Yeah, that's the kind of overtly racist crap that stood out to me, and I left the movie thinking "that was good, but ohhh boy is the internet going to destroy this!" and then... the exact opposite happens and I am dumbfounded.
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Yeah, that's the kind of overtly racist crap that stood out to me, and I left the movie thinking "that was good, but ohhh boy is the internet going to destroy this!" and then... the exact opposite happens and I am dumbfounded.
Yes, and they gauge what people want by what they've wanted in the past. There is a bias in favor of that which already exists when making predictions of the future. This isn't a rare phenomena. It's very, very risky to make a big gamble on a large hole in the market, because more often than not, you won't find an untapped audience, but instead that the reason no one makes stuff like "x" is that no one will buy stuff like "x." And that's not even touching all the other multitude of biases and conventional thinking that would've stood in the way of a Black-Panther-like movie for a half-century. It's just self-evident that the reason that there hasn't been a movie like Black Panther before is that there hasn't been a movie like Black Panther before.
No one was making movies like Star Wars before Star Wars, it was expected to be a boondoggle after a disaster of a production and, guess what? It turned out people really wanted movies like Star Wars, and then they started making a ton of movies like Star Wars.
Could be "the internet" knows something you two don't.
"Do as I say, not as I do"?
Brilliant.
Don't know what to tell you other than the reason no one perceived the W'Kabi character and his people as having any negative racial overtones is because none existed. It is about intent and a certain amount of sensitivity. Also consider, these characters were a part of the original Black Panther stories from the comics.
Now, the reason you (or anyone else) thought it was racist, I suspect, may have more to do with what may be in your head rather than what is actually on the screen.
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Saw this last night. Brilliant movie - I think this brings to four the number of Marvel movies I've enjoyed from start to finish, and this may be the best of the lot.
Kind of forgot it was a "superhero" movie in places - long sequences play as either an amped-up James Bond or a more general science fiction/fantasy movie. If they ever get around to doing a Nick Fury movie as such I'd think it could be something like this.
It's nice to see that it's currently the top-grossing superhero movie of all time in the U.S. Personally, it reminded me of watching Iron Man when that first came out.
Kind of forgot it was a "superhero" movie in places - long sequences play as either an amped-up James Bond or a more general science fiction/fantasy movie. If they ever get around to doing a Nick Fury movie as such I'd think it could be something like this.
It's nice to see that it's currently the top-grossing superhero movie of all time in the U.S. Personally, it reminded me of watching Iron Man when that first came out.
I agree with this. I imagine the Black Widow movie, if it ever comes out, to be similar to what you are describing--as are several of the Netflix series.
I was thinking that too. But if they did a Fury solo movie, I’d really love it to be a period piece set in the 1960s or 1970s, with a retro Connery/Moore feel. Ideally they’d perfect their de-ageing SFX to allow Big Sam to play young Fury throughout. I’m not sure any actor could really fill his boots even as a younger version.
Which isn't too much of a leap since he hasn't aged that much over the years and usually had the bald look anyways.
The world's gone mad.
I'm down with that.
It's been awhile since I've seen The Winter Soldier. Remind me what the reference was.
Yes, it has. Madly in love with this wonderful, long overdue film.
Ahhh...that's right! Thanks for the refresher.
Pacific Rim Uprising may have taken last weekend, but Black Panther took the top spot yesterday despite being its sixth Wednesday.
The world has been angry for a while.
This is a pretty great film, as action fantasy goes, and certainly deserves to be more successful than the other Marvel flicks.
As far as Marvel movies, I still only consider the first Iron Man to be anything out of the ordinary. The rest just mesh into one for me.