Captain Marvel vs Alita

I have the movie review here, the unreliable score from Rotten Tomatoes. Now analyzing both movies in an equal perspective, I'm checking their reviews given in Rotten Tomatoes

Captain Marvel

The Positives...

The girl power (and grrl power) ring out loud and clear, if a bit hollow.

Without making a fuss, it's a movie about regaining oneself and one's values in a universe where the boys are busy fighting.

The film looks great on an IMAX screen, Larson is sublime and the fantastical plot is buoyed throughout with lots of good-natured humour - reason enough to wish a return engagement for Captain Marvel.

Captain Marvel is such a welcome and appealing addition to the Marvel universe that I wish she could be added, retroactively, to all of the extant "Avengers" movies.

Larson can turn a moment as slight as walking into frame and blowing a strand of hair out of her face into an uproarious, powerful visual beat.

At full strength... Captain Marvel is a goddess emitting her own light - an astral version of Liberty at the battlements, sublime and terrifying.

"You could ding it for convoluted plotting and a retro style that flattens the usual Marvel fireworks. But a dynamite Brie Larson gives hell to cosmic villains and sexist trolls. And an orange feline named Goose is the best movie cat ever!"

And The Negatives...

This woman is a candidate for genuine heroism. Yet there's a fundamental dissonance between the depth of her plight and the shallow disorganization of the script...

Bizarrely, Captain Marvel is less interested in fleshing out its own hero than it is in filling in the blanks of the MCU.

This plays like the kind of generic comic book movie that was in vogue 15 years ago

In the grand scheme of the Marvel Universe, however, "Captain Marvel" feels like a supporting player, not a featured attraction.

Good thing it's still March. "Captain Marvel" would have made a weak start to the summer blockbuster season.

Only the most dedicated Marvel fans will follow this Captain.

Neither a blast from the past, nor an inspiring glimpse into the future, at the end of the day it's just another Marvel movie. And not a particularly good one, at that

Alita: Battle Angel

The Positives...

It's goofy as hell and borderline inexcusable at times, but it's also kind of glorious.

True to its origins, Alita is a living cartoon of a film, which only makes its ridiculousness easier to absorb.

Watching "Alita: Battle Angel," the eye-popping, groundbreaking, visually dazzling stunner from Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron, you can feel the ground beneath you shifting.

The results are what one might expect from two nerd gods of filmmaking: a visually stunning computer-generated heroine, impressive futuristic world-building, and some seriously neat action scenes

The film crams in so many plot lines that it risks being overstuffed but somehow stays true to its mesmerizing vision and emerges as a sci-fi success, if not a triumph.

And The Negatives...

It suffers because like most of the Cameron stories, its not a deep story and unfortunately the special effects are really strong, but they are not revolutionary.

I loved watching this sci-fi spectacle's moving parts. I just couldn't get past its brain.

Attending the movies should not come with homework assignments, and if a film only works if you study its backstory in advance, there is something terribly wrong.

Ultimately, "Alita" seeks to create a semi-immersive experience (the 3D is impressive), but in the process plays like more like a video game than a movie, which is fine for about all of 10 minutes.

For all of Alita's she-Pinocchio charm - and her Cameronian estrogen-charged badass-itude - she can't quite carry the audience all the way across that pesky uncanny valley

Without a follow-up, the character's story will be left incomplete - another example of filmmakers whose hubris about the inevitability of sequels will likely leave fans high and dry.

Conclusion

Alita: Battle Angel looked like it was 5/10 based on its description of the movie in the ratings, even though Alita got 59% in Rotten Tomatoes.

Captain Marvel also looked like it was 5/10 based on its description of the movie in the ratings, even though Captain Marvel got 79% in Rotten Tomatoes.

Right now, I'm not actually comparing the movies Captain Marvel and Alita, that's up to the viewer. I'm just trying to prove a point about how people, especially youngsters, can get attracted to bad movies because of Faulty Rating Sites like Rotten Tomatoes because of the binary system. A binary system is fine in cases like Netflix, because you are generating your own personal choices for yourself. And in Netflix, you are doing that based on what you like and dislike, to generate choices from Netflix based on those likes and dislikes (similar to Spotify).

But in the case of a review site, you need a middle ground in ratings, a gray area which says that you don't like it or dislike it. Metacritic actually has a gray area, colored in yellow. This is actually the right method, though I can't be justifiable for Metacritic. The ternary logic rating system is the proper one. Like the title song in Malcolm in the Middle, "Yes, No, Maybe..."

Rotten Tomatoes have so far been afraid of ***king with Disney.

Anyways, let's enjoy Alita since user reviews suggest a good review. Captain Marvel could be good, but I've seen the movie Room and I think Brie Larson might have been the wrong choice as the lead. She's a great actress, Oscar worthy even. But her role was more related to psychological trauma. I know this because she wasn't a good choice in Kong: Skull Island. She is good for more serious roles. She would be a good choice for DC Movies though, for example Birds of Prey.

Also, many movies start off with trolls and recover, but the audience scores of Captain Marvel isn't recovering that well, so I think you can no longer blame the trolls.

That's it for now, SkateLane Booting Out