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StifledSilence
Chadwick Bosemans passing leaves a HUGE hole in the MCU because his portrayal of Black Panther was, dare I say, perfect. I cant imagine anyone else in that role. That aside, this movie is a good time. Half parts of a tribal aesthetic and a high technology spy thriller, Black Panther keeps eyes glued to the screen the entire time. Additionally, Shuri quickly became one of my favorite MCU characters, and Michael B does not stand for basketball Jordan made for one of the series most compelling villains.

CoolCly
This movie has a lot of great things going on.
The women are great. Shuri is great as the tech wiz little sister, and suits up in her own combat style too. Okoye is imposing and skilled, and her conflict of what to do when her loyalty to TChalla is challenged by her loyalty to the country when Killmonger takes over. I think people love both Shuri and Okoye as breakout characters. But I love Nakia the most. Shes pretty much on the precipice of stepping up to become the next Black Panther herself in this movie, but decides that shes not meant for that destiny and ends up bringing the flower to TChalla. Considering where we are IRL.. I would love it if shes revisited as taking up that mantle.
MBaku is awesome. Its challenge day.
Killmonger is phenomenal. He gets a lot of credit as one of the best villains in the MCU and its well deserved. Hes dangerous and hes got a lot of personal stake with the characters. The only thing I dont like is how general his Im gonna send weapons and start a revolution! his plan in the end was but it was fine enough I guess, the movie didnt really need that to be fleshed out.
Andy Serkis is awesome. Hes fun and vicious and gets brutally taken out by a fellow villain which is always fun. Their partnership and eventual confrontation was thrilling.
I kinda dont like how powerful the Black Panthers gear is. Hes basically just invincible. I dont like it when the heroes are so powerful they arent even at risk of being hurt and thats where BP is at in that armour. The final fight where they cant really hurt eachother because of their dumb armour is resolved in a clever way with the tech that was disabling it requiring some thoughtful fighting, but I kinda had a hard time following that fight.
The movie also has the TChalla Problem as put forward by Marc Bernardin. The movie is called Black Panther but TChalla doesnt really have any particular motivation or goals in this movie hes just kind of there and reacting to everything happening and thats required of him, which is a bit of a shame. Its kind of okay because he had a lot of great character development in Civil War, but it feels a bit strange that hes not as much the focus in his own movie. The vision when he takes the flowers and sees his dad are nice though.
Overall, great movie! Thankfully, the movie was good enough to back up all the social acclaim it was getting.

XIII Rocks
The CGI is...really dodgy, especially the final Killmonger/Panther battle, and while that's a big complaint it's also the limit of my complaints (apart from smaller stuff like W'Kabi and Okoye's relationship being a nonfactor to the point you might have missed it entirely until the end, like why even include that, and some weird dialogue choices like Killmonger saying "this continent" twice, wtf?). I love the internal Wakandan politics that underpins it and the way the movie spends time exploring that - and then there's the larger message it has, which is clearly there but never gets in the way of being a superhero movie. That's the brilliance of it, that it manages to be so many things at once, and none of those things conflict woth each other. I also like the way it resisted making Boseman a quip machine like so many other MCU heroes. Some have said he's boring, but I don't think so. I think he's very clearly got an interesting "heavy is the head that wears the crown" thing going on and he has some sense of humour (particularly with Shuri) without being openly "funny" like Iron Man or Starlord, and the scene in the ancestral plane the second time is excellent (thanks also to the incredible, oscar-winning score, which obviously improves the whole movie but particularly lifts a few scenes). It manages to introduce a ton of characters with very few feeling short-changed; Okoye in particular is fantastic. There's this shot of her during the car chase in Korea, with the red dress billowing in the wind as she holds the spear thingy that makes her look completely unstoppable. And then there's Killmonger. Great villain, great motivations, a sense of ambiguity as to just how wrong he actually is, and his death scene (again, elevated by the outstanding score) nearly brought me to tears, which until that point had never happened in any of the MCU movies. Good shit.

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