Unlikable characters played by unlikable actresses who are fighting each other behind the scenes. doesn't that scream success to you?

The physical standards between men and women in the MCU are actually hilarious now. On one side you've got Chris Hemsworth, a guy with godlike genetics, juiced to the gills, and the other you've got... Florence Pugh, who looks like the fourth cutest girl at my local Pet Smart.

I was on an international flight with absolutely nothing to do. I turned on Thor 4 and after 5 minutes I had to turn it off because staring into the void for the next 8 hours was so much more appealing. Thank you MCU.

If you look at the classic franchises with strong female characters that I grew up/came up with (Wonder Woman, Bionic Woman, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Buffy) you immediately notice two things. 1) The men in their lives tend to be strong, not weak. 2) They themselves are flawed and therefore relatable. And they were awesome and men loved them.

Agreed. I never once felt that Black Widow was any less of a strong and important character than any other Avenger. In fact, in many ways, she was actually stronger, in that she didn't necessarily have "super" powers, but relied on her wits and athletic ability. And, if I recall, she was the only one on the team that could actually control the Hulk. And that was all a result of good quality and balanced writing. They didn't have to shit on Thor or Iron Man, for example, just to make her look better. I just don't understand where this, "anything you can do I can do better" female empowerment nonsense came from... she could hang with anyone on that team.

The ONLY reason the first Captain Marvel made the money it did was because it was riding on the high waves of Infinity War and Marvel made it seem like it was essential viewing going into Endgame. Audiences know better now.

EXACTLY. I am a 48 year old woman who loves StarWars. Haven't cared anything for it in years since Disney ruined it for me. I love strong men. I don't often watch women lead role films. These people hate men. That is why they are emasculating our most beloved heros.

The behind the scenes story of Raul Julia in Street Fighter is kind of bittersweet. While the movie was crap and he overacted the hell out of the role, he accepted it because his son was a massive fan of the game. He was also at the latter stages of his disease when the movie was shot. And still was able to give is all into that version of M. Bison.

Katie Sackhoff could have said Larson's lines in Captain Marvel, line for line, and she would have been a more likeable, more relatable character.

Captain Marvel is so popular that she needed 2 POCs as protection

Chris is absolutely correct. When I was in school, the teacher would sometimes talk about going to see Marvel movies just for Hemsworth and a ton of the female students agreed.

He was not only doing his best in street fighter he was damnedly dying of stomach cancer and was in pain nearly the whole time.

I will summarize my attitude by borrowing the wise words of Vee: "I can remain disinterested longer than MCU/Disney can remain solvent."

Ages ago, Michael Caine said on The Tonight Show there were two reasons he agreed to do Jaws: The Revenge: First, and foremost, he wanted to buy a house in America, and that role provided the cash. Second, it was work. Regardless how bad the film, it was valuable experience he could capitalize on in later, better projects. Perhaps Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas signed on to M-She-U projects for similar reasons.

The scene in the first avengers movie where banner hulks out and natasha runs for her life would look very different if filmed these days. She'd probably kick his backside

Funny how they seem to have recorded this just before the news came out about how Brie Larson is causing drama on the set and being toxic because the movie isn't called Captain Marvel 2 and focused on her. Really proves everything they said about how unlikable she is and how Marvel kind of screwed themselves by casting her. Always nice when your opinion is almost instantly proved to be correct.

It's no accident that they moved this movie to being released during the middle of the holiday season, where most people will have a lot of things going on in their lives and this movie can fly under the radar more, as opposed to being released in the middle of summer right before Comic Con where everybody will be hyperfocused on it.

My mom loves Thor when I told her he was being replaced by female Thor she said she won’t watch it lol.

"Why do they denigrate men to elevate women?" Well, the short answer is old-fashioned bitterness. The women that never got selected and rejected by men they wanted tend to be the ones who scream the loudest and write these things.

They can call it "The Marvelettes". When "serious" veteran Latino actor A. Martinez was added to 80s legal drama L.A. Law they introduced his character during the episode set during the LA Riots. He gets caught in a scuffle in the streets and naturally rips his dress shirt and jacket then ends up arriving at the upscale highrise lawfirm shirtless. Susan Dey gets to oggle him all warm and thirsty. They been doing that for a while.

You're right about women being drawn to movies with attractive male characters. Also if you look at movies made for and by women and popular with women you'll notice trends like love triangles, emotional drama, the female main character being beautiful and having beautiful clothes, the female main character being rescued at some point, etc...the stoic, butch Strong Female Character isn't appealing to most women, it's still a male fantasy, just a fantasy for male "feminists" with a girlboss kink.

