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[LordCBH]

 

[kruis]

 

[ItsGreat]

Brie's boobs still look sweet.

 

[taizuke]

The first line from the Bestie Boys song in the trailer says, "Don't you tell me to smile." I think this is clearly a response to the people who found Brie Larson's first outing as Carol Danvers unlikable and said she should smile more.

A part of me thinks they shouldn't have started with these lyrics. While I do love the song choice, it can come off a bit antagonizing, and this is the last thing you want to do if you want people to come around. Especially when she has come off a bit combative in past interviews and made situations negative for no reason.

What'd you guys think? Is this worth talking about? Or maybe it's not a big deal at all?

 

[Darkmakaimura]

The first line from the Bestie Boys song in the trailer says, "Don't you tell me to smile." I think this is clearly a response to the people who found Brie Larson's first outing as Carol Danvers unlikable and said she should smile more.

A part of me thinks they shouldn't have started with these lyrics. While I do love the song choice, it can come off a bit antagonizing, and this is the last thing you want to do if you want people to come around. Especially when she has come off a bit combative in past interviews and made situations negative for no reason.

What'd you guys think? Is this worth talking about? Or maybe it's not a big deal at all?

You might be the only person who caught this.

Either way I can't stand Criss-cut Fries Feet.

 

[DeafTourette]

The first line from the Bestie Boys song in the trailer says, "Don't you tell me to smile." I think this is clearly a response to the people who found Brie Larson's first outing as Carol Danvers unlikable and said she should smile more.

A part of me thinks they shouldn't have started with these lyrics. While I do love the song choice, it can come off a bit antagonizing, and this is the last thing you want to do if you want people to come around. Especially when she has come off a bit combative in past interviews and made situations negative for no reason.

What'd you guys think? Is this worth talking about? Or maybe it's not a big deal at all?

The song's lyrics don't matter to me at all. The song is banging and that's all I cared about in relation to the music

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Put it in the stack of Marvel Studios movies that I will not see, unless I am bored, depressed and full of drugs or a combination of any of the 3.

 

[AmuroChan]

I'm getting Thor Love & Thunder vibe from this trailer and where IMO they're leaning too much into the comedy. For me, that makes the serious moments less impactful and consequential.

 

[TheBreezyBB]

That looks and sound totally shiet!!

 

[Esca]

Oh man that looks really bad. Such a shame cause I like captain marvel and was looking forward to her next movie

 

[EviLore]

About as appealing as an English breakfast.

 

[GymWolf]

About as appealing as an English breakfast.

They wish it was as appealing as that.

 

[CGNoire]

About as appealing as an English breakfast.

What's wrong with an english breakfast?

 

[kruis]

What's wrong with an english breakfast?

 

[CGNoire]

I dont know.....it kinda looks delicious to me.

 

[The Skull]

Yepp. That's definitely a Marvel film.

 

[jason10mm]

I dont know.....it kinda looks delicious to me.

Very true, until you put it next to huevos ranchers, a proper tex-mex breakfast taco, green chilie burrito, an endless stack of buttermilk pancakes, some good crepes, or salmon and lox, then the English breakfast loses out 9 times out of 10 I think.

 

[RJMacready73]

Remember when Marvel made movies like...

And now it's

WTF happened!?

 

[jason10mm]

Remember when Marvel made movies like...

And now it's

WTF happened!?

I'm sorta ok if they want to continue ti try to sell superhero flicks outside the decades long core audience. In fact, I'd rather they concentrate their bait in one film (like The Marvels) so they can "feel free" to keep making hard core male interest focused hero action films for me (and the millions like me) rather than diluting down what could have been a solid flicks with these distracting elements.

I don't think there will ever be a substantial girl audience for this stuff but I don't blame them for trying, so long as they don't label me a horrible fratty misogynist when I don't show up to see it. We know a straight hero action film can do GANGBUSTERS, that audience is proven. The ladies will show up for the pecs, this is proven. So if the studio keeps their expectations in check, reigns in the budget (oops, there goes that wage gap again), and doesn't try a bait n switch then these side flicks are alright with me and every now and then one might actually have crossover appeal.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Remember when Marvel made movies like...

And now it's

WTF happened!?

Marvel MCU skipped a lot of stuff(nearly(?) a decade's worth of stories) to get to the new "all-new, all different" era of comics where even there they started failing with their crappy writing but for some reason the MCU is lifting a lot of stuff from that era.

 

[Vyse]

Dumpster Fire. Wtf.

 

[Ownage]

Thanos was correct.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Why’s everything look burnt and crusty

 

[gatti-man]

This looks like a Disney plus movie not a theatrical release. What the hell is Disney thinking

 

[clarky]

If Marvel made English breakfasts....

 

[Trilobit]

I actually liked the first Captain Marvel movie despite having some cringe parts. It was funny and had cool special effects. The cat was adorable too.

