Connect to your audience...shoulda, coulda, woulda

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2019)

I finally got to watch Captain Marvel. While I can understand the negative feedback from other viewers, I really wanted to examine this from my first viewing and dissect what others were saying about this film.
The good:
I love a powerful Female lead. I did not find anything sexual or erotic about how this character was presented. A somewhat sarcastic but mostly cynical (in a good way) human that happens to be a female. These few moments kept me there. I want more of that, especially in our world today. That's real and connects us...
A young Fury and Coulson. It's amazing how production elements can turn back the clock and make it seem real. Good job!
Talos. The scene where we discovered the real story. This was the connection. It took 3/4 of viewing to make this connection and this small part was what saved my opinion.
Jude Law in the beginning? I was like... ya!
Overall production concerning the action scenes, physics, cgi etc. Everything was pretty clean and believable. I cannot think of any wow moment, however. Like slow, stop motion action sequences comparable to 300 or QuickSilvers scene in Days of Future Past. Or simply a moment where you could say "that was friggin cool"
The bad:
For me, it was the connection. One way to connect the audience would have been to start on earth, in Carol Danvers's world. In the film, when we first saw planet C-53, this was the first moment I sat up. The movie could have started on earth and follow the character story from there. this could have been the tether to the baby boomers and gen x. Instead, it was like being on a car ride down a road you've been down many times before.
I liked Brie Larson, but you could definitely see her expression hindered by this disjointed production. Could another have pulled it off? Probably not. Imagine watching the the Star wars prequels first. The only reason we watched episodes 1,2 and 3 was because we watched the original 3...
Story, connection, wow factor. This is a shoulda, coulda, woulda movie at best.
JD