Really good movie.

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2019)

Wow, I watched Captain marvel, and I'm not shocked, but really surprised at all the bad reviews it's received. Now, everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion, but I'd have to say, I disagreed with most of the negative stuff I read. Guess I don't have a gift at looking at it from an "artistic" perspective. I pretty much take it at face value.
Come-on folks. It's a comic book movie. It's all totally made up, and to say that the characters just aren't believable is an absurd statement. IT'S FAKE!!!
To say Captain marvel had no weaknesses? That's silly. Her first weakness was overcoming herself. She was just introduced. Who knows what her weaknesses are. Hulk had no weaknesses. He just comes in and wrecks shop. He throws punches, and gets punched, but up until he, kinda fought Thanos, he never really had a challenge. He just smashed. Captain America has no weakness. He fights till he wins. He gets beat up, gets inspired, and defeats his adversary. Same with Captain marvel. She had to learn who she was, overcome her fears, and realize her true powers. She got beat up plenty thought the movie. Y'all talk like it's the end. It's just starting with her. I'm pretty confident she won't just come in and destroy the bad guy and that's it. We will probably see more weaknesses as the story unfolds further. In "age of Ultron", vision had no weakness. He had no struggle. He just wrecked the bad guy. As his character develops, you see he has plenty of weaknesses. I'm sure the same will be true of Captain marvel.
I'm certainly not "hoping" for a strong female hero. But I'm not opposed to it. Look at black widow. She's pretty freakin bad (bad meaning awesome). To say that the only people that could actually like this movie are just looking for a strong female hero is silly. I liked the movie a lot. And I'm sure, it would have been just as great if Captain marvel was a dude.
As a matter of fact, I might go so far as to say that the reason a lot of people gave such horrible reviews was because (emphasis on because) she was a woman. Not because having a woman hero is bad, but because, I'd bet there's a lot of people out there who were really hoping marvel would really knock it out of the park with a female hero, to prove to the would that women can be super awesome too, and it just didn't measure up to their hopes and expectations.
And who cares if, at the beginning of the movie, she was on the side of a known villain? You're only assuming Ronan is bad when she's fighting with the Cree. Maybe something would have happened during the movie that would have made him turn bad. Thor fought along side Loki, after Loki tried to kill or enslave everyone on the planet. But you can look back after watching, wanting to find things wrong with it, and say "That's stupid. She was fighting with Ronan, and he's a bad, bad putty tat. What a stupid movie".
To sum up, (not that my opinion matters a whole lot anyway) I thoroughly enjoyed Captain marvel. There, I said it. I enjoyed the background storyline. I enjoyed the action scenes. I enjoyed the character development. I enjoyed the plot sequence. I thought Brie Larson did a fine job of portraying a kind, compassionate, sarcastic, fun loving, bad-a$$ super heroine, with "seemingly" limitless power and no apparent weaknesses. I just enjoyed it. I could pick apart, and say this didn't make sense, or that doesn't line up with that, or whatever. But it's a comic book movie. It's fun to watch. That's why I give it a 9. "But don't just take my word for it". If anyone is still with me here, thanks for reading and have a nice day.