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[domarzione]

Originally posted on the tumblr, but...

* We’re getting Spectrum/Pulsar/WhateverMonica’sCallingHerselfThisWeek in Phase 4. We have to be. You don’t do what they did to set her up like that without doing it. And I am here for it.

* Also for Maria, who was the heart of this movie. She should come back, too.

* I was so happy to see Kelly Sue DeConnick make a cameo (she’s the magenta-headed lady who gives Vers a look in the LA subway near the beginning) because she’s as important to this movie’s existence as Ed Brubaker was to Captain America: the Winter Soldier and he got a cameo for it there.

* The opening credit tribute to Stan Lee was lovely.

* Brie Larson was really, really good. I was not sold on her casting, even after they said the movie was taking place in the 1990s, but she was fabulous.

* This movie was built on banter and I loved all of it.

* Thank christmas there was no love interest. There was a lot of love in this movie, more than usual for an MCU movie, but it was all of the good kinds that don’t involve eros. Love in this movie deserves a more thorough treatment because it drives everything that happens.

* OMG, Goose.

* I am exactly the right age to desperately want the soundtrack. And to laugh at the aliens being gob-smacked at our computers.



* Annette Bening being Mar-Vell was awesome and terrific. Both for the adaptation of the comics character and for giving Bening a juicy role in a comic book movie. I am all in on giving older actresses meaty roles in these movies because they are still beautiful and still great at what they do and can still work in action blockbusters.

* The Skrulls not being the bad guys was also awesome and terrific. They were great. Turning the Kree into Space HYDRA with Carol as their Bucky is a nice flip of the script.

* There’s more to be said about Carol and Bucky, but I’m still digesting.

Comments

[digitalwave]

A friend treated Lee and me to tickets for opening night and we loved it! The tribute to Stan was wonderful, the movie fun, plus the banter and chemistry between Nick and Carol was great. I especially liked the twist with the Skrulls, too. That was a really neat touch.

I so hope that we get more with Maria and grown up Monica being her glowy hero self in one of the upcoming movies. That would be very nice icing on the cake. You know our favorite Lovecraftian cat will be back, it's one of the things I'm looking forward to. :)

[domarzione]

They HAVE to be giving us Monica -- why else make Carol's friend Maria instead? -- but I wonder about the how.

I am looking forward to our favorite flerkin appearing. Also, Rocket and his very great dislike of said species.

[kiratael]

I flaily-heart loved it. I have a different age context for most of the 90s references than you do, but a good chunk of the movie was still a big ol’ nostalgia bomb.

[ravurian]

I had no particular idea of the canon here, but after watching I shipped Maria & Carol co-parenting Monica and being lowkey together under the radar, which puts a hell of a different spin on Maria's magnificent restraint when they were reunited. And I am very much looking forward to finding out what Monica's story will be. I wonder if she'll be in Endgame?

The only two things that I wished for else were Peggy Carter as Director of Shield and Nick's boss, and fewer men overall. I mean, I see no reason that Fury's boss had to be male, or the Skrull ditto, nor the majority of the Kree. Not that this was a problem per se, but I was thinking in terms of the exquisite and explicit backgrounding of white people in Black Panther, I guess, and wishing that there had been a similar tack here, but with male characters.

I really enjoyed it and will definitely watch it again...