You’ve misunderstood.
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I enjoy a lot of superhero movies, but there are plenty of other things you can watch if that’s not your cup of tea.
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Well obviously. Go back and read how this started.
I genuinely think one of the weirdest things about a large portion of this forum is the amount of time they spend consuming or talking about things they dislike. Politics is obviously the main driver here, but you don’t have to put yourself through watching the RNC or Avengers. You dont have to talk about either if they make you upset!
But you might like to hear people’s opinions about non-infantile films without having to wade though 34,648 posts to get there, which is what started this rant of mine.
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A man died of cancer, then people started shitting on some of his movies despite not even having seen them.
Not the best way for this discussion to begin iyam. We get it, you don’t like them. Maybe picking a day a star of them didn’t die is the next best time to state such for the 350th time.
The ironic part of this is the dumb views jalfrezi has are exactly what got us the current DC universe of gritty superheroes that kill a shit ton of people because Snyder isn’t making movies for kids!
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Dumb views are those held by people like you who are too culturally unenlightened to understand why people like me don’t want to watch a film that perpetuates negative myths about African people: (from the link @6ix posted above) and just want childish THRILLS at any cost, regardless of the subtext.
This is a vision of Africa that could only spring from the neocolonial mind. It is really telling how close a black “redemptive counter-mythology” sails to the colonial vision of a childish people needing a strong guiding hand to lead them. Despite their centuries of vibranium-induced technological advancement, the Wakandans remain so remarkably unsophisticated that a “returning” American can basically stroll in and take over, just as 19th-century Europeans did to the real Africa.
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Dude, Tah Nehisi Coates wrote Black Panther for a couple of years. I’m pretty sure he helped with the movie. The article you’re posting sucks and I would post a rebuttal but you would be uninterested in it because you’re not interested in the movie at all. So what’s the point of a back and forth here?
Do you think Coates would write Black Panther if it perpetuated harmful stereotypes?
Save being condescending for things you have consumed or actually know about in the future, rather than things you think you’re just too good for.
Coates is an American; the author of that review is Kenyan. For you to dismiss the latter’s view of a film’s take on a mythical African country as “sucks” says it all about arrogant and ignorant Americans. Sorry.
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I’m not American, but I’m glad you found another thing to be condescending about while also being wrong about.
The author is wrong because he points out things that simply do not happen in the film. If you had seen it, you would know this.
ok, North Americans. You could broaden it to include everyone who has an idea of what Africa is about but really has none, and is intent on imposing their lack of knowledge.
I guess I’d rather be infantile and be able to enjoy fantasy stories than so enamored of my own high-mindedness that I can’t allow people to enjoy things without feeling the need to shit on it to demonstrate how woke I am.
I am 45 years old with two engineering degrees and my favorite genre is fantasy and sci-fi. I go to ComicCon every year. I was raised playing “computer games.”
Not everything has to be serious all the time.
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Frozen is actually a good movie though.
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Oh for sure, I’m not shitting on Frozen or Pixar films. I’m just pointing out you’re much more likely to find more families/young kids at these movies in the first weekend or week than a Marvel movie.
It should probably not reinforce negative and inaccurate stereotypes, surely?
Isn’t that what this forum stands for after all? Or does that only apply to black Americans?
Nothing high-minded in that.
How are you sure it does?
Because, unquestionably, the vast majority of people with even the background of the author of the piece you read, do not agree with him!
“Surely” isn’t used in that way. It’s discussing a point of principle.
This also seems like a bad take. I’ve never seen Black Panther but I have seen countless people of colour say how much it meant for them.
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Americans and Canadians again, I guess?