CB-Musings Episode 104: Marvelous

Going back to the beginning 

Of the MCU!

Captain Marvel was an interesting one..

Movie #21  = Captain Marvel (2019)
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Episode Transcript

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Last week.

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I sighed when I realized captainMarvel was next on my MCU
rewatch, then watching from thevery beginning.
And when I realized after Ihadn't been in the wasp captain
marveled next, I was like, ah,no.
But the reality is.
This is probably one of the moreintriguing movies to watch on
this list because of the factthat I, if you've listened to my

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podcast, I've not been verypositive about this movie.
It was probably the benchmarkfor badness in the MCU for me,
like I truly thought it was oneof the worst things ever along
with Thor, dark world.
And Thor love and thunder.
Which you haven't got to yet,obviously.
And I think.
I'm it must've been three times.

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I've tried watching this movieover the years.
And theaters.
And then two times after.
And each time I try to watch it,it just didn't resonate with me.
Even my wife, like we talkedabout it.
In the past.
It's just not something weenjoy.
That's, that's the reality ofit.

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And I'm about to say something that
I never thought I was going tosay, let me fix my seat.
Got a little comfortable.
Captain Marvel.
Is not the worst thing ever.
Oh, what.
It's just, it's true.
It's not the worst thing ever.
I'm going to do something I'venever done in the entirety of

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this rewatch and it's important.
I'm going to tell you now wherecaptain Marvel ranks.
Cause then I need it.
I want to talk about thisafterwards.
Captain Marvel is coming in lastand our MCU power rankings.
But to me, it's in this.
Ballpark of Thor, dark world, anIronman three.
Where they're all kind of equalto me.
But I, I like, I personally likeThor and Ironman, a little

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better.
At man, I think it's a stepabove all those, to be honest,
both admins.
Now.
I'm not saying this movie was awork of art.
Uh, I F I put it at the bottomof the rankings for reason, but
it's definitely not as bad as Ikept telling myself over the
years.
I thought the de aging of Colsonand Nick fury was actually

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crazy.
Good.
I've seen some horrible D agingsense.
I'm talking about Luke Skywalkerand the Mandalorian.
They did a really good jobthere.
The movie had some really goodvisuals.
Uh, captain Marvel when she'sflying around, which is falling
to earth, looked horrible.
But a lot of the other stuff wasreally well done.
The editing.
The casting choices, thestorylines.

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We're really good.
A lot of it was.
Well done.
It was a fun superhero movie.
I don't really connect with.
Carol Danvers, Brie Larson'sportrayal of captain Marvel.
Right now.
I think she was better in themarvels, which again, we'll get
to that in the rewatcheventually.
The person who I thought gavethe best performance was Talos.

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Really well done.
Even fury was kind of like,whatever.
Not the best performance.
But towels was exceptional.
And we got to see a baby.
Uh, I forgot her name, thatEmilia Clarke's character.
We got to see a baby version ofher.
So that was cool.
Really love her character.
She did a really good job insecret invasion.
But speaking of secret invasion,This movie kind of makes me.

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Observe and see what secretinvasion did wrong because the
scrolls.
You really feel for them.
And I feel like they got kind ofbone by the, by Marvel, you
know, they had a really good.
Arc set up.
Introduced in, in this movie andit kind of went nowhere.
Uh, or at least were a wet.
I didn't really like, so when Isay nowhere, I'm like, it didn't
go in a good direction.

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Captain Marvel had action.
It did have some humor.
I really liked the twist thatthe scrolls were actually good
guys.
And the Cree were the bad guys.
It was cool seeing Ronan beforehe would make his appearance in
guardians of the galaxy.
Jude law was pretty good.
I definitely.
Think I was too hard and hard onthat movie in the past.

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So I want to apologize for that.
I don't know.
It's just you, you getdisappointed and then you get
sucked in to the mom mentalityof the film.
And cause a lot of people werebashing that film when it came
on.
And I think I got sucked intothat negativity.
That's why I wanted to do thisfor you.
Watch.
I want to watch all these films.
On their own.
And just going with a clear mindand see what I think.

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Although, you know, I'm sayingcaptain Marvel got bashed by
people, but it didn't make abillion dollars.
So on a budget of 175 millioncaptain Marvel made 1.1,$3
billion.
That's really good.
But it did get bashed by a lotof people.
I remember the reviews.
Wasn't very good.
And a lot of people bash darkworld.

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And a lot of people bash Ironmanthree.
All I'm saying is.
Those movies are, are not thatbad.
Okay.
They're not like Morbius orblack or MME wet.
There's a lesson to be learned.
From this.
Experience of watching captainMarvel again.
Watch a movie before you see thecrowd reaction or read the crowd

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reaction, go watch a movie.
Don't look at the scores.
Don't look at the onlinereaction.
Don't hear what anybody has tosay.
Watch the movie once andformerly your own opinion on it,
because it's very easy to getsucked into that mob mentality.
That negativity.
I don't even let myself getsucked into it as much as other
people.
But I still feel like that'swhat happened here.

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And captain Marvel's case.
I guess some time I washed onits own and I had a good time.
I enjoyed captain Marvel.
If you told mark savvy firm of2019, Hey bro, you're actually
kinda kind of enjoy this movie.
He would think you're crazy.
Honestly, I can't even rememberwhat I ate for breakfast this
morning.
I don't know where I was in mylife in 2019.

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Maybe I was in a negative headspace when I saw it.
And then I associated.
That movie with that maybe I gotyelled at by my boss or
something who knows?
You, you have a negativeexperience.
You go see a movie and sometimesyou associated with that.
Even if it's subconsciously, Idon't know what happened, but I
know that I did not like captainMarvel.
And I did not like it insubsequent viewings, but I like

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it now.
But it's still like, not thatgood.
I just, I'm just saying it's notthe worst thing ever.
I just think sometimes opinionsevolve, you know, sometimes we
change.
You can't say that someone has,and I don't, people are going to
harsh on me for saying I liked,or you just change your mind.
Bro you, you changed as aperson.
Okay.
People change.

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So yeah.
Opinions are going to change.
I'm a different person now thanI was 15 years ago.
If I saw a movie I liked 15years ago, maybe I don't like it
now.
I'm 32 years old.
I'm married.
I have two amazing dogs.
I'm a different person.
It's crazy how much my life haschanged in the five years.
The only five years, I feel likea lot of us changed a lot from

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COVID.
You know, it was a really crazytime.
my opinion on this next moviewon't change though.
We'll be watching Avengers andgame.
The culmination of the infinitySaget is coming up next.
I am your host, mark savvy.
Thank you for listening toanother episode of savvy geeks.