Sooo...the reviews are coming in from the critic screenings, and they aren't great. This thread has been relatively quiet considering the absolute shitstorm which has been going on over Captain Marvel. This movie coming out on March 8 had dropped to a 27% "Not interested" rating from potential viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. The ROTTENGATE article elsewhere in the forums explains it. But the reason for that was Captain Marvel.
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Ouch. And the movie has not yet been released to wide audiences yet. Doomcock reads a French critic's review:
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The plot is a vocabulary lesson from hell. Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) starts off as Vers, a member of an alien race called the Kree, who fights alongside her buddy, Yon-Rogg (Law), in the elite Starforce. She has the ability to shoot powerful energy beams out of her hands, but Yon is teaching her how to restrain it. Typical man!
The Kree are at war with another race called the Skrulls, baddies who wear cheap green Halloween masks and shape-shift like Robert Patrick in “Terminator 2.” During a skirmish with them, Vers winds up on planet C-53, a k a Earth.
Naturally, writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s film is set in 1995 because millennials and ka-ching! Vers crash-lands on a Blockbuster Video, encounters “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Space Invaders,” Troll dolls, Windows 95 and endless other cheap nostalgia.
Ouch. And the movie has not yet been released to wide audiences yet. Doomcock reads a French critic's review: