It didn't always feel like a MARVEL movie though, if I'm being honest. I got some DC vibes from the scene between Rambeau and Danvers on the front lawn, the way it was shot more than the dialogue or anything. It was Boden and Fleck suddenly throwing back to their intimate indie days but the dialogue and acting wasn't pushing for that, at least I wasn't feeling it.


There was also just a lot of on the nose shots of stuff, all nitpicky but like once everyone starts calling her Carol, when Jude shows back up and keeps calling her Vers I feel like there was a scene where she stands up suddenly holding the back half of her dogtags in the middle of a fistfight for a quick shot of the "vers" part of the tags Jude had so the audience can go "oh!"


But yeah, whatever. I thought all the girl power stuff was done perfectly other than "I'm Just a Girl" being the theme to the final fight. It's not even that it didn't fit the tone of the fight, just hearing that song start up was a brief moment of "alRIGHT already!" I liked all the fights, particularly the opening training fight with her and Jude, had the more creative vibes of whenever Black Widow gets to kick something off which isn't often anymore.


I like that if Danvers is going to slide into Stark's role, they cast her sidekick as someone who looks the most like a young female Don Cheadle as you could probably find. I kinda wish Nick Fury had been more than the butt of a lot of jokes, it was kind hard to buy he went from this sort of happy go lucky cracking jokes at the dinner table with some aliens guy to the Shaft-dressing no nonsense guy we have in Avengers.


Eh, I'm just gonna keep nitpicking but I did really enjoy myself at this movie and I'm really excited to see Brie get in with the Avengers proper and see if they can sand off some of this movie's rough edges once she's folded into the whole thing the same way it worked for Thor. I also hope once her and Ant-Man undo the snap we get something super small stakes, like a Hawkeye and Widow heist film or something.


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