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Steve Rogers is Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger. He refers to himself as Captain America at two points in the script. Page 67 and Page 83. Several people call him Captain, and the "America" part is as obvious as it gets. I don't care about the context of "The First Avenger" tagline. The film is called Captain America, and features Captain America referring to himself as Captain America. Captain Marvel has nothing even close. I don't care about the "surety that the average MCU watcher". I care about the film title making sense within the context of the film of which it presides over. In regards to CM, the film absolutely fails to give meaning to it's title. "Part 1 Movie"? No such thing. There are films that tell a complete story, and there are films that don't. This one doesn't. Part 1 my ass.

Only 3 countries ran with just "The First Avenger". Those 3 were Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea.

I'm expressing disappointment that the film did not justify it's namesake. Here are some of my other issues, which I stated earlier: "I have a lot of issues with this film the more I think about it, a lot of things that don't make sense but just happened. This particular issue is emblematic of this film's flaws. What was the point of Ronan? He's dead by the time Carol's in Endgame, is a CM2 going to be pre-Guardians? Why did Starforce just idly stand by and watch as Carol became all powerful at the end? What enabled her to overpower Annette Bening's giant green laser arm hologram thingy? Why did the other pilot's daughter, listed on IMDB as an 11 year old character, know about the entire life story of Carol, who disappeared when the girl would have been 5 years old? How did Carol learn Agent Fury's name and rank instantly, given he never mentioned either of those (I thought that was going to lead into the subplot about her memories, nope)? Did we really need a shoehorned Avengers Initiative tie-in? Too many things in this film happen for the sake of happening, and the MCU tie-ins are very unnatural."

Her name is Carol Danvers. There is no Captain Marvel in this film. At least not one that's given any explanation. "Because it sounds cool and that's about it" is a no-go for me when the MCU has shown better care in the past. Even Will Smith in Suicide Squad justified the film's title better, and that script was much much worse than CM's. And again, I'm taking up this particular issue because it's IMO representative of similar holes all throughout the script.

I don't remember anything in that scene about Carol accepting the moniker of Marvel as a way to honor her mentor. What I remember happening in that scene is Fury mixing up Mar-Vell and Marvel, Carol correcting his pronunciation, and Fury talking about how Marvel sounds better. A wink-nod to the audience, but nothing of character substance. The Carol Danvers of that scene would have nicknamed herself Captain Mar-Vell, if she were to name herself anything at all. This film is making my head hurt. I wish there was better writing. It feels like this script was chopped up all over the place. Again, makes sense with 5 writers.

I'm not asking them to use code names. I'm asking for the title of the movie to make sense. You don't need to call Steve Rodgers "Captain America" in the film to understand why that is his moniker, and why that's the title of his films. The title of this movie, "Captain Marvel", literally makes 0% sense within the context of this film. That's all I'm saying.

MCU films don't get bonus points for hinting at things in the comics without translating the elements to the screen. Find another way to adapt the plot point. They could have easily written a scene about Carol taking on the moniker to honor her mentor. Something about how Mar-Vell's technology resulted in Carol gaining her powers. But zilch. Instead we're left with a film title without a point. That won't bother most people, but it does annoy me.

And I have no issue with that. WW was a better film than CM. A character name like that, very self explanatory. She's a woman. She accomplishes wondrous feats. Maybe Captain Marvel (the character) is supposed to marvel at things? As in respond with amazement and wonder? Because she didn't do that...

