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  • I saw Captain Marvel just. I don't know how to feel about these woke films made by massive corporations (see also Black Panther). On the one hand it's great that they have plenty of normal female characters, and maybe there are small girls watching it who feel empowered or whatever, but they leave me with the uneasy feeling that important political things that people believe in are being monetised and exploited. And I'm 99.9% sure that those political themes are only present in the film because they make money, not because any executive at Marvel gives a flying fuck about them.

    The film itself is standard Marvel tripe - her witty/sarcastic personality is transplanted directly from any other Marvel character - okay if you're into that and like looking at planets and things blowing up and whatnot (which I do from time to time).

    Someone tell me how to feel please.

  • It's important to have strong female/black/minority role models in big things, only partiality for the female/black/minority kids, as they're probably being fully told about all the awesome roll models that exist for them. But if all the future old white men grow up on a diet of awesome female/black/minority heroes then hopefully they won't become old white cunts.

  • I get that angle. But what's worse, under-representation of minorities or out-of-control corporate capitalism? It's good to see the characters on screen, but we all know the hundreds of billions generated by these films goes straight into the pockets of yet more Old White Cunts. And they probably donate a bunch of it to Trump.

    My impression of Stan Lee was that he was an alright guy but I don't know anything about the rest of them. I need to find some research on the topic, only then will I be able to decide if I liked the film or not

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