Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Wait, which one is this?

whose run on Captain Marvel are Ned and Veg's favourites?

it'd be cool if this movie featured all seven of the marvel characters who have been named "captain marvel"

would also be cool if the movie ended abruptly with a kid showing up and shouting "SHAZAM!"

I said stuff about this on Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

I’m stoked

Many details in here

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/23/16015612/captain-marvel-90s-cinematic-universe-sdcc-2017

Seriously though Ben Mendelsohn is a Skrull

Claremont's is probably still my favorite take on Carol Danvers. I would assume that the film won't feature her turning into Binary.

man, Boden/Fleck have had a strange career.

It's Kind of a Funny Story very possibly the absolute nadir of schmindie romcoms

Haribo Hancock (sic)
Posted: February 6, 2018 at 11:35:42 PM
whose run on Captain Marvel are Ned and Veg's favourites?

your mom

:D

:D

― mh, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 3:57 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

veg taking no prisoners itt

sic will be in soon to undo your absurd claim by detailing his mom's pointedly Ms. Marvel-free comics scripting history.

my mom threw out all the comics I'd written in my life when I was 15, due no doubt to professional jealousy

sad lol

<3

Hmmm

https://www.thewrap.com/djimon-hounsou-clark-gregg-lee-pace-captain-marvel/

But tucked into the announcement was the reveal that “Guardians of the Galaxy” stars Djimon Hounsou and Lee Pace will also be a part of the film.

In the first “Guardians” film, Pace played the film’s villain, Ronan The Accuser, with Hounsou playing one of his most formidable warriors, Korath The Pursuer. While their roles in “Captain Marvel” haven’t been made official, the upcoming film takes place in the 1990s, so it is possible that the two actors could reprise their characters from several years before they faced the Guardians.

“Captain Marvel” follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the MCU’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. The cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg, who will be reprising their roles as SHIELD icons Nick Fury and Agent Coulson. Ben Mendelsohn, Gemma Chan, Lashana Lynch, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, and Jude Law also star.

So that's more or less a confirmation of a Kree/Skrull War adaptation. Cool beans.

Awwww shiiiiiiit

Rick Jooooooooones

Jude Law has been cast as Mar-Vell.

i look forward to seeing the hairpiece they choose for him

Maybe they can just attach it to the costume’s headpiece and he never takes it off! win-win

So basically this movie is now going to be ridiculously essential to the wider MCU plot machinations.

what, you think they’re going to rewind the Avengers movie battle and replay it with Carol and her squad in the mix?

EXACTLY no wait.

honestly the first thing I thought of was Temuera Morrison as Abin-Sur. Followed by Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight.

I'm still riding for this movie though. It's going to be amazing.

And now amazinger:

Exclusive: Annette Bening in talks to join #CaptainMarvel https://t.co/m0kCFMRtys pic.twitter.com/wNQDk4Ggb2

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 9, 2018

Wait, 'in talks'? Isn't this thing currently filming, if not already in post-production?

it is currently filming

they did a quick week in January so they were within the time restrictions of a tax break, then filmed in one location during march

annette bening IS beta ray bill

I might've gone a little more in the direction of a Diane Keaton as Bill, but I can accept it.

beta ray barbra imo

EW finally has some exclusive first look images: https://ew.com/movies/captain-marvel-first-look-images/

And there are FUCKING SKRULLS MOTHERFUCKERS

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWCfU2VAAAsPXh.jpg

Carol in a Nine Inch Nails t-shirt is clearly the key image

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/opw-05957_r.jpg

skrull kill krew spin-off or gtfo

^^^^

lol yung SLJ

The film also introduces Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau, one of Carol’s oldest friends. She’s a top-notch Air Force pilot with the call sign “Photon,” and she’s also a single mother to a young daughter.

xp they should've made him look like Mister Senor Love Daddy

And there are FUCKING SKRULLS MOTHERFUCKERS

https://doctorwhofromthestart.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/curse-of-fenric3.jpg

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/7/7c/Imageseadevils.jpg, surely

I couldn't find a pic that showed the haemovore makeup clearly AND had them coming out of the water, but the tunics and skin colour are pretty close

Higher. Further. Faster. Watch the trailer for Marvel Studios’ @CaptainMarvel in theaters March 8, 2019. #CaptainMarvel pic.twitter.com/a7KsE8f7Y3

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) September 18, 2018

I'm in just for Young Coulson and Carol Danvers punching an old lady in the face.

tonally kind of weird for a Marvel trailer. No jokes!

(unless you count punching the old lady)

looks cool!

man, marvel's de-aging tech is getting really good huh

Rather.

Oh along the lines of the undermined expectations I mention, I appreciated that (unless I missed it) they waited for some time before revealing the name of Jude Law's character, which allowed those in the know to go on believing for a while that he was in fact a whole other character with whom they were familiar (and who I believe he had long been reported as portraying in the film). Because had I known, the twist would have announce itself much much earlier.

