Black Panther (2018), dir Ryan Coogler

That poster image could too easily double for the film's inevitable gay porn parody.

It's a Hewi Newton reference

http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2.31-Stapp_Huey_JJ_60D_02312.jpg

oh someone already pointed that out

shakey why do you hate-read these threads? you're turning into morbius

Lots of photos and things and stuff these last couple of days, etc. etc.

http://ew.com/movies/black-panther-marvel-portraits/black-panther/

I feel like this one is going to be light on jokes.

I'm still bothered by the bit in the trailer where he takes off in his cool hoverplane but there is absolutely no sign of downforce on the water beneath. YOU CANT HEAR ECKTHPLOZUNS IN SPAAAACE

Wakandan tech can overcome Newtonian physics duh

these movies could stand to have a few fewer jokes anyway

or better jokes

And have a new poster.

Check out the new @theblackpanther San Diego Comic-Con poster that just debuted in Hall H! #BlackPanther pic.twitter.com/pxEGB5b7bV

— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) July 23, 2017

New poster...

Bringing a brand new #BlackPanther poster to you 1st! We hit theaters Feb 16, but you can check out the new trailer from @marvelstudios NOW. pic.twitter.com/KFbA9A9cG8

— Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) October 16, 2017

And new trailer.

Long live the king. Watch the new trailer for Marvel Studios' #BlackPanther. In theaters February 16! pic.twitter.com/fs1UKzjiqN

— Black Panther (@theblackpanther) October 16, 2017

shut up and take my money

^^^
Yep

gil scott heron! too much!

I'm team Killmonger now

I am Team Killmonger's Barber

understandable

I'm finally watching Get On Up and it's not as if I didn't love Boseman already but omg I cannot wait for this movie

also, I am now disappointed that there wasn't a deleted scene from the battle royale in Civil War where T'Challa pauses and think to himself "Dammit, I'm in the middle of a honky hoedown"

http://franklinmena.tumblr.com/post/166555017700/amisakadarthana

http://78.media.tumblr.com/56aa96ee26f4d5c4b801871ece09a9a3/tumblr_oy1s6quxvD1qkxt2yo1_500.jpg

trying not to get too hype for this after being mildly let down by ragnarok but it’s not working tbh

XP justifies those Hobbit movies imo

New international trailer...

#ブラックパンサー が守る＜超文明国・ワカンダ＞の秘密とは…⁉️

クールな音楽にノったド迫力アクション満載の予告編解禁✨

ビルの壁を駆け抜ける！車の上に跳び乗る！ブラックパンサーのアクションシーンにも注目‼ https://t.co/cohLlcVGkz #ブラパン pic.twitter.com/cAghnCZGOu

— 『アベンジャーズ』［公式］ (@AVG_JP) December 11, 2017

Am I the only one not really into the look of this one? Shame because BP is one of my absolute favorite Marvel characters and this looks like 75% candy colored CGI and bad line deliveries.

now is not the time to not be excited abt Black Panther

cmon man

What? I can't feel 'meh' about something I was expecting to be 'wow!!'? C'mon (wo)man

NO

EXCITEMENT ONLY

WAKANDA!!!

Tickets on sale...

http://media.comicbook.com/2018/01/black-panther-pin-1072701.jpeg

I assume that serves a similar purpose to the black stuff white athletes put under their eyes

this movie is gonna rule

is this really gonna be 4 hours long?

Once Upon a Time in Wakanda

is this really gonna be 4 hours long?

Part of me wants to get opening Thursday night tix at the Uptown 1, but frankly I would rather enjoy this in the company of my favorite lady at a matinee so I’m waiting

i just can't take how long movies are now, Peter Jackson really has a lot to answer for

all I heard is that the "first cut" was 4 hours, which let's be real, this thing will probably wind up 2.25 or 2.5 like all of the superhero films do.

IIRC it said 132 minutes when I got my tickets, so a little over 2 hours.

i'm good w/ that

good to hear it's normal length

still not good, but ongoing o_O

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— Disney Pins Blog (@DisneyPinsBlog) January 8, 2018

disney pins blog, stop caping

gee maybe social media sucks

Or maybe it’s true Disney secretly put down millions of dollars to cast a superhero movie entirely with black people (and Andy Serkis) so that they could secretly reveal that the Black Panther is... Jimmy Garoppolo

Anyway, one last trailer or ad or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBmeqpw3DY

yep, day one

While we gear up, good interview/profile of Christopher Priest here

http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/christopher-priest-made-black-panther-cool-then-disappeared.html

kind of amazing to think about what was going on with the black panther party forty-five years ago and now this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIKnmVqCFO4

https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-black-panther-toy-commercial-is-more-important-tha-1821802836

But every one of them formed a band.

it played really differently on the big screen in a way that i can't define. some of killmonger's best stuff, like the museum scene, felt suddenly like low-budget marvel TV watching on a computer monitor.

