“I’m fine with female-driven films, but I just hate this particular character for reasons.” You sound like a butthurt crybaby who is freaking out because they're not being treated as the center of the Marvel universe, in fiction or in terms of business.
Hey, nothing personal, Hon, I've just see the difference between what a real talent like Cate Blanchette can do with a Marvel role, and what you can do.
the guys inside the fanboy echo chamber think they're coolly analyzing the flaws in the acting, but to those outside the echo chamber, what we see is a lot of nitpicking and a deliberate failure to admit the real reasons you don't like it.
Which is: The whining fanboys just don't emotionally connect to the new films the way you did with the old. That's all there is to it, and that's the one think the "fanboys" refuse to discuss because they try to reduce everything to logic and details. That's not what filmgoing is about, it's about feelings and emotions and being swept away into excitement and a willing suspension disbelief, or not, or loving or identifying with a character... or not. A person who says "I don't like Black Widow because I have a 100 point list proving she's boring" is failing to understand their own reactions and a film as a whole, while a person who says "I don't identify with Black Widow and therefore the film doesn't provoke a strong emotional response" gets it. And that's the one thing I never hear from the fanboys, I hear everything but that because they don't want to analyze their own responses.
white fanboys hate this film because it wasn't made for them or what Hollywood assumes to be their tastes. Well tough shit about that, the rest of us count too.
So many fans have been asking for it for years, and I myself agree that she deserves it. While admittedly she has been somewhat underutilized over the years (except for in The Winter Solider), I always felt there was a lot more to her character still left to explore.
Plus the direction they can take this movie could be interesting and unlike anything we’ve seen in the MCU yet.