The weekend of March 8-10 is extra special this year; it's when the MotoGP season starts with the first race in Quatar, but it's also the weekend when Captain Marvel hits the theaters. It looks like this filmrelease might be even more exciting to follow than MotoGP's first race of the year...
source: Wikipedia
I've always been a sucker for a good fantasy or science fiction story. And since I'm of the generation that saw the first Star Wars when it came out in the cinemas, that franchise holds a special place in my heart; Luke Skywalker is right up there with my other childhood heroes like Bruce Lee, Arthur Fonzarelli (Happy Days was re-aired during the daytime in The Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s) and Frodo (I read Lord of the Rings several tomes before Peter Jackson directed the brilliant movie-trilogy). You'll notice, all my childhood heroes are men. Wel, one of them is a Hobbit actually, but a male Hobbit; there are no females among my early fictitious role-models.
To my surprise, it seems that Hollywood has decided that those were the wrong role-models, or at least that some of them should have been female. SJW politics have have gone mad and insist there's a fair representation of the country's population in every aspect of life. This is ridiculous of course, but I won't get into the why of that. This demand of representing the population's composition has lead to ever increasing silliness in our entertainment and movies and even gave us new words, like "token-minority":
The Token Minority is a character designed to get more minority groups into the plot.
source: TV Tropes
Disney is one of the biggest proponents of the SJW agenda, and as the owner of Marvel and the MCU, they are set to launch upon us their biggest token-female on March tenth when Captain Marvel hits the cinemas. The female hero will be played by Brie Larson, and this movie is sure to be a hit because it's the one leading into the much anticipated second part of Avengers: Infinity War. Disney and Marvel have a "free ride" on this one, as they can be sure every fan of the MCU will come see this movie at least once. And I think this is why they, for the first time, dare infect our beloved MCU with the gender politics we've become used to from Hollywood.
Brie Larson is Ruining Marvel!
With their Star Wars franchise this has gone wrong; for the first time in history a Star Wars film didn't explode the box offices. I'm talking about Solo: A Star Wars Story, who's box office results were disappointing, and many fans claim this is because of the backlash on The Last Jedi. I am one of those fans that did not See Solo at the cinema because of my huge disappointment with The Last Jedi, and the reactions from Disney to hardcore fans who expressed their disappointment with the film. The way they responded to the fans' reactions is just wrong.
This strategy has been in use since the 2016 all female remake of the classic Ghost busters. Nobody asked for the Ghost busters to be transformed into woke females in the first place, but on top of that it was just a bad movie. Yet everyone criticizing the film was promptly called a male chauvinist, scared of "strong female characters" and should just shut their women hating mouths. The Last Jedi was a bad film that looked pretty; the story is a messy, plothole-riddled sequence of non-events and Rey is still a giant Mary Sue. But dare say something negative about the film, anything at all, and you're likely to be called a crying fanboy who don't want no women in their movies...
Marvel and the MCU have stayed clear of this whole ugly conversation, until now. With Captain Marvel and Brie Larson they've gone woke with turbo-charge. In the run-up to the release, miss Larson has managed to upset a large part of the MCU fandom with several remarks she made in interviews and other public outings. "I don't need a 40 years old white dude's opinion on A Wrinkle In Time; it's not made for him." This is the quote that got it all started, I believe. Again, this was a horrible film that got a 2 out of 5 star rating on IMDB; the gender, age or color of the reviewers didn't make the film bad.
Captain Marvel Rotten Tomatoes Silenced! Is The Audience Score Next?
Now, she said this during a speech in which she called for more diversity among film-critics; I have nothing against that, I applaud that even. It's the way she said it and the general zeitgeist in which she said it. Fans are tired of the clear and present practice of placing forced diversity before good story-telling. It shouldn't be difficult to understand: let the right person do the job, irrespective of gender, color or age. The world's best and fastest motorcyclists are men. The world's best basketball players are men, mostly black. The world's best ghostbusting team were men too. Oceans 11 were men. Luke Skywalker was a Jedi until he had to make way for Rey, and got his character ruthlessly assassinated. There's a new Terminator movie being planned or made, with an all female cast. I wonder... will we get a Lady of the Rings with protagonist Frieda Haggins? And will her feet be perfect?
With all this in mind, there was a feature on the Rotten Tomatoes, where users could indicate if they were interested in seeing an upcoming movie or not. Solo was the first movie, to my knowledge, to feel the wrath of the fandom, with that figure dropping to below 50%, again as a result of what The Last Jedi did to the franchise and the fandom. In the last couple of days, the percentage of the Rotten Tomatoes audience that was interested in seeing Captain Marvel sank to a never before seen 28%. You've noticed how this paragraph is written in the past tense? That's because on February 25th the editors have decided to shut down this score entirely; yet another measure to shut up fans who criticize movies for their forced diversity politics.
This is becoming silly and has to stop. Captain Marvel will do just fine at the box office; we'll all want to see it before we go into the second Infinity War movie. I'm afraid though that Thanos will be squashed ultimately by miss Larson. That she will be as overpowered as Rey is in the Star Wars movies and that she'll teach all the overwhelmingly male superheroes how it's done. If this is the case, Captain Marvel might well become the female who killed the highly successful run of Marvel superhero movies. Is she really that powerful? Time will tell...
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