Tyson Brown

Should have been better than it was. I felt like the writing was mostly the culprit but the acting was not good. Brie’s character is awesome, but I was kinda iffy about the freaking Skrulls now being symphatetic misunderstood refugees which underlines some of the issues here. That change seems to have been made to shove some progressiveness down the audiences throats rather than serve the plot and/or paint a picture of the Skrull race that we already knew (or thought we knew). And being a change that was made for that reason rather than to strengthen the story, it ultimately serves to weaken it. I mean how much better would it have been if the movie had no alterior agenda and portrayed the Skrulls like they usually are and they turned out to be just as bad as the Kree? I mean, there’s shades of gray in life and especially in war but to establish them as clear good guys just looking for a home was ridiculous. At the very least they should have added in a Super Skrull who was actually a part of the war to show that it’s an actual war and not an interglataic trail of tears.. they could have had the Super Skrull play off of Captain Marvel’s sympathies towards Mendelsons character in a ploy to get the tesseract. It’s not like they didn’t have a solid hour of pointless and weak scenes they could have cut to add it in, ya know? That way we wouldn’t have the absurd and boring bleeding heart plot we got and have something a little more interesting. Larson herself ranges from great to corny to “why in the heck didn’t they reshoot that terribly acted scene?!?”, but that can be said about a lot the current MCU. Some good fan service with the cat and a few other things. But ultimately it’s a boring movie, which is a feat considering she’s in the top 3 most powerful characters in the MCU and her powers are absolutely stunning to look at. If it starred/was directed by/was written by someone good at writing instead of a woman who was apparently hired by virtue of being a woman, it would be on Iron Man 3’s level in terms of quality and critical reception (solidly bleh). But it wasn’t.. it was made by a women and were supposed to automatically think it’s great or else we’re sexist bigots. These are the times we live in. It will be heralded as a feminist masterpiece by a lot of people (which has started already.. “important” and “powerful” are two words I’ve seen a lot and this movie is objectively neither. But if it really makes a women feel empowered then awesome). Which isn’t to say that that’s a bad thing, I just believe women deserve a better class of hero. Or at least deserve a heroine that’s written by someone who was hired based on what’s in their head and how well they implement that vision rather than what’s between their legs and how many times they can write in their heroine giving a man an equivalent to a nut shot. All in all, it serves as what it was supposed to be and does it enough to get a passing grade, but barely. And what it’s supposed to be is Avengers: A Prelude. And it does that good enough. The problem is that it could have been done equally well as a short 20 minute YouTube video though, but again blame the bad writing. They introduced Captain Marvel, did the origin schtick, and finished with her meeting the team and all is right in the universe... Sort of... I for one am hoping that they use that time stone to go back and flesh out more of the characters in this movie and maybe replace a few actors here and there and definitely hire a writer and director who can deliver the powerful and important feminist character we need rather than this fart in the wind and give us Iron Man instead of Iron Man 3. Because we really do need a genuinely good and prolific female character for young girls to look up to, but this ain’t it chief. Looking at you here Black Widow...