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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The consensus seems to be that it's a pretty good, entertaining but ultimately a bit soulless origin story in the mold of many that have come before it. I'm still gonna go see it in Imax, but that's kind of a shame if so... you'd think they'd have the origin movie down to a science by this point.
This review excerpt is pretty much what I was worried about:
Stop ####ing doing this crap and just make a good movie. Hopefully this is overblown and the political undertones aren't too distracting.
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I'm less concerned. I think that critics feel required to comment on it because of the narrative surrounding the initial troll reaction to Larson's out of context comments. So would people be noticing and commenting on these things if they aren't coming to it from the mindset of evaluating this movie on how it expresses feminist values.
I'm sure you could write thesis on the expression of masculinity in every comic book movie ever however reviewers don't because they just watch a fun comic book movie. So if you go in wanting to evaluate how this movie treats feminism in a 90s throw back and how that reflects on the current Post MeToo environment I'm sure you will be able to ruin your experience.
I'm more concerned that origin stories are generally poorly done. I much preferred the Black Panther model where a quick origin was done in Civil War and then Black Panther was a movie about a Villain rather than an origin story.