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pinky0926 posted...

yet another cookie cutter Marvel movie except this time it was black people

This is very unfair.

First of all, it shouldn't be dismissed "except with black people." Having a black superhero movie done this well is a breath of fresh air to the superhero genre of movies, and obviously the reaction to it showed how needed it was.

Second, as for the "Cookie cutter" aspect of it. I believe this couldn't be farther than the truth IMHO. It's SOOOO much more than the sum of it's parts. It could've been a paint by numbers superhero affair with black people, as you described it, it easily could have been. But it wasn't. It was an extremely well crafted movie from start to finish. It has some of the best performances in the entire MCU, which elevates it beyond just any "superhero movie"

There's a serious magic to this movie. I don't know how you can watch some of these scenes and not feel it. Every single scene in the "Ancestral Plane" is AMAAAZING. Every time Killmonger is on screen, it's electric. Which btw, one of the biggest complaints about MCU movies by and large is weak villains. Then you have Killmonger who is ranked up there with Thanos and Loki and he only had one movie. There have been a ton of conversations whether his ideals were right, whether the ends justify the means. Ain't no one talking about Yellowjacket from Ant Man like that. Which is a great movie btw, but Black Panther is clearly playing in a different league.

It also got nominated for 6 Oscars and won 3. Whether you want to bring some political bullshit into that or feel it was undeserved, the reality stands. This never happens with Superhero movies.

I think it's for very good reason.


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Like 90% of CE topics are the same way lol. CE is edgy/contrarian as f*** and will do anything to troll the TC/OP. -Touch