Black Panther Teaser Trailer
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Blaxploitation is the best 'ploitation.
First comic movie in a while that ain't a sequel that makes me think I ought to watch the earlier movies to have clue what is going on. Just sit down and soak it in.
For me Spaghetti Westerns and Carsploitation Movies top the grindhouse/exploitation genre. But Blaxploitation is in that second tier with sexploitation, splatter and Italian horror just behind them.
Haven't seen any threads on the film itself now that its out. (Tribe, you let me down!)
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
I saw it yesterday. Story and character wise, I think it was absolutely the best Marvel movie yet. You could take out all the "superhero" stuff and it still was great which isn't the case with any of the other Marvel movies. It wasn't as much fun as Guardians of the Galaxy, but the characters, story, and overall themes were far, far better.
I'm still contemplating some of the ideas raised in the movie.
And the one area Marvel movies have failed are in their villains which seemed to be cardboard cutouts. This was the best villain by far.
I'm still contemplating some of the ideas raised in the movie.
And the one area Marvel movies have failed are in their villains which seemed to be cardboard cutouts. This was the best villain by far.
Yep I was just wondering why no one has posted one. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, I was out of town the last two weekends and during the week my wife and I are having enforced two to three hour “team building” exercises....ie we’re putting together a ton of furniture for our new place so we have to spend two or three hours a day and working on it or we’ll never finish. And the fault is mainly mine, I’m building out a “room of shame” ie a retro video game man cave (but also woman cave, my wife is a gamer as well) with about 50 consoles on display with three entertainment Centers, a desk with hutch, three bookshelves, two gaming chairs with massagers, four media 5 shelf component towers and a bunch of built in wall shelves. It’s going to be awesome once it’s done....but it’s going to take awhile.
So tldr, I’m going to see it this Thursday or next week during the week.
I agree...they even had to push his motives a bit over the top, just to ensure he was, in fact, the villain.
Saw it with my kids and enjoyed it. And ironically, it was the white guys sitting behind us that wouldn't quit talking to the screen lol
Sometimes I wonder if this guy is secretly Mark Cuban or something
Nah Mark Cuban wouldn’t be building out his own secret retro video game game room, he’d have someone else do it.
But I do have a couple of museum quality retro gaming pieces like the:
first production series Magnavox Odyssey which is the verse first home video game system period (Pong is actually a copyright ripoff of one of the Odyssey’s games “Tennis”, but unlike Pong machines and most of the later Odyssey series games the original played about 26 different games using switchable electronic cards)
And I’ve got the first run (which is offwhite rather than bright orange) Color TV Game 6 by Nintendo from 1977. That’s a Pong clone created by Nintendo and is there first video game not the NES everyone knows (or the Famicom that most video game nerds think is their first system). There were only about 2,000-10,000 made and most weren’t kept. The later orange run was about ten times that.
I’ve got an actual working Mattel Microvision which is the world’s oldest handheld video console from 1979. They were decently successful so they’re not ultra rare....but working copies are. The LCD screen is so simplistic as they were bleeding edge at the time (despite being only black or white) that the liquid crystal literally starts leeching out of most copies. And the screen is so primitive you can not buy replacements.
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It was that as well, but the entire plot of the movie was about social justice and oppression of black people. I'll leave that discussion there though so we don't get the thread shut down.
I didn't like the whole challenge for the throne idea. The movie spent way too much time on that imo. And why would such an advanced civilization still have this on the books as part of the transfer of power? Even if it is just ceremonial? Didn't like how half the country turned against T'Challa just because some guy they've never met shows up and kicks his butt.
To me, the whole concept of Wakanda is very similar to Disney's Atlantis where you have this hidden, advanced civilization powered by some mysterious substance.
Agree that the villain was very good and you feel very bad for him. Wanted him to "come to the good side" at the end.
Really didn't like the armored rhinos.
To me, the whole concept of Wakanda is very similar to Disney's Atlantis where you have this hidden, advanced civilization powered by some mysterious substance.
