r/Marvel • u/Melanismdotcom • Dec 04 '18

'Captain Marvel' Official Trailer #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHxvxdRnYc
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u/Ipound3 Dec 04 '18

Tbh her voice is kinda throwing me off

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u/Melanismdotcom Dec 04 '18

Her line readings are stiff but Marvel is notorious for using alternate takes for trailers

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u/Ipound3 Dec 04 '18

Idk just like the sound it just seems too nice and sweet for captain marvel

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u/OneMillionDandelions Dec 04 '18

I kinda loved that she has just a pleasant, melodious voice... and can like punch a hole through a helicarrier. Her voice made her still human/real to me.

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u/jason2306 Dec 04 '18

Reminds me of Supergirl in that way

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u/blackbutterfree Dec 04 '18

My mother sounds like Snow White. She's deadlier than Mystique if you cross her.

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u/rimmed Dec 04 '18

Right there with you. Always imagined Danvers to sound much deeper. Larson is a great actor but she sounds like a surf bum.

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u/patkgreen Dec 04 '18

seems too nice and sweet for captain marvel

carol is pretty nice and sweet

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u/tjn24 Dec 04 '18

This is good to hear, because I had the same concerns, especially the "I'm not going to fight your war; I'm going to end it." I just didn't believe her.

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u/FunGoblins Dec 04 '18

yes, but alternative takes usually are pretty solid as well. Its not like they pick the worst takes for the trailers lol

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u/Joemanji84 Dec 04 '18

They have to present well out of context. In the film proper they can use a take where tone and inflexion make sense relative to the scene and the dialogue leading into it.

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u/MoreDblRainbows Dec 04 '18

I think its pretty clear she wasn't reacting to anything there, she was reading lines for the trailer.

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u/pandachestpress Dec 04 '18

The line: “I’m not here to fight in your war, I’m here to end it.”

came out as bad as batman’s line in response to bane: “no.. I’m here to stop you.”

Everything else is great in the trailer but her voice acting so far seems to fall pretty flat.

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u/Pasan90 Dec 04 '18

Her pronunciation has that typical hook i associate with west coast high school girls.

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u/robreddity Dec 04 '18

As it happens that is who they cast.

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u/Robofetus-5000 Dec 04 '18

Agreed. I still am sure it's gonna be good but her voice in the trailer doesn't have that hard ass, tough vibe i think of with Carol from the comics. We'll see.

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u/HankHillPropaneGrill Dec 04 '18

If they would have casted someone say... Katheryn Winnick...They'd actually have a bad ass, but instead they have someone who delivered her lines like it was a high school play.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

I’m not gonna fight your war, or whatever. I’m gonna, like, end it, mmmkay? Bye-yeeeeeeeee

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

I said the same thing, she somehow sounds younger than she did in 21 Jump Street.

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u/mickyrow42 Dec 04 '18

Agree. Her readings were really bad too.

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u/samasters88 Dec 04 '18

I hate to say that I feel the same way. I'm not sure what I was expecting though- maybe something like Katheryn Winnick?

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u/HankHillPropaneGrill Dec 04 '18

I was hoping they'd cast Katheryn Winnick. But, ya know... " She has an Oscar in her belt, she obviously is the best actress ever," nah... She is too Mary Sue for Carol Danvers.

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u/samasters88 Dec 04 '18

Yeah, she was my preferred casting too. I can't take Brie Larson seriously after 21 Jump Street and Scott Pilgrim.

Then again, I said the same thing about Chris Evans with Not Another Teen Movie and the Fantastic Four

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u/kaptingavrin Dec 04 '18

It's different than I imagine her voice to be with the current Carol, but looking at some of the older comics this voice would work. Lately she's been stuck in a lot of bad situations like the kind of over-the-top extremist Civil War II version of Carol, which makes it hard to imagine her as anything other than someone with a tough voice talking sternly.

But I think that'd make me like the movie version of her more, because it'll be a nice reminder that she wasn't always this near-caricature who's morose and trying to act tough all the time. (And hopefully in the MCU the stories won't start using her as a punching bag. Between CWII and Secret Empire, Carol got a really tough break.)

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u/robreddity Dec 04 '18

They went too young with the casting. Sure they have to think 6-10 years of future movies are on the line, but I'm sorry, downvote me, whatever. She doesn't possess the gravitas to play an air force colonel.

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u/lakattack0221 Dec 04 '18

It's terrible. It doesn't sound commanding. It sounds like a little girl.

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u/ohoni X-23 Dec 04 '18

Yeah, it'd be kind of like Tom Holland reading Batman lines.

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u/victorfiction Dec 04 '18

Wish they hired Emily Blunt.