Chrono_Tata said: Agreed on all points. Thing that left the most impression on me was Talos. What a great character and he was the highlight of the second half of the movie.If there is one fault I could find about the movie was that it was a little too safe and there wasn't anything too innovative about it. Maybe if it came out before GotG. That's the difference between a good movie and a classic though and Cap Marvel was pretty dang good.As for the timing for when Goose coughed up the Tesseract I don't think it was supposed to be too important, although from the furniture changes I guess it was a few years after Cap Marvel. In any case it would be some time before Avengers 1. I guess the scene was just to confirm how SHIELD got hold of it and also played for the physical comedy.
The chair was much more current but he still had a CRT screen monitor on his desk (as opposed to a flat screen.) I'm guessing early 2000s, which would also fit for the timing in Avengers.
I agree with pretty much all the points above, but I disliked the scene where Ronan arrived and basically just launched missiles to carpet bomb the Earth. It was too much threat for too little lead up - it was very casually done and very casually handled. The point was to emphasize CM's power, sure, but I feel they'd already done a good job with that with her fighting the strike team. That was much more real. I absolutely love how she didn't indulge in fisticuffs with Yon Rogg, that would have been a dumb game and she knew it.
The movie really played with your expectations if you're familiar with the comics. You'll note that Jude Law's character was not identified by name until well over half the movie - they were trying to set up an expectation for people who know the comics that he was Mar-Vell. I didn't recall the Lawson connection (I never actually read the original comics, they're before my time, but I've read about them,) so I was very pleasantly surprised when that role was also taken by a woman.
In the comics, the Kree are a militaristic empire, but the Skrulls are actively worse. Again, the movie played up those expectations with making the Skrull look like the villians, and it defied them by making them, well, at least victims if not actively good guys.
Moving to Off Topic. (this is about a movie, not the game)
GrimSkald said:I agree with pretty much all the points above, but I disliked the scene where Ronan arrived and basically just launched missiles to carpet bomb the Earth. It was too much threat for too little lead up - it was very casually done and very casually handled. The point was to emphasize CM's power, sure, but I feel they'd already done a good job with that with her fighting the strike team. That was much more real. I absolutely love how she didn't indulge in fisticuffs with Yon Rogg, that would have been a dumb game and she knew it.
GrimSkald said: The movie really played with your expectations if you're familiar with the comics. You'll note that Jude Law's character was not identified by name until well over half the movie - they were trying to set up an expectation for people who know the comics that he was Mar-Vell. I didn't recall the Lawson connection (I never actually read the original comics, they're before my time, but I've read about them,) so I was very pleasantly surprised when that role was also taken by a woman.In the comics, the Kree are a militaristic empire, but the Skrulls are actively worse. Again, the movie played up those expectations with making the Skrull look like the villians, and it defied them by making them, well, at least victims if not actively good guys.
Phumade said: Too much setup in the movie. Personally, I think its pretty clear that the reason why the Kree signed the treaty with Xander probably has something to do with Captain Marvel and or the defeat of supreme intelligence. I'm sure the next two movies will effectively be prequels to GOTG 1. It would not be surprising if Cap Marvel 2/3 ends with Ronan being thrown out and declared the zealot that he becomes. I'm sure Ronan and Korath will factor in the direct sequel