Brie Larson in a scene from"Captain Marvel." By Monica Castillo Monica Castillo is a freelance writer and film critic based in New York. She is a contributor at RogerEbert.com. March 7 at 3:25 PM “Captain Marvel,” with its female superhero in the title role, doesn’t open until Friday, but a lot of people already know what they think about it and are happy to share. Detractors and defenders both have made anticipating the movie’s release an unpleasant experience.
“Captain Marvel” defenders have made the movie a cause celebre. The party line is that by supporting it, you are inherently supporting women and diversity in the entertainment industry; if you don’t buy your ticket, you’re hurting the cause. The charged situation has left little room for dissenting or lukewarm opinions. You’re expected to like this movie or you’re a bad feminist — or, worse, a misogynist. You must feel empowered by this movie or you didn’t get it.
I’m sure Marvel Entertainment and its parent company, Disney, are watching the social media and audience reactions just as closely as they will watch box-office numbers. The rallying cry to buy tickets so more movies about female superheroes are made is music to the bottom line. The studios are running a business, and they have found a mini-goldmine in maintaining the scarcity that leaves viewers with less diverse options.
mcastimovies 'Risk being called out' - why females are more left wing right there, they can't stand being ostracized from the group.
mcastimovies The Left's cultural Stalinists need to grow up. NOT everyone gives a damn about superhero movies. They all are the same cliche plotline, regardless of whether the main character is white, black, brown, yellow, red, male, female, Jew, Gentile, gay, straight, or whatever else.
mcastimovies Can't people just go to a movie or don't go? Go to a store or restaurant or don't go. Why do conservatives feel the need to drag others into their insanity?
mcastimovies Only in movies
mcastimovies Don’t like her message. Plus, an hour of this face? Yeah no
mcastimovies Didn’t we already do this with Black Panther?
mcastimovies I can't read this propaganda because I used up all my views for the month, i guess. Unless I open it in a private mode.
mcastimovies Or maybe too poor to be a feminist? Movies are expensive 🤑
mcastimovies It wasn't a great movie, the feminist card was played badly on this one SorryNotSorry
mcastimovies This is healthy
mcastimovies Avg. Score 2 or 3 out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HardPass
mcastimovies LMAO
mcastimovies Well, now I'm definitely not going to see it.
mcastimovies Turn off as many people as possible from going to see this crap show. Maybe Marvel will go back to the entertainment business.
mcastimovies Why am I not surprised that people didn't read the article and just assumed its content by just seeing the title?
mcastimovies YOU PROMOTED THIS MOVIE WITH A DEAD MAN'S ACCOUNT
mcastimovies Capt Marvel wouldnt even be around were it not for the little boys who bought the comics 20 years ago- who turned into the men who are criticising it. Its not about feminism- its about takeover.
mcastimovies The female in the picture is about to expose her boobs. Why? What for?
mcastimovies Hollywood keeps producing crap and then make excuses as to why people aren't seeing crap. I have an idea, you want people to see your movies then stop making them crappy.
mcastimovies In that case definitely wont be seeing it.
mcastimovies READ THE ARTICLE!!! THE HEADLINE IS SATIRICAL. The truth, within the article, is the 'sexist' narrative is a ploy to sell tickets. We could have had female representation in superhero films decades ago. They purposefully starved us, so we'd fight over lunchables.
mcastimovies This movie is shit!
mcastimovies lmao and the mcu shills start writing garbage
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mcastimovies Your version of any ism if radicalism.
mcastimovies The marketing strategy for this movie has been a complete disaster and if it fails it won't be because of women, it'll be because the marketing executives at this studio sucks.
mcastimovies Bland..
mcastimovies I wonder how many people in the comments actually read the article. Or actually read. Ever.
mcastimovies Captain who?
mcastimovies Or a hardcore misogynist as well...
mcastimovies I support equal rights and I'm being called a bad feminist because I refuse to watch a single movie? That Trump stuff has really gone to your head.
mcastimovies I despise giving a dime to Hollywood. That’s contributing to that cok suker Adam Schiff’s District. Only reason I go to movies are to take the kids to a kid movie.
mcastimovies Why is this movie causing such an uproar... Let it stand on its own merits. If it’s trash it’s trash...
mcastimovies The gender of the lead is the only thing I keep hearing about. Nobody seems to be falling over themselves re: the plot so if gender is its main selling point, I’m going to pass. Too many sub par super hero movies as it is.
mcastimovies A movie does not determine my level of feminism. A female fictional character does not help me in my fight for reproductive rights, equal pay, the right to love who I want, or believe what I want. To those who think I am not a feminist because I do not go to the movies I say...
mcastimovies A real feminist avoids fascist spectacle. Do you know who owns the Post?
mcastimovies Nah!! I'll be watching Alita instead AlitaChallenge
mcastimovies Sounds like socialism...forcing you to change based on peer pressure and what a majority of people in a setting hold as acceptable viewpoint.
mcastimovies This has gone beyond stupid.