A tv show pre-2012 called Earth’s Mightiest Heroes depicted Carol really well. She was Ms. Marvel, but they made her an actual likable character with flaws

"How did it come to this? I played Richard the Third" - Alan Rickman, _Galaxy Quest_ Of course Disney doesn't use its proper actors properly.

The fact that we got the M Power trailer before the The Marvels says a lot.

Raul Julia made Street Fighter great (or meme-able at least) by going out there and chewing the scenery to an unholy degree.

The original Carol Danvers, i.e. Ms. Marvel, was in fact a VERY likeable and complex character. It is tragic that someone decided she needed to become the smug and completely un-relatable person she is as the modern Captain Marvel. One more instance of fixing something that was fine to begin with.

A movie that is marketed as starring "strong, independent women" characters is a red flag. They're obviously not focusing on storytelling. What Hollywood considers "strong and independent", is what the rest of us consider bossily overbearing, needlessly contemptuous, and insufferably smug. There have always been strong, female characters in movies and TV shows in pre-woke times, but Hollywood cannot acknowledge that. They have a very narrow-minded definition of what "strong women" are supposed to be. The unspoken part is that the male characters have to be correspondingly weak and pathetic. Women do not respect weak and pathetic men. We like strong men, and strong women, and we like that they can work together to defeat a common enemy, and achieve a common goal. I look forward to a video of the production hell that this movie almost certainly is. I also look forward to each of your reviews of the actual movie!

Realistically, people making movies now need to STOP with the press junkets. That's what is killing the majority of these movies these days. D&D is the absolute perfect example of this. When the trailer first dropped people were actually very interested in this because it looked like it was trying to stay reasonably faithful to aspects of the source material. Now with the press they've been doing for it, opinion for the movie has absolutely tanked before it's even hit the theaters. We're seeing this time and again with tv and movies, where the production team and actors go on press tours make these grandiose statements about it being so powerful for political or social party X, or that it's so "empowering" for minority group Y... no one CARES about that. People just want good entertainment and they don't want that entertainment to be overshadowed by the agenda you're actively pushing as hard as you can before the damn thing is even released. Look at the super successful movies from 15-20 years ago. The press tours that those productions had involved the team saying they thought they made a great movie, the stars saying the same thing and how much fun it was to work on, and that was IT. They didn't talking about "women shattering the glass ceiling" or how their movie was going to be a statement of some kind for some political or social group that is pretending they're oh so oppressed these days. They damn sure didn't call their audiences racists, sexist, homophobic, etc if they chose not to see it. Honestly, that more than anything is what is killing the entertainment industry, the fact that for the last 5-10 years Hollywood has forgotten their in the business of entertaining and now seem to think it's all about social engineering for what THEY think everything should be.

When most of your actresses are people nobody likes that is when they need to start asking themselves different real-world questions. These women are not held accountable for the evil they do on screen. I think they know what they are doing, that's the point, it's the principle of the thing in an actual war against society. Money doesn't matter, even if it negatively impacts their personae, it still feeds the ego and agenda.

If the Marvels take theirs shirts off it may have a chance.

I read that Bree Larson is pissed that it’s not named captain marvel 2. Lmao

She literally advocated herself out of her own movie an now shes mad. Welcome to 2023 peeps lol

Being old school female (-gasp- yeah, boo me) I'd rather watch the original Sarah Connor in T1/2 than any Marvel Messenger. And strong noble men of course.

I saw that Ghosted trailer as an ad on KZfaq and rolled my eyes at the romcom opening, but then it got in to him going abroad to find her and being knocked out and tortured. That piqued my interest...until his girlfriend came in and kicked everyone's ass and he looks on in total amazement. It was then I pressed the skip ad button.

If you have to lower someone else to be on their level then you inherently never will be on their level. They’re insulting themselves without noticing it.

Woman here: I got attracted to the MCU, primarly because of Loki. Stayed because of Loki, Thor, Tony Stark, Cap America, Bucky Barnes... once they are out, I'm out too, because the ones replacing them are just insufferable and the women fromt he first phases have been twisted and nerfed to no end (I can't get over what they did to Jane foster). So yeah, I'm out.

One thing that I wonder if Marvel ever aware or think twice about (and Mauler used to say about it in his Multiverse of Madness video as well) Monica Rambeau let Wanda off the hook by saying “They will never know what you sacrificed for them.” After that, Wanda managed to kill Captain Marvel who was Maria Rambeau in the alternate universe. Which means, thanks to Monica’s willful ignorance, she accidentally helped Wanda kill her own mother (albeit from different universe) which is fine if it’s portrayed the same way as Peter Parker indirectly caused Uncle Ben to die because he didn’t catch the thief beforehand, “with great power comes great responsibility” stuff, but I doubt Marvel will hold Monica responsible for this.

