Black Panther (2018), dir Ryan Coogler

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/

Good for Coogler, thank goodness DuVernay didn't do this.

this seems... encouraging

I mean you can never trust the early twitter reactions but it's cool that people are so excited

I can already sense every stage of the hype/thinkpiece/backlash cycle and I just want to end earth

You're in luck, it's likely to end quite soon

Be good to hear about the movie but lookit

the reviews are like OMG

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?

that trend has changed a bit, but it is also Black History Month

Ah, good point.

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

also Ms Marvel is scheduled for March (2019), so...

just to spell out what Marvel et al. think makes something "experimental"

kind of surprised by that metric that Ant Man came out in the summer

must have been an off year

Nobody likes ants

So that they can get to Infinity War by May

shit just give us a second Infinity War this year, two for the price of one

if you buy a ticket to an infinity war shouldn't it be good forever?

infinity war never changes

we had tickets to friday AM showing but had to cancel bcz I had a job-interview-kinda lunch and being newly unemployed the lunch had to be priority WAHHH but hopefully we'll hit it up this weekend or Monday AM.

This weekend? ;-) (Good luck with the job hunt!)

just to spell out what Marvel et al. think makes something "experimental"

female hero, not spider-man: experiment!

If the Captain Marvel movie comes with a soundtrack by Sonic Youth feat. Whale, I fear I will be officially unsurprised but also, without fear, unofficially very stoked

Seriously though it’s going to be weird and good not bad

sonic youth, what fucking year is this

imo that whole gif is retroactively defunct from both the past and future, some nice albums and gigs in the decreasing space

dearest mh shall we just have ourselves a Captain Marvel thread

RAGGETT

Please start it up I’m on Zing and in east coast time

I can't because someone someday will figure out my "hornie for brie larson" quotient and indict me on thread creation

many xposts uugh i’m so dumb, i totally thought it opened this week! well yay - next friday’s tickets reinstated

xpost -- you people. Well hold on here.

Never say I don't do anything for you.

Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

I'd never say that!

disapprove of M B Jordan's haircut; was that devised for the film or is it CANON?

it’s beautiful

yeah wtf that hair is awesome

he looks dope af

Have you studied the known facts of the Captain Marvel movie
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry, I was being a little opaque. My point was that BP is coming out during Black History Month, and CM is coming out during Women's History Month. That timing rubs me the wrong way given how irritating it is that it took like 17 movies to get to one whose lead isn't a white man. I think it calls attention to the single-digit-ness of these films within the franchise while kinda also patting themselves on the back for being brave (hence their status as "experimental" in bg's rubric), but I guess it's not objectively offensive and hell I don't work there, it could be a coincidence.

Personally, my only problem with these two movies is that Marvel waited so long to make them that my enthusiasm has waned after a couple total duds and a growing fatigue with the genre.

yeah that’s kinda what i was aiming at with scare-quotes ‘experimental’ but v otm

OST curated by Kendrick is out !
https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-kendrick-lamars-black-panther-album-with-sza-weeknd-vince-staples-more/

Three or four keepers; everyone got paid, at least.

4 pics

Have all these people somehow seen this movie already? This reminds me of when David Edelstein did a negative review of Dark Knight years ago and was attacked for a week by people who hadn’t even seen it yet pic.twitter.com/alfPgIUgVC

— Ace Deucey (@RickyRawls) February 9, 2018

Personally, my only problem with these two movies is that Marvel waited so long to make them that my enthusiasm has waned after a couple total duds and a growing fatigue with the genre.

also would really like to read more discussion on the kirby/lee roots of the character seeing as it's still roughly the same formulation at the heart of the current presentation
two white ny jews named a black african superhero "Black Panther"a few months before Seale and Newton formed the Black Panther party? can that possibly be right?
*lights the sic signal*

let's see if this links from the root
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_zfhoZUF--/c_fit%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_636/sdpshb0mwth5vjzxtpjy.jpg

TIL the panther is a leopard

a MINOR point, at best

People's interest in the purity of a Rotten Tomatoes score is, like, life's greatest puzzle to me

people have given up on the real world and funnel their spare energies into culture wars.

soundtrack is fucking great, it's kind of a crew TDE album with some well selected guest stars