I’m with Ruffalo. I’m all for people having opinions, but I’m also all for being objective about ****. It’s specious, at best, when you count that, of the myriad of Marvel projects, the ones so many “people” (re: anonymous dudes writing RT audience scores) think suck the most are the ones led by people who aren’t white dudes. I keep an open mind with whatever I go into and there are things I like and don’t like, but goddamn. It gets to the point where I’m like “at what point did it become a prerequisite to behave like a ******* clichè?”
Like, I’m sorry, but Brie Larson can go out on TV or YouTube or wherever and say “A Wrinkle in Time” isn’t made for middle aged white men and I don’t care about their opinions. I want to hear how it resonates with a 12-year old black girl,” and it’s no skin off my ass. You know why? Cause I’m a ******* adult with enough real **** to deal with in my life that I don’t have an identity crisis every time somebody says something controversial on TV.
I still saw Captain Marvel and I still liked it well enough. Not the best Marvel movie, not the worst; middle of the road origin movie that tried to play with time like it was a Chris Nolan joint and, ultimately, wound up seeming disjointed and hindered under the weight of its own ambitions.
I don’t give a ****. I liked Ms. Marvel better than Moon Knight and I was excited as **** for that show. Both had their own highs and lows, but Moon Knight felt like Josstice League to me: like I was watching the Cliff Notes of a far better show that didn’t exist and wasn’t given the room it needed to breathe. The effects in MM left some to be desired and it definitely lost its momentum nearer the last couple eps, but it was fun and cute and, as Marvel content goes, innocuous enough that it’s not going to revitalize the genre, but it’s not like they **** the bed with it…and Iman Vellani was charming as hell.
And the same can be said for Tatiana Maslany. The CG in episode 1 was phenomenal. 2 was a little shakier at times, but I feel like we’ve reached equilibrium and honestly? You take what you can get. I can suspend my disbelief enough if it means some poor bastard chained to his keyboard in some VFX house somewhere gets off a few hours early in time to see his kid. It ain’t Chyna in green body paint. But, yeah, I dug it. The jokes landed, Ruffalo was charming as ever and he and Maslany had great chemistry; fight scene was cool. Good show, old chaps. Bring on the devil in the yellow underoos. I’m all in.