (asgard) to earth (church) to red skull to captain america in the frozen ship to shield to pegasus (caot marvel)
I enjoyed the movie. I only wonder where Goose has been this whole time in the MCU? I also wish us Agents of Shield fans could've had a few Coulson easter eggs. Like have him listening to MC Hammer or have the female agent he's in the building with be a cameo from agent May.
That would have been great! I remember that from Agents of Shield. May would have been great in that, but Coulson just started and I think he was a level 3 during their time together. 🤔
I was just happy Coulson was in the movies again. For the Shield fans there's lots of history, but for people who just watch the movies, he's "that guy from Avengers", so I see why they didn't do too much with him, while I would've wanted more, I see why they didn't.
“the second-best opening of all time for a comic book adaptation starring a new character behind Black Panther ($200 million), as well as the seventh biggest for any title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe” The Hollywood Reporter 3/8/19
Favorite Part: Fury: *typing first draft of "Protectors Initiative"* *sees "AVENGER" on the side of Carol's plane* *Avengers theme starts in the background* gave me fucking chills
Interesting this is the only Stan Lee cameo as himself. In the other film he is a character in the background. Here he is himself, reading a script of a film he was in.
@@SirBelmerD yeah...sucks don't it..?? having seen Ant-Man & The Wasp, i wish they would've included her in Civil War anyway...since her debut in the Ant-Man 2 movie was underwhelming. at least, in Civil War, she would've had the same buzz that both Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spidey had before THEIR respective solo movies.
@@YumiSumire it was a hype 30 secs you arent missing much though they arent revealing anything plus from everything they have shown is in the first 20 mins
@@rlamas4783 I meant UA-cam will recommend tons of Theory and Trailer breakdown videos with thumbnails that could potentialy spoil the movie. Beside, I have made it this far without watching it. Only 6 weeks to go.
I think ppl are watching movies now to focus on what they don't like and what offends them rather than enjoying the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, could've been better, had a few issues but still gave it a C
Set in Mid-90s I was cringingly anticipating Chumbawumba for the scene where she got knocked down, but got up again . . . thankfully the film makers had more class than that.
Thank you Eric. Fury should have absolutely called carol during the first invasion. Not only because it was definitely an emergency but because it involved the tesseract. An item that she not only was powered by but has previous experience with. Fury would have thought about her first the moment this kind of shit happened.
I thought this initially, but as evidenced by the Captain Marvel post credit scene, it takes time for the message to successfully reach Captain Marvel (at least a few days, potentially weeks). By the time the invasion started, Fury wouldn't have been able to get her to Earth on time to have any real impact on the outcome.
@@joebyrd9141 fury had absolutely no idea of the scale of the snap. He probably didn't even know about thanos or that the avengers lost. he probably didn't know anything about what was even going on. All he saw was a few people disappear and a helicopter crash. Also it was not certain that the avengers would have been able to hold off the aliens.
@@joebyrd9141 no they didn't. They were losing. It was to the point that the Shield launched a nuke on New York. Tony Stark almost died, lol. It seems like an unnecessary risk not to call her.
I have just come back from watching the movie, I loved it and Brie Larson was really good I loved her banter with Fury. The Stan Lee tribute at the start was amazing and pure class I didn't know anything about Captain Marvel before this and I loved that fact because everything was new and unexpected. Goose was a star in this movie and I want him made an Avenger please Really looking forward to how she will fit into the Avengers Endgame, because she is a badass with powers that are far superior to any of the Avengers (apart from Goose of course :P )
😸 I'm glad the enthusiasm and positivity demonstrated by *Blind* *Wave* was similar to the responsive audience I was a part of in last night's late screening of CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)! I hope everyone who makes the trek to the cinema enjoys it as much as we did. 😊 And hurrah for Shane mentioning PUSHING DAISIES (2007-2009). 🌻
Before watching this review I just wanna say I loved this movie so much. Almost all of my friends have been hating on it for almost no reason and I've been trying to defend it for so long and it payed off. So amazing
@ashrel goh it wasn't supported as a man hating film. Where in any of the promotion does it show a man hating agenda. This movie would have worked the same if Captain Marvel was man and doesn't hate men
@ashrel goh I didn't say you can't have opinions but you can't have a proper opinion on something (the movie) you haven't seen yet. I don't support Brie Larson's view, if you must know I'm actually a right leaning conservative, but those are Brie's views and they are not in the movie
@@nic9954 No, I am jokingly referring to its place in the tedious online culture war, where it is either praised to the high heaven or derided and criticised. I think it was just good, but not great.
I feel like a lot of people gave this movie zero chance because of their hate for Brie Larson but I don’t think the movie is nearly as bad as people say it is. It’s definitely not one of the better marvel movies but it’s still a decent movie in my opinion
Just because she made one comment, that I personally thought was misinterpreted than all of a sudden people began trashing it..I don't think it's the top tier of the marvel films, but it was entertaining and brie larson and Samuel jackson was great in it..I agree with you..
Davidas Davida The films quality backs it up. Calling it “blind” just seems like a generalization to “cancel out” the invalid hate it gets. Female empowerment is a factor of this film, it’s an incentive. And that’s just fine.
Brie:"i dont care what white men say about ... It wasn't made for him Beta males: what she hates males oh let me make 100 videos on this one part Friend: hey arent you gonna finish it Beta male: no i have all i need Friend: ok Brie: im not saying i hate guys though
@Davidas Davida Why is female empowerment a bad thing though? If some little girl or woman out there--maybe someone in your life, your wife, sister, daughter, mother, or girlfriend--gets inspired by this movie, how is that a bad?
I liked it, but a potential sequel should get a different director. Clearly not directors that are used to a big Blockbuster or action movies. And Fury's eye reveal was kind of dumb.
Absolutely agree. This really had the potential to be a great movie but I think the directors did it a disservice with some of the their choices (poorly lit fight scenes, pacing issues). Fury's eye reveal should've been hilarious, was probably hilarious on paper, but the direction just left it kind of bleah. I wonder why they chose these two directors...their IMDB listings don't look that impressive.
@@sickleweed3270 I mean Half Nelson got Gosling his first Oscar nomination back when he was still 'that guy from the notebook' and It's kind of a funny Story is an underrated gem. But those are small character movies. Their sensibilities just didn't always translate.
Now, that is what a review looks like... No politics, no agenda... Just a bunch of nerds sitting and tearing apart the strengths and flaws of the movie... Honestly, this movie has been garnering so much hate in recent days, despite of it being a good mid-tier MCU film... It was in no ways, as awful as it is painted to be... And the hate is generally coming from those who have not understood the essence of the movie... As per the limits of CM, we might see them in upcoming movies... She is cocky and underestimates her opponents, which might be an issue going further... Now, one thing that I noticed and I'm sure many others might have... There were four skrulls that came on Earth, and one of them was killed by Fury, one died at the hands of Yon-Rogg and the third one was Talos... I just don't recall what happened to the fourth one... He might be living amongst the humans and can be someone we know... That would be awesome to see...
Maria Rambeau's daughter, Monica, was a superhero who was initially known as Captain Marvel as well as Photon and Pulsar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Rambeau
I think the thing that was uninteresting about Carol in the movie is not that she's super powerful physically because Thor and The Hulk definitely are. The issue is that Carol stayed the same and had little to no development as a character and a hero. So, you're not as engrossed in the film or her progression since there is none. Black Widow is a MUCH more interesting character because, despite her not having her own solo movie (which is criminal at this point), she's had her own character progression from super spy to a superheroine in The Avengers, The Winter Soldier, Age of Ultron, and Civil War. Her title as a true Avenger felt earned because of that.
