GRAVITY And ASSASSIN'S CREED Production Designer Joins CAPTAIN MARVEL

Also, not sure if anybody cares, but apparently the costume designer on the movie is Sanja Milkovic Hays (Star Trek Beyond, the Fast & Furious movies) and the VFX supervisor is Christopher Townsend (The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Age of Ultron, Guardians Vol. 2).

@BlackBeltJones - Marvel really is stepping up their game. Something like Ragnarok or Panther feel like top notch productions through and through: Great composers, great costume designers, great production designers, some diverse, unique film-makers with a true identity to their films, and the quality just seems to not only rise, but it feels more consistent than ever. They even brought back Silvestri for Infinity War. They're learning for sure.

@BlackBeltJones - Oh, yes, definitely: No more phoned in third acts; no huge disputes behind the scenes; and just more diverse characters; more female characters; more diverse voices; just an overall less safe atmosphere. And lately, more and more, it really does seem that they're keen on every film bringing something new to the table. It's very evident with Ragnarok, Panther, and even the upcoming Captain Marvel. They may not reach this goal, but it seems their intention is to attempt to make every film they do a game changer. The passion is more palpable than ever, as far as I'm concerned.

@BlindWedjat - Oh, yeah, man, the whole formulaic argument is out of the window at this point. You could maybe argue that for something like Avengers 2, but I think it's different enough from Avengers 1 to be it's own thing. Avengers 2 is on a floating city where the whole time they are saving people, you know, being superheroes, I really loved that. Even so, it's a little similar to Avengers 1, but they really don't have that issue with Phase 3; things like "I've come to bargain" in Doctor Strange, or the heart breaking, brutal, emotional fight in Civil War, or the incredibly strange, odd yet beautiful, creative and emotional fight between Ego and Star Lord. Even the third act of Spidey tests so many boundaries of Peter, and he overcomes them.

And instead of the third act turning into a slugfest, it ends with Peter desperately trying to save the father of his homecoming date. After all that, he's still trying to save this villain who tried to murder him, and I can imagine he's in serious pain. Their third acts are not only more creative and fun, but they're more dramatically wholesome and feed into the story in an organic way.