realcaseyrollins ✝️<p>I will say though that there are some we’re production choices about <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/themarvels" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheMarvels</a> that stood out to me.</p><p>One was a line of dialogue where one character asks another character “how are you feeling?” and the other character responds “I was born for this.”</p><p>But also, early in the film, there’s a flashback scene with music that not only isn’t a great choice, but is drowned out by some other song about halfway through, making the audio just turn into a strange discordant mess.</p><p>There’s one take of <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/brielarson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrieLarson</a> that they kept in where it’s a serious moment where her mouth twitches and it looks like she’s about to laugh, but then she doesn’t and she says something serious instead. And I was like “did they mean to keep that in?”</p><p>Also back to the music, most of it sucked, which is something I never expected to say about any <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/mcu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MCU</a> film. In fact, I think the film would have been substantially better if it wasn’t for music that didn’t always match the appropriate tone of what was actually happening.</p><p>I don’t think most of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/cgi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CGI</a> was bad in this film. Most of the complaints about <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/cgi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CGI</a> I rarely agree with, to be fair, although I will say that some of the wider shots with <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/cgi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CGI</a> versions of the characters doing things have weird physics sometimes, like characters moving fast and then turning on a dime or stopping completely in a way that seems completely unnatural.</p><p>There were also some story choices I didn’t get. Like, <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/nickfury" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickFury</a> and the entirety of <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/saber" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SABER</a> were completely wasted here. Like, they weren’t given anything to do so it makes me wonder what the point even was of having them in the film in the first place. The heroes didn’t need them and they barely even actually didn’t anything with them in the first place.</p><p>Another story choice I had issue with actually involves my favorite thing about the movie. When <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/themarvels" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheMarvels</a> are united, there’s actually tension between all of them, which made for some really interesting and entertaining dynamics. <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/msmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MsMarvel</a> is someone who idolizes <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/captainmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CaptainMarvel</a> but <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/captainmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CaptainMarvel</a> hates herself for instigating a war between two alien races and so she keeps treating <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/msmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MsMarvel</a> with coldness. Rambeau misses <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/captainmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CaptainMarvel</a> but is furious at her for not living up to a promise she made one time, leading to mixed emotions when they’re in the same space as each other. The problem is, throughout the first act, the tensions randomly appear and disappear. Characters will be bitter at each other in one scene, and smiling coyly at each other moments later. It makes no sense. And even worse, they explain away the tension with a like three-line apology from <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/captainmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CaptainMarvel</a> and then there’s no more tension at all, getting rid of everything that made these characters’ dynamics interesting.</p><p>The movie raises some interesting themes such as the dangers of making an idol out of someone, how an omnipotent being still can’t fix all the world’s problems, and how recklessness can backfire on you, only to…completely ignore every single one of them by the end.</p><p>Oh and the villain’s death is anticlimatic.</p><p>But that said, I’m here for <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/msmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MsMarvel</a>’s character arc, and I really really got what I came for. She’s actually funny in this movie, even funnier than she was in her own show, and she actually has a proper arc. She starts off all starry-eyed at the idea of being on a team with <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/captainmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CaptainMarvel</a>, and then looks at her with disappointment after realizing that she can’t save everyone, to by the end realizing the gravity and serious burden of doing superhero work. To go from being bubbly and starry-eyed at the beginning to literally crying after losing a teammate wasn’t the kind of character development that I thought <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/disney" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disney</a> was still capable of, and while it really could have been pulled off better, it did a little bit more than get across the finish line.</p><p>All in all, it’s not a great film, but I enjoyed it and <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/msmarvel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MsMarvel</a>’s parts were good enough for me to call the movie Not Bad.</p>