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

Alda was Commissioner Gordon in the first Batman, btw.

How did you do Best Actress and miss Halle Berry?

(She's listed under Batman.)

That is just ornery

Halle Berry and Julianne Moore are in the second Kingsman movie.

Jessica Chastain is in the next X-Men.

Casanova Frankenstein

Original to the film! (as are all but two of the characters iirc)

AF already said he’s not counting Millar joints (though obv I endorse noting them!)

firstly

unless for a comic book role, this is even more pointless than it appears

secondly, road to perdition might be an adaptation of a graphic novel, but a comic-book movie it aint and yes u fuckin know the difference dont start

ah yes, the highbrow literary tone of a Max Allan Collins, filtered through the cinéaste vision of a Sam Mendes, produces something ineffably transformative

Graphic novels are comic books

grats

road to perdition is not a comic book movie

avengers et al are

Gone With the Wind is not a book movie.

Harry Potter et al are.

Very few comics adaptations adapt particularly hifalutin comics, and even when they (arguably) do, the films themselves don't usually wind up particularly hifalutin (eg From Hell).

New trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX33bIOA5aA

I mean, appropriate song use there.

Man, "Connection" is almost 25 years old ... We're nearly as far from that song as, like, Prince's "Sign O the Times" is from "Love Me Do."

i've said itt before but man i can't stop boggling at how good that de-ageing tech is getting

We've only seen it in short bursts though right? It was a little borderline in GOTG2 and Star Wars, and that was only a couple of years ago.

it looked noticeably better in ant-man and the wasp iirc

Ant man 2 times

Lol at Darraghmac's attempt to argue some comic books are more equal than others.

Road to Perdition is actually more of a comic book movie than the MCU ones, because it does actually adapt the story of a comic book into a movie, whereas the Marvel films mostly have original plots that take some story elements from various comics.

fun fact: road to perdition is absolutely fucking terrible

the de-aging in Aquaman looked good on Nicole Kidman and bizarre on Temuera Morrison... I don't think anyone has it down to a science yet

Some behind the scenes/set interviews/this and that, a couple of spoilers along the way, etc etc.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/captain-marvel-will-bring-the-might-of-carol-danvers-to-1831497102

very cool!!

https://taskandpurpose.com/captain-marvel-featurette-air-force
https://taskandpurpose.com/captain-marvel-air-force-recruiting

the deaging on Kidman was the best I've ever seen. I mean if you didn't know she actually looked older you would not have known anything was done to her at all. Of course she looks kind of unreal in real life these days too.

They know what they're doing.

https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel

lol, that's good

Any little girl for whom seeing CAPTAIN MARVEL has an appreciable effect on her self-worth, her ambitions, or her sense of what’s possible for her own life, is an unimaginative bore and I don’t care to know her

— Maddie Whittle 🤷‍♀️ (@maddiewhittle) March 4, 2019

i think posting that says more about you than the movie

so far I've only spotted one amusing Captain Marvel tweet in the wild

Captain Marvel sitting at the Air Force Base fumbling for change for the Air Force vending machine to get a refreshing ice cold can of Air Force

— glory / glory / glory (@bombsfall) March 5, 2019

Reviews are ... middling.

seems like the reviews are on par for a lot of the Marvel "origin story" flicks. which is to say "not a classic, but a good time".

one of the things that makes Rotten Tomatoes functionally useless is that, just to eyeball it, most of the "fresh" CM reviews are...2.5/4, 3/5...not exactly glowing endorsements, but it still sits at "89% fresh" wtv the fuck that means. (this is the first time I've noticed that they'll consider 2/4 "fresh" if the rhetoric is forgiving enough)

lol at Morbs' post

these movies would be motherfucking landfill in a quality culture

these movies are also pretty easy to ignore if you're not interested in them tbh

try having two teen daughters who love them and want to watch them with you

thank GOD for the Thor movies and Spider-Man

lol at morbs tweet

but actual lol not yknow angry at morbs lol

hope its better than black panther

BP is OK if you pretend the credits roll after the waterfall

Walter Chaw:

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe's very own Solo, Vers (Larson) is a Kree warrior who trains with Kree warrior Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). When I spell "Kree" with a "k," I mean it: these aren't the First Nations "Kree," they're mostly-green space aliens at war with shape-shifting lizard people called Skrull. As the film lugubriously opens like a corpse flower in a greenhouse, Vers is captured by Skrull leader Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) and has her memory probed, leading to a flashback to 1989 in which Vers is Carol Danvers, plucky test-pilot given to cheeky affirmations shared with her buddy (wait for it) Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch). Say it out loud. Yeah, baby, Maria RAMBO. Sick, right? Carol, see, was a human but is now Kree because reasons, leading to the whitest inspirational declaration I have ever heard when she says, summoning would-be iconic gravitas, "My name is...Carol!" (It's no "They call me Mister Tibbs!", but it's destined to be memed whenever some soccer mom calls the cops on a renegade lemonade stand going forward.) This is just one of many attempted moments of affirmation in Captain Marvel, with another coming when Carol robotically intones at Yon-Rogg that she doesn't need his approval--an assertion that essentially says his accusations of her being incapable of controlling her emotions are not only true but indeed the root of her strength. Not what they meant? Well, then, they had over two hours to be clearer; and why are you defending something that cost the GDP of a small nation to produce and advertise? Look, if one small girl is inspired by Captain Marvel, that's fantastic. When I was a small Chinese boy, I loved Condorman. I had the novelization and everything. Condorman is one of the two or three worst movies ever made. Captain Marvel is not just the worst MCU film, it's also the worst DCEU film--and, folks, I really hated Suicide Squad and Justice League. I'm glad Condorman exists because of what it meant to me, but Condorman, let me repeat, is terrible. I'm also glad that Captain Marvel exists, I guess, because real equality is when movies about women are allowed to be as bad as most movies about men.

I was never going to see this anyway, but now I do kinda wanna see Condorman a little bit.

The debut appearance of Monica Rambeau was published the same month as /First Blood/ landed in theaters, and three years before the sequel film made that name synonymous with military toughness, imo. Seems pretty unlikely that there's any connection.

based on a cursory IMDb'ing, Condorman sounds like a hoot

I've always meant to see it, while routinely forgetting it exists and mixing it up with Pumaman.

Wikipedia says Monica Rambeau first appeared in 1982. First Blood also out that year. Just coincidentally, my guess. Other than phonetics, the characters have no shared characteristics. But hey, why would filmfreakcentral.net let research get in the way of a hyperbolic, Comic Book Guy review? Fwiw, I don't have stock in the film. Just not a fan of bandwagon, self-indulgent pans.

too few movies are torn to pieces by hyperbolic reviews tbh

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

whats easy isnt whats always wrong

The debut appearance of Monica Rambeau was published the same month as /First Blood/ landed in theaters, and three years before the sequel film made that name synonymous with military toughness, imo. Seems pretty unlikely that there's any connection.

I was never going to see this anyway, but now I do kinda wanna see Condorman a little bit

Saw it in theaters at the time! Disney does a bizarre Bond manque, in essence, but you get a Henry Mancini score and Oliver Reed eating the scenery. Plus, at the very end of the film, the lead actor from Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin in a one or two line role!

I feel like I might have read another Walter Chaw review at some point. Holy fuck, is he a shitty writer. If Armond White was Comic Book Guy...