Kevin fiegie wanted to make a black widow movie from the beginning but early on there was a different main producer guy who said it wouldn’t sell enough toys and that she couldn’t carry a movie by herself but then that guy was fired and Kevin was main guy and he did this so we can have more space themed comics be told in phase 4
Captain marvel( movie set on 90s) : nick fury agent of shield Iron man(movie set on 2008) : Phil coulson agent of....we don't have an acornymn yet...wait we do? I don't remember anything from the 90s
Let's be honest here guys that's good old fashioned retconning. Ironman was the first movie, we gotta give em a little leeway on that one. Obviously after the huge success they started sticking with the S.H.I.E.L.D acronym for everything and they dont want to stop using it to matchup with a decision from the first film.
13:18 in the theater when they looked under the sheet a little girl in the row behind me asked pretty loudly “what are they doing?” I barely contained my laughter!
Her power source comes directly from the Tesseract. If you notice when she starts tapping into her full power, the Tesseract starts reacting to her and glows from inside the lunchbox. This was a clever way of connecting the comic book origin of her powers to the MCU version. In the comics, her power is that of a dying star, which is the same energy powering the infinity stones...that’s why Stormbreaker, a weapon created using the power of the dying star Nidavellir, was able to stand up to the power of the infinity stones in Infinity War 😉 THAT’S why she’s so powerful after absorbing that energy in the movie.
Tony built iron suit to save his life , cap took serum because he wanted to go to war , thor born with power, strange wanted to heal himself , carol gets her power by sicrificing herself . She prefeared to die to save lives, so for me her power getting story is much more powerful than others
The Russo’s stated Carol does have weaknesses and limits,and I’m really looking forward to seeing what they are. Also,Carol earned her powers in my opinion because she was willing to die to stop the engine from getting into the wrong hands. The moment she shot at the engine,she knew it would most likely kill her,but she was ready to make that sacrifice for “the greater good”,if you will. I wish the writers/directors had emphasized on that more
Captain Marvel being so different from SW and QS is the fact that Carol was directly exposed to the power of the Space Stone. While Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were exposed to contained amount of the Mind Stones power. So while Scarlet Witch is extremely powerful as showed in Infinity War, Carol's main difference is that she is directly tied to the Space Stone. Her being the most powerful thing in the universe is played into the plot, she has all the power. Yet she was constantly held back by the Kree because of her humanity. Then she realized her power was being manipulated into nearly causing a genocide. She realized her insane power is tied directly on how much compassion she is willing to give because of her humanity. She then learns to accept her human side and willing to help others.
She wasn't exposed to the Tesseract directly, she was exposed to the exploding core of an experimental lightspeed engine somehow created while using the Tesseract. She absorbs energy, that's her superpower, so that's why she's really powerful in a spaceship battle. They didn't do anything with her seventh sense though which they easily could have, like she can sense the Tesseract and isn't fooled by a fake or something. "She realized her insane power is tied directly on how much compassion she is willing to give because of her humanity." No offense but that's sickly sweet nonsense, you're confusing psychological strength with the mechanics of her superpowers which would be okay if the movie gave us that her power level literally increased with willingness to give compassion but it never did. She rebelled against "emotions make you weak, don't just energy blast in anger" and "you're only human so you're sentimental and therefore weak".
At the end of her triology if it’s well written and directed and shows her true power against an earned threat then I’d be okay with her being most powerful but as of now it’s between Thor and scarlet witch hands down
"but as of now it’s between Thor and scarlet witch hands down" Depends on what they do with Adam's personality. Since his superpowers are basically Carol's, Wanda's and Doctor Strange's combined but he's so philosophical and kind of Zen about it that you rank him too low powerlevel-wise.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps As of now, Adam isn't relevant, because he isn't going to show up for at least a couple of years, as his director is first going to do Suicide Squad 2.
Interesting but kind of besides the point since if he's out of his cocoon as powerful as in the comics and a good guy he's like if Carol is Superman then he is Silver Age Superman.
Yep, nothing like bringing down and demean the reason why one of the biggest heroes and anchors in the Marvel universe lost his eye... Completely against what Robert Redford’s character said in the captain America movie by the way
I agree guys, not great, but a good movie...especially for a first. Brie and the rest of the cast played their parts well, some of the fights could have been shot better but they were still enjoyable, and the humour was definitely their for me. But what I didn't like was how Fury lost his eye, I'm just gonna force myself to believe that he really did lose his eye while fighting the Kree.😂 Good job Brie, 7/10
Loved it , very much a phase 1movie very good did it's job. Like Thor movie meets guardians of the galaxy , loved the kree star force are like special forces in the kree , I want to see more of the accusers. Really enjoyed it bring on endgame.
I loved Ben Mendelsohn man he was so... I don't know how to describe it! Like kind of charming and charismatic even with the makeup on. And that Talos vs. Fury scene was pretty cool.
i watched the trailer and teared up like Eric seeing Mack's shotgun axe when she went full-on. it wasn't about the reveal more her personal realisation, to me at least. also, Goose, Nibbler from Futurama anyone? ...
Just got back from Captain Marvel and have to say I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. My only major gripe with the film was making the OG Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) aka Dr Walter Lawson a woman (Wendy Lawson) instead of a man as he originally was and I don't understand why they made this change as I feel its a bit insulting to the original character created by Stan Lee. Saying that I would give this film a solid 7/10
“I like that scene, like when like, they did this like... right! Like how can captain like, Marvel escaped like... I’m like damn , really liked this, errr... like!” This review would be 20 min long if you took out the LIKES...
I like the part with a Goose the cat. The Skrulls are not even villains in the movie, I thought they were supposed to be, they aren't. Stan Lee cameo on the subway train. Opening scene with Stan Lee cameos was amazing, it made everyone tears and clap. Stan Lee would be proud of a movie. Post Credits scene with the Avengers.
Yeah, I still can’t tell if Jude Law really has no feelings for Captain Marvel.... if he was only protecting her to keep his position in Kree culture or what.... at the end I was leaning toward him being truly evil, but it’s hard to tell. He’s kind of like an anti-Yondu. I really liked this movie. Awesome review guys
I think there was a lot of story to tell, and the flashbacks were the most compact way to say that Carol wasn't just a fluke. She worked hard, and failed often, but got back up. She earned her spots and earned her skills. She flew a mission because it was what needed to be done. She was fearless and dedicated to doing whats right. Thats why I found her flying ease to be believable. The engine turned her into an engine. She outputs tons of energy, and her flying wasn't just learning to float. She used her energy to propel forward, and since she's an expert pilot, she knew the science behind how to fly. She's definitely a favorite for the next phase mcu.
And I have to agree with other posters, she wasn’t just standing next to the engine when it got shot, she shot it, she chose to make that sacrifice in order to prevent the Kree from getting it. 
The Kree wanted the energy core (the Tesseract, aka the space inifinty stone), not the energy source that powered the engine core. The Tesseract was found by Howard Stark while searching for Steve Rodgers after he crashed Red Skulls plane. The tesseract was in the possession of the SSR, which re-organized into S.H.I.E.L.D. SHIELD created the PEGASUS project, which coincidently Mar-Vel was involved with. Project PEGASUS has been mentioned throughout the MCU. Especially in the first scene of Avengers with Fury.