mcastimovies I hadn't even thought of it from that angle. I'm just very, very tired of comic book & superhero movies. I'm not gonna pass some big Bill Maher-like judgment. I'm sure SOME of them are decent, good, or even great. But they're rarely for me.
mcastimovies Or it just looks like a bad movie...
mcastimovies I must be a bad feminist, cause I'm not one lol
mcastimovies I'm a terrible feminist, thank you very much.
mcastimovies So, instead of judging the movie based on the content, you want us to judge the movie based on the women? New flash, women can make awful movies too
mcastimovies This article is ridiculous
mcastimovies Captain Marvel ticket purchased Friday 1:45PM! Hesitate my ass!
mcastimovies Then call me out, IDGAF. I won’t go to a bad movie just because I’m a woman 🙄
mcastimovies If women don't all like the thing with a woman in it, they are bad. Not excited to see Sarah Huckabee Sanders' latest press conference? WOW, why do you hate women?
mcastimovies Yes Disney, guilt people into seeing your shitty movie. Anything for a dollar!
mcastimovies Discover! what makes her a hero. 👍
mcastimovies Yet another reason to boycott this train wreck. SJWs ruin everything.
mcastimovies This is why media is lame. Creating a problem before it's even a thing. And leave marvel alone progressives. You guys ruin everything you touch and I want to enjoy captain marvel.
mcastimovies LJL, so now you're a bad feminist, bigot, racist, orangemanbad supporter of you don't go see this (((Hollywood))) movie?
mcastimovies Lmfao. Call me out then... I'm not a feminist... I will not spend my money on this movie. Even before brie PR disaster the trailers did not look good.
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mcastimovies You could not pay me to watch a Brie Larson movie. Her moldy white bread acting literally makes me want to go into a coma.
mcastimovies I heard the movie is💩
mcastimovies Hahahahaha what a truly embarrassing article.
mcastimovies Next Hollywood will make a movie of a woman sitting on the toilet taking a crap for 2 hours, and all the feminists and SJWS will claim that anyone who doesn’t like it or who doesn’t want to see it is a “sexist, misogynist, manbaby, incel”.
mcastimovies People in this thread are completely misreading this headline and that's sad. The writer isn't calling anyone a bad feminist, they're saying that's what happening to others out there who simply don't have interest in the film. People are so dense these days.
mcastimovies Why the hell cant it just be a story instead of a political statement wrapped in peer pressure.
mcastimovies I'm about as feminist as they come. That does not mean I'll just accept and excuse any female led movie simply because it's female led.
mcastimovies I’m just not seeing it cause it looks super mediocre.
mcastimovies It’s just a movie seeing it won’t help the world
mcastimovies I’m old enough to remember people not going to see a film that looked like shit.
mcastimovies ? Lmao
mcastimovies Wow How many extra chromosomes do you people have?
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mcastimovies Hollywood and journalists ruin everything
mcastimovies What the fuck is going on
mcastimovies If you don’t want to be called out by the radical braindead feminist...just watch the bootleg, you can bypass the feminist w menstrual fluid painted on their faces...although I’d lick her face...to show I’m just as deranged as her 🤷🏿♂️
mcastimovies What a stupid take this is
mcastimovies Read: 'Not supporting and accepting our twisting and contorting of your mores makes you bad. Be gone, outcast!' How these pussy-hat, weak-ass 'princesses' became the voice of feminism is beyond reason. Thx for setting us back 30 years. CaptainMarvel
mcastimovies The old saying “Bad press is better than no press” no longer applies. BoycottHollywood
mcastimovies if Captain Marvel's is feminism then count me out.
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mcastimovies “Bad feminist”—no higher compliment.
mcastimovies One need to watch the the Wired 'web's most searched' for Antman 2 and then Captain Marvel's. The difference in their ratio of likes to dislikes is baffling. Ouch.
mcastimovies This is because people are stupid.
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mcastimovies Considering the source of Marvel and CEO Isaac Perlmutter being a Trumpian manipulative pig. I seriously doubt this movie is good for feminism. I refuse to support Marvel because of he's such a close dear friend to Dumb Donald.
mcastimovies Kill the social justice-industrial complex before it's too late.
mcastimovies Washington post has gone full blown stupid!!
mcastimovies Brie Larson:film isn't for white men and I dont care what they think, but who does she think makes up the majority of comic book movie fans?She probably should have cleared her stupid statements with the producers first.Women don't and won't ever watch comic book movies en masse
mcastimovies Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
TrentBrodymike mcastimovies Not wanting to give money to a soulless media empire is problematic
mcastimovies Hopefully when the Covington kiddo owns this rag, he'll insist on better articles.
mcastimovies Delirious
mcastimovies What the shit is this shit
mcastimovies Uhg stop feeding this freaking narrative.
mcastimovies Wonder who the first person will be to tell Brie Larson that she really isn’t a super hero. She just plays make believe for a living.
