BLACK PANTHER (2018)

[ER]

I saw the trailer for it and was appalled by the so-called African accents: no one in Africa speaks English like that. Typical BS.

Trevor, there are very few actors, black or white, who can do an acceptable English accent.

What I meant by that is the way the African American actors speak English "as she is spoken in Africa": it sounds very put on and very forced. Oh well, Marvel won't miss my $$.

Interesting you'd say that.  I haven't heard enough original African accents to know the difference, but Chadwick Boseman supposedly put a lot of study into the regional accents of where Wakanda is supposed to be.  He wanted to make it as authentic as he could.

We have a sports commentator in SA who is so hopeless at the English language that he pronounces the word "bat" - as in cricket - as "bed". 

After watching Safari Live for two years I barely notice South African accents anymore, but this Australian came on there and her accent jolted me. Likewise they had an American guide for a few months recently and even her accent sounded wrong. Funny how you get used to things. I do get a tickle at how "yes is said "yis". It's charming.

[BoyScoutKevin]

While there are a number of films I like as well or better, there are few films I have found as interesting. Which is why I came up with Truths (T?) 'n' Questions (Q?)

T? Maybe because for me it is like a looking at a negative of a black 'n' white photo, where everything is reversed.

Q? It seems to me that I have seen something similar, but with most of the actors being white, instead of black, but what was the title?

T? Sometimes he is right. Sometimes he is wrong. This time I was wrong, as the box office proves me wrong. Since I had my doubts as to whether whites would accept a film with a black superhero as star.

Q? A culmination of a century of black filmmaking?

T? It is obviously a black film, but it is also can be considered a feminist film with several strong female characters.

Q? The director was black. Most of the cast was black. Even many of the crew were black, but were the screenwriters black?

T? See 2 films and call me in the morning. Seeing a film is normally good for my mental health, which is good for my physical health.

Q? Wakanda is a fictional country, but if it were a real African country, and knowing what Trump has said previously about some African countries, what would he say about Wakanda?

T? I love those Easter eggs, even though they always put me on the floor.

Q?: Looking at the violence in the trailer for Mission : Impossible : Fallout, then looking at the violence in this film, will we ever get a film that realistically depicts real life violence?

T? Seeing the set-up for Avengers : Infinity War after the credits. it was not the set-up I was expecting.

Q? The token white man in the film, any comparison to the token black man in films with mostly white actors?

T? The separation of the heroes from the villain. Children. Heroes: Do not harm the boy. He is only a child. Villain: We will kill them. We will kill their children.

Q?  Have we become more sensitive about native artifacts. Should we take them? Would we keep them? Could we return them?

T? With a domestic box office to date of $500 million and an additional $421 million from the non-domestic box office. They won't miss Trevor not seeing it.

Q? Thus, with a box office like that, there be a sequel. The question is where will the sequel head?

[Olivia Bauer]

I didn't like it. It was astonishingly predictable and was basically just another Marvel movie. The only thing I really liked was the villain who was genuinely well written.
The CGI was really bad, especially those rhinos. I rarely laughed at the comedy. In fact I grunted in disgust for a lot of the jokes. Quoting the "What are those?!" meme that was never funny, the super predictable "Make it rain" joke, and Stan Lee's underwhelming cameo all made me cringe.

Even though I thought I was going to get a slice of African life they made Wakanda a painfully obvious metaphor for the United States. Even when they aren't setting a movie in America they still make it about America. Think about it. They have all the technology and horde it for themselves, they're extremely stubborn in their ways, and they wall themselves off from the rest of the world. In fact they pretty much say that Wakanda was an analogy for the US in the post-credit scene.

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When Black Panther fought Killmonger I turned to my sister and whispered "Panther's going to get thrown off the waterfall, they're going to pretend he's dead, and Killmonger will take over until the climatic show down where Panther leads a revolution to take back the throne." And wouldn't you know it Panther gets thrown off the waterfall, they pretended he was dead (Even though he's in the trailer for Infinity War), Killmonger took power, and made a comeback where he took back the throne.

When that rival tribe from the beginning of the movie said "We will not help you" my sister whispered to me "They're going to show up and help them in the final battle."

Martin Freeman is like "Are you hiding Vibranium?" Panther was all like "Nuh-uh! Pinkie swear!"
Then Martin Freeman got shot and it was all like "Oh no! The amount of damage he sustained was just enough not to kill him but he'll die at a hospital so we need to take him to Wakanda where we're hiding all the Vibranium immediately after telling him there we weren't hiding Vibranium! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!"

At the end when Martin Freeman said "You're gonna need all the help you can get" I nearly stormed out of the theater. That was the most goddamn cliché thing I've ever seen.

In Martin Freeman's first scene Angie turned to me and said "Hey, he has a really good American accent!" Only to take it back later as it deteriorated as the film went on. I swear to god when he said "Get in the car!" he wasn't even doing the American accent. He sounded British as f**k.

Oh god the final climatic show down was bad. First when they're falling the CG looked so bad it looked like a video game. They did this thing where the train comes and it f**ks up their suit, only for that to not matter even the slightest.

Bad kitty...

3/10

[Svengoolie 3]

Some people think the black panther movie is the ultimate achievement of humanity,  cannot be mocked and must be utterly and universally adored.

I. Have something for them.