Agree that the villain was very good and you feel very bad for him. Wanted him to "come to the good side" at the end.
Really didn't like the armored rhinos.
I was also less enamored with the recent Thor movie, so maybe I'm starting to not like these as much as I used to..?
Yahoo and Google are telling me that people are protesting this movie because the actor has a white girlfriend and no gay superheros, but then I realized it's a comic book movie with sweaty green and purple people with huge, bulging muscles, rolling around with each other while wearing underoos. So I illegally downloaded it from a Chinese website that was dubbed in Russian while eating Taco Bell.
I finally had time to see it yesterday at the iMax at the Challenger Learning Center.
1) I absolutely loved it and don’t have any complaints beyond the most nitpicky of nitpicks. Unlike Wonder Woman which has become a cultural touchstone for women but I thought was just an average superhero movie, Black Panther is one of the best. I’ll have to see it again before firming up its ranking, but I’d have it ranked around 3-6. It definitely helped that I finally saw Justice League for the first time this weekend when I was visiting at my sister’s place as she had rented it on demand. JL is as bad as I feared, so the close proximity of that stink may have made me overappreciate the good quality of Black Panther.
2) It definitely has become a cultural event. Granted I saw it on a Wed, but I was in a crowd that had maybe 8-10 other white individuals and about 100-120 black individuals of which half were dressed up in traditional African attire (I have no idea whether that was normal attire for these folks or they dressed up just for the movie). So this has definitely become more than just the next great Marvel movie. BTW for the pointy hat types who might take this as a complaint, it’s not at all merely an observation. I had a great time watching Black Panther in this crowd.
Is wearing African garb to Black Panther = to Dressing up for Harry Potter and bringing a broom?
The actor that played Vontae Mack in Draft Day is the same guy that plays the lead role in Black Panther.
I am sure that is the pattern you have been sensing
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t believe I accidentally showed up to a some African student event night or something because most of the audience didn’t seem to know each other. I assumed the majority were playing dressup ala Star Wars or Harry Potter.
Man - I think that Black Panther and Thor: Ragnorak, along with the first Guardians of the Galaxy and three of the best of all the Marvel movies. To me, these are the three that have the most original tone and feel to them, rather than being generic superhero movies with replaceable heroes. Then again, I'm not a movie critic or especially learned about such things - I just like being entertained at the movies.
And yeah, with Black Panther I liked the daughter being able to see different-looking heroes - including the prominent roles that women had in Wakanda.
So far the best superhero movies of the current crop for me are (In no particular order), Guardians of the Galaxy 1, Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther. I would watch any of those two movies over and over. Most of the others are one and done for me even though I really enjoyed them at the time.
And as for the dressing up in African attire. Yes, that is totally comparable to dressing up as a Star Wars or Harry Potter character. The movie screams African Identity and many, many people are buying in. I saw photos of Jameis taking a bunch of kids to see it and he was dressed in cultural attire as well which is not something you normally see him wear.
And as for the dressing up in African attire. Yes, that is totally comparable to dressing up as a Star Wars or Harry Potter character. The movie screams African Identity and many, many people are buying in. I saw photos of Jameis taking a bunch of kids to see it and he was dressed in cultural attire as well which is not something you normally see him wear.
I don't think I'd equate people dressing up in traditional African attire to see Black Panther to people dressing up in Star Wars or Harry Potter gear. At a minimum, the traditional African clothes represent an actual, real culture that the wearers are showing pride/heritage/togetherness by wearing, whereas Star Ware and Harry Potter are fiction. I think that's a pretty substantial difference - maybe not when looking at it from the outside, but for the people representing their culture.
Sure, but even those from within the culture have made that comparison. But yes, there is a level of cultural appreciation and pride that is going into their dress that far outweighs someone dressing up as a Jedi or a Wizard. Good point.
And the fact that a dashiki may be the most comfortable item of clothing ever created.
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