trailer literally shows her being tortured, her preparing for battle, her in training, her confused and lost, if she fuckin smiled at any point of that trailer shed look fucking insane why the fuck are men and women so pressed when seeing a badass female superhero serious? im not even gonna ask what the Fuck is wrong with you all cause its clear as day, but what i will do is tell you to go fuck yourself if you think that trailer is any indication of how brie is a bad actress in any way
look I have nothing against Brie Larson as a person or an actor but her casting feels like an undeniable result of the cultural fixation with Women Under Thirty
okay so I fired this off on my phone just as a thought but let me elaborate on this a little:
Carol Danvers is a Colonel in the US Air Force.
Even if we accept that Carol was promoted at younger age than most, that kind of promotion doesn’t come lightly. According to military-ranks.org (a website that I have no reason to question):
By law, colonels must have twenty-two years of service and a minimum of three years of service as a lieutenant colonel. Most colonels spend three years as a lieutenant colonel before being promoted.
I think it’s pretty widely established that Carol joined the Air Force as soon as she was 18, which would place her squarely at age 40 after the minimum 22 year service, assuming she got promoted as soon as she was eligible.
What I’m getting at here is that, unless the Marvel Cinematic Universe is stripping Carol of her illustrious military history, there’s no damn reason for her to played by a 26 year old. At all.
… Unless they think a woman in her forties has no business being a superhero, in which case I’d like to direct your attention to Jeremy Renner (cast as Hawkeye at 40), Ben Affleck (Batman at 43), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man since age 44), and Paul Rudd (debuting as Ant-Man at forty-fucking-six).
Listen to me. Listen. Women over forty are badasses. ¾ of the new Ghostbusters cast are women in their 40′s. Ming-Na Wen is kicking asses and taking names all over Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at 52. Those old ladies from Mad Max: Fury Road – including Megan Jaffer, who’s 78 – did their own fucking stunts.
Use your Google fu at the words “Marvel” and “female led films” and you’ll find out quickly that the studio, part of the Disney empire, has some challenges with making movies with female leads.
Black Widow has appeared as co-star in multiple movies in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but the franchise’s guru Kevin Feige has apparently absolutely no desire to give the character her own movie.
Despite the questioning of that choice, Marvel had an out. Last October 28 they announced that Captain Marvel would get her own movie in July of 2018.
See they even made a banner announcing the date. Go Marvel!
Let’s see you announced the movie on October 28 and then three and half years later you have a movie. Easy Peasy. And how cool she gets the summer blockbuster slot of a 4th of July weekend. Woot! Marvel. Women. Movies. Happening! (but still hearing all the reasons that there won’t be a Black Widow movie.)
Okay that’s okay. Now they have over four years since they announced the movie (October 28, 2014) to make the movie. So let’s get that script done! And they announced a terrific team in April. Okay, so that’s cool. The movie is over three years away. Plenty of time to write a script and get it made. Woot.
November 2, 2018 here we come!
Nope. Yesterday Marvel announced that Captain Marvel’s third release date – March 8, 2019.
Why you ask? Well to make room for the Ant-Man sequel. That’s right, Ant-Man will have his second movie out before Captain Marvel.
The sequel will mark the first Marvel Studios film named after its heroine.
Yes, they said that by giving second billing to Wasp.
Ten years. It’s been ten years since Kevin Feige started building out his Marvel Universe. And after ten years you get the back half of the title and claim a “first” for a female character (or heroine) in the same release you announce you are giving the third release date to the ONLY film that has been announced with a female lead.
Frankly I think the chances we’ll actually see a Captain Marvel are just slightly better than we’ll see at Black Widow movie.
Oh they’ll announce something about the movie in the next 20 days or float the name of a director or we’ll hear that they are testing leads.
But then?
Three and half years is a long time.
I expect Feige could find four or five male characters to give movies to so expect that date to move.
