| − | |Based on the eponymous Marvel Comics superheroine and set in 1995, the twenty-first installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe follows Carol Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien civilizations. In contrast to the rest of the film series up to this point, ''Captain Marvel'' is explicitly feministic, one example showing a deleted scene with Captain Marvel threatening a man for mild flirts including "Smile for me" and stealing his belongings. During an interview, Captain Marvel's actress Brie Larson shows some sexism, [[ageism]] and self-loathing [[racism]] by saying that she "won't accept reviews about the movie from 40 y.o. white men" (even though she is herself white). The film was also notorious for Disney and Marvel going to extremes to ensure it had any chance at a box office success, including forcing theaters to make it the single showing for a week, buying tickets and lying on the importance of the film to understand ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'' released the same year.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/03/some-reports-indicate-captain-marvel-is-the-only-movie-playing-at-some-theaters-during-premiere-week/78446/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/KBeUffaNxkY</ref><ref>https://cosmicbook.news/disney-manipulated-captain-marvel-perception</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/03/13/new-reports-of-empty-theaters-at-captain-marvel-add-to-movies-controversy/</ref> as well as having Rotten Tomatoes remove its negative reviews of the film.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/03/rotten-tomatoes-removes-thousands-of-negative-captain-marvel-user-ratings/79348/</ref><ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/02/captain-marvel-rotten-tomatoes-censorship-circumvented-thanks-to-dissenter-extension/78084/</ref> | + | |Based on the eponymous Marvel Comics superheroine (although the original incarnstion of the Marvel character in the comics was a male alien superhero, not to be confused with the older Captain Marvel aka Shazam from DC Comics) and set in 1995, the twenty-first installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe follows Carol Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien civilizations. In contrast to the rest of the film series up to this point, ''Captain Marvel'' is explicitly feministic, one example showing a deleted scene with Captain Marvel threatening a man for mild flirts including "Smile for me" and stealing his belongings. During an interview, Captain Marvel's actress Brie Larson shows some sexism, [[ageism]] and self-loathing [[racism]] by saying that she "won't accept reviews about the movie from 40 y.o. white men" (even though she is herself white). The film was also notorious for Disney and Marvel going to extremes to ensure it had any chance at a box office success, including forcing theaters to make it the single showing for a week, buying tickets and lying on the importance of the film to understand ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'' released the same year.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/03/some-reports-indicate-captain-marvel-is-the-only-movie-playing-at-some-theaters-during-premiere-week/78446/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/KBeUffaNxkY</ref><ref>https://cosmicbook.news/disney-manipulated-captain-marvel-perception</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/03/13/new-reports-of-empty-theaters-at-captain-marvel-add-to-movies-controversy/</ref> as well as having Rotten Tomatoes remove its negative reviews of the film.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/03/rotten-tomatoes-removes-thousands-of-negative-captain-marvel-user-ratings/79348/</ref><ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/02/captain-marvel-rotten-tomatoes-censorship-circumvented-thanks-to-dissenter-extension/78084/</ref> |