Alita: Battle Angel -v- Captain Marvel - Review
So I double dipped on duelling, daring, female led films this past weekend and saw both Alita: Battle Angel and Captain Marvel in the space of two days. The reason being for getting them back to back was that there had been a fair bit of comparison between them, particularly in terms of representation of strong female characters. Also hovering over both these movies, and most particularly over Captain Marvel, and threatening to derail any constructive criticism of these films like a fart in a lift or Jacuzzi, is a whole heap of non-controversy drummed up by internet basement dwellers on one side and overly zealous activists on the other. One side is claiming that Captain Marvel is either the worst film ever made, anti-male, (?!?) and poorly acted and at the other end of the spectrum they are shouting that it is the second coming of the Suffragette movement, here to smash the glass ceiling (spoiler for this review - it is neither). Bar this paragraph I'm going to skip past t...