The Marvels , you know that new superhero movie

[Eldan]

See, this is the thing. At this point, lots of people in this thread have chipped in with suggestions about how to tweak the movie, or the story, or the production, or the marketing, or something or other. And it's not that any of them are terribly bad ideas, but I'm not convinced that any of them would have made the movie into a success.

I think the core problem is that Captain Marvel just isn't particularly interesting. She isn't a particularly interesting character, she doesn't have a particularly exciting backstory, and she doesn't have a rogue's gallery of cool villains to fight against. There isn't really any 'hook' or key to get people interested. I remember back when Captain Marvel came out, the publicity campaign felt something like this:

Oh, totally agreed. I watched this for Kamala Khan and to see her bounce off Carol as a straight man. That's what I wanted to see, that's what I got, I don't feel like I wasted my time.