Gets better every time you see it

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2020)

Just watched it the third time and it gets better every time you watch it. Brie Larson plays the role very well. The story is excellent but it is complex compared to other MCU offerings. A thoroughly enjoyable super hero movie. I can honestly say that it is perhaps the best movie in MCU perhaps after Avengers. The character of Captain Marvel is a bit subdued but this is more like Jason Bourne. A quiet type who lets her action speak for her. One has to remember she is supposed to be the most powerful super hero, who can destroy spaceships by simply ramming her way through them and stop and throw back missiles that could destroy a planet. So acting the strong silent type would definitely fit, except there hasn't before been such a superhero who was female. This brings up the next point. Why there is so much hate generated for this movie.
Here are some thoughts on why there is so much hate for this movie and for Brie Larson. If you read the negative reviews you will find the many are picking at things to criticize. Things that most would overlook in other scifi/fantasy movies. I can think of three possible reasons:
1. The main bad guy is a white man while all the hero's are women/people of color and the 'ugly' aliens are really the good guys. Many people will be loath to admit this but they really do not go for this image role reversal. In most other movies the bad guys look ugly. There are women super heros but the white guys are firmly the good guys.
2. Super hero women do invariably show a lot of skin and Brie does NOT. This is actually good in the movie that she is not a sex symbol. But ever since Princess Leia the women in scifi movies have to at least sometimes look sexy. This movie breaks that mold. And some people hate that.
3. Although the movie in no way tries to allude that they are making similarities to any particular political situation in the world today. Many viewers, both who like the movies and those who hate it can't but help make connections. And, again, those who hate it do not like the connections that they can make. That is the powerful guys are really the manipulators, cowards and cruelly persecuting those they call barbaric.
All or any of these reasons cannot take away from the fact that this is a really fun movie to watch that will grow in popularity with time. I hope Brie Larson is retained in this role and we see her as Captain Marvel for many years.