Probably the most listless and perfunctory Marvel adventure since “Thor: The Dark World,” the film stars Brie Larson as Vers - a plucky intergalactic warrior cadet who can shoot orange laser beams from her fists but is haunted by amnesia and strange dreams about Annette Bening.
Believe me, I understand why nobody would want to be on the same side of anything as James Woods, but the culture war component of “Captain Marvel” is further complicated by the fact that the movie just isn’t very good. Life online tends to turn everything into a stupid binary, and there’s a sentiment going around that lining up to buy a ticket this Friday will somehow strike a blow against the patriarchy, as if a $152 million installment of the most successful franchise in movie history released by the world’s largest entertainment conglomerate could be considered some sort of underdog. Jude Law, Lee Pace, Djimon Hounsou, Algenis Perez Soto, Brie Larson, Rune Temte and Gemma Chan in "Captain Marvel." (Courtesy Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios) “Captain Marvel” has even earned the uninformed ire of former-movie-star-turned-professional-nuisance James Woods, by far the most gifted actor ever to have blocked me on Twitter. Slickly scheduled to land in theaters on International Women’s Day, “Captain Marvel” has sight unseen drawn a great deal of pathetically predictable rancor from basement dwellers and internet pests furious that someone allowed a girl into their clubhouse.Īs they did in previous years to protest the diversity of “Black Panther” and “The Last Jedi,” nerds and trolls once again bombarded the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with negative notices to skew the film’s audience rating, until last week when the website finally wised up and eliminated their option for the public to weigh in on films that haven’t yet been released. It only took 11 years and 21 movies but the folks at Marvel Studios have finally gotten around to letting a female superhero headline one of their semi-annual franchise installments. (Courtesy Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios) This article is more than 2 years old. Brie Larson as Captain Marvel in the new movie.