It would have been better if there were a montage in the beginning of all the missions Captain Marvel went on with her Kree team, and if they showed the beginning of a love interest between Jude Law's character and Captain Marvel. It would have allowed for an emotional showdown at the end even though he was no match for her physically.
Captain marvel was alright it wasn’t like it was ground breaking it was ok It was kind of generic felt like a female lead version of Man of steel to me But there was some good moment but if I were to give a grade I’d say in between B minus and C The scene I hated was when fury lost his eye to the flurken it didn’t feel as righteous as I though he would’ve lost but the best scene and my favorite scen was when she said “where’s fury”
Movie was alright, not Marvel's best or worst. The plot with Carol's memories was pretty cool and the twist with the scrolls was pretty awesome. Where the movie really lacked however was in its characters. Nothing against Brei Larson, but in a story of self discovery, where she's trying to retain her memories and understand who she is, Captain marvel walked around with the same expression almost the entire movie, the straight face/confident/ready to kick ass expression when we should have been getting a much more variant personality, one which is strong and yet confused sort of like Cap's. The confidence Captain Marvel gave out made her look strong, but it didn't help build a personable character. Besides that, I felt no connection with the best friend plot, felt really forced and so did most of the interactions in the movie. The only character plus points were Furry/Marvel's interactions and the scrolls, besides that the characters were really bland.
The tesserect was removed from the ocean by Howard Stark. It basically was with government/SHIELD until she got a hold of it for the Pegasus project. Then this movie details how SHIELD got it back.
If I remember correctly, Howard found the tesseract looking for Steve's remains in a submersible. So SHIELD had it already. Mar-Vell was allowed to experiment with it which is why she had it. Fury most likely wouldn't have known about it because he didn't have a higher clearance level.
Minor spoilers about the escape sequence from the Skrulls was; that scene was VERY similar to one in Avatar, Legend of Korra. Also the brief scene of Carol casually punching through the Accuser ship, level by level; was almost a one-for-one recreation of Disney's Hercules, punching through the Ice Titan's attack. The final brawl was dumb fun, but seeing Carol shrug of blowback, and attacks, reminded me of Hockey practice where I had padding, and would just skate into the boards, or get tossed across the ice for fun. It was just kid-like fun.
@@juliocesarg.r.1238 it kind of seems like rather than just being a pure conduit for the tesseract, she became a combustion engine. Maybe we haven't seen what happens when she pushes too far and burns out.
Hey guys! Congratulations for a great comprehensive review. I actually have been consuming all the information I can get before watching the movie, but the fact that you clearly didn't makes your take very fresh. It's like you guys never took part in all the negative buzz this movie was getting prior to the premier. Having watched a lot of reviews, your criticism are very fair and balanced by comparison. I think the good things in CM surpass the bad ones. Endgame awaits.
I hold the belief that the writing in this movie was bad, she didn't have an emotional character arc. She is legit the exact same person from the beginning to the end. She punched and shot laser beams out of her arm to overcome all obstacles. Nick fury and Talos were great! First half of the movie was just bad imo, the buddy cop moments with Fury and Carol was fun. I just left this movie feeling like I wasn't given a reason to care for captain marvel
I’m super disappointed that the one woman on the panel who is also supposedly a huge Captain Marvel fan barely says anything. Come on Melanie, speak your mind!
She gets interrupted every time and it freaking bothers me cause she knows about Captain Marvel which most of the other dude's don't. As well with GoT, she read all the books just like Eric but she also doesn't speak in those videos and that's because (if they notice or not) they start speaking over her. That's the only thing that I hate about the dudes of the blind wave.
Film-wise, it's okay. Has its problems but a lot of clever spinning of clichés. Where it excels over many MCU movies for me is I feel like it will have great rewatchability over many others.
Everyone complaining about Bries performance or whatever just give it time. When we start to see her more and more acting with the other avengers i think it will show more of her character.
And everyone complaining about Furys eye that serves you right lol. Everyone sepculating he was going to lose it in some grandeous way only to lose it to a cat is funny and ironic lol
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When I realized that the lead Skrull was being played by Ben Mendelsohn, I thought to myself, “this guy is a good actor, but he is always typecasted to be a villain. I would love to see him portray a different kind of role.”
30 minutes later...
Never been happier to be wrong. Awesome character.
I like how they left earth too, great characters, a great race to help and be friends and partners to humanity.
But having them around as citizens of earth would completely negate the threat that HYDRA posed.
Before going into CM I thought ”Great shapeshifting aliens undercover in SHIELD, how many secret groups have infiltrated humanity and none of these groups have found out about each other”
But nope subverted and all the better for it, because how easy would it have been if a race of benevolent shapeshifting aliens actually operated in SHIELD as internal affairs just going everywhere making sure everything is on the up and up reporting to Fury.
I suppose it's always possible they return and found S.W.O.R.D though.
A potential S.W.O.R.D reference got dropped in Agents of shield.
But the reference is made as question by a shield agent called YO-YO to Coulson.
And Coulson replies basically ”No there's no reference to any such organization left to me in by fury in his files”
He was legit my favorite part of the movie. He's so goddamn funny in it.
Natasha: “I wanna know who was on the other end of that pag.....”
Carol: “Where’s Fury?”
kaledov pointed at the dust
Mad Titan 😆
He's over there and over there...and a little bit over there.
best part of the movie tbh
kaledov God, I cannot wait for Avengers Endgame an the rest of the Marvel heroes. Cannot fucking stand this self righteous chick.
She didn't get the power because she was standing next to an engine that happened to explode. She got her powers because as a human she choose to destroy the engine to keep it out of the hands of an evil empire involved in a war she barley understood. She trusted Mar Vel and was willing to die to protect her invention from being taken. Symbolically she TOTALLY earned those powers....
Underrated comment. Well put!
should pin this comment, thumbs up
Agreed!
It was an Infinity stone that gave her those powers.
what a stretch
Captain marvel didn't just stand next to an engine as it blew up. She shot it to explode it to prevent the enemy getting it. She was willing to die to stop him getting it
Yea, Eric must have fallen asleep again.
She was not willing to die she had no idea the blast was going to be that huge
Jason Barnes Kane was stood right next to a jet engine? And besides did she think the stranger who just killed her mentor would spare her after destroying what he wanted
@@MrDyl666 what you mean spared her she was going to shoot him up but like I said she didn't know the blast was going to be that big
MrDyl666 indeed.
Tesseract was found by Howard Stark. During his time at SHIELD he founded PEGASUS to explore clean energy with the Tesseract. Then Marvell started to work(infiltrate) with SHIELD. That's how she got the Tesseract
Yeah, that doesn't seem super clear at first but when you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
They showed that at the end of Captain America the first Avenger. Stark was looking for Cap but found the Tesseract. Then years pasted and Shield found Rogers.
Is this all shit that happens in the TV shows and stuff like that? I don't remember Howard Stark creating PEGASUS at all. I don't think I had even heard of PEGASUS until this film. I have watched a few seasons of Agents of Shield and I don't think it was established in that but if it was on Agent Cater it was probably during the times I started day dreaming.
lol Captain Marvel didn’t just stand next to the engine and it blew up. She shot at it so that Jude Law’s character wouldn’t get it, and then it exploded. She didn’t know if she would live or die after that, but she still went through with it anyways.
Exactly!!!
She didn't think that explosion was going to be that huge she wasn't willing to die
@@jasonbarnes6898 bruh it's the engine of a prototype ship that Mar-vell said was capable of ending a war. I would think the explosion could be enough to kill me or at least blow some limbs off seeing as it's just a few feet away.
@@NaomiTCOOKIES you can expect a kick back but not death when an engine blows out it's never an explosion don't get engine mixed up with the gas tank and we all thought she meant the technology could change the world not that it was a nuke
@@jasonbarnes6898 In movies, cars explode at the drop of a hat. Anything happens to the engine and ka-boom even though it's very unrealistic and the explosions should hardly be that enormous but the characters always know to clear 20 feet away at the first sign of trouble. It's not so hard to think that, in a fictional film, shooting an advanced engine with an unknown laser gun at close range could be pretty lethal.
I really liked this movie. It has a rough start and some rubbery third act cgi but was pretty solid all around. I don't really get the complaint with how she got her powers. It wasn't just an accident that she was caught in that blast, it was because she chose to put her life at risk to save others by shooting the core. And it was that selfless act that directly led to her getting powers. I thought it was actually a great demonstration of character and a way to establish that she was heroic before getting powers... a very "Cap" moment. And while she dishes out damage she doesn't take very many big hits, so I'm wondering if she'll be more of a glass cannon.
She does take a few shots from ship blasters when out in space, but quickly recovers, but hits from Thanos or other Marvel big bads would probably make those blasters feel like nothing.
Good analysis. Aren’t the stones sentient? So it would add more to explain why her sacrifice was what made her capable of absorbing the power? Like how the tesseract directly sent Red Skull away, it chose her.
@@aeris44 Sounds like retcon
I pretty sure she took an alien missile to the chest and literally came out of it unscathed. Then again, Thor and Hulk could probably do the same.
Sesshomaru474 If it was set in the first captain America film, it’s not retcon at all since it had been...ya know set since that long ago... that moment in Captain America had been one of the most questionable moments for so long.
That Stan Lee tribute got me so emotional. Excelsior
"Last time I trusted someone I lost an eye" - Director Nick Fury.
coladict Never trust cats.
Is that a real quote??
@@cbeaird52 He said it in The Winter Soldier.
He could simply be implying that this was the last period in time he trusted people.
Movie and Game reviews That’s clearly not it because he trusted the Avengers to save New York when the council didn’t in the first Avengers movie and Winter Soldier took place after that movie which is when Fury said that quote.
Technically the engine was powered by the tesseract so technically the tesseract gave her her power
The engines were not powered by the Tesserac. Every engine worked even when the cube was in the lunchbox.
The engine's core was created with the Tesseract but that's like me building a reactor and using lightning in my Frankenstein lab to create a new kind of fission material to put in the reactor and Lois Lane falls in the reactor and becomes Fission Woman and you go "She's was given her powers by lightning!"
This makes more sense now Why she can Help not solo w aThanos shes powered by a Infinity stone.
@Xetren It's my exact point that the lightning doesn't give the powers so it's a good comparison.
Lightning isn't powering the fission material or the reactor, the material is in the reactor to react and give power.
My point is that Carol isn't absorbing Tesseract-energy, she is absorbing lightspeed-engine-core-energy. The core was created by Mar-Vell using Tesseract-energy and understanding of the Tesseract but Carol is not a walking second Tesseract, she is a walking lightspeed-engine-core.
Did the movie ever say anything about the Tesseract having the same energy signature?
@@AlbertoMartinez765 Not really because wasn't there someone else within the blast radius? Why didn't they get powers as well? sounds like a retcon.
This is how I like to think of Carol's powers: The tessaract chose to give her powers. This is the same tessaract that chose to not give Red Skull powers and banish him onto Vormir.
Oh yeah, I've never thought about it that way!
I saw Captain Marvel Wednesday night (in Australia) and really enjoyed it. Brie was great, seeing more Fury and Coulson was fun, Goose was scary (LOL) and the Skrull twist was pretty brilliant. I really liked Maria "Photon" Rambeau and her relationship with Carol. I teared up when they spoke about their past friendship and Monica, Maria's daughter, is just my kind of sassy. Like an even mini-er version of Shuri from Black Panther. I just love how capable and self-assured the upcoming generation of superhero is compared to the current line up. They're so much more proactive, like they want to create and help, without being blasted by alien tech or being born a God or being bitten by a spider and they're both girls which makes it even better, it'll be nice for boys to see girls with aspirations and the brains to back those dreams up 😊
I also enjoyed Captain Marvel Loved Monica & can see the future movies with Monice & Talos's daughter as part of the next generation of Avengers
Her power gain is like Flash. Flash was hit by random chemicals and lightning and got powers... and she got hit by an explosion of unknown alien tech powered by an infinity stone. Her powers are as "earned" as the Flash.
Of course she started with her powers suppressed and then she got freed... so she's like the athlete who practiced with an overly heavy shot put and then when he throws a normal one, he throws it much farther as he has less restraint.
Idk Flash got his powers by complete chance. She chose to shoot the engine in order to save people rather than walk away like Jude Law wanted her to.
Not just alien tech, Tesseract tech.. An infinity stone indirectly gave her the power..
How is no one talking about Eric's Stan Lee impression?! SPOT ON!
I liked the movie, btw
Does anyone question why Bruce Banner was able to absorb the gamma rays without dying?
no he's a guy
Or spiderman not being poisoned and dying.
1 in a million
Tbf, that's because Banner's father had done experiments on him when he was young.. At least, I think that's the reason..
@@rohitr9400 Not in the movies tho. At least there is no mention of it.
A thought on Ronan the Accuser: at the end of Captain Marvel, he retreats saying that he'll be back for the weapon (Carol Danvers). Since his character arc ends at Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 1, I think he realized that Carol got her powers from the Space Stone housed in the Tessaract and that is why he ends up ravaging the galaxy looking for the power stone which he can weaponize as a true pure power.. I think that's how his whole story links up to the MCU continuity.. Unless I am missing something 🤔🤔
that;s actually super cool, I hadn't thought of that!
Honestly, I wonder if there will be another story involving him and her set between this movie and GotG.
@@swanpride The potential for such an arc can be really amazing. After all, we don't know what Carol Danvers did between '95 and the Endgame Timeline. Maybe she had a run-in with Ronan a couple of times considering she went back to Hala to 'handle' the Supreme Intelligence and shake up the Superiority of the Kree. And considering GotG#1 has Ronan working for Thanos, there might be the idea of CM fighting Ronan in Hala before having Him go over to Thanos. My question now is, does Danvers defeat the Supreme Intelligence, since Ronan has shifted his allegiance to Thanos for the sake of the Scroll war? That's to be seen. As for GotG, it wouldn't be hard to see them meeting up with CM before GotG Vol.1 when they actually formed and had their squabble with Ronan
@Estan Oboch Well, at some point between it, the Kree/Xandar war apparently ended, and most likely the Kree/Skrull war, too. So I just assume that Carol went and fulfilled Mar-Vel's promise to end a war. And maybe take down the Supreme Intelligence in the process. Plus, Carol is better suited out there fighting against enemies which are extremely powerful....
