Sean’s movie thoughts

Captain Marvel is a good film, but not a very good film. There are some nice moments and it is nice to see the Kree and the Skrulls on the big screen. However this is not top tier Marvel and might be middle tier or lower. I did not mind the 90s references or the music choices. I did not think the movie overdid the 90s references and I liked most of the song choices. There might have been a song choice that was a bit too obvious. I think maybe the main character suffering memory loss for most of the movie hurt Brie Larson’s performance. We will see how her performance in Avengers Endgame compares. I do think the movie is worth seeing again. Almost all the Marcel movies are. Maybe I would have made a few changes if I had written the movie. I don’t want to say more and I want to avoid spoilers.

Captain Marvel is pretty good but not great. It takes place in the 1990s but I did not think there were too many references to the era or that the references overwhelmed the plot. Basically the Kree and the Skrulls are at war in space and Kree Warrior Vers comes to Earth in pursuit of the Skrulls. She discovers that she is not who she thinks she is. (This pretty obvious from the trailers but there are plot details I am not giving away.) Samuel L. Jackson is on hand as a young Nick Fury. The effects making him look younger are good. Clark Gregg is also on hand as a young agent Phil Coulson. There is also a young Monica Rambeau and her mother in the movie. Perhaps we will see a grown up Monica later. (Monica is a superhero in comics and she was called Captain Marvel for a time.)  Brie Larson is good in the role but as not as good as Gal Galdot is as Wonder Woman. (Larson is not as good in her role as Robert Downey Jr is as Tony Stark or Chris Evans is as Captain America.) Maybe...