Captain Marvel (Film Review)

Captain Marvel shares many similarities with Thor.  It’s an action-drama involving extraterrestrial super-beings, planetary escapades that end up revolving around Earth, and utilizes fish-out-of-water comedy with its protagonist.  Captain Marvel stands out from Thor in two noteworthy ways—its period and its protagonist.  The film takes place in the 1990s, effectively making it a backstory for how the Avengers Initiative came to be along with other smaller details such as how Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) lost his eye (spoilers, it’s comedically…underwhelming).  The 90s setting, in general, is quite an impressive replication, though it can get a bit heavy-handed with the nostalgia. The film also uses a combination of makeup and CGI to make actors Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg look convincingly younger.

A Complete Analysis of Iron Man Part 1: The MCU’s Beginnings, The Rise of a Fallen Star, and The Perfect Opening (Film Analysis)

In 2005, Marvel Entertainment took out an over 500-million-dollar loan with plans to launch their own film studio and get in on the ever-increasing cinematic superhero craze.  With the creation of Marvel Studios in conjecture with Paramount Pictures to market and distribute their films, Marvel began plans to release a series of (hopefully) modestly profiting superhero films based on some of their less world-renown properties (since their biggest names like Spider-Man and The X-Men already had their film licenses sold to other studios) that would be connected through recurring characters, setups, plot points, and post-credit scenes—ultimately leading to a collaboration of all these B and C-listers into one massive, blockbuster extravaganza of a film that would be based on The Avengers comic series.