Now you're just making connections that aren't there. Yes, they established there is a character called Mar-Vell. Yes, Fury joked at the end how 'Marvel' sounds better. At no point did anyone in the film connect the word "Marvel" with the character of Carol Danvers. At no point did she decide to take up Fury''s bastardization of her mentor's name as a moniker. At no point did the film attempt to explain it's namesake. That bothers me. I have a lot of issues with this film the more I think about it, a lot of things that don't make sense but just happened. This particular issue is emblematic of this film's flaws. What was the point of Ronan? He's dead by the time Carol's in Endgame, is a CM2 going to be pre-Guardians? Why did Starforce just idly stand by and watch as Carol became all powerful at the end? What enabled her to overpower Annette Bening's giant green laser arm hologram thingy? Why did the other pilot's daughter, listed on IMDB as an 11 year old character, know about the entire life story of Carol, who disappeared when the girl would have been 5 years old? How did Carol learn Agent Fury's name and rank instantly, given he never mentioned either of those (I thought that was going to lead into the subplot about her memories, nope)? Did we really need a shoehorned Avengers Initiative tie-in? Too many things in this film happen for the sake of happening, and the MCU tie-ins are very unnatural. I know I'm nitpicking, but I wouldn't have to if the film had better pacing, unique action, cinematography, or better use of film tropes. I also felt like (outside the Avengers films) this was the most sequel-baity MCU film, with Jude Law's final interactions with Danvers spelling out for the audience what CM2's general premise would be. There's just more to nitpick about this film than I would have liked, I'm not explicitly looking for flaws. The performances all around were good-to-great, and the electronic music was interesting at times. The brass heavy portions not so much. But the pacing was awful. Film started fast, settles down on Earth, and then grinds to a halt the same way AoU did on the farm, and it felt similar to Ant-Man/Wasp's "Laurence Fishburn explains everything" scene in the middle. Pacing never recovered, because at that point the film had already extinguished the stakes. At this point it was just blowing up pointless space ships, and avoiding a true resolution with Jude Law. I saw in the credits this film had five writers. It absolutely feels that way. EDIT: To provide context, I still think this is better than about half a dozen other Marvel films (at least). It's by no means awful. Just disappointing in it's lack of cohesion.

It goes beyond no one calling her Captain Marvel. I'm fine with that, I don't need it to be that explicit. But there is 0% of an explanation as to why this film is called Captain Marvel.

Decent film. Brie was very entertaining. Mendelson more so. Very little special about the film, probably won’t rewatch. Too many MCU elements shoehorned in. Poor pacing throughout (so many things happen without buildup or payoff). Now can someone explain to me where she gets the Captain Marvel moniker from because that’s not explained in the film. Not even close.

Would it shock you to learn that the producers/writers of Spider-Verse directed 21 and 22?

Just put myself on the Miami waitlist.... anyone know when that screening was announced?

As great a fit as Zachary Levi seems for the part, and as much as I love him from NBC’s Chuck, he doesn’t have star power. These low-tier superhero’s need bankable leads to bring in casual audiences.

Eh. Repeated too many bits from the first trailer. Doesn't give any new story information. There's no pacing, the trailer doesn't build to anything. Just a montage of events. Also odd that they are releasing the second trailer just a month before release. Kind of feels like DC is keeping this low-key.

I thought LEGO 2 was very ambitious. Would expect nothing less from a Lord/Miller project. Basically tipples down on the first film's twist. Execution a step down from the first and the LEGO Batman Movie. Over-reliance on singing, including at least 3 more variations of Everything Is Awesome. Humor is on point. Top-notch pop culture comedy. Feels a lot like Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2. A worthy successor that refuses to settle for less but at the same time doesn't reach the same heights. I enjoyed seeing it, but don't think I'll be repeating it like I do those other two LEGO films (I don't care to see Ninjago)

Broly has already earned more than double the lifetime domestic take of Dragonball Evolution.

I can't fathom how this will open to 50m+. This film looks bad. Any of the three trailers released so far could make a case for being the worst individual trailer of the year. Aside from Tom Hardy, who is always entertaining, I've been disgusted by the horrible dialogue, generic visual style, the dialogue again, boilerplate story, and that 'turd in the wind' level dialogue. Venom isn't a character with mainstream appeal. It's hilarious Sony thought that ending the first teaser with Venom's cartoonish face would resonate with the masses. Is Sony banking on Spider-Man comic book fans to turn a profit here? If this film was halfway decent, it could perform well, but this looks like a train-wreck.

Not surprised to see seizure warnings being issued. I called that almost 2 weeks ago.

The number of posts discussing a banned member always greatly outnumber the amount of controversial posts from said banned member. Fascinating.

It’s a concern. Specifically one 90ish second sequence about half way through the film.

Too fresh for a number. It’s great. Didn’t walk out thinking there were any major flaws. Main thing that irks me is that the core narrative isn’t as focused as it was in the first film. But that’s a tall ask.

Saw Incredibles 2 tonight at one of the AMC advance screenings. It’s great. The story isn’t as strong as the first, but it makes up for it by advancing and challenging already established character dynamics. Action is good. humor is top-notch, especially in the second act, which had my theater rolling and will resonate with anyone who’s ever been in a family (which is almost everyone). There are some scenes I feel should have an acompying epeleptic warning...

There cannot be peace without, first, a great suffering. And the greater the suffering, the greater the peace. Solo, as a product and it's reaction, following up the controversial TLJ 5 months later, was the suffering for Star Wars. Peace to follow.

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 ends up as a better investment for Disney than this. Bruckheimer's probably getting his POTC 6 pitch ready now.