I liked it more than I thought I would

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2019)

I heard mostly complaints about the movie because of a statement that Brie Larsen never even made. The film got attacked because people chose to believe a lie someone created. It always pays to do your own research before jumping on the band wagon folks.
Captain Marvel obviously is the Wonder Woman of the MCU. I've been into comics especially the Marvel ones for a long time. Captain Marvel was a guy at the time but even still he was a pretty bland one that got mixed in with all the rest. Changing him over to a female did make the character much interesting. There aren't that many super - super powered characters in the MCU aside from the Phoenix.
In the comics there's a lot of powerful women but for some reason in Hollywood there's not. I just don't know what it really is about Hollywood and Comic adaptions when it comes to women and minority comic book characters. "Storm" for example is just as popular as Wolverine as a fan favorite but in the movies her character barely serves any purpose. There was also "Psylocke" another fan favorite female character with a reduced role that barely made them important. I just never understood the disconnect of Hollywood with Comicbook fans when it comes to certain characters.
Out of all the MCU movies they're of course just male leads. Black Panther and Captain Marvel were the only movies that broke the mold. Captain Marvel certainly being the only Female lead super hero movie I can think of (and no I won't even acknowledge that Dark Phoenix nonsense). I can't get upset with the "girl power" theme when I've been watching male super hero movies for the past 30 years of my life.
I was actually grateful when Wonder Woman came out because I've been a long time fan of her and it was long overdue for her movie. Captain Marvel though is a wild card. She's not really a popular comic character and doesn't have huge fan base like Wonder Woman had. So this movie starts from scratch. As an origin story I found it as charming as I did all the other movies. It was different and the character of Captain Marvel was unique. I didn't get a "Bat Woman" vibe from the movie. I actually got more of a Metroid Samus Aryan vibe. The first parts of the movie were a bit rough as you try to figure out what's going on and so much is thrown at you but it catches up mid way and starts to make more sense. I feel like it would get better with a second movie now that Captain Marvel is established and they can actually focus on a story where as in this film they identified the Villains.
I didn't find it to be a bad movie probably on par with the original Iron Man that wasn't as exciting as the other movies became either. Time will tell though if these gets better with the later additions.