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 ...
Wife + grown son & I are looking forward to seeing Black Panther & the upcoming Avenger’s: Infinity War.
We find Marvel’s movies to be fun entertainment.
It would necessarily have to be some wealthy/powerful white capitalist male.
Ya that "We were kings" meme is both funny and sad to me. And calling their women "Queens". But I understand why they came up with that, so I don't laugh at them too hard.
Unless something is supposed to be really good, and I want an excuse to do a dinner/movie date with the wife, I tend to do just that - wait for it to hit one of the cable stations.
“[People apart from Christ being savages] is nonsense.”
Really? Can you point me to some example of people who have rejected Christ but are not savages? Can you point me to a group of people who are ignorant of Christ that are not savages?
Israel. Modern Japan. Thailand. Taiwan.
You can make a lot of generalizations about these countries, but to describe them as being a bunch of "savages" is absurd.
‘Can you point me to some example of people who have rejected Christ but are not savages?’
sorry again; however, you posited the assertion, it is up to you to furnish the backup...
but I’ll play along; are you seriously asserting that the entire population of agnostics, skeptics, and assorted freethinkers are cultural misfits, brutes, killers, thugs, in the mold of, say, brainwashed Muslims...? or further, are you implying that today’s practicing Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Shintoists, and for that matter everyone who had ever existed prior to the appearance of Christ in the what we record as the first century AD, are each and everyone nothing but a bunch of reprobates, apart as they are from the belief of Christ as divinity...?
“Israel. Modern Japan. Thailand. Taiwan. You can make a lot of generalizations about these countries, but to describe them as being a bunch of ‘savages’ is absurd.”
Fair point.
“are you seriously asserting that the entire population of agnostics, skeptics, and assorted freethinkers are cultural misfits, brutes, killers, thugs, in the mold of, say, brainwashed Muslims...? or further, are you implying that today’s practicing Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Shintoists, and for that matter everyone who had ever existed prior to the appearance of Christ in the what we record as the first century AD, are each and everyone nothing but a bunch of reprobates, apart as they are from the belief of Christ as divinity...?”
No, I can see where my assertion is very reasonably offensive to many non-Christians who are not savages.
I withdraw that comment.
While I do believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world, it is unfair to make statements which are a blanket insult to all of those who do not share my conviction.
The Christian faith asserts the need for all people to receive forgiveness for sins. Whether a person or group of people engage in savage behavior is not directly correlated to their identification as “Christian.”
Thanks for not letting that comment slide.
‘I withdraw that comment.’
which takes courage and conviction...my compliments...
You know, not all Disney films were female hero films. In fact, I can even list off the back of my hand a few Disney films that didn’t involve female heroes (namely, Dumbo, Bambi, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers, The Rescuers Down Under, The Jungle Book, Pinnochio, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Lion King, Aladdin, etc., etc.). And even regarding the Disney Princess franchise, films like The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty are okay since, while the female leads were the heroes or at least protagonists, they also had to work to get out of the situation they were in (and males weren’t even treated badly in those films). In fact, if I had to pinpoint the start of the rot that you alluded to with female hero films, I’d have to pinpoint it at Beauty and the Beast, where most of the males WERE depicted badly in some manner (probably the only male in the film who isn’t depicted badly in any way was Chip, while conversely, the only females denigrated are the triplets, who conveniently seemed to be the only females in the film who showed any support for marriage as an institution).
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