A True Fan · 9:37am Aug 28th, 2020
I have never really thought about it until just recently. A year ago and a month before Avengers: Endgame came out in theaters, there was an MCU Movie that came out. Something to hype us up for Endgame. It was called Captain Marvel. Last year, I gave the movie a rather scathing review while my friend Saber gave it a somewhat lukewarm review. At the time before I saw it, I hated it. I thought of it as a feminist, SJW movie that degrades men and trying to promote some form of agenda. But now... I don't really know what to say. All my life, I've been an Anti-SJW Crusader and I really had no opinion of my own, let alone consider anyone else's. I've been doing it since The Last Jedi and I've never really considered why it was bad in the first place. But don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of Disney Star Wars and I wish that their movies had more coherence. But do we really hate it just because it's about a female? I mean, what are we really? Are we really fans, or are we just preschoolers who act like the world is ours? I mean... just what are we? I'm not singling out anyone who feels opposed nor am I trying to act like I know more than you. I have only just stopped boycotting Funimation because it was just a childish thing to do and not because I hold anything against Vic Mignogna. In fact, I wish him the best and I hope that he can get through life moving past that miserable chapter of his last year. My point is that politics are manipulating us. Left or Right, it's all the same once you think about it. MLP, Marvel, DC, My Hero Academia, Kimetsu no Yaiba, FIre Force, Star Wars, Sonic The Hedgehog... fandoms were made because we all shared something in common and now we have polluted that positive air into something toxic and corrosive. But it's never too late. If there's anything you're passionate for, please share it. Whether it be comics, movie, anime, or video games, please discuss it. I'm sure we can find the grounds of making it positive for one another. But what you should all take away from all this... is that there is no such thing as a true fan. No matter how hard you preach it, you are not a true fan. You are just like us. All of us. And I want nothing more than this toxicity that we have been experiencing over the years to end... but it won't. Was I ever wrong for thinking that Captain Marvel was a toxic movie? Because I don't even know the answer to that.
If you have all read this blog, leave your thoughts and feelings in the comment section down below and I will get back to you. However, if there is any form of toxicity on this blog, you will be deleted. No questions asked. But be as honest as you can be with me. Say what you need to say. I won't judge.
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I won't speak for anyone else, but I always thought the original Star Wars was always very empowering towards women.
Luke gets to Leia's cell on the DS-1 Death Star, next scene she takes his gun and blasts out a grate, taking charge of their situation.
The Sequel Trilogy is bad because they try to force the agenda of empowering women, rather than just doing it. It was a dumpster fire and a mockery of what the long-time fans loved so much, which is why I'm hopeful about the rumours that Disney are going to make it an alternate timeline and reduce it to B-canon.
Captain Marvel... wasn't bad. It wasn't what it was praised for. It was more... forgettable than anything else.
Quite frankly it felt like bait for anti-SJWs, so that the SJWs could call them every insulting name under the sun for not liking it.
I heard rumours that Disney actually 'bought' tickets to pad cinema sales to it, making it seem like a bigger success and show how 'woke' they are.
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Hopefully, things will turn out well for Star Wars. I would love to see an overhaul for the series.
Yeah. Truth be told, I never really hated Captain Marvel. I just didn't understand what was so good about it in the first place.
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It was 'good' because it was politically motivated to be. Anyone who disagreed was labelled sexist, bigoted, etcetera, etcetera, so on and so forth.
It's what Disney has done for about ten years now.
Force-feeding politically motivated agenda to push sales, rather than make political commentary to be entertaining.
Personally I kind of like all four movie so you're talking about, although Captain Marvel was pretty weak and lack true passion and emotion to make you care for any of the characters, with the exception of Nick Fury cuz everyone loves Nick Fury and his sarcastic tone, whenever he got the chance to be funny.
As for the Star Wars sequels, I actually did enjoy them and I do love the character Rey, but their message towards women and how they kind of handle it was done kind of wrong if I'm being honest. a
Rey did get some character development, but there were times when she felt too rushed and any of the other women that were not her or Leia, were extremely butchered in their character.
These are just my honest opinions on them and I hope no one gets mad at me for kind of offending them, as long as everyone knows that I do have some dislike towards them as well and acknowledge the errors that they try to represent.
Yeah....I miss those days
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As do I. As do we all.
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Yeah. I see it as a rather weak entry now and if I were to go back and review it, I'm sure it wouldn't hold up that well. But not for the reasons you might think. It would only be criticized because it just felt boring. I did enjoy Nick Fury though. He was hilarious.
And Star Wars. I don't personally think that Rey is a bad character. I believe that she could've had the potential to be good if she had more coherency to her development and her flaws were more apparent. And yes, there were points where it made sense for her character. But there were also times where I couldn't tell what she was doing and why she wasn't given more time to build herself as a character. As for the rest of the cast, they should've been given much more to do other than just promoting their own agendas and shit.
But yeah, I get you and I hope something good happens to Star Wars. I did watch a bit of The Mandalorian and it was awesome. I hope that Star Wars gets more improvement like this new show on Disney+.
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And don't even get me started on the Disney remakes.
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And the one movie that would benefit from a Live Action remake is the one that will probably never get one.
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If we're lucky, Mulan will be the last.
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But we're likely to never see Atlantis a a properly realised action-adventure movie.
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Great. It'd be one less movie for Disney to butcher.
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It has no songs, just accompanying music.
It has a more mature moral tone and approach.
You can't deny that if done right, the Leviathan scene would make for an awesome CG sequence with modern technology, similar to how it blended in well the the hand-drawn styles back then.
It has vastly more potential to be a better Live-action adaptation than any of the remakes before it.
It just needs the right writers and director, and stick to being an adventure with no political agenda.
And you can just picture actors like Dolph Lundgren as Commander Rourke, Kenneth Brannagh as Mr Whitmore or Ronda Rousey as Lt St-Claire (Sinclaire? [It could go be either]).
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Perhaps. But even if that were the case, it could lead to another misfire. A fact that Disney is now known for.
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This is true, but we can at leadt agree that it will likely never happen anyway.
Atlantis: the Lost Empire didn't do as well as they'd hoped.
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I've only seen it a couple times, but it's not a movie that Disney can duplicate.
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No, but if they bumped up the age rating and made it a bit longer, it could potentially be better.
But again, it comes down to the wrters, director and producers.
Ron Howard maybe. He's competent enough.
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Really? Any movies that ring a bell?
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I'll assume you mean aside from his early career.
Solo.
I maintain that Solo: a Star Wars story was good as a Star Wars side movie, but one that never needed to be made, and would have benefitted from being about different characters from the same time period.
Ultimately though, I said he's competent, not good.
Spielberg is good. Hell, Spielberg is GREAT when he's not working with George Lucas. Jaws and Jurassic Park are proof of that.
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Good? Spielberg was a genius. He pioneered so many movies that we loved as kids.
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He invented the concept of the 'Summer blockbuster'.
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Were it not for him, we wouldn't have a lot of these fun summer films that we grew to love over the years.
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Well...WINTER films for me.
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I can never forget those.
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I was referring to how I'm Australian.
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I didn't know you were Australian.
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Huh.
I thought I'd told you at some point or another.
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Did you?
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I don't know.
Probably, once, but I can't say for sure.
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Hmm. Well, it's nice to know a fan from outside the states.