• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    The Marvels had a boring villain and absurdly imbalanced stakes during the obliteration of two different plants and their native species. Also, a musical contrivance that I enjoyed more than most normal people.

    I enjoyed the Ms Marvel TV show for what it was, and the Kamala Khan character (and actor) getting a big screen appearance I thought was a good path. What irked me about the movie was that Ms Marvel was prevented from using her powers for 85% of the movie, only really being able to have a good showing in the final act. Further, we were told the MacGuffin bangle that let her amplify her powers from the TV show would give her godlike powers if she ever got the other one. Well she got the other one and it was barely a bump up.

    There was also the contrived plot point about one race stealing air and water from other inhabited planets. Like, there are millions of other planets with air and water. Why doesn’t Captain Marvel simply find one and help the antagonists pull air and water from those leaving the inhabited planets alone?

    It wasn’t the worst comic book movie I’ve seen though. I gave up watching Black Adam halfway through shortly after the “heroes” showed up and wanted to put the beatdown on the one entity pushing back against the oppressive mafia gang.

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      It should be pointed out that the dull boring villain in that movie was pulling resources from those planets specifically to hurt Captain Marvel. So just finding another planet wouldn’t really have worked as the goal was to cause her anguish and pain. It was Revenge.

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        I know I’m expecting too much from a marvel movie, but geopolitically, destroying entire other civilizations simply for revenge is bad policy.

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      I’m hoping we get more Ms. Marvel where she explored the full strength of the Nega Bands.

      And the Kree were clearly targeting planets that didn’t just have air and water, they were trying to hurt Captain Marvel. The movie didn’t do a great job at expanding on the idea, but Dar-Benn (had to look that up) was on a revenge mission. I don’t know if it was the actress or the writing, but she was just so forgettable that it was hard to keep track of her motivations. But first she went after the Skrulls, then the planet where Captain Marvel’s husband lived, then the Earth. The fact that she killed millions of Skrull refugees and billions of singing people didn’t seem to bother anyone too much.

      But even factoring in all of those problems, it’s nothing as bad as Shazam 2 or fucking Madame Web, I just cannot get past how shitty that god-damned movie was. There wasn’t one single redeeming quality about the movie. Black Adam at least gave us a decent Doctor Fate. Flash bright back Keaton for Batman. Sure, those characters

      Flash and Black Adam Spoilers

      Neither movie is worth your time, and also those characters died.