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mcastimovies Good enough reason to stand on my own two feet and choose to not watch it. I’m to the point that approval from that group would cause me to be concerned for my ability to stand up and respect/honor women.
mcastimovies Adult cartoons.
mcastimovies That ain't it.
mcastimovies Isn't Captain Marvel a Man? Why dose it have to have a sex change just to placate fembians? Can't they create their own super hero? Or do they just need something new to bitch & wet their panties over?
mcastimovies Oh. Not The Onion lol
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mcastimovies Imagine spending $100m+ to make a movie then destroying revenue with woke feminist advertising? Who would invest in Marvel shares after this clusterfuck?
mcastimovies It’s their own profits they’re going to be missing out on. What I say in situations like this, “F*ck em”.
mcastimovies Screw Hollywood
mcastimovies I guess lesbians like it, but she is everything what a real woman not. A manly woman? Is the other half of a lesbian couple...
mcastimovies Se llama Organismo Hiperoxigenado Hipervitaminado .......Muerto.
mcastimovies Cool, send me $20 and I'll go see it.
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mcastimovies I was hesitating because it looks like a bad movie, but ok.
mcastimovies solid ratio.
mcastimovies The Bezos Post gets worse day by day.
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mcastimovies Captain Marvel is a dude.
mcastimovies Just here for the ratio.
mcastimovies This is the predicted take that everyone said wouldn’t be taken.
mcastimovies Seriously have we time warped or something? There have been so many strong female characters in sci-fi/fantasy alone since I was a kid, I don't get all the hype about this movie.
mcastimovies Good or bad I have no interest in see this. Take a page from Laura Croft, give your female/poc lead, their own story w/o treading upon existing character by changing their gender/sexuality/skin color. & don’t F up the story like Disney did w/ Ray in Star Trek
mcastimovies how stupid
mcastimovies So we’re being shamed into seeing movies now?
mcastimovies Feminist: What if you hate comic book movies? Or the actress playing her? Or you don’t have $20 to waste? : You must not care about women.
mcastimovies And if you don't participate on Wednesdays youre out the club too.
mcastimovies You must be a bad feminist if you think Captain Marvel is a good feminist film.
mcastimovies When you try to force people how to feel and think. Smh.
mcastimovies Y'all need to read the article because mcastimovies is correct about how dumb this whole fight is
mcastimovies They're trying to make this the 'Black Panther' for women. Except there's nothing novel about a female superhero, and people have proven that they can happily embrace a female superhero movie, Wonder Woman, without all the virtue singaling PR.
mcastimovies Captain Marvel is a man not a woman! End toxic feminism! WAPOOP!!💩💩
mcastimovies I've not seen ANY of these comic book movies of the past 10-15 years. Does that make me a bad feminist? Am I a misandrist, because most star men? Am I racist, because I haven't seen Black Panther? Help me, I've lost my identity politics intersectionality decoder ring!!!
mcastimovies I'm not any type of feminist and I sure as hell am not going to see the movie.
mcastimovies WTF is this stupid take. Movies are supposed to be fun not as an excuse to show your pride in immutable characteristics.
mcastimovies So many rules to live by!!!!!
mcastimovies So tired of Marvel at this point lol
mcastimovies Perspective: Maybe enough with all the intersectional, SJW crap and let people go, or not go, to a movie and enjoy it, or hate it, on their own.
mcastimovies I already don't care for superhero movies, and this makes me want to watch them even less.
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mcastimovies I think 'Wonder Woman' can give her a run...😀
mcastimovies I’m not watching this she has a great idea of the way things should be but it just comes out completely wrong. Some people should stay away from politics and all debates
mcastimovies If you don't go see Captain Marvel you're clearly a Kree imperialist hell bent on Earth's destruction, not too mention an anti-feminist to boot.
mcastimovies I never liked Captain Marvel even when I read comic books. Why start now?
mcastimovies Yes, guilt trip your audience.
mcastimovies lol what even is this
mcastimovies I'm never going to watch it, so I hope that makes me a terrible feminist.
mcastimovies Crap. In this case feminism is overrated
mcastimovies i heard this movie sucks.....
mcastimovies RIP 'movies are supposed to be fun'
mcastimovies Is that a joke head line ?
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mcastimovies Those sexist *checks notes* women?
mcastimovies Once again our Washington media is focused on the real issues.
mcastimovies Asking for a friend: is it possible to talk about the mediocrity of yet another super hero movie without being misogynistic? LadyIsSuper IlhanMN AIPAC
mcastimovies So, if they don’t wanna see a potentially horrible movie, just shame them into it. Kinda like liberalism as a whole Drunk_Deniro
mcastimovies Good lord can I just go to a MCU movie and enjoy it
mcastimovies What if I just don't like capeshit movies anymore? Is moving past rabid consumerism also bad feminism?
mcastimovies You guys really have a discretionary budget for garbage nonsense huh
mcastimovies Then I am a bad feminist. Not interested. (Nor in the target demo)
mcastimovies Oh crap! The Hottakes™ are infecting the WoPo entertainment analysis now!
mcastimovies Are you freaking kidding me?
mcastimovies remember when women were allowed to be in movies without it being a political movement
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