Posted on 01/30/2018 4:26:52 AM PST by PapaBear3625
The first reviews for Black Panther are in and they are very, very good.
The Marvel Studios blockbuster, starring Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B. Jordan, premiered in front of a star-studded audience in Hollywood Monday night.
Director Ryan Coogler’s addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was praised for being original, highly diverse, and incredibly moving.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Exactly my first thought. They dare not say otherwise.
Maybe it is good, but we won't be able to take anyone in Hollywood's word for it, and likely most film critics will not say anything bad about it.
Every Marvel and Star Wars film gets rave reviews.
I saw the "Black Panther" emergence in the movie "Civil War", and I thought he was a pretty good character. Very formidable as portrayed in that movie.
So long as they don't ruin it with preaching, i'm willing to give it a chance.
The Black Panther is a bit like Captain America, with a touch of Iron Man technology. If Marvel had stayed away from social justice themes, BP could have been a good addition to the Marvel Universe. But they can’t resist.
I don’t think “ferals” are going to be overrunning the theaters. What you will see are a lot of “Bleeks”... black geeks. A rather new phenomena, I think created by the interest in video games and super heroes. It is a good thing, culturally speaking. In my experience, many young black kids have been raised from the feral mentality by the interest in video games, and computers, and also comic books. I would expect these kids to show up in droves.
The movie is set in the Black Panther’s home country, in Africa.
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I wonder what country that would be. Rwanda? Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)? Kenya? Ethopia? Niger? Nigeria? Uganda?
Because Africa isn’t a country, and only sub-Saharan countries are usually counted because that’s where practically all the blacks are.
Oh wait. I bet it’s that super-rich fictional part that Eddie Murphy’s character in “Coming to America” is from.
Me, too.
Loved it, can’t wait to see Black Panther! And then Avengers: Infinity War!
People who come just to post that they won’t see it because they hate Marvel or the movies... Why bother?
Actually, the country is called “Wakanda”, and is supposedly somewhere close to Kenya. In-universe, the country was fanatically isolationist, and was able to hold off all attempts at incursion or colonization due to being the only source of the fictional and nearly-indestructible metal “vibranium”. They somehow achieve a technology level at least a century beyond anything in the known world, including anti-gravity. This despite still being organized along tribal lines.
Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis are black!? Who knew?
Good God, people, a movie about Africans that has a lot of black people in it? Why should this bother ANY of us?
Because Black Panther may have clues that may have something to do with Infinity War, I fully intend to see it.
Yes, I am one of those Geeks that is interested in such things. I’m also going to see Ant-Man and the Wasp, whose trailer dropped today.
More countries should do the same thing. Less immigration, celebrate intelligence and fair trade, loyalty to country, etc.
Almost like this is telling us something...
‘Apart from Christ, people are savages.’
sorry, but that is nonsense...
“Why do you think superhero and horror films are “crap”?”
About “superhero” films:
1) Based on comic books - the crappiest of “literature”.
2) Incredibly formulaic.
3) Lowest common denominator of “culture”.
4) Too often used as a vehicle for Progressiveness.
Now that people are proclaiming that Black Panther is the best or nearly the best of the superhero films (it premiered last night) I wouldn’t be surprised to see major improvements in the rest of the genre.
About horror films:
1) Almost all are based on the “jump-out-at-you” scare. Cheap, easy.
2) Intelligent comedy is the hardest film to make. Horror films are the easiest to make. Incredibly formulaic.
3) Numerous torture/rape films are a sign of a degenerate culture.
To me both types of films are signs our culture is sliding toward childishness. I say that as a Star Wars fan (although less so these days) and know my own hypocrisy on the subject.
“???”
It’s a variation of:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-wuz-kings
Set to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2hB8Tk1Jo
Hang in there
This thread brings out the stupids
Average room temp IQ black moviegoer will assume Wakanda is real
And they built the library in Alexandria before the Ptolemies appropriated such genius
And so forth
I don’t watch cartoon or superhero drivel period regardless the race or gender
It’s just definitively banal
Ah. Comic book fiction. Gotcha.
I didn’t know anything about the character. I stopped reading comic books when I was about 7 years old, back in 1973. Even then it was just Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, and Archie.
Oh please. Stick it. You are the one bemoaning the blacks. You are a nasty person. I was just pointing out your bigot statements and how irresponsible and stupid they were. Go away you troll.
Ex-Lax is incredibly moving.
FEEEEL the cringe! I can't wait to see who the villains are portrayed as. Let me guess by checking my white privilege at the theater door.
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