The Marvels could have benefited from an extra 10-20 minutes
The Marvels is firmly middle of the pack for post endgame MCU films imo. I liked it much more than I expected, but there are 2 main things that could have elevated it further for me.
1: Darbin and Captain Marvel. She's your typical one-note villain, but there was a huge missed opportunity.
During the fight when she gets impaled, there's a half hearted attempt at a heart-to-heart with her...and this would have been more impactful if we had taken a moment earlier in the film to give her some backstory development. Her and Vers could have known eachother on Halla prior to the first Captain Marvel film. We should have established that they once had a friendship, before all the problems.
This would have doubled in giving Brie Larson some more needed screentime in her own movie. The movie even has a mechanism for revisiting memories that could have been used to facilitate this. Which could have further added to tension if Kamala and Monica had discovered via the memory device Carole and Darbin's past rather than just being told about it later. Which would have also given more screentime for dynamics between the 3 leads, which was the best part of the film already.
2: The musical planet. My initial thought after the "bi-lingual" joke was "oh good, that could have worn itself out really fast"...but that's only because the film seemed afraid to properly commit to it. It didn't need to be a full on musical, but there was a massive missed opportunity with the following battle.
Even on earth, drummers and music were important in ancient warfare. A planet that communicates through music surely should have incorporated this into their battle strategy, Imagine that amongst the soldiers, you also had a choir that was orchestrating the battle. With attacks coming in waves to the tempo of the music. This could have been a very stunning and memorable battle amongst MCU films. But it seemed that by this point the film kinda just forgot about where we were and had fully abandoned the concept.
Thoughts?
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