Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Vol. 3: Legend Lost
Charles Soule and Angel Unzueta
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It's a sad day for Poe Dameron and the Resistance, as they mourn the loss of a fallen comrade. But...
Justice League International, Vol. 2
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A new generation of the world s greatest super-heroes takes center stage in the wake of a world...
Star Wars: Age of Resistance - Villains
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This is the Age of Star Wars - an epic series of adventures that unites your favorite characters...
A-Force Vol. 1: Hypertime
7.7
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Collects A-Force #1-4, Avengers (1963) #83, A-Force (2015) #1 and material from Avengers (2015) #0. ...
Disney Kingdoms: Figment
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The next great Disney adventure is here - starring one of Disney's most popular characters! Dive...
David McK (3425 KP) rated The Marvels (2022) in Movies
Feb 25, 2024
(Despite one or two good entries since).
If so, IMO they've just hit a new low.
It probably doesn't help that you're almost required to do a lot of 'homework' (movies and TV series that introduce the key characters) prior to watching this (I have), with that knowledge all but assumed by Marvel and with no real fill-in given for those who haven't.
It's not all bad, though, Iman Vellani is infectious as Kamala Khan fan-girling out over Captain Marvel, while the mid credit tease is probably one of the best since the original from 2008s Iron Man.
TacoDave (3643 KP) rated Captain Marvel (2019) in Movies
Apr 10, 2019 (Updated Apr 10, 2019)
What can I say that hasn't already been said? It's a serviceable Marvel movie. It ranks up there with Iron Man 2 and Thor: The Dark World as well-made, enjoyable, yet forgettable superhero fare. At the end I realized it doesn't really explain anything and doesn't really amount to much except a mouthpiece for feminists raging against toxic masculinity and a cry to help refugees, and that's disappointing.
What are Captain Marvel's powers? It never really explains. She shoots energy beams. She learns to fly, somehow. And apparently she can breathe in space (?). But how or why or what the limits of her powers are is never discussed.
Neither are weaknesses. Superman has kryptonite. Batman and Iron Man are humans using technology to help them, but can be killed. Even Vision died without his infinity stone. But apparently Captain Marvel is just such a kick-ass woman that she can't be hurt. The film seems to suggest that her only weakness is her lack of self-empowerment.
And while I don't mind a movie having a political bent, everything in this movie that is trying to promote a social message is too on-the-nose, too in-your-face to work. "I'm Just a Girl" plays while she beats people up. A man says she should smile. A pilot says "You know why it's called the COCKpit, right?" Ninety percent of the music features a female singer (the only one I noticed that didn't was Nirvana's "Come As You Are"). It's just ... too much. Or too blatant. It kept pulling me out of the movie, as if the director(s) were seated next to me, poking me in the arm, saying "See what we did there? Subtext!"
One of the aliens even refers to earth as a sh!t-hole, a clear, obvious reference to Donald Trump.
So that's Captain Marvel. 10% muddled action, 30% jokes (mostly funny), 5% story, and 55% political message. Oh, and 127% GURL POWER.
I enjoyed it as a prelude to Avengers: Endgame, but I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
MARVEL Avengers Academy
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With Hydra in shambles, Baron Von Strucker recruits monsters and zombie universe Hydra villains to...
Kevin Phillipson (10021 KP) rated Captain America: Civil War (2016) in Movies
Apr 19, 2018
Erika (17788 KP) rated The Mighty Captain Marvel Vol. 1: Alien Nation in Books
Oct 27, 2018
Yet another rehash of a story that's been told over and over. How many times does Carol have to lose control of her damn powers? Nothing new here, move along.