@@swanpride you have a valid point there. Lets wait and see how everything unravels
Thank god the Blind Wave community is great and doesn't shit on this film basing it on something that is not even factually correct in the context of the film. First being the complaint of Carol having no emotion and being a ''machine''. Literally in the first scenes of the movie she is told to hold her emotions in when she cracks jokes and smiles etc. This kind of training makes a person stoic for sure regardless but she still kept having cheeky smiles and joking around while being rather serious about her mission. Which she was trained to be. FFS. She also had great banter and connection with Fury, which would not work if she was this ''machine'' these people were making her out to be. 2nd, this movie being some sort of feminist propaganda. This movie has nothing of that sort, except daring to show two female badass fighter pilots being friends and telling the daughter that she is cool and stuff. Otherwise this is a very standard superhero film and that's it.
TL;DR I'm pretty sure people who think this movie is feminist propaganda and Carol has no emotion at all have no eyes an/or ears.
@@Gulonine And WW having more makes sense too since it takes place during the World War. Not mentioning the gender during those times would actually make it LESS realistic
most of those who hate on captain marvel actually boycotted the movie so they don't even know what's in it
Vesimias I fully agree! I’m a woman who grew up in the 60s and early 70s and saw some really awful objectification of women in films and on tv 📺. However, modern style feminism drives me nuts. I feared this film would be a sermon for a shrill modern creed....it wasn’t it was just a good story where the hero was a woman. Which is how it ought to be. Loved this movie.
In other words, "thank god blind wave agreed with me and liked the film". Just because someone hates, dislikes, or shits on the film doesnt mean its for no reason or a misunderstanding. This was a bad film. Its fine if they or others like it but dont try to wave away actual criticism about a bad film just to be a clown.
@@cftheking Not just the film, on the actress, too. She got hate for having an opinion.
That female agent running around with Coulson in the base should have been May!
I think it was Maria Hill
Yeah it was maria
Maria Hill would’ve been 10 years old. It was not her. Coulson in his 50’s and Fury in his late 60’s. Maria is only in her late 30’s, way to young to be near this movie.
I know! I was hoping May would make an appearance (or at least get a mention), but no such luck. Oh well.
was she Asian...? i forgot...
Monica (aka Lil Rambeau, aka Lieutenant Trouble) will in fact become a super heroin: Photon. The name is an homage to her mother's jet.
if you can't distinguish between a "heroine" and heroin, then just call her a hero. we don't need gendered terms.
Around 18 min you guys talk about where the tesseract has been. I believe(not 100% on this) that Tony starks dad found it after it was lost in Cap. America and then gave/shared it with Mar'Vell.
Yeah something like that. Mar-vell and Howard stark could have been doing science
All For One&One For All i mean, that is her name
@@Jake-pr7js No, it is his name not her name !
Reunion _K no in the movie, the character called mar vell is a woman
@@Jake-pr7js Exactly, in the comics Mar-vell was a man. Gender swapping is OK, but whitewashing is not. It's just stupid !
The idea of her getting back up again after every fall didn't bother me much. I think it was really inspiring since anyone of any gender or race or age can relate to it - picking yourself up and not giving in to defeat. I get that at first glance it can seem really cheesy or cliche, but it's sort of the root of her character you know? Never giving up is a huge character trait of hers and it makes sense in the moment - she's had enough of being knocked down over and over again.
Actually Thor is an alien race, Shields tv show reference Asgardians as aliens. Odin himself said they’re not Gods since they are born and die; Loki chimes in that it would take a couple thousand years 🤷🏾♂️
Didn't Thor also say that what humans perceive as magic on Asgard is just advanced science?
Even after this movie, we could still get Secret Invastion on MCU with evil Skrulls, since the Secret Invasion in the comics was led by a desperate large extremist faction of the Skrulls, while some of the other Skrulls helped out Earth's heroes during the Secret Invasion.
That's what I was thinking. It seemed to me like these Skrulls in the movie were just tired of war and wanted to find a new home. There could still be evil skrulls out there.
In Captain America the first avengers it was shown that tony stark sr found the tesseract which he later continued testing it which become project pegasus which I'm guessing that's how Dr. Lawson got or stole the tesseract as in the movie it was shown that she worked on project pegasus.
Captain America first avengers - Tony’s dad finds the tesseract and Creates S.H. I.E.L.D
Captain marvel - Somehow the tesseract is stolen from S.H. I.E.L.D
Iron man 2 - Fury gives tony his dads old research papers on Project Pegasus which is what helps tony create the new element for his arc reactor.
Avengers(2012) - Opening scene of avengers where loki attacks shows the same shield base that was in captain marvel which held the tesseract
It seems more that Lawson was in charge of Project Pegasus since she brought results so she could do whatever she wanted with that artifact Howard Stark had put on the backburner.
Of what I remember Red skull found the tesseract in that old church beforehand?
Schmidt found the Tesseract in that church back during WWII.
Howard Stark finds it on the ocean floor after the events of The First Avenger.
@@thelightningking9640 yes.
tesseract went from odin (asgard) to earth (church) to red skull to captain america in the frozen ship to shield to pegasus (caot marvel)
@tenerife sea
It wasn't in the frozen plane with Cap, it sent Red Skull away and almost immediately fell from the plane into the ocean.
I enjoyed the movie. I only wonder where Goose has been this whole time in the MCU? I also wish us Agents of Shield fans could've had a few Coulson easter eggs. Like have him listening to MC Hammer or have the female agent he's in the building with be a cameo from agent May.
That would have been great! I remember that from Agents of Shield. May would have been great in that, but Coulson just started and I think he was a level 3 during their time together. 🤔
I was just happy Coulson was in the movies again. For the Shield fans there's lots of history, but for people who just watch the movies, he's "that guy from Avengers", so I see why they didn't do too much with him, while I would've wanted more, I see why they didn't.
“the second-best opening of all time for a comic book adaptation starring a new character behind Black Panther ($200 million), as well as the seventh biggest for any title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe” The Hollywood Reporter 3/8/19
And this is for someone, unlike Black Panther, that was never intro'd.
i guess we all know why we never seen goose for the rest of marvel movie after all that "eye" thing goose did to fury
Azel x7 Last time he trusted someone he lost an eye
Or maybe the cat died from old age...
@@toshtao1 wasn't a cat.
Favorite Part:
Fury: *typing first draft of "Protectors Initiative"*
*sees "AVENGER" on the side of Carol's plane*
*Avengers theme starts in the background*
gave me fucking chills
Carol Danvers is NOW my favorite Avenger in the movie, and I’m so looking forward to ENDGAME!!! :).
Interesting this is the only Stan Lee cameo as himself. In the other film he is a character in the background. Here he is himself, reading a script of a film he was in.
The WASP IS the first female MCU super hero to be IN a movie title.
Sure, just not in her own standalone. This was the Real female lead super hero MCU film. No doubt.
Elektra is the first
@@MikeArts Elektra isn't an MCU movie
@@SirBelmerD yeah...sucks don't it..?? having seen Ant-Man & The Wasp, i wish they would've included her in Civil War anyway...since her debut in the Ant-Man 2 movie was underwhelming. at least, in Civil War, she would've had the same buzz that both Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spidey had before THEIR respective solo movies.
@@themadafaka6839 I have a feeling this is their chance to include anyone... or at least intro, a lot of characters, since the snap.
thank God I forget the trailer. I think the movie is great!
I've been staying away from movies trailers. Haven't seen the Superbawl trailer for Avengers 4 yet
@@YumiSumire it was a hype 30 secs you arent missing much though they arent revealing anything plus from everything they have shown is in the first 20 mins
@@rlamas4783 I still want to save that for the movie. Plus If I watch just one, UA-cam will recommend a ton more to me.
