Captain Marvel - Off-Screen Brie Larson will Make You Question the Fate of the MCU

*Image taken from Wikipedia.
As you might have guessed, I have some problems with Brie Larson. Captain Marvel was fine - no match though to Black Panther, or the likes of Iron Man, Doctor Strange, or Spider-Man Homecoming. It wasn't the worst solo movie, nor the best, resting in the safe middle where the majority of the solo films find themselves. Breaking records has to do more with the feminist side than the actual plot or acting, because while Captain Marvel should have by all means been epic, Brie Larson is too dry of an actress, no amount of superpowers saving her from appearing dull.
Nick Fury and the birth of the Avengers are the real stars, as well as the hope for having Skrulls secretly hidden in the MCU all this time; have Loki turn out to be a Skrull, if it means we get Loki back!
Basically, Captain Marvel also got her powers from the tesseract / space stone. Nick Fury names the Avengers after her. Project Pegasus links back to here. And Fury lost his eye to a cat; while cute and comedic, I think it should have been in an epic showdown, but then again, it does further tie Captain Marvel to the Avengers.
If you haven't seen Captain Marvel, maybe do because it is her intro movie, and to get the MCU goodies hidden throughout the movie, but it isn't a great must-see film. The end credits show Captain Marvel coming back, having been paged by Fury in the Endgame end credit, and Goose the cat coughing up the tesseract, for we know that Fury has a hold of it in Phase 1, and he isn't shown pulling it out of a cat then.
While I get that being a woman of color myself is different from a white woman, as Captain Marvel, she was too dry, despite everything that was going on. And Brie Larson doesn't help; feminism wants equality between men and women. It's when women take it to the next level to put themselves above men that it becomes toxic. Hence, I completely get the bad reviews that spilled out afterwards, not the trolls, but others who, like me, are affected by how Brie Larson treats the rest of the cast, as well as her dry acting. Hopefully, this won't be an issue in Endgame. Can't wait for tomorrow! Not even Brie Larson can ruin this for me!

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