It’s crazy as you get older, you just see and accept the general differences between men and women, it seems like a lot of these writers haven’t thought about that kind of stuff anymore whether they believe in traditional roles/personalities/traits or not. Edit: also what oppression have these women faced? I’m not doubting it, I just want to hear their personal, real experiences that they use as fuel for their stories

When I hear Captain Marvel all I think about is Rings of power Galadriel saying "you have not seen what I have seen." Ugh.

Remember when people complained that Michael Burnham in Star Trek Discovery was like a plank of wood and unbelievably boring? Then in subsequent seasons they over compensated by making her an over emotional weirdo who cried constantly? That's what we are going to get from Brie Larson I guarantee it. From all the criticism she received, and all the talk about this being a funny goofy movie, and her cameo in Ms Marvel, she will be giving 200% in terms of wacky comedy. So instead of the cliched "raised eyebrow condescending smirk" being her only emotion she will play it with crazy eyes and lots of confused head tilts. So you will get a character that is totally unlike her previous portrayals (like Thor) and even the people who liked Captain Marvel (the movie) to some degree will hate it.

Everyone is missing the point. This is a monumentous moment in history. I, for one, will be there. I will be in theaters. 10yrs from now, I can say: "Hey! I was there! I saw The Marvels! I sat in that theater, alone. And I survived. I survived the biggest flop in Superhero movie history!"

I've loved Katee Sackhoff since Battlestar Galactica, which was a fantastic example of a great reboot that honored the material. She would have been a great Captain Marvel. She has this charming tomboy charisma. Brie, while a good actress, is like a brick onscreen.

Watched the trailer for Ghosted, I’m looking forward to the ending when Chris Evans gives birth to their baby.

Raul Julia did street fighter as a gift to his children who loved the games. He knew it was shit but he wanted to give them a gift before he passed. Rip Raul Julia

"Maybe the writing standards are not that good." Understatement of all time. Merry Marvel marching society from the beginning, you cd not pay me to watch an MCU movie or show today. Never, no matter who is in it

Should have cast Yvonne Strahovski instead of stinky cheese.

Humans enjoy looking at other humans they are attracted to, and nothing is going to change that.

Modern day marvel is a prime example of EVERYTHING that's wrong with today's movie studios.

The Critical Drinker video on The Marvels is going to be epic!

I'm ready for the cast and execs to hurl insults at the ppl who don't like the show. You know it's coming.

as a woman i like my super heroines being girly pretty and strong ... and tells you why Wonder woman was so popular; apretty woman badass showing femininity and as girl we think wow she is so pretty and classy and badass and even guys think she is cool in her movement sets but also think she is pretty too also why Harley queen from the movies was so popular among girls too she was femenine in her own way and pretty

How dare he portray Raul Julia’s performance as Bison in any way shape or form as a negative?!? 😂 he acted the MESS out of that role and it’s almost as memorable as his iconic performance as Gomez Addams. “For me, it was Tuesday.” It still makes me sad that he was originally cast as Don Diego De La Vega in The Mask of Zorro, not that Sir Anthony Hopkins was a downgrade, but I lament was Señor Julia would have done in the role. For Raul, vaya con Dios 🙏🏽

I think they're playing that scam from The Producers in real life. Why else would you do things to tank your film before it even comes out, if not to justify the failure to your investors?

The bigger trainsmash is currently filming and that's Daredevil. With legacy characters being removed or recast and if Disney does not land this with the budget it's getting compared to the Netflix shows. Netflix will always be able to say we can do your IP better than you can.

They really should have Rogue take her powers so we can get a proper Rogue (unlike the xmen movies) and get rid of Bree Larson at the same time.

I think it’s very possible that men and women don’t consume entertainment the same way. Men seem to watch movies in an aspirational way, so they like having role models (ideally male ones because they’re more relatable). But women seem to movies in the interest of emotional gratification, so they like stories that feature men most of the time because that’s what we’re attracted to.

Casting Brie Larson one of the most unlikeable women in Hollywood who luckily got an Oscar as one of the most charming likeable charismatic and powerful women in all of Marvel comics (back when Stan still wrote her) was Disney’s biggest mistake I think Chris nailed it on the head with Katie Sackhoff

You are right that women in general adore strong men and are most likely to watch movies with strong men in it and don't care about strong women. Look at 50 Shades of Grey. A story about a rich and handsome man that was dominating a submissive woman and the movie was a hit with women. Or the anime Redo of Healer. About a man going on a quest to "grape" and enslave the women that abused him. That was also a hit with female fans...

