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I didn't know what to expect from Sonic the Hedgehog . I played the video games when I was younger but never owned the main games when the Sega Genesis, my first console, was current. I think my grandmother didn't want to spend the money and went for cheaper titles such as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine  and Sonic Spinball . I always wanted to get Sonic the Hedgehog 3 , though, even today, I don't own this game. I do have the great Sonic the Hedgehog 2  and Sonic CD . Moving into the 3D era of Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, I never had those consoles and never played any later Sonic games. I will play Sonic Mania  sometime soon, as I do have that title. When the film was announced, I was excited. Jim Carrey as Robotnik/Eggman was an unexpected choice that shined with brilliance in my mind. I thought Sonic could work pretty well given the high-speed, action, and color of the classic games. These all work as aspects of films too. Unfortunately, when the trailer came...

It's 2019, and Captain Marvel is going to take you back to 1995. This was my favorite part of the movie - it takes place in 1995 and totally uses the aesthetics and attitude of that era. Captain Marvel herself is a wise-cracking, boisterous, hell-raiser, fighting against powerful odds with barely more than her courage and photon-blasting hands. The movie has the same kind of jokey action, examinations of assumptions vs. reality, and unlikely partnerships between heroes that you might find from action/sci-fi films from that era. It really reminded me of seeing movies like Men in Black ,  Steel , and Mars Attacks!  at the theater when I was little. Just like those kinds of films, there's comedy and weird action all over Captain Marvel . There is also an intersectional feminist theme to the plot of Captain Marvel , and it works okay. The 'tude of our heroine, and the comedic straightman role of Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, fits the era and was amu...