gil scott heron! too much!
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
I'm team Killmonger now
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
I am Team Killmonger's Barber
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
understandable
― mh, Monday, 16 October 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 November 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
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"
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
http://franklinmena.tumblr.com/post/166555017700/amisakadarthana
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
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
― wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 13 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
XP justifies those Hobbit movies imo
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Monday, 13 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
now is not the time to not be excited abt Black Panther cmon man
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
What? I can't feel 'meh' about something I was expecting to be 'wow!!'? C'mon (wo)man
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
NO EXCITEMENT ONLY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
WAKANDA!!!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
Tickets on sale...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
http://media.comicbook.com/2018/01/black-panther-pin-1072701.jpeg
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
I assume that serves a similar purpose to the black stuff white athletes put under their eyes
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
this movie is gonna rule
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
is this really gonna be 4 hours long?
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
Once Upon a Time in Wakanda
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
i just can't take how long movies are now, Peter Jackson really has a lot to answer for
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
IIRC it said 132 minutes when I got my tickets, so a little over 2 hours.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
i'm good w/ that
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
good to hear it's normal length
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
still not good, but ongoing o_O
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― mh, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
disney pins blog, stop caping
― mh, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
gee maybe social media sucks
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link
Anyway, one last trailer or ad or whatever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBmeqpw3DY
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
yep, day one
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
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
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 22 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Good read
https://theundefeated.com/features/behind-the-scenes-marvel-black-panther/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
fairly muted reaction so far
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/30/black-panther-first-reactions-declare-film-astonishing-iconic-and-save-blockbusters/1077768001/
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Good for Coogler, thank goodness DuVernay didn't do this.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
this seems... encouraging
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
I mean you can never trust the early twitter reactions but it's cool that people are so excited
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
I can already sense every stage of the hype/thinkpiece/backlash cycle and I just want to end earth
― Simon H., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
You're in luck, it's likely to end quite soon
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Be good to hear about the movie but lookit
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
the reviews are like OMG
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
Why is this coming out in February? Just curious as I thought January and February were used as studio dumping grounds for shit they expected to bomb. Has that trend changed?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
that trend has changed a bit, but it is also Black History Month
― rob, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
Ah, good point.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
also since marvel moved to three movies a year i think the surefire blockbusters get the summer/autumn slots and the 'experimental' one gets the early-doors slot
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
It was almost "minimalist"
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
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).
― j., Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:48 (five years ago) link
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)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
(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.)
― j., Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
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― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Sunday, 4 April 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
Who is.. no relation?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 4 April 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
None at all!
― pplains, Sunday, 4 April 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link