Posted on 02/19/2018 6:58:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Ryan Coogler-directed "Black Panther" has set a new box office record with an estimated $192 million for its three-day debut in North America.
Disney and Marvel Studios' "Black Panther," starring Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan, earned the highest debut ever for a February film and the fifth biggest opening of all time among other box office records, according to CNN Money, which added that it's also the largest opening for an African-American director.
The February opening record previously belonged to "Deadpool," which brought in $132 million in 2016.
Media measurement and analytics company comScore called the film an "important milestone."
"'Black Panther' exceeded even the grandest box office expectations while simultaneously breaking down cinematic barriers and marking a turning point in the evolution of the genre," comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian was quoted as saying.
The film challenges the Hollywood notion that "actors and directors of color are less bankable than their white male counterparts," notes Forbes.
Rotten Tomatoes has given it a rating of 97 percent. "'Black Panther' elevates superhero cinema to thrilling new heights while telling one of the MCU's most absorbing stories — and introducing some of its most fully realized characters," it says.
The superhero movie "proved surprisingly religious," PJ Media's Tyler O'Neil wrote in an op-ed. "'Black Panther' showed main characters praying to religious beings who remained offscreen, or invoking their aid against one another," he explained.
Focus on the Family's Plugged In review noted that while some of the film's themes "echo Christian ideas and values, the movie's explicit spiritual framework is rooted in another mythos" (people pray to ancestors and praise the panther god, Bast).
Still, some Christians, including gospel music veteran Kirk Franklin, expressed support for the film, saying it represents hope for a community of people.
The film is about five African tribes warring over a meteorite of the alien metal vibranium centuries ago.
A warrior consumes a "heart-shaped herb" affected by the metal and receives superhuman abilities, becoming the first "Black Panther." The superhero then unites the tribes as one nation, Wakanda. However, the Jabari Tribe refuses to follow. The Wakandans exploit the vibranium for technological advancements and isolate themselves from the rest of the world by posing as a Third World country, as the film progresses.
“Psst...The correct grammar usage is “No one.”
I seldom make grammatical mistakes, and that wasn’t one.
I won’t watch the movie until I can get it on TV. I might go see Infinity Wars, though.
In before the Zot!
“Do your own friggin’ research chump. Yeah, I said “friggin.” Call the Grammar Police!
There’s a popular search engine called Google. Use it.”
Now you’re over-emoting. Angry, are ye?
My kid really wanted to see it, so I took him. There were a couple of things that had he and I rolling our eyes, but it certainly was not enough to ruin the story for us. Pretty good movie all the way around. Very entertaining.
I heard from viewers it's boring.
Not a real comic hero fan, but I’ll probably watch it sometime on Netflix.
It’s a comic book movie. It doesn’t have to make sense. ;)
> > > None or no one
They’re both acceptable, although “none’ is usually considered plural.
Funny. Thanks for the chuckle, Jeff.
The box office totals are massive. Very impressive.
AND ... back to gubbermint. We are merely the tracks that the trains full of money ride over.
I’ve noticed it, too and I don’t like it.
... that speaks perfect English, often with a slight British accent.
In the words of the geniuses who composed the MST3K Theme song...
If you’re wondering how he eats & breathes,
And other science facts...(la! la! la!)
Then repeat to yourself its just a show,
I should really just relax...
Not that I care, but I’m surprised PETA hasn’t panned the movie for the animal skins complete with heads that make up some costumes. Or the NatlTeachersAssn for showing children being trained as sword-gun toting ‘warriors’ who do not solve problems with words.
But back to racism. According to the BostonReview, the movie is racist in two ways. First, because it seems to focus only on American blacks as being mistreated, and second, because a) the ‘spys’ don’t do anything to help blacks, they just spy and b) the nobility wins over the guy who wanted to arm blacks worldwide to ‘liberate’ them - it places African ‘nobility’ self-interest above the portrayed ‘plight’ of American blacks.
to wit: “In 2018, a world home to both the Movement for Black Lives and a president who identifies white supremacists as fine people, we are given a movie about black empowerment where the only redeemed blacks are African nobles. They safeguard virtue and goodness against the threat not of white Americans or Europeans, but a black American man, the most dangerous person in the world.
“Even in a comic-book movie, black American men are relegated to the lowest rung of political regard. So low that the sole white leading character in the movie, the CIA operative Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), gets to be a hero who helps save Wakanda. A white man who trades in secrets and deception is given a better turn than a black man whose father was murdered by his own family and who is left by family and nation to languish in poverty. That’s racist.
http://bostonreview.net/race/christopher-lebron-black-panther
all that said, the movie was overhyped, when, after all, it’s just a comic book story
Saw a gushing emotional blurb about this on the evening news, claiming it was “breaking racial barriers”. They showed blacks in line, blacks all excited, blacks dressing in African garb - no other “colors” were represented. Seemed kinda racial to me.
“Please provide examples.”
I already said there are lots of examples on other Black Panther threads. Please feel free to search and draw your own conclusions.
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