Nick Fury never "lost an eye". It got scratched up a bit by the Flerkin, then he lied and pretended to have lost the eye completely so he could have a secret retinal scan in the security system (which came in handy in Winter Soldier). That's why Coulson hands him a box of fake eyes.
Jeff Billings
2022-03-19 23:25:44 +0000 UTC
Mary Sues are an increasingly common problem. Feminists think it's progressive but it's actually diminishing female characters. It's basically saying women are too weak to have trials and failures and character development, they have to be perfect to appear strong. They also like to masculinise them too as if to say a feminine woman can't be strong, she has to be able to kick the ass of every man around them.
Wanda is feminine and powerful, she isn't always perfect and is quite well done.
Of course Brie Larsen herself didn't help matters with her public comments.
Aaron Barlow
2022-01-25 02:12:18 +0000 UTC
Not completely true, it was the infinity stones that were created in the big bang. The tesseract was created to contain the space stone. Unsure who the creator was.
Shades
2022-01-11 09:54:43 +0000 UTC
So one of the main problems most people had with the movie was that it was shoved in last minute and offers no real purpose in the whole of the MCU apart from a few minor things that come in Endgame (not spoiling anything). But for the most part, a lot of the writing seemed very forced for the sake of applying trials and obstacles when she was clearly able to defeat everyone that confronted her. Nothing stopped her from taking her regulator off the entire movie. But possibly the worst offender is the lack of character growth or any real character struggles. The only "struggle" is that she is "too emotional", but as you probably noticed, she is very much not that emotional, but the movie insists it's a problem. And at the end of the day, all that was wrong was everyone else putting her down, not her. They really forced the idea of her constantly being put down and for the lesson to be standing up to them. It forges its own problems only to defeat them on a platform to appear noble and brave. Captain Marvel is by definition and overpowered Mary Sue; No character faults addressed and fixed, has a seemingly unlimited amount of power that can destroy anything in her path, and is visually over-fixated with power stances for the sake of symbolism and virtue signaling.
That being said, the movie isn't terrible. It has a lot of heartwarming moments and really gives perspective of other worldly inhabitants that, at this time in the 1990s would be perceived as completely villainous and only bent on world domination when in reality they are just like us. The cultural references are pretty entertaining and a young Nick Fury was perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of this film. It is unfortunate to say that Brie Larson's Captain Marvel really isn't the best portrayal they could have gone with, acting wise. She's really not that great of an actress and her dialogue is very clunky. There was also some controversy with her comments on the film, more specifically on critics of the film, regardless of if they actually had valid criticisms. She often dismissed them on both racial and gender-based grounds. Needless to say, the movie fell flat for many.
The Black Queen
2022-01-11 09:36:01 +0000 UTC
Mar-Vell didn't invent the Tessaract, it's ancient and was created after the Big Bang and remember was found by The Red Skull during WWII. Howard Stark found it in the ocean searching for Steve Rogers, Howard Stark creates SHIELD and eventually Mar-Vell gets her hands on it to experiment with it to create a lightspeed engine. She just used it as the core (power source) for her lightspeed engine. That's the energy that flowed into Carol when she blew up the engine. So, like Wanda, Carol got her powers from an Infinity Stone.
Thadman
2022-01-11 04:11:51 +0000 UTC
Fury didn't start SHIELD, Howard Stark did (it was his idea) and he tapped Peggy Carter to build/run it in the beginning.
Thadman
2022-01-11 03:17:24 +0000 UTC
Since this was the 1990s, someone dressed like Vers would be HIGHLY unusual. Cosplaying was definitely not as accepted as today. It was relegated to the "weirdo nerds" and most "normal" people hadn't even heard of it. Only on Halloween was dressing in costume acceptable. :-)
Thadman
2022-01-11 03:15:16 +0000 UTC
Love it too!!! One of my favs....Can't wait to see your reaction to End Game!!
Jayson Phillips
2022-01-11 00:06:36 +0000 UTC
Yeah the tribute to Stan at the start gets me a little teary as well.