And the contrarian narrative that no, they suck actually, and movies that don't participate in "woke tokenism" are actually more artistically effective because movies that star white guys always are kind of pisses me off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
Like I actually did in fact really like Winter Soldier and Civil War but Captain Marvel is absolutely a much more committed criticism of American imperialism than Winter Soldier, it isn't even close The critiques of Captain Marvel are WAY MORE TRUE of Winter Soldier
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
Winter Soldier has all the characters signing back up with the "good parts" of the US government as a positive thing! It ends with Black Widow giving a little monologue about how as bad as fascism is we'll always need cops and soldiers!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
Captain Marvel ends with Carol flying off into the universe as a goddess, far far away from the Air Force AND the Kree AND SHIELD, swearing that she will never be part of any institution or let anyone give her orders again but follow only her conscience!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
I really don’t get the criticism of CM as military propaganda when it’s actively a plot point that the Air Force refusing to let Carol and Maria fly in combat is why they’re at the testing site where Carol gets her powers.
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @RL_Reynolds and
The version of the USAF that lets Carol fight in combat and be a badass and "reach her full potential" is the Kree military, and they are the bad guys in the movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
If someone literally wanted to follow Carol's journey as presented in the movie, they would punch their NCO, accept a court-martial, and go off to be a hero on their own without being part of anyone's goddamn army That's extremely simple and obvious and explicit in the film
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I really feel like this is the kind of thing people deliberately have to reach to *not* get because of the Girl Power thing Like it's *extra important* we critique anything that looks liberal feminist *extra hard*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Like if Carol were in fact a man and this were a story of "One man who turns his back on the band of brothers he devoted his life to to follow his conscience" would we feel the need to say "Okay but there's still a ton of positive military tropes here, it's not fully anti-war!"?
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Did people hot-take this hard on Soldier with Kurt Russell? "It's still called Soldier! It still makes it seem cool and badass that he's a soldier! It's not REALLY as anti-authority as it COULD be!" Come on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I don't remember the military pigbacking on that movie for a massive recruitment drive.
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