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How do you rate "Black Panther"?

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I heard an amusing story that's been making the rounds on the 'Net today - apparently a theater in Atlanta, Georgia had a packed audience to see Black Panther but accidentally started running 50 Shades Freed instead, which was still loaded into the projector. They fixed the problem after about 5 minutes or so, but the audience was understandably a bit disappointed. :rommie:
 
Unicron said:
I heard an amusing story that's been making the rounds on the 'Net today - apparently a theater in Atlanta, Georgia had a packed audience to see Black Panther but accidentally started running 50 Shades Freed instead, which was still loaded into the projector. They fixed the problem after about 5 minutes or so, but the audience was understandably a bit disappointed. :rommie:
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I've had that happen a few times. X-Men: First Class playing instead of Super-8, once, but my personal favorite is when I went to see one of those one-night-only simulcasts for a Doctor Who special, and they started playing Doctor Strange instead.
 
Captain Craig said:
If the film can be up for any awards I think a number of technical ones are on the table. Unless the terrain is all cgi, which I didn't notice, then the sweeping scenery of Wakanda was majestic and beautiful. Worth your big screen dollar.
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I think most of the scenery in Wakanda was CGI, everything except the stuff in South Korea, which was actually filmed in Seoul, was filmed in Atlanta.
 
A certain white YouTuber (among many others like him) has made his displeasure with Black Panther known:

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Emh said:
I'm glad you enjoyed it in the end. :bolian:

Was the music as distracting as you feared it would be? ;)
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Like a few people said, the soundtrack ended up being mostly the African inspired music stuff I expected, and the bits of rap were few and far between (although I recall rap showing up three times in the actual movie itself not two, but I can't name all three times specifically)
 
David cgc said:
Likewise, while it's entirely possible a black Steve Rogers might've been subjected to horrifying medical experimentation in the '40s, he still would've been serving in a segregated Army, and kept even further away from the front lines than he was as a USO act. Black enlistees had a three-year waiting period before they could begin combat training, and the Tuskegee Airmen weren't even deployed until 1944.

A black Steve Rogers or Tony Stark would be as different as a white T'Challa would be (which, as some wags have pointed out, is basically just "Thor"). That's not necessarily a reason those characters couldn't be reimagined as black, though (it's not like there's a shortage of popular white headlining superheroes). Captain America would probably work better, you could swap in the segregation thing for the PR-monkey thing in the film, though I have trouble thinking of how African-American Tony Stark wouldn't end up being a lot more like Whiplash (son of a brilliant inventor whose work and legacy was stolen by others while he was erased), or maybe just one-man Wakanda, creating all these technological wonders that are ignored by others either because they can't believe they were made by someone like him, or hidden because other people would take the credit.
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There was a mini-series in 2003 called Truth: Red, White & Black that showed black men were experimented on for the super soldier project that led up to Captain America, but only yielded one survivor whose son became Josiah X, a character in Christopher Priest's Black Panther spin-off, The Crew. Different from your postulation about a black Steve Rogers, I know, but the concept has been explored.

JD said:
I think most of the scenery in Wakanda was CGI, everything except the stuff in South Korea, which was actually filmed in Seoul, was filmed in Atlanta.
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Correction, the Korean filming occurred and was set in Busan. Title card aside, I know the area having visited there a number of times while in the Navy (Seoul, too, so I definitely know the difference).

kirk55555 said:
Like a few people said, the soundtrack ended up being mostly the African inspired music stuff I expected, and the bits of rap were few and far between (although I recall rap showing up three times in the actual movie itself not two, but I can't name all three times specifically)
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I saw the film again yesterday and there are only two songs from the soundtrack used in the film (a third in the credits)...and only one of them is a rap song (the one during the car chase), the other two are hip-hop songs.

Captaindemotion said:
I love this observation: https://twitter.com/russellhfilm/status/965676243361308672
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Oh, wow. That's an awesome observation.
 
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Emh said:
I saw the film again yesterday and there are only two songs from the soundtrack used in the film (a third in the credits)...and only one of them is a rap song (the one during the car chase), the other two are hip-hop songs.
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Well as a general rule hip hop is as big an issue with me as rap, and its not like I could tell the difference anyway. But regardless of what they were there was one more then people said but it was all so short that even my Dad, who hates rap even more then me and would have refused to see it if it had as much as the trailers seemed to imply, wasn't bothered by it.
 
kirk55555 said:
Well as a general rule hip hop is as big an issue with me as rap, and its not like I could tell the difference anyway. But regardless of what they were there was one more then people said but it was all so short that even my Dad, who hates rap even more then me and would have refused to see it if it had as much as the trailers seemed to imply, wasn't bothered by it.
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Okay, for those who hate rap music a lot, please tell me what the filmmakers were supposed to use? Like it ore not, it's a part of world culture.

Again, yet another white YouTuber has a problem with the film because of its all black-cast, and is using reverse racism and whataboutism to justify what they're saying:

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And went to see it a second time, and my mind was blown when I realised...
Holy shit, when Killmonger went back to his father's Cleveland apartment in the ancestral plane, the apartment was in Wakanda. (I think I noticed Wakanda's skyscrapers, but either way, it was not in Cleveland.)

First, how could I miss that? And second, it totally changed the entire scene. Made it as eerie as when went T'Challa to meet T'Chaka and all the black panthers on the tree.
 
Emh said:
Correction, the Korean filming occurred and was set in Busan. Title card aside, I know the area having visited there a number of times while in the Navy (Seoul, too, so I definitely know the difference).
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Oh, I thought I remember seeing an article talking about it filming in Seoul.
Emh said:
The film has the second highest weekend ever at $108 million and has been outpacing The Avengers since the first Sunday with the exception of the second Friday (missing by less than half a million). At this rate, and I don't see any sign of the film slowing down, Black Panther will not only be Marvel's biggest film, but the biggest superhero film ever.
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According to CBR it's only the fourth movie to ever break $100M on it's second weekend, the other three are Star Wars: The Force Awakens with $149M, Jurrasic World with $106.6M, and The Avengers with $103M.
 
I', thinking about seeing it again for the third time, the only other film I'v e seen in theaters three times was The Last Jedi just last month. So far 2018 has been a good year for this nerd. :D
 
Much like how The Wire has inspired courses dissecting its content, Black Panther has also inspired one teacher to further the conversation started by the film.

Beagleman said:
I'm thinking about seeing it again for the third time, the only other film I'v e seen in theaters three times was The Last Jedi just last month. So far 2018 has been a good year for this nerd. :D
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I'm probably also going to see it a third time before it leaves theaters. I believe the only films I've ever seen three or more times in theaters are The Lord of the Rings films and the first Hobbit film.
 
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