Yeah just watched it too. It’s ok but I don’t understand all the hype about it.
M. B. Jordan was pretty cool though (and the Shuri character/actress is fresh).

get yr eyes checked maybe idk

:D

you are all otm except that no it was not any better on the big screen in fact much of it looked like shite tbh

fp

😎 worth it

you are dead to me on so many levels <3

aw that is a vmic assassination

:D

This will be the first best picture nominee I haven't watched since the wild horses couldn't drag me to Finding Neverland.

this was a lot better than finding neverland

I think one of my issues with BP is that I don't really like the main character.
I find him kinda annoying.
And M.B. Jordan was about 10 times more charismatic (and even likeable) than him !
Also, another nice thing compared to many other Marvel movies is that the main fight/battle wasn't a total mess with too many heroes and whatever space invaders.
I was almost "minimalist" !
The Avengers movies are too exhausting for me on that aspect.

It was almost "minimalist"

i'm surprised people are talking about this as a best picture contender, can only assume they will come to their senses in a year or five or just forget anyone ever said anything of the kind.

relative to the mythical aspects of MCU, or any superhero comic book, storytelling, it seemed really over-rationalized, presumably the effects of an effort to render its materials intelligible to as large a low-information audience as possible ($$$$$). that would not make it stand out among recent MCU movies, it's what makes them so long and safe. but here i think it hurts a bit more because rather than being an origin story turn for a superhero character (they being nothing if not viciously archetypal, always linked to the premises of their originating constellation of ideas: relationships to parents, source of power, iconic abilities, etc.), this is set up as an origin story for wakanda itself. in a typical origin story the result would be 'now this superhero's story begins' (naturally, bound to repeat and need rebooting and continuity editing). but the result of this story is that wakanda enters world history, i.e., that until now it has not properly had any history. thus the rigidity of the setup - herbs and ore and powers and a scrupulously observed ritual combat as a device for rationalizing a hereditary succession of power, which they act like has been totally reliable forever. the separate existence of m'baku and the jabari hints at the possibility of an internal history (just like m'baku's scorn for shuri as technologist suggests that she represents a break with the past), but he accepts the strictures of their rituals all the same once he yields to t'challa. at that point in the movie they're talking 'tradition' in a way that makes it seem like they can hardly imagine its opposite enough to reject it.

in order to have an appropriately mythical (i.e. archetypal in the usual superhero comic-scale way) action in at the heart of the origin story they do use the story of killmonger's father's death to relate killmonger and t'challa to each other on a dramatic level, to introduce a big lie, etc., but it seems like all that does in the movie as it plays is to situate its heart outside the focal point of the storytelling, to make the germ of wakanda's entry into history an outsider whom the movie is not really in a position to show the wakandans as understanding.

that matters for the movie's supposed 'politics' because if it as a whole establishes any kind of mythical structure of its own (inclusive of the entry into history) it has to be something like what t'challa's speech at the end suggests, of a free and independent nation choosing to enter into history (out of a kind of pre-history) on its own terms, from a position of relatively uncontestable superiority (he says they want to share their knowledge; do they imagine that anyone else in the world could teach them anything?). killmonger tells the wakandans he wants to liberate others who look like them, but it seems like his dying lines underline, accurately, the difference between the reality of race outside wakanda and its virtual un-reality inside. the return to oakland in the last bits is meant to show that gap being bridged, but there's something about the dynamics of the overall narrative that make it feel like the ending they'd like was never earned.

production design had lots of cool stuff going on in it but the cgi was way too arid and fakey. m'baku had about the only real lol, feeding agent white to his children (i think because they decided they had to make nearly the whole cast aristocratic types who never lower themselves by laughing - shuri gets a few in but not enough - not all that abnormally for superhero comic depictions of social life at the more rarefied levels of 'powers', but still, the other dialogue was way too flat to be able stay vital without some more irreverence).

relationships to parents is actually pretty low in Marvel (far more a thing for DC): only Guardians of the Galaxy and to an extent Thor have it in their origin stories.

source of power / iconic abilities are obviously necessary parts - we need to know that Tony Stark will die if the reactor in his heart is off for too long, and that he can't summon a magic hammer (okay okay, technology is frequently treated as magic)

Point taken though that 2/3 of this happens in another film entirely.

I'm not quite sure what to make of the idea that Wakanda has no internal history - it runs from the very first scene, including the history of Klaw.

(also please stop saying mythical / archetypal - Joseph Campbell is happily rotting in his grave)

(i don't mean it in that sense, but it's not as if talking about that dimension of a narrative is something he invented or that died with him. it's about making sense of the core metaphors tied up in the fact, in-movie, that the characters are more(-powerful)-than-human - which most of these do with some kind of logic of transformation and control. i don't see how you don't have to do it sooner or later with superhero universe movies, just to identify the core interest. otherwise they're all just a lot of spectacular junk.)

otherwise they're all just a lot of spectacular junk

https://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bloom-County-Complete-Library-Vol.-6-278.png

i'm surprised people are talking about this as a best picture contender,

important to bear in mind that film quality is totally irrelevant to a best picture nomination/award, which is more about the industry collectively and publicly affirming the values it likes to think it holds

personally while I'm glad this movie got made and was popular, I fell asleep and couldn't finish it

Only complaint I had was that I know what Forest Whitaker looked like in 1992, and it damn sure wasn't like Denzel Whitaker.

Who is.. no relation?

None at all!