I don't really want to engage with all this, but just to say regarding Fury: rewatch the Iron Man credits scene. He's fairly cheery. This feeds into that well.

People change over their lives. If Fury were exactly the same in 1995 as 2018 it would be unrealistic and indicate a fairly boring one-note character. No, Fury has 23 years of development there. Showing what he was like before allows us to see his growth and change, and opens up Samuel L. Jackson to playing the otherwise somewhat same-y role in a completely new and interesting way that teaches us a lot about who Fury was to inform who he is now.

It's like when people realise their grandparents had excitement just like them in their younger days. Someone being bitter and jaded in later life does not mean they were always that way - in fact, it usually means the opposite.

Eh

Leave captain marvel alone.

First Sakura and the Kunoichi, then Korra, now THiS!

Why is it always the women, especially this I LOVE?!

I personally loved Captain Marvel. I thought it was a great movie, Brie Larson is perfectly casted, I liked the prequel/throwback and no one can convince me otherwise!

However, I do see why people were disappointed for a couple reasons.

1. It was released between Marvel’s 2 biggest movies and was hyped up to be really big and ended up being a fun 90s throwback/phase 1-style origin story.

2. It skipped past Mar-vell when he/she had potential.

I think my biggest issue with the film is the character development/story arc. Carol Danvers doesn’t really have a purpose in the story, except to prove everyone wrong. There’s no real altruism in her story, something that transcends her personally, and that makes her character one dimensional and somewhat selfish. And when you have a character like that, it’s hard to relate to them, or aspire to be like them. All the other Marvel characters have a reason to want to be like them and emulate them, but I feel like Captain Marvel doesn’t provide that.

"I have nothing to prove to you" has inspired me, let alone my young sister who had never been into Marvel, begrudgingly watched the film, and ended up really liking it and loving Carol and Brie.

I enjoyed the movie a lot, and I will readily acknowledge that it had a lot of issues but I don’t think that Brie Larson’s acting was one of them - for most of the movie she was barely even playing Carol Danvers, but instead an amnesiac woman who believed that she was a stoic member of the Kree empire. It’s a tough job to portray the introduction of a character who doesn’t even know who she is, and she did the best she could with that.

Also, saying that there's no altruism? The second she learns the Kree are the bad guys, she abandons them, the only people she had ever known, in order to do the right thing. How is that not altruistic? She blasts Yon-Rogg to hell, even though she kind-of-sort-of had a thing with him, because he wanted to enslave the Skrulls. She does this without second thought. When she thinks the Skrulls are the bad guys, she chases them down on Earth, trying not only to stop them, but to protect humans as well (think about the chase scene between her, the Skrulls, and SHIELD).

"I have nothing to prove to you" is definitely very inspiring as well.

What exactly does Carol do that's selfish? She destroys a jukebox and steals a motorcycle, and those are like the only two slightly not-good things she does. And as I explained, she's not one-dimensional. She was just trained not to show her emotions, and that's the whole point of her character arc in the movie. We see in Endgame she's a lot better with her emotions, able to channel her anger in the fight against Thanos (which we now know was very personal).

Eh, true tha