Captain Marvel - spoiler alert-

[CrazyDuchess]

I am the biggest marvel fan going.

Watched it earlier today and keen to hear what others thought of the film?

In the link posted up thread it says the tesseract was found in the sea by Howard stark in 1945.
I thought they found it again when they found and defrosted Cap?

I'm the person who said about Logan

Embarrassingly, it isn't because of it being formulaic or suspicions thereof that I haven't seen it

I was unable to see it in the cinema and I've found in the last few years that I can't watch films at home

I only have time in the evening and I look at the running time like NOPE

We watched it yesterday. Took dd3(8) and ds(6) after seeing the imdb parent guide was pretty tame. Dd3 was so into it. Think it’s the most engaged with a film I’ve seen her. She loved the female lead being tough and not giving up, she’s pretty determined so it resonated with her. Loved the strong friendship and single mother bit too.
Yes the cat stole the show, we were convinced it was a shapeshifter!

The tesseract was found by Howard Stark but they failed to find cap. That was like 40 years later or something. When cap came out of the ice fury and Dr Eric from Thor were doing research (this project Pegasus which runs through all the films) - at which point Loki arrives to steal it. Avengers asemble I think.

Aw Barton! Watch it in two halves!

Maybe Fury did try and call her during the alien portal invasion in first Avengers film, and she didn’t answer. Or turned up after it was all
over and sorted and kept a low profile and popped off again, because that’s just embarrassing. It looks like it’s taken her a while to answer now if they’ve had time to retrieve the pager from where Fury was, it’s battery ran out and they installed it with a new battery in a special case at avengers HQ to brood at.

Maybe her powers only last so long, they’re fading 20 years later, she needs to recharge after a certain amount of use, or there’s some form of kryptonite....

Cwenthryth

Or they are trying to shoe horn in a new main character because some of the older mains are leaving and they don't want to loose money on the franchise.

I have also not seen Logan - honestly jsut seems to be too gory for me and I really don't think Wolverine should die!

I liked Captain Marvel but there was something stopping me from loving it and I think it was that it took a while to actually get going and everyone who knows the MCU (and if you're watching CM you're usually pretty deep) knew it had to end with Endgame set up so it was mostly just set up.

The first part was too out of context, jumpy and disjointed that I was constantly trying to stay in the movie rather than letting my mind run away with trying to piece it all together, so by the time the story actually got going I kept drifting back to the start and trying to fit it all together because it almost seemed too straightforward.

I did love that there wasn't a love story element - the second I watched that first sparring scene with Jude Law I spent the whole movie waiting for them trying to pair them up, so it was a pleasant surprise that it was pretty much the opposite.

I also think it suffers a little from being set so late in Phase 3 but before all the other MCU movies (Cap's origin notwithstanding) so you know where it is going to end up (with CM being set up to return for Endgame) but it has to explain her story, set up her place in the overarching Avengers story and try to excuse why she was the first of Fury's recruits but hasn't turned up once or been mentioned in any of the previous movies and will be the last to show up to the Endgame party, all without the involvement of any other Avenger popping in.

I did love the humour but even that seemed a little OTT in places and Goose was the standout star of the show.

It was also a decent story to take an MCU novice to - I took a friend to see it and she only has a passing interest in the MCU so she missed a lot of the Easter eggs/aha moments as she didn't get the significance or references to the other movies. However, that didn't marr her enjoyment of the movie because this was definitely a standalone movie that could be seen without needing to have known/seen the rest - which is definitely a plus when you're twenty odd movies into a franchise and trying to get a friend to start watching them but they're overwhelmed by where to start.