Why did they make Carol Danvers so dull, so arrogant, so unlikeable.

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2019)

My wife and I both thought it was bland. The action and special effects were nifty but Captain Marvel (I assume poor writing, not necessariily Brie Larsons performance) was dull. Granted there is a reason she acted in certain ways due to her situation but the direction of her performance was so stern, stiff, "i got this" that it was boring and not much was ever in doubt. The lack of emotion (also could be explained away by odd circumstance) but it left us empty.
As the audience walked out of the movie the things we overheard were similar to what we were thinking. She is so cocky so stupidly arrogant and simple flash backs of her childhood and youth getting back up and trying again didn't cut it for me in terms of building out the characters later actions.
Perhaps the studio billing this character as being possibly the strongest character in the marvel universe set it up to fail.....it seems the actor, writer, director took that to heart and made her more emotionless than needed and without full explanation as she explores her power in the end against enemy ships she takes needless risks allowing battle ship type hits to her person she could have avoided and shrugs them off in dare I say a super man level arrogance (sorry DC). She is essentially marvels superman now, with hand blasters, not eye beams and superman is dull dull dull because we all know no one can beat him.
I started reading marvel back in the early 70's. I stopped in the 80's. I was familiar with Mar Vell but never much cared for the intergalactic stuff so didn't read much.
I came in knowing this would be different, read some reviews to try and kick that bias out. I think i gave it a fair shot but it the tone for the main character was a dud.
>>>>>>>>
SPOILER.
1) for long time marvel readers there is a main story line reversal here where once bad is victim, is good that will blow you away in not good ways. that was tough to stomach but bear in mind I am more than 30 years out of reading comics. Its still messing with me a day later. It feels so wrong.
2) there is a character in the film that others in the film want data from, they send them on a pointless retrieval mission that puts that character in danger, which ends up in ambush and it never gets explained why the hell they would risk them in that way. outside of captain marvels dullness this plot point was the only major item i found.