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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
wtf are you talking about? look at the numbers on captain marvel. no one really liked it because they forced a woman on the part for political correctness. (a real shame for the actress, she's pretty good) there is ONLY one important factor in films and that is BOTTOM LINE.
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No, I think they cast a woman for the part because the character is a woman.
The original Captain Marvel (Mar-vell guy with the white hair and bracelets that swapped places with Rick Jones) died of cancer - one of the only comic book characters to die and stay dead.
Incidentally, IMDB ranks it 7.0/10 (370,976 votes)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/
I think the reason movie theater's are struggling is what's coming out of Hollywood. Special effects are no substitute for a good story. And when you're asking people to invest their time and money into something that has a 50/50 shot at actually entertaining, more people are content to wait until it comes out on netflix/redbox.
My picks for lesser known but really good movies:
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Changeling