I think the big difference is that for those in the know, hearing a referenced to Admiral Dingus or whatever might cause you to pay closer attention, but for those not in the know a passing reference to an important character might vanish like a shimmering exposition mirage. I did know the Skrulls were handled differently than they were in the books, as far as I could tell. But I still had to google Ronan the Accuser (like I did with GotG?), and I still don't know why he dresses like that, carries a hammer, acts differently from the other Kree, was helping Thanos, etc. I had no idea who Jude Law's character or characters were supposed to be, in terms of Marvel mythology, other than the leader of her team.

Also Josh (since I'm just going to flood this thread now apparently), I should just note that you're far from alone. My gf has watched every single minute of MCU filmed entertainment alongside me (yes, including all of the shows...well, except for Inhumans, admittedly) and she has the same 'wait, who is that person (who's been prominently featured in five movies previous to this one)?' issues. These details are of more importance to some of us than others, and that's okay, and here's why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyKJAtDNCw

But I still had to google Ronan the Accuser (like I did with GotG?), and I still don't know why he dresses like that, carries a hammer, acts differently from the other Kree, was helping Thanos, etc. 

Also he was the one Jude Law was talking to in the context of him bombing the shit out of one planet - when Jude Law contacts him later in the context of him bombing the shit out of Earth, the context there is him bombing the shit out of earth.

they should have had him swing his hammer a little in the hologram and say something like “i’m gonna ally with thanos and collect some stones if this kree thing doesn’t work out!”

alternatively he could have shown his double-blades lightsaber to remind us of who he isn’t

the orange cat was everything I hoped he would be. a very fun movie!

I enjoyed this. I get that everyone wants every Marvel movie to be Ragnarok or Black Panther but... not every Marvel movie is going to be Ragnarok or Black Panther. This was solidly Good and I didn't feel like I wasted my money watching it, ergo thumbsup.jpg

agree

I bumped into a friend and his two girls in the store yesterday. I asked how their spring break was, and they said, good, they saw a lot of movies. What did you see? I asked. "Captain Marvel," one of them said. "It was pretty good!" "So tell me the truth," I said. "Would you rather see another Captain Marvel movie, or a movie just about the cat?" "The cat!" they shouted, in unison.

saw it last night. I gotta say that I feel a little disappointed that (SPOILER; altho its unlikely anyone who knows about what I'm about to mention hasn't seen the movie if they intend to) is that the Stan Lee colan creation Mar vell was not only transfigured, but was in fact present only in flashbacks (I protected myself from details of the film so well that I walked in thinking Jude Law was going to be portraying Mar vell). I have an inexplicable fondness for this character, who was not only created to field a dubious copyright claim, but was also worked on by creators who never seemed to know what to do with him. Even Jim Starlin seemed to use him for Thanos-, Eros-, Mentor- and Titan-shit that he was really interested in, and only seemed connect with the character when he got cancer in 1982.

I'm also fond of Carol Danvers, and echo Old Lunch in that the interested really should look at the wikipedia page for the character. The Avengers 200 incident involving Jim Shooter, David Michelinie et al crafting a story involving inter-dimensional rape/stockholm syndrome even made 10 year old me gobsmacked, and the subsequent Avengers annual written by Claremont is one of the more obvious examples of meta/internecine score settling in superhero shit… a few years ago, someone wrote a story about the editorial cluster fuck that resulted in this incident, and its really fascinating.. the lalte 90s Busiek/Perez run of Avengers saw her become an alcoholic, and I thought "hasn't this character gone through enough?"

In any case, from 1963 until the 2000s, Marvel never had a marquee female character a la Wonder Woman—although Jean Grey or Storm or Rogue might fit the bill— and that was a problem. There is no doubt that 15 years ago, Quesada or Jemas or Bendis or whoever decided that they had to fix this, and Carol Danvers, who had tortuous continuity and very very little in the way of genuine grass roots enthusiasm, was going to do it. Again, I like the character, but the Carol Corps as such is trying to will iconic qualities on a character who never had much support, and is thus doing Disney's bidding. Although I think its a good super hero movie, and I am gratified that enough of the character I knew in the 70s and 80s is present.

I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?

I like the character but I don't think there's a been single comic with Carol Danvers in the starring role that I've really connected with. Comics-wise, she seems to work best as part of an ensemble.

"I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?"

yeah that may be: I should watch what i'm talking about cuz I don't read modern superhero shit.

as far as I remember the carol corps was a grassroots thing kicked off around 2012ish (as Andrew mentioned), partially as a reaction to Marvel's inability to market their own releases in any intelligent way

I mean, it's doing Disney/Marvel a great service by building enthusiasm for a character, but (and with a resigned sigh, here) the fact is that we're in a Marvel character moment and writers/artists pushing that attention toward characters that might actually be interesting or change the landscape seems like a lesser evil

Monica Rambeau > Carol Danvers

was that ever in question?

finally saw this over the weekend, thought it was pretty meh besides samuel l., who was incredible, and the cat, who was a very good cat indeed. i also liked that the directors let mendelsohn keep his natural accent, even though none of the other skrulls sounded like they came from the planet down undah.

i'm not familiar with the comics version of carol, but it feels like she'll suffer from the superman problem, namely that they'll have to nerf her abilities for 3/4 of whatever movie she's in before unleashing the glowing CGI version for the last 1/4 of the movie. maybe the inevitable sequel will match her up against a cosmic-scale villain that would actually pose a challenge.

