eliya wrote:Also, I don't think people are calling that one scene badass. People think that a movie about a powerful nation of black africans is badass. People think that a movie where the cast is almost uniformly black is badass.
Yes, what great representation, a movie with black people who are from a fictional land of separatist tech-utopians, just like the real black experience in America. I am glad people get piece of mind from this, but it doesn't make this movie not boring to me. It's also weird that the only person in the film that is actually talking about how I see this world is the villain, who is arbitrarily made an asshole because... reasons. I was still rooting for him, and the only part where I was amped was when he won against BP and became the new ruler. Then he dies because the elite, invincible True King kills him. Yay.
eliya wrote:It's just so funny that people choose to nitpick to death a movie that means so much to so many people.
Uh huh, quite hilarious people are able to articulate what they don't like about something.
I was essentially dragged into the theater, in a forced group outing, and when it ended up being, for me, another dumb boring superhero movie, I was like "this sucks". Then I have to answer for the good it does the world, or something. I mean sorry, but you're doing it too. We're talking about a clearly uninspired scene in the film, and you immediately switch tracks to the politics you are making fun of people for noticing.
I loved when it opens up in Oakland and I'm like woah Black Panther is going to come from the inner city, and I guess we'll watch his rise to oh wait no a goofy Star Trek man came from nowhere and revealed everyone was a videogame, and then they fly off in a spaceship.
Oh, Black Panther is already super strong and powerful and everyone loves him, and now he's the king. What an arc. Zzz.