Like, it's a Mary Sue movie It's *defiantly* a Mary Sue movie, the reason it sticks out so much is it shamelessly, brazenly, nakedly rubs the Sueness in your face It interrupts your critique and shoots you in the face with a blast of Mary Sue energy and arrogantly walks off
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Most modern action movies try to deny this by giving the hero a moment of genuine failure when they need to confront one of their weaknesses and overcome it and admit they were wrong This is why people think Captain Marvel is an inferior MCU movie when in fact it is superior
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Like that's all Captain Marvel is, she's Superman The "point" of the movie is "Hey let's give a Superman to someone who doesn't have a Superman", in this case women But as a man I can still absolutely relate to that need
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Why do all of my heroes have to be flawed and fallible and to struggle and learn and grow and shit Why don't I get a fucking perfect person, a god in human form, who is right about EVERYTHING and succeeds at EVERYTHING and walks right through a hail of bullets with a giddy smile
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Of course it sounds childish when you put it bluntly like that, and of course you'll get tons of critics who will immediately say "What a shitty dumb idea for a movie that is" And yet the original Superman film, which is exactly wall-to-wall this shit, is considered a classic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I think Captain Marvel did an amazing job of pulling off the trick of making a movie about a perfect person who can do anything and is right about everything, and whose conflict comes from just *not realizing this* because people fooled her into thinking she was less than perfect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And honestly? I find the sheer defiant self-indulgence of the way the movie plays this trope INCREDIBLY cathartic It was AMAZING how good it felt to see Carol just cut off Yon-Rogg's monologue and walk away, to realize "Oh man she's literally Superman!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I mean I have a long-documented desire to see an *actual* Superman movie -- yes, with Superman still being a white guy -- that actually just plain does Superman And a deep resentment of Zack Snyder for thinking Superman needs to be subverted with doubts and darkness and so on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I got the same pure superhero joy from that scene in Captain Marvel that I did from watching The Tick on Amazon Prime with the Tick (a white guy) doing the "Little men! Little men!' speech So no, I do not think my attachment to this movie is pure feminist ally idpol etc
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And no, it did not give me any impulse to join the Air Force Maybe it hit other people that way, I dunno, can't speak to that To me the mood of the movie was the exact opposite, it was a movie that says "Fuck it just tell your boss he's an ugly prick and quit your job"
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