Missy Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 And go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 This is tricky for me, as I really don’t like Far From Home much, but Captain Marvel I think is way less interesting. Far From Home does have Mysterio. Also, it’s Spidey. I’m biased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted July 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Still haven't seen Far from Home, so I can't vote. Yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batguy10 Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 'Far From Home' had a lot of fun moments in it, whereas I was rather bored by 'Captain Marvel'. The former has my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 I voted for Captain Marvel because I remember having more fun when I saw it. Honestly, I'm still going through Phase 3 in my rewatch so this is a bit hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 This was the hardest choice yet. Captain Marvel gets the vote for being different. More of a fresh vibe. Also, for a character I really couldn't give a shit about in the comics, the movie did a good job of making her interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delete Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 The Skrulls are the best part of Captain Marvel and the worst part of Far From Home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Haven't seen Far from Home yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Far From Home. It has the better moments for me. The Mysterio fight is great and Peter/Happy scenes do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 13 hours ago, Professor said: Far From Home. It has the better moments for me. The Mysterio fight is great and Peter/Happy scenes do it for me. I'm with Chris here. Not to undersell Captain Marvel, which was perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted July 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 After finally watching Far from Home this evening, I'm voting for Captain Marvel. And there is one very simple reason: Far from Home is slow and, frankly, boring until Peter hands the glasses over to Beck. And that's an hour into the movie. Once that happens FUCK YES THE MOVIE IS AWESOME! Mysterio is perfectly realized as a foe, and his tech is built off of preexisting MCU terminology. So that's awesome. As is the moment when Spider-Man enters the illusion and destroys the drones. And the Spider-sense scene: *chef's motherfucking kiss*. Peter grabbing the gun. DAMN! But again, it took forever to get there. And honestly the humor is too Iron Man. Spider-Man humor should be diametrically different than all other humor -- be it in the MCU, 616, or any adaptation. The humor here, especially that around the Peter/ MJ romance, is the start-stop-start stuttery stuff we saw with Tony and Pepper. That's. Not. Spider-Man. Captain Marvel is far from perfect, but it's laser-focused from the jump, adds elements to the MCU cosmic universe pre-GOTG, has a theme that will always be relevant, plays with preexisting characters, sets up the Skrulls and Kree, it doesn't fuck around with its time, the soundtrack is amazing, and it doesn't have the MCU forced humor. Normally I don't mind that, but there's clearly a tone to these movies. Captain Marvel has quips, but it does not have that same (though I love it) tired quipiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 "This topic is locked, but your permissions allow you to add new replies." Thank you Super Mod-ship! The one thing I'll disagree with Mike, other than his vote, is this: 14 hours ago, The Master said: The humor here, especially that around the Peter/ MJ romance, is the start-stop-start stuttery stuff we saw with Tony and Pepper. That's. Not. Spider-Man. I don't pretend to understand what "Spider-Man Humor" is - particularly as humour is spelled wrongly - but I don't equate the Peter/MJ Romance here as remotely the same as Tony/Pepper. Usually the latter is them talking over each other and usually arguing with one another. In the MCU, Peter is very much the gawky nervous guy and MJ is self-confident, whilst secretly betraying her liking for him, but the tone of the dialogue is much different. MJ being the "MCU snark dialogue" character is a fair criticism, but one I think Zendaya makes work. And other than the fact she plays MJ, I know fuck all about Zendaya. I am a British man in his mid 30s who thinks anyone who goes by a single name (that isn't an alias) is kinda pretentious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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