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Spoilers Black Panther grade and discussion thread

How do you rate "Black Panther"?

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One thing that struck me about the movie was how coherent and well-directed most of the action scenes were. Many of these movies are just chaotic, especially during the big "we shot this because 3D" set pieces. Or, they simplify it too much in a more traditional direction which seems slow now (one of Campbell's mistakes in Green Lantern). Justin Lin has a talent for organizing this stuff; Patty Jenkins did it well with Wonder Woman, but she also successfully dialed it down a bit from what's becoming the standard now - not at all a bad thing.
 
I agree with the comment about the action scenes. When I watch a super-hero movie I want to feel like I am watching a comic book. I want to be able to pause a movie and have it seem like it is a panel from a comic book--BP had a lot of scenes like that.
 
The most I normally watch a film or show is twice - once on TV or at the cinema, and again if I buy the Bluray.

Normally once though.
 
LJones41 said:
Why is that unusual? I find it quite normal to see a movie that I really enjoyed more than once.
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First, simply because for me it is unusual these days to pay to see a movie in a theatre more than once. I have no idea what's usual or unusual for anyone else and was not addressing that.

And second, it's unusual for me to enjoy a superhero movie enough to want to see it more than once - particularly not Marvel movies, most of which are no better than so-so and many of which are awful.
 
crookeddy said:
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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The fact that the vast majority of Black people who I've seen online love it, kind of makes me think it might not be racist.
 
Set Harth said:
This movie was kind of the black Wonder Woman.
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In reply, I would quote from the comics series that inspired this movie:

"The names these people give us -- as though they know us better than our fathers. Or our own deeds. They have no imagination... To them, we are only shadows of their glory, never our beautiful, original selves."
 
This is the part where some people would say, "You're only proving my point."

Not me, you understand.

But some people.
 
Set Harth said:
This is the part where some people would say, "You're only proving my point."

Not me, you understand.

But some people.
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Well of course not you. :lol:

But seriously, I'm curious, and since you seem to have tapped into the psyche of "some people", perhaps you'd be willing to venture a guess as to why "they" would think the quote in DEWline's post supports the contention that W'Kabi and his people, black people riding rhinos into battle, led by a "dictator", is racist within the context of this movie? At least I think that's the point to which you are referring.
 
So it's now broken into the international top ten, is number four of all time domestic box office, and will probably pass Titanic this week to end up at number three.
 
Cool.

It'll pass Titanic domestically this weekend.

JD said:
The fact that the vast majority of Black people who I've seen online love it, kind of makes me think it might not be racist.
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But people have to check with white folks about these things - can't just be going off making their own calls, right? ;)
 
Emh said:
Black Panther will be the first film to be shown a movie theater in Saudi Arabia in 35 years (ignoring the public screening of The Emoji Movie earlier this year).
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Some people were tweeting about this a few days ago, wondering if the Saudi government might require some scenes involving women to be edited or deleted. However, there was one tweet from a guy who said he lived there and he wasn't so sure there would be censoring. May be, may not be.

I would think that any movie released in Saudi Arabia after 35 years would draw a crowd, but BP is pretty special, so this should be interesting.

Article is pretty funny re: thoughts on The Emoji Movie. :)
 
Considering that many of the heroic figures of this movie are depicted as worshipping pre-Abrahamic deities...I wonder how well that will go over in the KSA?
 
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