Now launch five more female-led franchises so we don’t have to keep having this conversation, please. But even if it’s for the wrong reasons, Captain Marvel still falls into the show-don’t-tell school of having female characters do cool, important things, an approach I frankly prefer to Wonder Woman’s. Partly, this is a smart dodge playing the girl-power card too blatantly invites questions about why, if this franchise cares so much about female representation, it didn’t get here sooner. Herman: I genuinely appreciated that Captain Marvel doesn’t call too much attention to itself as the first female-led movie in the franchise. Kate Halliwell : The darkest MCU film yet-not because of violence or whatever, but because the theater I went to messed up the projection.

CAPTAIN MARVEL is a story about admiring Annette Bening more than anyone else in the universe and I can relate to that- Alison Herman March 9, 2019ĭaniel Chin : For a movie that involved warring alien races, hivemind artificial intelligence, shape-shifters, and a Demogorgon cat, I was surprised that Captain Marvel managed to keep things relatively simple and easy to follow.

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