Black Panther (2018), dir Ryan Coogler

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

I like the 2 Chainz/Q, Khalid, Vince, and Mozzy tracks. I can live without the rest (on first listen).

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.

for real for real. i am sorry i ever read a comic book in the first place.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, February 9, 2018 1:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this totally...like i just...can't watch fucking comic book movies anymore, i last tried w/wonder woman but just lost interest a quarter way through (and it's probably a fine movie)

That’s why I liked Thor: Ragnarok so much as Taika Waititi seems to have deliberately put stuff into the film just to fuck with the standard presentation(casting Jeff Goldblum to be Jeff Goldblum, deliberately writing a Kirby-CGI rock monster part for himself with his native accent, the “shoulda brought more pamphlets” bits, etc)

remember back when we didn't really have a "standard presentation" for these things

...no?

I mean, on a basic level for Marvel junk the answer is "before they made Iron Man" because their productions have a somewhat enforced consistency in tone. DC has slightly different problems.

The big comic movie thing that made it clear to me that there's been a big shift in formula over the years was WB thinking Bryan Singer's attempt to seamlessly reboot Superman from the past franchise, when comic book movies were not really using that template, fell flat.

at this point we're yet another decade past and a Christopher Reeve style of Superman would probably seem fresh and intriguing

pointless (BUT INTRIGUING!) question: is Michael B Jordan the first actor to cross over from a non-canonical Marvel movie into a Cinematic Marvel Universe film as a different character?

Not entirely if you think about Josh Brolin's upcoming May here.

xp: Chris Evans did it too, and also crossed over from playing Human Torch in a non-MCU Fantstic Four movie.

oh yeah, i forgot about evans as the human torch... also jordan as human torch!
xp I know Brolin is Cable... who was he in the noncanonical films?

Well what's the definition of noncanonical? MCU = Thanos; Fox/Marvel = Cable.

i guess i thought deadpool was canonical. didn't realize it wasn't... except now it is! wheeeeeeee

it's maybe canonical in the Fox mutantverse

which still has absolutely nothing to do with the Avengers

so they still have to kinda flip a switch and say deadpool is part of disney? that's presumably the plot of deadpool 3: the canonsolidation

it’s really doubtful they’ll combine their projects, it’d be a soft or full reboot, or right before both ventures die in a fire, they’ll combine everything for no reason

they pushed back the new mutants movie until next year (??) so maybe they’re considering cutting all the fox x-men references out, doing minor reshoots, and making that the first marvel movie universe one