I rewatch the OG Captain Marvel recently, and I found something interesting.
Ultimately my original assessment of the movie was it was very middle of the road, solid enough, nothing too bad, nothing that great. One of my biggest critiques (shared by many on the internet) was that Captain Marvel had no personality, it was just a faceless blank slate.
On the rewatch, I did not CM has a lot more personality than I gave her credit for, at least for the first half of the movie. Snarky is probably the best word. She is snarky and playful with Mar'vel at the beginning, she banters with her military comrades in the first mission. She does a lot of buddy cop comedy with Fury when they team up.
though I think we still don't get enough backstory and insight into her character, I must admit there was more personality there than I noted on my first watch.