@@YumiSumire theres only 2 one is an actual trailer the other is a 30 sec teaser with barepy anything except some shots of the characters
@@rlamas4783 I meant UA-cam will recommend tons of Theory and Trailer breakdown videos with thumbnails that could potentialy spoil the movie. Beside, I have made it this far without watching it. Only 6 weeks to go.
I think ppl are watching movies now to focus on what they don't like and what offends them rather than enjoying the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, could've been better, had a few issues but still gave it a C
they just talk about what made them not enjoy it... saying "just enjoy it even tho you didn't" makes no sense at all
Set in Mid-90s I was cringingly anticipating Chumbawumba for the scene where she got knocked down, but got up again . . . thankfully the film makers had more class than that.
Agreed, but I would have loved to have heard some Chumbawumba somewhere in that movie!
After all, the song did come out in 1997, whereas this movie takes place in 1995.
lmao
Thank you Eric. Fury should have absolutely called carol during the first invasion. Not only because it was definitely an emergency but because it involved the tesseract. An item that she not only was powered by but has previous experience with. Fury would have thought about her first the moment this kind of shit happened.
No, because he already had the Avengers Initiative
I thought this initially, but as evidenced by the Captain Marvel post credit scene, it takes time for the message to successfully reach Captain Marvel (at least a few days, potentially weeks). By the time the invasion started, Fury wouldn't have been able to get her to Earth on time to have any real impact on the outcome.
The avengers Inititiates had it handled, they lost against Thanos they failed
@@joebyrd9141 fury had absolutely no idea of the scale of the snap. He probably didn't even know about thanos or that the avengers lost. he probably didn't know anything about what was even going on. All he saw was a few people disappear and a helicopter crash. Also it was not certain that the avengers would have been able to hold off the aliens.
@@joebyrd9141 no they didn't. They were losing. It was to the point that the Shield launched a nuke on New York. Tony Stark almost died, lol. It seems like an unnecessary risk not to call her.
I have just come back from watching the movie, I loved it and Brie Larson was really good I loved her banter with Fury. The Stan Lee tribute at the start was amazing and pure class
I didn't know anything about Captain Marvel before this and I loved that fact because everything was new and unexpected.
Goose was a star in this movie and I want him made an Avenger please
Really looking forward to how she will fit into the Avengers Endgame, because she is a badass with powers that are far superior to any of the Avengers (apart from Goose of course :P )
All For One&One For All oh, get a life
She is definitely not more powerful than thor, she knocks a few people out and can fly, thor takes the full force if a star to the chest
Stan Lee would be proud of a movie. We know he's in heaven with his wife.
@@jamesfeguson3445 Well it's been confirmed hasn't it that she is indeed the most powerful. And Feige confirmed it
Favorite part was Coulsons phone call from Blockbuster when everyone left him behind.
😸 I'm glad the enthusiasm and positivity demonstrated by *Blind* *Wave* was similar to the responsive audience I was a part of in last night's late screening of CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)! I hope everyone who makes the trek to the cinema enjoys it as much as we did. 😊 And hurrah for Shane mentioning PUSHING DAISIES (2007-2009). 🌻
Before watching this review I just wanna say I loved this movie so much. Almost all of my friends have been hating on it for almost no reason and I've been trying to defend it for so long and it payed off. So amazing
Have either of you seen the movie or are you just hating it for the sake of hating it?
@ashrel goh it wasn't supported as a man hating film. Where in any of the promotion does it show a man hating agenda. This movie would have worked the same if Captain Marvel was man and doesn't hate men
@ashrel goh also you can't have an opinion on a movie you haven't watched
@ashrel goh wtf are you trying to say
@ashrel goh I didn't say you can't have opinions but you can't have a proper opinion on something (the movie) you haven't seen yet. I don't support Brie Larson's view, if you must know I'm actually a right leaning conservative, but those are Brie's views and they are not in the movie
It was fine. Not great, but not terrible, it was just fine.
So basically, everyone on twitter was wrong.
Couldn't have said it better!
Because you enjoyed it everyone else was wrong ?
@@nic9954 No, I am jokingly referring to its place in the tedious online culture war, where it is either praised to the high heaven or derided and criticised. I think it was just good, but not great.
it's basically the usual marvel movie fun movie to watch but not that great
I feel like a lot of people gave this movie zero chance because of their hate for Brie Larson but I don’t think the movie is nearly as bad as people say it is. It’s definitely not one of the better marvel movies but it’s still a decent movie in my opinion
Just because she made one comment, that I personally thought was misinterpreted than all of a sudden people began trashing it..I don't think it's the top tier of the marvel films, but it was entertaining and brie larson and Samuel jackson was great in it..I agree with you..
Davidas Davida The films quality backs it up. Calling it “blind” just seems like a generalization to “cancel out” the invalid hate it gets. Female empowerment is a factor of this film, it’s an incentive. And that’s just fine.
Brie:"i dont care what white men say about ... It wasn't made for him
Beta males: what she hates males oh let me make 100 videos on this one part
Friend: hey arent you gonna finish it
Beta male: no i have all i need
Friend: ok
Brie: im not saying i hate guys though
@Davidas Davida Why is female empowerment a bad thing though? If some little girl or woman out there--maybe someone in your life, your wife, sister, daughter, mother, or girlfriend--gets inspired by this movie, how is that a bad?
Just imagine a MCU Green Goblin based on the Skrulls makeup.
That would make alot of since in this world.
Just came from your non spoil review. This movie got me so much more hype for the new avengers endgame movie
I liked it, but a potential sequel should get a different director. Clearly not directors that are used to a big Blockbuster or action movies. And Fury's eye reveal was kind of dumb.
Yea I noticed that too. The direction struck me as a bit flat.
Absolutely agree. This really had the potential to be a great movie but I think the directors did it a disservice with some of the their choices (poorly lit fight scenes, pacing issues). Fury's eye reveal should've been hilarious, was probably hilarious on paper, but the direction just left it kind of bleah. I wonder why they chose these two directors...their IMDB listings don't look that impressive.
@@sickleweed3270 I mean Half Nelson got Gosling his first Oscar nomination back when he was still 'that guy from the notebook' and It's kind of a funny Story is an underrated gem. But those are small character movies. Their sensibilities just didn't always translate.
@@travisspazz1624 Maybe they were hoping for another James Gunn type of miracle...but that really could've been just lightning-in-a-bottle.
Agents of Shield have taught us that the Kree are the biggest dicks in the galaxy. This movie just reinforces that point.
Now, that is what a review looks like... No politics, no agenda... Just a bunch of nerds sitting and tearing apart the strengths and flaws of the movie... Honestly, this movie has been garnering so much hate in recent days, despite of it being a good mid-tier MCU film... It was in no ways, as awful as it is painted to be... And the hate is generally coming from those who have not understood the essence of the movie... As per the limits of CM, we might see them in upcoming movies... She is cocky and underestimates her opponents, which might be an issue going further...
Now, one thing that I noticed and I'm sure many others might have... There were four skrulls that came on Earth, and one of them was killed by Fury, one died at the hands of Yon-Rogg and the third one was Talos... I just don't recall what happened to the fourth one... He might be living amongst the humans and can be someone we know... That would be awesome to see...