Couple reasons why they denigrate men to 'uplift' women (if that's what you wanna call it). 1) They are bad writers. Simple. 2) They are writers who have an agenda, which includes their own biased senses of pettiness and vindictiveness. It is the idea of fighting a fire with fire, except there isn't a fire, so all they've done is start one themselves. They've bought into their own propaganda and are now the very thing they pretend to fight against. Tony Stark had a whole host of personality faults. Thor did, as well. Brash, egocentric, greedy, vain, etc. Thing is, these personality faults were obviously bad things. The characters had to learn to recognize them and grow out of them (they grew more mature, they were less head-strong, they cooperated more... and when they didn't, like with Ultron, we saw consequences). With the current writing, however, those faults we all accepted as, well, FAULTS, are propped up as positives for the female characters. Being brash, egocentric, greedy, vain, etc... well hell, that's now YAS QUEEN GURL BOSS! material and they cheer it. This is them 'fighting fire with fire'. That's them becoming the very thing they despised, as well as not recognizing that in storytelling, good characters have faults that they have to contend with by overcoming them, changing, or failing and suffering consequences. And guess what we see with the current writing? BAD characters. Poor motivations, over-powered and who learn and earn nothing, people who don't grow or recognize their own faults. Characters with faults who are portrayed as role models FOR those faults rather than characters being role models for reconciling their faults. In a sense, the strung out drug addict isn't a role model. The FORMERLY strung out drug addict is. Why? Because they grew. That's overcoming adversity, whether internal or external. That's the hero. The drug addict who starts off as an addict and dies an addict, but snaps their finger and says, "Look at me! I never changed! How awesome is that!?" is just static. Pointless, uninteresting, a poor example of humanity's ability to grow or, if the medium were trying to be contrarian, that we can also fall. (Certainly plenty of stories out there about someone who had it all and lost it...they're called cautionary tales). But they don't want cautionary tales. They want women to have always been awesome (but victims), to currently be awesome (despite never earning it), and ending even more awesome (because, that's 'growth' to them).

Funny aspect of this too….when CM came out, it was literally at the peak popularity and cash flow of Marvel. They had the money to buy up theater space if they truly felt like they needed to in order to avoid the embarrassment. They sure as hell don’t now.

5:30 "Chris Pine was happy to do it" -- Have you heard the one about the time an Aeroflot flight had been delayed for several hours? Impatient passengers were demanding to know what was happening, and it was finally explained: "The pilot refuses to fly the plane because he doesn't believe it's airworthy." "Oh, so we're waiting for the mechanic?" "What?! No! We're waiting for the new pilot." (True story. Source: my first wife was Russian.)

That's too bad about Chris Pine. He was amazing in Hell or High Water.

A woman so strong she killed the entire Marvel franchise.

One movie character who received mixed lukewarm to negative reception, along with a chubby teen who has only been in a TV series most folk didn't watch, and a supporting character from another TV show. Yeah I don't see this tempting people in in any way. This is a major problem Marvel has where they think that every supporting character and z-list comic character has the potential to be an amazing box office draw for people. Seriously, you have actors and characters like this going up against films with Tom Cruise?

Audrey Hepburn had US size 10.5 feet and was insecure about them. Brie Larson: US size 9. I think that Hepburn was only a fraction of an inch taller than Larson is. Beauty depends a lot on personality, and physical quirks can be endearing in someone you really like…

To be fair they haven't done a good job promoting Brie, if that was something they wanted to do. She had her one movie, a cameo in Endgame, and a few sub-cameo appearances throughout Phase 4. Like... idk what they were expecting.

A movie starring B and C-list actresses playing utterly unknown superheroes. Marvel™'s assisted suicide plans are going very well, I see.

The craziest thing i learned recently is that Jessica Gao (She-Hulk writer) wrote the Rick and Morty 'Pickler Rick' episode. Unrelated to the video, but you know. Thats how it is sometimes

Let me say this about Brie Larson, she's a talented actress who's done a great range of movie roles, Room, 12 Short Terms, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Kong Skull Island, the Spectacular Now, etc. If you watch her earlier interviews prior to Marvel, she came across perky and adorable, but somewhere between these two things, something changed. It could have been a double whammer of winning an Oscar, appearing in more commercial hit movies and nabbing a major role in the MCU, which I'm sure she was told would be the next Cap/Iron Man type of role. Also the SJW and MeToo movement boosted her ego and all that Captain Marvel press tour nonsense that unraveled

I know women who saw “Love and Thunder” explicitly to see naked Thor.

