Captain Marvel Not Marvelous

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2019)

I went into this movie a bit hesitant. I was not impressed by the trailers and Larsons' comments in the press were off putting. I truly tried to set aside any prejudice or preconceived fears and give this movie a chance.
The first 10 to 15 minutes of the film looked promising. Unfortunately, besides the touching tribute to Stan Lee in the intro, those 15 were the best part of the movie.
Brie Larson's "Captain Marvel" is boring and unlikable. She has no character arch or growth in the storyline. We have nothing to connect or root for. Her enemy is not really the Skrulls or I see, but patriarchy that has put her down or held her in check.
This movie destroyed on of the best storylines in the Marvel Universe. The Kree vs Skrull war was an epic plot. Turning the Skrulls into misunderstood refugees and the Kree into the bad guys has blown any chance of using that plot in future movies. And they changed it to push a damn agenda and narrative about border control.
That was the less blantant message being pushed. The extreme feminist message was insulting to many women and men alike. There were plenty of jabs thrown at men and lot's of subtle imagery to minimize or diminish men.
But, the most egregious insult to masculinity was how they took a man like Nick Fury and emasculated him. They changed him from a bad ass leader of a spy organization to a pussy who can only hold a cat during a fight scene while Maria Rambeau protects his ass. Then the movie insults us further by establishing that the damn cat scratched his eye and that's how Fury lost it.
Don't even get me started on the Tasseract and how the writers completely changed how Shield ended up with it.
How lame is it that Fury got the name of the "Advengers" from Larsons call sign as an Air Force pilot. So Tony Stark's phrase " if we can't defend this earth, you can damn well believe we'll Avenge it" means Nothing.
This movie is a hot mess. Nothing was fun.
None of the characters had me invested. Frankly, I just ended up not caring.
This movie makes me very concerned for End Game and the future of the MCU. If this is what the future looks like, count me out.