Captain Marvel's Theme is good. It just doesn't stick out to you because it's very different.
Weird to think that there was a 50% chance Fury's Hail Mary in IW would have failed immediately
Coulson had like 2 minutes of screen time
Just saw Captain Marvel and I loved it 😆😆😆 can’t wait for EndGame
Maria Rambeau's daughter, Monica, was a superhero who was initially known as Captain Marvel as well as Photon and Pulsar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Rambeau
Basically agree with you guys, good not great. For me it was good enough for a transition to End Game.
I think the thing that was uninteresting about Carol in the movie is not that she's super powerful physically because Thor and The Hulk definitely are. The issue is that Carol stayed the same and had little to no development as a character and a hero. So, you're not as engrossed in the film or her progression since there is none.
Black Widow is a MUCH more interesting character because, despite her not having her own solo movie (which is criminal at this point), she's had her own character progression from super spy to a superheroine in The Avengers, The Winter Soldier, Age of Ultron, and Civil War. Her title as a true Avenger felt earned because of that.
exactly !
Kevin fiegie wanted to make a black widow movie from the beginning but early on there was a different main producer guy who said it wouldn’t sell enough toys and that she couldn’t carry a movie by herself but then that guy was fired and Kevin was main guy and he did this so we can have more space themed comics be told in phase 4
I would disagree
Idk, she's been in more movies but hasn't really had much character development. She's the same calm calculating master spy she always was.
Joshua Oberholtzer winter soldier I thought was a lot of growth for the character before that
The cat was the best ever... I liked this movie, it was fun and has a cat and the stan lee at the beginning I liked it. Did I mention the cat?
Captain marvel( movie set on 90s) : nick fury agent of shield
Iron man(movie set on 2008) : Phil coulson agent of....we don't have an acornymn yet...wait we do? I don't remember anything from the 90s
At this point, probably was just toying with Pepper.
jockadoobee That good ol’ Coulson.
Let's be honest here guys that's good old fashioned retconning. Ironman was the first movie, we gotta give em a little leeway on that one. Obviously after the huge success they started sticking with the S.H.I.E.L.D acronym for everything and they dont want to stop using it to matchup with a decision from the first film.
The cat's (Flerkin) name in the movie is Goose based on the Top Gun character. In the comics his name is Chewie based on Chewbacca.
I just love how Aaron can allude to DBZ from watching a fan based parody...
The greatness of DBZA!
Lol
13:18 in the theater when they looked under the sheet a little girl in the row behind me asked pretty loudly “what are they doing?” I barely contained my laughter!
A little girl in my theater actually said "ew". It was hilarious.
Her power source comes directly from the Tesseract. If you notice when she starts tapping into her full power, the Tesseract starts reacting to her and glows from inside the lunchbox. This was a clever way of connecting the comic book origin of her powers to the MCU version. In the comics, her power is that of a dying star, which is the same energy powering the infinity stones...that’s why Stormbreaker, a weapon created using the power of the dying star Nidavellir, was able to stand up to the power of the infinity stones in Infinity War 😉 THAT’S why she’s so powerful after absorbing that energy in the movie.
So when and if they destroy the stones, thar should have an effect on her powers?..
Fury's eye >>>>>>>Martha 😂
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Tony built iron suit to save his life , cap took serum because he wanted to go to war , thor born with power, strange wanted to heal himself , carol gets her power by sicrificing herself . She prefeared to die to save lives, so for me her power getting story is much more powerful than others
The Russo’s stated Carol does have weaknesses and limits,and I’m really looking forward to seeing what they are. Also,Carol earned her powers in my opinion because she was willing to die to stop the engine from getting into the wrong hands. The moment she shot at the engine,she knew it would most likely kill her,but she was ready to make that sacrifice for “the greater good”,if you will. I wish the writers/directors had emphasized on that more
Captain Marvel being so different from SW and QS is the fact that Carol was directly exposed to the power of the Space Stone. While Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were exposed to contained amount of the Mind Stones power. So while Scarlet Witch is extremely powerful as showed in Infinity War, Carol's main difference is that she is directly tied to the Space Stone.
Her being the most powerful thing in the universe is played into the plot, she has all the power. Yet she was constantly held back by the Kree because of her humanity. Then she realized her power was being manipulated into nearly causing a genocide. She realized her insane power is tied directly on how much compassion she is willing to give because of her humanity. She then learns to accept her human side and willing to help others.
She wasn't exposed to the Tesseract directly, she was exposed to the exploding core of an experimental lightspeed engine somehow created while using the Tesseract. She absorbs energy, that's her superpower, so that's why she's really powerful in a spaceship battle.
They didn't do anything with her seventh sense though which they easily could have, like she can sense the Tesseract and isn't fooled by a fake or something.
"She realized her insane power is tied directly on how much compassion she is willing to give because of her humanity."
No offense but that's sickly sweet nonsense, you're confusing psychological strength with the mechanics of her superpowers which would be okay if the movie gave us that her power level literally increased with willingness to give compassion but it never did. She rebelled against "emotions make you weak, don't just energy blast in anger" and "you're only human so you're sentimental and therefore weak".
At the end of her triology if it’s well written and directed and shows her true power against an earned threat then I’d be okay with her being most powerful but as of now it’s between Thor and scarlet witch hands down
"but as of now it’s between Thor and scarlet witch hands down"
Depends on what they do with Adam's personality. Since his superpowers are basically Carol's, Wanda's and Doctor Strange's combined but he's so philosophical and kind of Zen about it that you rank him too low powerlevel-wise.
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As of now, Adam isn't relevant, because he isn't going to show up for at least a couple of years, as his director is first going to do Suicide Squad 2.
Interesting but kind of besides the point since if he's out of his cocoon as powerful as in the comics and a good guy he's like if Carol is Superman then he is Silver Age Superman.
Funniest thing in this morning is where Fury loses his eye because of a cat. I was laughing so hard
Yep, nothing like bringing down and demean the reason why one of the biggest heroes and anchors in the Marvel universe lost his eye... Completely against what Robert Redford’s character said in the captain America movie by the way
I agree guys, not great, but a good movie...especially for a first. Brie and the rest of the cast played their parts well, some of the fights could have been shot better but they were still enjoyable, and the humour was definitely their for me. But what I didn't like was how Fury lost his eye, I'm just gonna force myself to believe that he really did lose his eye while fighting the Kree.😂
Good job Brie, 7/10
I'm going to see it again Monday. I loved it
Loved it , very much a phase 1movie very good did it's job. Like Thor movie meets guardians of the galaxy , loved the kree star force are like special forces in the kree , I want to see more of the accusers. Really enjoyed it bring on endgame.
Did you all notice Calvin and Eric are really skrulls?
I loved Ben Mendelsohn man he was so... I don't know how to describe it! Like kind of charming and charismatic even with the makeup on. And that Talos vs. Fury scene was pretty cool.
i watched the trailer and teared up like Eric seeing Mack's shotgun axe when she went full-on.
it wasn't about the reveal more her personal realisation, to me at least.
also, Goose, Nibbler from Futurama anyone? ...
49:16 Ant-Man & THE WASP damn it!
Just got back from Captain Marvel and have to say I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. My only major gripe with the film was making the OG Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) aka Dr Walter Lawson a woman (Wendy Lawson) instead of a man as he originally was and I don't understand why they made this change as I feel its a bit insulting to the original character created by Stan Lee. Saying that I would give this film a solid 7/10
“I like that scene, like when like, they did this like... right! Like how can captain like, Marvel escaped like... I’m like damn , really liked this, errr... like!”
