The most important thing about Jean is that as soon as the Phoenix force ramps her abilities up to the highest levels, she goes from the girl on the team to the character with the most terrifying powers. She can manipulate matter and energy on a scary scale. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “girl” in Marvel Girl. There’s always been something feminine, composed and adult about her. I want to say that her progression is from girl to woman to goddess, shortly followed by the next step to an unbound threat on a grand cosmic scale and then, most importantly, to the woman who is able to contain all of that.
When I hear, ‘I do not understand why anyone would watch horror,’ my immediate thought is ‘I can’t imagine a world without the urge to look
Packaging, in the real world, gets us every time. It’s about making something look desirable. Desirable is not always the gauge we can reliably use to measure quality.
Sacrifice and suffering do not create art. There’s this idea that if you put enough suffering into your work a masterpiece will be the result. I think there’s more suffering in the world than there are writers for that to be true.
At the one hour fifteen mark in the film I realised I was watching an exciting car chase and just didn’t care.
They didn’t watch Captain Marvel.
They watched what they thought Captain Marvel was supposed to be.
