Better than Wonder Woman

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2019)

Ever since it's (1st) trailer, I had my expectations very minimal. I avoided the other trailers, as well as the more recent reviews it's gotten. With that said, I was, in all honesty, dying to go and see it. I didn't who to go with. My sister went and saw it not to long ago, and she loved it apparently, no surprise there. So yeah, I didn't know who to go with, or who would take me. However, Yolanda (she's a family friend and I've known her for as long as I can remember; she lives with us, technically) offered to go and see it with me. Long story short, we had to wait until Saturday to go and see it, and did just that.
So, we drove, went to a theater nearby, got popcorn and drinks, walked into the theater, and right over to our seats. As soon as the movie started, I started thinking to myself 'This is ... decent.' And when it ended, I was, honestly, quite impressed.
Let me continue off by saying that this film has spawned controversy. For those of you who aren't aware (which I doubt there are), this was before the film was actually released. There've been videos debating whether it was going to be bad or not. No BS, for those who don't know (he's the guy I used to be subscribed to; but now I'm not, and for obvious reasons) bashed the film before it came out. I come on, covering something before it's released is one thing. But chastising something (specifically a film or show) without having seen the full picture? Whether something like that's been happening for decades or not, it really gets on my nerves.
I mean, look at Titans. Having not watched seen one episode of it, I might be one of the only group of people who actually enjoyed the trailer for it, despite the fact that it got more than a thousand dislikes. But on top of that, the ratings for it have turned out to be quite excellent.
Anyway, having finally seen the movie itself, I will be completely honest and say that I liked it, I did not love it, I liked it quite a lot. I thought the direction was nice, I liked the way it looked, I thought the song choices were pretty neat, and I thought that Brie Larson gave a decent performance. I'm gonna be perfectly honest and say that I liked her far better than Gal Godot as Wonder Woman.
I mean, the only reason I saw that film was because of all hype surrounding it, and I was pretty underwhelmed. And I'm positive that the real reason Gadot was praised was because of the way she looked and or simply because she was hot; and as far as I can remember, she showed about two facial expressions throughout the whole thing, and don't get me started on her line delivery.
Larson, on the other hand, does (in my opinion) a fine job in her role. It's not Oscar worthy, by any means, but it is quite good. She's not portrayed as some naive fish out of water (probably because the character wasn't written to be) and he is certainly not played for eye-candy. She's smart, strong, confident, and independent; at least, that's her whole journey. I will add that the film had some decent humor also.
Now that I've talked about the pros, I will now be stating the cons. The fact that I liked it doesn't change the fact that the film wasn't as great as it could've been. It felt mostly rushed at times, there were other times where the CGI looked pretty cheep, and the acting ... I will say that it wasn't bad. For example, there's a subplot involving Carol having a niece (not biologically, because ... if you've seen it, you know what I mean). And Every time she appeared on screen, I kept thinking to myself, that kid might need an acting coach.
As for Sam L. Jackson, he was not bad (far from, actually), it's just ... it felt to me like he was playing himself more than the character of Nick Fury like he usually does for the majority of this film; he had a cg mutant cat as a sidekick.
With all said, Captain Marvel isn't the best movie I've seen this year, but it's certainly the best Marvel movie I've seen in said year.