{"id":138227,"date":"2019-03-11T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138227"},"modified":"2019-03-11T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:23:16","slug":"captain-marvel-does-boffo-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/captain-marvel-does-boffo-box-office.html","title":{"rendered":"“Captain Marvel” does boffo box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I had my own minor issues with the movie, I’m delighted<\/em> to see it’s doing even better than the studio had predicted.<\/p>\n

Part of that delight is pleasure that the MCU brand continues hold strong, as we reach a new phase going forward.<\/p>\n

But a good chunk of that delight comes from thinking about the broflakes who were vocally\u00a0certain<\/em> that such an uber-feminazi anti-male movie (which it most definitely is not, unless you think that “female super-hero” intrinsically means male-bashing) would crash and burn under the weight of its grim SJWness.<\/p>\n

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Captain Marvel International Poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Captain Marvel\u2019 Box Office: Brie Larson Lands $153 Million Debut \u2013 Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I had my own minor issues with the movie, I’m delighted to see it’s doing even better than the studio had predicted. Part of that delight is pleasure that the MCU brand continues hold strong, as we reach a new phase going forward. But a good chunk of that delight comes from thinking about … Continue reading ““Captain Marvel” does boffo box office”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[525,41,348],"tags":[1697,1234],"class_list":["post-138227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","category-women","tag-captain-marvel","tag-mcu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captain-Marvel-International-Poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138108,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/movie-review-captain-marvel-2019.html","url_meta":{"origin":138227,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Captain Marvel” (2019)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Mar-19 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Short NO-SPOILER version:\u00a0Captain Marvel,\u00a0for me,\u00a0is an entertaining and enjoyable MCU film, but not a great one, largely because it never quite engaged me with enough emotional or narrative stakes to keep me at the edge of my seat. 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