The inevitable sequel is out later this month, so the chances are pretty good?

im talking captain marvel 2, not MCU 22 or whatever

Oh, you mean Shazam, that's in theaters rn

i mean kazaam

critical support for comrade carol’s compassion for the plight of space palestinians

imho this movie was a good colorful fun time, kinda missing that extra sprinkle of something that would have made me really fall in love with it... whether that was a sparkle of OTT silliness and defiantly geeky world-building (e.g. aquaman, alita) or a slightly more focused emotional arc. there were little bursts of Feelings but they didn't lock together for me. i think it needed another editing pass at the script stage - the Ronan stuff serves no real purpose within the movie that couldn't be served by characters that captain marvel actually knows and has some kind of relationship with. so we end up having to duck away from the main story of the movie for an (admittedly awesome) showdown with his spaceships, and then burn time getting back to the main story, so she actually has two final showdowns with her actual main antagonist. combined with the one-too-many-times gags (e.g. everything to do with the cat) i just had a strong sense that it could have been an unbelievably fun 105-minute movie and was instead a pretty fun 125-minute movie.

and yeah the needle-drops were a problem for me. if you're going to do nostalgia and really create a "woah yeah this feels like it's back then" vibe, do it right: pick one specific summer or at least one specific year and dial into songs a little ways down the chart, ones people remember but which have actually gone away in the interim. the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable. hire me, marvel! i've got the playlists you need!

larson was interesting throughout, very different take than most of these films have for their leads. i guess playing an amnesiac with a seemingly limited interior and personal life for most of the film does present some hurdles to getting to know a character, but it was a nice change of pace from the formulaic "establish that they're brave and plucky, but also smirky and they have a problem with authority" type stuff. the very brief flashbacks to her earlier life were surprisingly effective and made it feel like a real payoff when she does finally meet back with her old friends.

the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable.

fry_take_my_money.jpg

I have literally never heard this song before in my life

(joke writes itself)

seeing sam jackson’s slightly thick-waisted nick fury in endgame really underscored what a great job they did of turning a 70-year-old man into a very creditable fit-looking fortysomething here

i hope she gets to continue being a person out of time, like a captain america who got frozen in the early 90s and is struggling with the idea of pearl jam being played on classic rock stations.

back in the late 90s in my high school comics i had this running idea of a lost predecessor high school that got sealed away in the depths back in 1991. even back then that era seemed super removed (tho of course this has a lot to do with being 18) so there could be a lot of comedy there. as a superhero she has this dope costume, by day she's wearing hypercolor looney tunes jerseys or w/e. but that would require more commitment to the idea of period style than we saw in this movie, which doesn't even bother to give the extras 90s haircuts. the "grunge outfit" gag barely even registered.

this was good, plot predictably ludicrous but all the main turns were slick, larsen in particular is a superstar, hashtagging didnt over intrude, 8/10

saw this at a drive-in on a double feature with the Avengers flick

Mendo was pretty good

mendo is never not good

Cosi was a bit of a wank tbh

He dresses like that and carries a hammer because of he's the commander of a special strike force called the Accusers. And he was working with Thanos because Thanos gave him an Infinity Stone which helped him push his own political agenda. All of this was explained in the GotG movie and this one, you don't need any knowledge of the comic book Ronan

also, Josh, I saw the first Guardians twice and the second one once and the entirety of my thought process when he turned up was "oh it's that guy that Danny Hellman made jokes about some poster on the old TCJ messageboard who worked at FBI having the same name as, and... he... works for the big space-god-monster in these or something. Or maybe not yet? w/e, bad guy."

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

miss the days when my friend's dad had an old van and we were allowed to sit on sleeping bags on the roof of it at the drive-in as kids

Reminds me of the first time we flew to Australia, when iirc I watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the plane with plenty of more time to kill.

i'm choosing to read that as mh's story reminds you of the time you flew to australia in sleeping bags in the roof of the plane

watching the cinema of the sky, soundtracked by the roar of the jet engines

Which Mendo characters are the most Mendo? https://t.co/TTvUj3rCNE

— Tony Martin (@mrtonymartin) November 25, 2017

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Mendo in the Year My Voice Broke is still my favorite Mendo

I wonder if "eating a pie while driving and punching a dart" would have made it past Twitter's offensive content filters

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

sat in lawn chairs for Carol, got into the car for Endgame

due to the 47th parallel, though, apart from going for a piss during the credits, this meant being in the car from 23:45 til 04:15