- The woke moments were super stupid
I resent woke moments as much as anyone, but most of these did not bother me. Since you did a great job of listing them all, I'm going to respond here.
-- The completely unnecessary scene with the gay guy telling Cap he went out on a date and Cap encourages him as to how great it is. Gag.
Ha, that whole conversation I assumed the guy was talking about his father. That went right over my head.
-- The scene where Mrs. Marvel is flying with the gauntlet and all the marvel women back her up in a cheesy hamfisted girl power display. Distracting, obvious, lame.
Captain Marvel is endlessly grating. I love Black Widow and Valkryie. I enjoy Gamora, Nebula and Pepper Potts. But Captain Marvel is like nails on a chalkboard every time she's on screen. What happened with her?
--When Thor gives the crown to the obnoxious (let's not forget former [like 5 years ago] slaver and murderess traitor) Valkyrie. She's brown, so no prerequisites I guess. I hated this character in Ragnarok more, but she still does nothing for me.
I was actually very okay with this. Now, I loved the character in Ragnarok so we have different tastes going on. But from a purely moviemaking perspective, how is Thor supposed to go off having adventures (with the Guardians or whoever) if he's supposed to be at home ruling his people? They needed to make a handoff here in order to keep making Thor films; and I badly want a Ragnarok 2.
It wouldn't be called Ragnarok 2, you can't have double ragnaroks
-- When old Cap is sitting on the bench and Falcon goes to talk to him instead of Bucky is wrong. Cap hands Falcon the shield/mantle in a huge slap to Bucky's face. I just don't get this scene. "Here you go Falc, the Russo brothers want a black Captain America, so screw my best friend and near equal in combat, I choose you."
Here's the flipside of our Valkrie difference -- I can't stand Bucky. I find him creepy at best and the fact that Cap sacrifices the Avengers for his bromance with a brainwashed killer still boggles my mind. I'm glad they didn't give him the shield.
--Paltrow in Iron Man armor fighting at the end? So, so cheesy. (I admit that at first, I thought this was Tony's daughter in some weird time thing [see Ant-Man's daughter], which would have probably been cooler than Pepper). And yes, I know she's worn the armor before. That was cheesy too.
I enjoy Paltrow, so I found it a fun way to include her at the end. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that she'd be that skilled in using the suit unless you fill in some headcanon (Tony spent 5 years training her, perhaps). But fun, for me.
- Hulk sucks in this movie. HUGE uncanny valley thing as they try to make him literally Mark Ruffalo but 9 feet tall and green. Also keeping Ruffalo's voiceover without obviously deepening it or adding heavy effects was a terrible idea. A nine-foot tall monster wouldn't sound at all like a six-foot man. The voice didn't match the face speaking only adding to the awkward uncanniness, forget the lame dialogue. (They nailed the voice in Ragnarok)
I love the Hulk in these films. I loved him in Avengers, in Ranarok and in Endgame. I thought he was hilarious here. I'm apparently down for whatever the directors want to do with this character.
