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Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors is a sweet superhero tale where, yes, a group of younger heroes come together to battle an extremist group. But more importantly than that, it's a superhero tale with diversity oozing out of every animated frame.
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Ms. Marvel, who idolizes Captain Marvel and is inspired by her, instead leads the Secret Warriors movie, showcasing her origin tale, her relationship with her mother and her struggle for acceptance in a culture that is adverse to the creation of the Inhumans -- the latter being people who gain superpowers after getting into contact with a gas substance called Terrigen Mists.What Secret Warriors is doing particularly well is that it isn't shying away from its focus on diversity in any part of its plot. In particular, the storyline aims at a brewing conflict between humans and an extremist group of Inhumans, the latter believing that a war between the two groups is inevitable. Khan ends up stuck in the middle, as an Inhuman herself who doesn't believe the conflict is needed.
Another refreshing carryover from Marvel comics is America Chavez. Her origin story, which sees Chavez's two mothers sacrificing themselves to protect their daughter, remains completely intact and sympathetic. Chavez herself demonstrates herself as a formidable ally, having super strength and the ability to fly. It's a nice start for LGBT representation on the animated side of the Marvel universe for now.
Wasn't Captain Marvel a man?
(Score: 2) by schad on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:55PM (1 child)
I think we're going to see a greater split between "popcorn movies" and "good movies" as time goes on, with only the former surviving in big multi-screen theaters. The latter will end up on those single-screen specialty theaters, or simply go direct to e.g. Netflix or Amazon. (Didn't Annihilation go direct to Netflix everywhere except the US?) There's just not a big enough market for "good movies" to show them in cinema multiplexes.
Personally, as long as those "good movies" keep getting made and I can watch them reasonably cost-effectively and conveniently, I'm OK with this. I think that "good movies" do better in a smaller environment anyway; I think I watched Ex Machina on my computer with headphones, and I can't imagine what it would be like in a big movie theater. Suffice it to say that I don't think the theater would've contributed positively to the experience. But on the other hand, a movie like Disney's Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War 2: Part 7: Electric Boogaloo? That benefits from being in a theater, and the constant stream of explosions and witty banter will drown out the noises your fellow movie-goers are making. And if you have to pee because you drank that entire 128oz soda? No worries. The plot is so simple that missing 5 minutes of the movie is no big deal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:32PM
Well "good movies" have always been a problematic designation.
I have long observed that whenever some movie critic pans something as being low brow, it will show up as the new blockbuster.
Then again there is also a long long history of "direct to rental/sale" movies. Hell, some of the most acclaimed anime series are OVAs, or Original Video Anime. Meaning that they were released directly to VHS back in the day, rather than cinema or TV. Yet there have been produced crazy things like 110 episode scifi epics that way.
Sadly what seems to be going on is that some variant of the "movie" critic seems to be taking over the "social" world by abusing the internet to produce outrage mobs.