Captain Marvel

In 2019 Marvel debuted another superhero to add to their MCU roster, Captain Marvel, and it's alright. I don't hate this movie but I am not really fond of it either. To start off with the positives, I do like the Earth settings the movie chooses, I think they are visually pleasing and definitely make the movie look better. I also think they did a good job encapsulating that 90s feel through both the character designs, along with the set designs and the settings they choose. I thought Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn did a great job in their roles and I found them rather funny. It honestly impresses me how well they made a young Nick Fury look using 70 year old Jackson. I found aspects of the story cool, like Fury and Carol's team up and how Carol inspired the Avengers Initiative. I also liked the Skrulls in this movie, they are such a cool concept and I wish they were utilized more in other movies. I also found the CGI to be more than tolerable in this movie, I didn't find any truly poor CGI moments besides maybe when Carol was falling right before she found out she could fly. But onto my negatives, I found the overall movie somewhat boring. There were good parts here and there but overall it just sort of dragged through. I also thought the progression was sort of weird, like it went from just being this group of Kree warriors to the whole entire army sending nukes and it just came out of nowhere for me. I also thought Carol Danvers or Captain Marvel was a overall boring character. I thought Brie Larson did a really good job, especially with the script that she was given, but the writers practically did nothing to make this character super interesting. It's a problem when the side characters have more depth and personality than the actual protagonists. I liked the message of the movie but that too wasn't fleshed out enough to actually mean something. Overall, this movie has a lot of redeeming qualities but it also has a lot of irredeemable qualities as well, making it just mediocre.