Eh, there's some shmaltzy South America Oscar ripoff ceremony. Good enough for moi.
Posted on 02/01/2023 7:47:00 PM PST by martin_fierro
To note that the latest Disney/Marvel Studios woke Phase Four installment, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a waste of time, is an insult to wastes of time.
This tiresome flick aspires to be a waste of time.
Disney/Marvel had a decision to make when the actor who originally played the Black Panther — the likable but mediocre Chadwick Boseman — died in real life: Either drop the BP franchise entirely, or bull ahead with a politically-correct sequel, composed of forgettable secondary characters from the first film. Guess which way they went.
There’s a lot of furious fighting between black- and brown-skinned (or is it blue? Who cares?) warriors. Sticks figure prominently in these battles, how exciting.
Not even the introduction of new Marvel character Namor the Sub-Mariner helps. Disney/Marvel tweaked the character to have Mayan/Aztec/Incan pre-Colombian roots, which I suppose is a sop to that racial group.
An hour + into this turkey and I was looking longingly at the exit doors. Of my own home.
There are no spoiler warnings here, and no plot spoilers, as spoilers imply some level of interest in the movie’s plot.
Not even the one mid-end-credits vignette, where hints of coming developments in future Marvel films are usually aired, is worthwhile. Just another yawn in a long series of yawns. Wak-yawn-da Forever.
You’ve got better things to waste your time on — like trying to catch your right thumb with your right hand — than watching this movie.
I’m too old to waste 2 hours on crap
Live and learn
Shrug ...
I wasn’t going to watch, because this is more or less what I expected. I thank the reviewer for sacrificing his time, so I don’t have to sacrifice mine.
I kinda liked the first Panther movie if only to understand where Maxine Waters was coming from with her using the Wakanda salute everywhere 😂
I used to go to movies and I would walk out of one in the first 15 minutes when I recognized certain sequences that pretty much told me that the movie was crap.
For the sake of the reviewer,
Who Cares?
It’s not that Disney makes all of their woke movies so boring or predictable.
It’s that they accomplish the trifecta of being predictable, boring and an utter waste of time.
Except it is, as the reviewer noted, an insult to utter wastes of time.
I think I’ll swipe that line.
Obviously racist so I wasn’t wasting my time or money
Marty you should do film reviews. You are good!
I quit going to movies after End Game.
BP1 was a mediocre movie that might have been suitable as a matinee movie, but it was hardly memorable imo.
Check out the Critical Drinker before picking a movie.
Live is too short to watch junk.
You weren’t able to find some paint to watch dry?
“I used to go to movies and I would walk out of one in the first 15 minutes”
When we lived in SoCal, often in malls there would be Hollywood studio staff handing out free tickets to screenings of movies not released yet. You were supposed to stay after and discuss, fill out questionnaires, etc.
We went a few times. The minute demons or homosexuals (is that redundant?) appeared — usually about 15 minutes — we were out the door, even though we were supposed to stay to the end. A monitor at the door would stop us and we weren’t shy about telling them why were leaving.
What??? We are on Wakanda Part IV already?
I haven’t even watched the first one yet.
The trouble is, they’ll be teaching that crap as African American history in school. More liberal BS.
I tried to watch the Dr. Strange 2 movie on an American flight a week ago. I had to turn it off about 35 minutes into the flick due to all woke nonsense. I put Grease on instead...cause it’s a classic.
Hear, hear! Hoist one for the Critical Drinker. He gives you his honest opinion. He doesn’t hold back.
Eh, there's some shmaltzy South America Oscar ripoff ceremony. Good enough for moi.
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