This review would be 20 min long if you took out the LIKES...
Idk what movie you guys saw, because I thought Captain Marvel was great.
I like the part with a Goose the cat. The Skrulls are not even villains in the movie, I thought they were supposed to be, they aren't. Stan Lee cameo on the subway train. Opening scene with Stan Lee cameos was amazing, it made everyone tears and clap. Stan Lee would be proud of a movie. Post Credits scene with the Avengers.
Yeah, I still can’t tell if Jude Law really has no feelings for Captain Marvel.... if he was only protecting her to keep his position in Kree culture or what.... at the end I was leaning toward him being truly evil, but it’s hard to tell. He’s kind of like an anti-Yondu.
I really liked this movie. Awesome review guys
I think there was a lot of story to tell, and the flashbacks were the most compact way to say that Carol wasn't just a fluke. She worked hard, and failed often, but got back up. She earned her spots and earned her skills. She flew a mission because it was what needed to be done. She was fearless and dedicated to doing whats right. Thats why I found her flying ease to be believable. The engine turned her into an engine. She outputs tons of energy, and her flying wasn't just learning to float. She used her energy to propel forward, and since she's an expert pilot, she knew the science behind how to fly. She's definitely a favorite for the next phase mcu.
I really should've done with this movie as I did with Ant-Man &The Wasp, watch two trailers and avoid the rest and all tv spots. Less getting spoiled.
In my opinion it was good...not flawless. The average movie goers were out in full force and clapping at the end of my sold out show....just saying.👍
they don't want to hear that. please be negative when they tell you to. or we will have to reprogram you.
And I have to agree with other posters, she wasn’t just standing next to the engine when it got shot, she shot it, she chose to make that sacrifice in order to prevent the Kree from getting it. 
Photon, Pulsar, Spectrum.... I wonder which one she will be 🤔😉
Melanie and Aaron know what I'm talking about 😊
The Kree wanted the energy core (the Tesseract, aka the space inifinty stone), not the energy source that powered the engine core. The Tesseract was found by Howard Stark while searching for Steve Rodgers after he crashed Red Skulls plane. The tesseract was in the possession of the SSR, which re-organized into S.H.I.E.L.D. SHIELD created the PEGASUS project, which coincidently Mar-Vel was involved with. Project PEGASUS has been mentioned throughout the MCU. Especially in the first scene of Avengers with Fury.
Yesssss!!!! Have been waiting for this video!!!
Who is Ben Mendelson?! More importantly...the woman from American Beauty...that’s Annette Benning!!! Know your stuff.
It would have been better if there were a montage in the beginning of all the missions Captain Marvel went on with her Kree team, and if they showed the beginning of a love interest between Jude Law's character and Captain Marvel. It would have allowed for an emotional showdown at the end even though he was no match for her physically.
Captain marvel was alright it wasn’t like it was ground breaking it was ok
It was kind of generic felt like a female lead version of Man of steel to me
But there was some good moment but if I were to give a grade I’d say in between B minus and C
The scene I hated was when fury lost his eye to the flurken it didn’t feel as righteous as I though he would’ve lost but the best scene and my favorite scen was when she said “where’s fury”
Movie was alright, not Marvel's best or worst. The plot with Carol's memories was pretty cool and the twist with the scrolls was pretty awesome. Where the movie really lacked however was in its characters. Nothing against Brei Larson, but in a story of self discovery, where she's trying to retain her memories and understand who she is, Captain marvel walked around with the same expression almost the entire movie, the straight face/confident/ready to kick ass expression when we should have been getting a much more variant personality, one which is strong and yet confused sort of like Cap's. The confidence Captain Marvel gave out made her look strong, but it didn't help build a personable character. Besides that, I felt no connection with the best friend plot, felt really forced and so did most of the interactions in the movie. The only character plus points were Furry/Marvel's interactions and the scrolls, besides that the characters were really bland.
The tesserect was removed from the ocean by Howard Stark. It basically was with government/SHIELD until she got a hold of it for the Pegasus project. Then this movie details how SHIELD got it back.
Putting aside I loved this movie...I even MORE love how much it totally tanks everyone’s “X character is a Skrull” theories.
About the Kree-Skrull war: it’s a war. There are no ‘bad guys’. To humanity, it’s whichever side can make themselves sound more noble.
If I remember correctly, Howard found the tesseract looking for Steve's remains in a submersible. So SHIELD had it already. Mar-Vell was allowed to experiment with it which is why she had it. Fury most likely wouldn't have known about it because he didn't have a higher clearance level.
Minor spoilers about the escape sequence from the Skrulls was; that scene was VERY similar to one in Avatar, Legend of Korra. Also the brief scene of Carol casually punching through the Accuser ship, level by level; was almost a one-for-one recreation of Disney's Hercules, punching through the Ice Titan's attack.
The final brawl was dumb fun, but seeing Carol shrug of blowback, and attacks, reminded me of Hockey practice where I had padding, and would just skate into the boards, or get tossed across the ice for fun. It was just kid-like fun.
I can't believe she got her powers from the tesseract
P.s goose has a lot of dimensional abilities like teleportation
foxclaw24 same....i doesn't really add up for me..... to have all of her powers from that....
@@juliocesarg.r.1238 it kind of seems like rather than just being a pure conduit for the tesseract, she became a combustion engine. Maybe we haven't seen what happens when she pushes too far and burns out.
Hey guys! Congratulations for a great comprehensive review. I actually have been consuming all the information I can get before watching the movie, but the fact that you clearly didn't makes your take very fresh.
It's like you guys never took part in all the negative buzz this movie was getting prior to the premier. Having watched a lot of reviews, your criticism are very fair and balanced by comparison.
I think the good things in CM surpass the bad ones. Endgame awaits.
I hold the belief that the writing in this movie was bad, she didn't have an emotional character arc.
She is legit the exact same person from the beginning to the end. She punched and shot laser beams out of her arm to overcome all obstacles.
Nick fury and Talos were great!
First half of the movie was just bad imo, the buddy cop moments with Fury and Carol was fun.
I just left this movie feeling like I wasn't given a reason to care for captain marvel
I’m super disappointed that the one woman on the panel who is also supposedly a huge Captain Marvel fan barely says anything. Come on Melanie, speak your mind!
she can't because she has to follow the followers.
She gets interrupted every time and it freaking bothers me cause she knows about Captain Marvel which most of the other dude's don't. As well with GoT, she read all the books just like Eric but she also doesn't speak in those videos and that's because (if they notice or not) they start speaking over her. That's the only thing that I hate about the dudes of the blind wave.
Meh. It's a mid-teir marvel film. Not the best but not the worse
Film-wise, it's okay. Has its problems but a lot of clever spinning of clichés. Where it excels over many MCU movies for me is I feel like it will have great rewatchability over many others.
Everyone complaining about Bries performance or whatever just give it time. When we start to see her more and more acting with the other avengers i think it will show more of her character.
@@ComicCrossing That's a lie her performance was excellent
And everyone complaining about Furys eye that serves you right lol. Everyone sepculating he was going to lose it in some grandeous way only to lose it to a cat is funny and ironic lol
Hows that a good thing you could be a fan of the movie but that moment was just a big let down
Capt. Marvel is good but not great. Still it will success box office.its mcu film