“Don’t they get paid less?” Gore from the top rope!

My sister is 6foot, 250lbs, fouled mouthed like a Sailor, drinks and Smokes heavily, and is just as quick to call a woman or a man a little bitch it a cunt, to their face. And she’s a leftist feminist, we like in Northern California. My point being, even She doesn’t identify with the women of Marvel because they’re unrealistic, my sister doesn’t see herself in those characters because men and women are a lot more alike than movies make you think. Like I’m Aliens, Ripley and Hicks are both Strong and Capable people thrust into a reluctant leadership position, and collaborate to escape, if they were both making shitty jokes at eachother they’d have died instantly. It’s kinda like the writers there at marvel currently have never been in or seen a hostile situation where people get really badly injured, so they can’t embody those aspects of a character, man or woman...

I hoped that the Dungeons and Dragons movie is just gonna be a meta-fest for DnD fans, as the trailor with "speak with the dead" indicated as it looked JUST like a Dungeon Master shitting around with his party and it fel genuine, so maybe they just say those stuff for free press of outrage? Because in DnD the point is the joke's on the classes of the characters. Since the power dinamic is dependant on that. I thought that Chris Pine's character is a joke not because he's a man but because HE'S A BARD, the heart of the party. Maybe he will be the heart. I'm going to see it anyway, mostly because of the meta-humour and that it can't be worse than the last DnD movie. And if it's shit, I still can just go and watch Vox Machina :'3

There's no treatment for insanity, until Disney is completely eviscerated and sold to be reorganized I'm fine with tuning into great creators like you and your peeps Drinker!!

Chris makes a very good point. All Marvel films were at one time written for men because of the action but was also had "sexy" men in them as eye candy for women. Today's "woke" Marvel films don't have anything to attract the men. At least not any me with self respect. Sure they put action in them but that's offset by the way that they treat the men as if they're compete idiots and can't do anything right.

At this point marvel studios have become a modern day bomb factory.

I’m glad that they didn’t wreck Katee Sackhoff by casting her as Captain Marvel, she’s pretty cool as Bo-Katan

honestly im the the most excited to see the Marvels movie, its going to be a glorious train wreck. The reactions are going to be glorious

I'm a female and this is my reaction to the Ghosted trailer At the beginning: oh cool a new Chris Evans movie 🤗 At the end: I understand that Chris Evans can't play Captain America type of characters all the time but fuck this shit, I don't want it! 🤮

“Three curtain calls!” -Galaxy Quest.

Marvel is so confident in The Marvels, they postponed it until the end of the year😁.

I'm just here to watch the dumpster fire burn. They did it to themselves.

I heard Vin brought Brie Larson on to the Fast and Furious and as soon as that happened Jeremy Wan, the man behind the camera for multiple projects, quit on the spot. She does sound harder and more trying to work with than most.

They did the same thing with Matthew Modine in Cutthroat Island back in 1995. It was the production company's last movie. And it pretty much killed Geena Davis' career. You'd think that they'd learn their lesson.

The horrible Ms Marvel show, the unlikeable Brie Larson, and a movie with a ton of reshoots? Yeah, that film is going to bomb hard.

The woke is strong with this one

Raul Julia knew exactly what kind of movie he was in when he did Street Fighter, and hammed it up like a pro.

I’m surprised they did it mention the supposed “hidden message” in the Marvels’ poster.

Kumail N complained how he got into such great marvel shape for his shirt off scene and then never got one (in eternals)

A Balance Story where both Men and female shine will always make a Great Movie.

I think the best thing about the marvels is going to be that if you ever need some alone time, you can go see this movie. There won't be another person in the theater and you can just listen to music on your headphones and relax.

The 7 dislikes is the cast

It's a drinker and I opened up the 7th circle of hell just for the hell of it.

I agree. Good actors are wasted in Hollywood.

It sounds like Chris Evans is actually playing his real-life self in the AppleTV show LOL! *The Marvels* won’t have a movie like *Endgame* looming to boost ticket sales. People saw *Captain Marvel* with the belief that it would strongly lead into *Endgame,* but that grace period is over now.

I have seen old interviews of Bri Larson, and she was such a charming lovely person. Maybe her ego got to big.

The key to real storytelling is not catering to either sex; male or female (biology rules, wokies drool), the key is to appeal to the attitudes of individuals, not a collective... The collective is ALWAYS the villain...

Chris Gore and the Drinker! What a great combo!

Had to go look up "prolapse", now I can't un-read it. Thanks, guys...

What if Captain Marvel's been a Skrull this whole time?