I'm not feeling this sequel though, team ups are starting to bore me. I just want the main character to fight bad guys alone because with too many main characters the story becomes diluted. X-Men is one of the few franchises where I like it.

I might watch this on my TV on a rainy day.

 

[crazy monkey]

Brie's boobs still look sweet.

Agree

 

[crazy monkey]

Looks great. Hope it is entertaining. Don't get the hate.

 

[ManaByte]

Brie's boobs still look sweet.

 

[Woggleman]

I do not understand the obsessive hate some corners of the internet have with this woman or the franchise. If it is not for you just move on.

 

[ManaByte]

This is the plot leak:

Spoiler

Zawe Ashton’s character is named Dar-Benn. I didn’t see any “sexual tension” which, believe me, I was looking for it. Comments are made about how Carol is “obsessed” with Dar-Benn, but it’s made clear that it’s because Carol doesn’t trust her, and it’s also made VERY clear that Carol isn’t wrong for mistrusting her. She’s quite obviously the villain.

Dar Benn is the regular leader of the Kree, no side factions or anything like that. In flashbacks, she witnesses Carol attacking the Supreme Intelligence and that’s her villain origin story. The Kree refer to Carol as “The Annihilator” or something very similar, and she does not like the name.

Dar-Benn has one bangle, Kamala has the other. No idea how she has it. She’s using it to power a weapon, but she needs both bangles. There’s a funny line where Dar-Benn demands to know how Kamala got such an ancient and powerful artifact and Kamala responds “my grandma sent it to me in the mail.” It wasn't explained in the rough cut that I saw, but almost immediately, Monica, Carol, and Kamala begin switching places every time they use their powers. Monica is working on a space station, SWORD’s “The Peak” headquarters with Nick Fury; Kamala is at home, and Carol is trying to sneak into a Kree/Skrull peace summit because she doesn't trust Dar-Benn, who is the leader of the Kree.

So Carol starts fighting Kree soldiers, and then begins switching with Kamala and Monica, and the Kree soldiers start switching with her. So at one point, Carol is on The Peak with Fury, while Kamala is at the peace summit, and Monica is fighting Kree soldiers in the Khan living room while the Khan family tries to hit them with brooms/fight them/runs around screaming. Very fun sequence. At the end, everyone - Fury included - ends up in the Khan living room, except Kamala. That ending scene in the Ms Marvel show is a direct shot from The Marvels.

Carol leaves the house and tries to fly off, but they switch again, and suddenly Kamala is falling out of the sky, and Fury tells Monica she has to fly and save her; Monica resists, because she doesn't know how to control her flight yet, but Fury yells, "C'mon, Black girl magic!" and Monica flies up to save Kamala. However, she loses control on the way down, everyone is screaming, and at the last second, Monica and Carol switch and Carol is able to stop before they hit the ground. Fury screams as they are dropping and at the last second "AHHHHH - oh it's just Carol."

Anyway. Carol, Monica, and Kamala go off to investigate Dar-Benn, sticking together because they can't control the switching every time they use their powers. It's really not explained, except for some allusion to how their powers are all similar or variations of each other?

They discover that Dar-Benn is using a new weapon to create unstable portals that steal the resources (water, air, sun) of whole planets, and she sends the resources to the destroyed Hala to rebuild it. She's so far destroyed one planet at the beginning of the film for it's atmosphere, she destroys the second at the Kree/Skrull peace talks, then she goes after Aladna to steal their water.

Carol has already been to Aladna and is reluctant to go back because she is the princess, married to Prince Yan in an accidental diplomatic mistake. Everyone on Aladna sings as a way of communicating. Brie sings. She has a lovely voice but it's an awful sequence...

They realize the planet is Dar-Benn’s next target and go there to get help fighting her, to protect the planet and stop her rampage. The girls bond well before this in a montage on Carol’s ship on the way to Aladna. Monica helps Carol get used to working with Kamala - Carol yelled at Kamala in an early scene because Kamala froze up in a pivotal moment, Monica reminds Carol that Kamala isn’t a soldier. Monica and Carol also have conversations about how Carol left and never came back. All three kinda work through their issues. It’s later revealed that Carol did indeed come back and visit Maria, more than once.

Prince Yan doesn't have a crush on Carol, he and Carol are married. But Carol and Prince Yan seem to have a very platonic friendship and mutual respect. Nonetheless, Carol is very embarrassed about it and reluctant to visit Aladna, it's played like she didn't understand the customs and accidentally got diplomatically married to the Prince at some point in the past. The citizens of the planet worship her as their princess. Prince Yan himself is cool though, and isn't played as a goofy trope, though. But it is a whole awkward sequence that goes on for entirely too long. Monica is weirded out by the whole situation; Kamala is excited. Monica asks if Kamala is going to put this in her Captain Marvel fanfiction and Kamala says yes.

