{"id":56657,"date":"2019-03-08T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56657"},"modified":"2019-03-08T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:07:44","slug":"captain-marvel-is-a-dispiriting-adventure-says-rashid-irani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/captain-marvel-is-a-dispiriting-adventure-says-rashid-irani\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Marvel is a dispiriting adventure, says Rashid Irani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the Marvel studio\u2019s first standalone female-fronted superhero flick, and that\u2019s more or less the most exciting thing about it. It\u2019s also the first Marvel movie to be directed by a woman, Anna Boden, albeit in collaboration with her longtime partner Ryan Fleck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost everything else about Captain Marvel tends towards the sub-standard, from the special effects to the action sequences, the scattershot storytelling and the slapstick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a lengthy opening segment set on an alien planet, the titular spacefarer whose DNA has accidentally fused with those of extraterrestrials crash-lands on Earth , circa the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In quick succession, Captain Marvel aka former test pilot Carol Danvers encounters the fledgling SHIELD supremo , strives to assemble the pieces of the puzzle which left her an amnesiac, and gets caught up in a war between rival intergalactic factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers may need superhuman abilities of their own in order to keep track of the diverse plot strands. A potpourri of secondary characters, including a duplicitous mentor-warrior and an omnipotent scientist flit in and out, making it impossible to care about any of them. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Marvel studio\u2019s first standalone female-fronted superhero flick, and that\u2019s more or less the most exciting thing about it. It\u2019s also the first Marvel movie to be directed by a woman, Anna Boden, albeit in collaboration with her longtime partner Ryan Fleck. Almost everything else about Captain Marvel tends towards the sub-standard, from [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56659,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions\/56659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}