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I re-watched it out. (it's out on torrent, itunes, dvd, etc.)
It just doesn't do it for me. The Korean scene was great, the final battle at the end was good until the domesticated rhinos came in.
Overall, just far too predicable and largely boring. I found myself skipping through scenes of dialogue because there was no point in watching it. The score of the movie is just absurd dring the combat man to man fighting scene as well as the CGI
Black Panther has no personality either. The only bright spot was Shuri (Letitia Wright) who acted circles around everyone else to bring personality to the movie.
That was one of the reasons why my younger brother didn't like the movie because of blacks warring against other blacks(even though I pointed out to him that it was a civil war). But he just couldn't see(as in accept) it. Plus, he didn't like that Kilmonger got killed and thought that T'Challa should have won him over. Especially since they were family.
However, as far as an advanced civilization resorting to physical combat... In all fairness, I do have to say that with some advance civilizations featured in the Star Trek television series, sometimes that was the case. Just like Vulcans where they have the courtship/mating combat ritual.
Watched it last weekend. I was really expecting much more , it was good, the effects were good but I do agree with your younger brother , just more of the same. I can see that daily on the news. Except this group of people were much further advanced , so much that in fighting should have been a thing of the past.
The only stand out characters for me, was Killmonger , and Shuri. Even though KM was the "bad" guy I thought he was pretty cool. And Shuri just rocked with her personality.
Watched it last weekend. I was really expecting much more , it was good, the effects were good but I do agree with your younger brother , just more of the same. I can see that daily on the news. Except this group of people were much further advanced , so much that in fighting should have been a thing of the past.
The only stand out characters for me, was Killmonger , and Shuri. Even though KM was the "bad" guy I thought he was pretty cool. And Shuri just rocked with her personality.
An interesting difference in Black Panther is that the villain not only had a point, but the hero was eventually brought around to agree with his point (although not with his remedy).
Although Killmonger isn't the only Marvel villain with a valid point (Magneto, the Vulture, and Hela also did), but he was the only one to make the hero change his own point of view.
(Although, granted, Nakia had been making the same point all along.)
I finally watched it on DVD a couple of nights ago. I had avoided it at the theater for just one reason -- I thought it was gonna be just another super-hero action film...which to some us is redundant boring crapola.
Instead, I was impressed. First, for a while now I've thought that Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan are two of the best "new" actors out there (although I didn't find Jordan's performance here to be his best). Yes, there was action, but there was also more serious acting. There was a good story line with substance. It wasn't just good versus evil...it was (in part) about a character (Killmonger) who seemed evil...but had some noble intentions...and how he got to be the way he was. I could care about some of these characters, and that's not always true in superhero movies.
The one mistake I made was watching the extra on how the film was made. I wish I hadn't...because even though I know so much in Hollywood is now done in front of blue-screen, I don't want to think about that while I'm watching the film. It just makes it seem even more unreal to me. I like on-location filming, when possible.
Instead, I was impressed. First, for a while now I've thought that Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan are two of the best "new" actors out there (although I didn't find Jordan's performance here to be his best). Yes, there was action, but there was also more serious acting. There was a good story line with substance. It wasn't just good versus evil...it was (in part) about a character (Killmonger) who seemed evil...but had some noble intentions...and how he got to be the way he was. I could care about some of these characters, and that's not always true in superhero movies.
Another difference here from most such movies is the protagonist realizing he has been wrong and needs to make a course correction. And although Nakia had been advising that all along, it's not clear that her "working within the system" would have ever been effective.
The tragedy was that Killmonger had gone too far along his own deadly path to make a course correction himself.
First, for a while now I've thought that Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan are two of the best "new" actors out there (although I didn't find Jordan's performance here to be his best).
Jordan did fine with the material. Boseman was too one-note. The entire cast acted circles around him.
Trust me, that's a plus. After Stark, Quill and Lang, it's time to move away from that.
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