Anyway, Carol realizes that she's going after every planet Carol has ever called Home, in an act of revenge. Earth is the last part of the plan. Meanwhile, Fury takes the Khan family up to the space station to keep them protected so he can monitor the situation from there.

A side plot on the space station with Fury: some techs find weird eggs inside all the space station machinery. They're all really worried about some sort of alien attack. The eggs hatch and it's revealed they are newborn Flerken kittens. Chaos ensues on the space station.

Later, the space station is damaged by Dar-Benn when she attacks Earth in the climax. There are not enough escape pods to get everyone off the station before it crashes. Fury comes up with the idea of feeding everyone on the station to the Flerken kittens, then putting all the kittens on the escape pods, and getting to Earth safely that way. It's amusing/bizarre, and the whole film has this really weird tonal clash between a standard marvel movie and something goofier, like Guardians.

Monica and Carol go to Hala, and it is raining for the first time on Hala and the surviving Kree are celebrating, because Dar-Benn brought atmosphere and water back to them. Carol realizes that the Annihilator is accurate from their perspective - she destroyed this planet and the survivors are struggling and she’s a great villain in their eyes, and she has a moral reckoning. Stopping Dar-Benn means destroying Hala all over again. Monica gives her a little bit of a pep talk that basically amounts to “We can’t save everyone, we have to let Hala be destroyed again.” Carol re-affirms her desire to stop Dar-Benn.

In addition to Dar-Benn destroying planets, her creation of portals makes the universe unstable, increasing the likelihood of an incursion, which is another reason they have to stop her. An incursion happens in the climax - Carol fights Dar-Benn while Monica and Kamala try to fix the incursion. Monica ends up flying through this “tear” in the universe and fixes it on the other side, and ends up stuck in that other universe."

New trailer. Confirms the plot leak, which means the movie ends with an Incursion

 

[Ironbunny]

This cant flop fast enough.

 

[DeafTourette]

The powers intrigue me. Plus the charming Iman and the fine AF Teyona Parris

 

[MayauMiao]

The movie okay enough I might even take the time to watch it on linear TV.

 

[Gp1]

Who the hell put Brie Larson's negative charisma face in the YT tumbnail?

 

[ADiTAR]

The effects look really cheap.

 

[Liamario]

The powers intrigue me. Plus the charming Iman and the fine AF Teyona Parris

I'd like Kamala to get her real powers, not this energy based shite. I think they were alluding to that in her TV series, that she's going through a change.

 

[Toots]

Prey was the best Predator movie since the first one

There are certain things a 90s kid cannot tolerate.
Danny and I are wait for you outside the thread, come at us bro

 

[Spaceman292]

There are certain things a 90s kid cannot tolerate.
Danny and I are wait for you outside the thread, come at us bro

Everything from the 90s sucked and Prey was sick

 

[jufonuk]

About as appealing as an English breakfast.

I hope they make a hit. But let’s see.

Apart from deadpool 3 I am not really excited for any superhero movies coming out.

 

[jufonuk]

There are certain things a 90s kid cannot tolerate.
Danny and I are wait for you outside the thread, come at us bro

There are three predator films.

Just as there are only two Alien films.
Three excellent Diehards
So glad they only made two godfather films
And two terminator films.

Thank you and good day.

 

[jason10mm]

There are three predator films.

Just as there are only two Alien films.
Three excellent Diehards
So glad they only made two godfather films
And two terminator films.

Thank you and good day.

But how many Highlander films are there?

 

[ManaByte]

I'd like Kamala to get her real powers, not this energy based shite. I think they were alluding to that in her TV series, that she's going through a change.

She’s not changing, she can only access the bangle powers because she’s a Mutant.

 

[Ammogeddon]

But how many Highlander films are there?

Okay I’ll take the bait…..

There can be only one.

 

[Salz01]

That movie trailer looks horrible. I mean are they trying to make it look worse than dc movies?

 

[Toots]

Everything from the 90s sucked and Prey was sick

Do you really need to be that edgy ?

But how many Highlander films are there?

 

[SJRB]

New trailer. Confirms the plot leak, which means the movie ends with an Incursion

The idea of this movie is kinda neat, but the execution is absolutely dreadful. They picked three completely uninteresting characters played by three actresses void of any charisma or screen presence. Can't really knock the little kid but the other two are just, oof. And the main baddie, might as wel let a sack of potatoes throw some pew pew lasers because it wouldn't make much difference.

It's just so soulless. How did we get from Winter Soldier and Civil War to this schlock?

 

[jufonuk]

But how many Highlander films are there?

 

[jason10mm]

I'll accept the assist on that one

 

[U n i o n 0015]

Marvel can't even make Captain Marvel interesting in the books. The only interesting one had to die of cancer to even be interesting.

Somehow they've made this character even worse in the movies.