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The Cap Marvel Easter Egg everyone is talking about? OMG they called it SHIELD and that is a Continuity Error between this film and Iron Man! Right, the organization was formed shortly after WW2 and it wasn't until 2009 when Tony the genius realized that the acronym for it was a word. For fuck's sake ...
There is a reason why so many are clutching so hard to his. The complaint everyone expected to have about the film simply wasn't there. For months I've seen seeing people say that they didn't really want to watch this film. They felt forced to because of Endgame. Cap Marvel would recontextualize events, have cameos from our fave heroes, and the tag scenes would give tons more info on Endgame. None of that happened. There is no reason to see this film outside of walking to see it. Kevin Feige the SWJ mastermind isn't holding anything over the main fan base to 'make' them to see this so they can 'get' Endgame.
You can see this without seeing other MCU films, you can see the rest of MCU and skip this film.
I was originally looking forward to seeing cameos and Endgame tidbits, but there were none and it's a stronger film for not having background news stories about Tony Stark driving naked in a convertible.
Ugh, this is like the Star Trek reboot all over again. People are so fraught that it's a mess.
Remember ten years ago when there first started to be coverage of woman-centric movies getting lower ratings and Rotten Tomatoes scores for misogynistic reasons? At the time it was a subtle thing, but resulted in overall lower earnings and opportunities for people who worked on those films? And it was something new and needed charts and other things to show that systemic sabotage was really happening? These days, nope, it's massive open brigading and Rotten Tomatoes had to change it's rules in an ultimately futile attempt to curb trolling.
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Date: 2019-03-10 01:55 pm (UTC)From:Some people need to just get the fuck over themselves.
My only gripe is actually that it messes up the tesseract's timeline in a way that is making my brain tie itself in knots. And it feels like really shoddy plotting, which, I expect better from the MCU. So maybe I'm overlooking something... But right now that artefact seems to have 2 origin stories and have been in 2 places at once. (Unless there are two of them, which the internet seems to claim there isn't...)
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Date: 2019-03-10 08:32 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-03-11 07:21 pm (UTC)From:I wonder if your issue with the darkness wasn't a projection problem. It sadly often is, as 99.9 % of cinemas don't have a projectionist, but just let the film go. If they don't tweak the settings to suit each film, the result is often that some end up being projected too dark. I don't recall the station scenes as being dark in that way. (I will keep it in mind when I inevitably re-watch.)
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Date: 2019-03-11 08:37 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-03-11 08:55 pm (UTC)From:Ok, so, if the cinema is using the same screen for 3D projections, this happens even more often. Because 3D has a different light balance (because of the light loss in the glasses). And, just, it really is frightfully common that projection is sub-par. And those are darker scenes, so if there's something off with the projection, then that is where you'll notice it.
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Date: 2019-03-11 10:25 pm (UTC)From:I wonder if this is being particularly a problem with this film or if it's just that all complaints are magnified.