It’s not bigotry as such. It could just be the lazy assumption that most of the news and images people get about Africa via a media obsessed with wildlife and poverty porn is at all representative of life there.
We got 1 every year here in the UK, lol… Since 1945 
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I liked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I think I was the only one
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You can’t ignore mods? That sucks.
@zikzak @anon46587892 Is there anything that can be done about that?
Yes it really does.
I asked in the mod or support thread, I forget which, and the workaround is horrendously complex.
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A movie can be incredible and thoroughly enjoyable but still start a crappy trend - “the Braveheart speech” followed by final battle. The Braveheart battles were inventive too. With the stakes in the ground and stuff.
Then Gladiator came out and the epic final battle was cemented. I remember watching Avatar and I was like really - we have to do this? At that point I realized every big action movie in perpetuity was going to have the same formula.
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I swear a year ago on this forum I was the only one who didn’t like super hero movies. Now it seems like I’m part of some club and I don’t know how I feel about it.
I skipped a lot of posts in this thread, so sorry if this has already been covered.
Whether or not you watch or like Black Panther, you can’t deny it’s culturally significant. We’re in the age of superhero movies, and Black Panther was the first big-budget mainstream movie about a black superhero. (I know about Blade, Spawn and Steel, so don’t @ me). It was also incredibly successful, grossing over $700 million domestically, and over $1.3 billion worldwide.
To help put in perspective how insane that domestic box office total is, it’s still the 4th highest gross of all time, and it’s higher than all of the “full team” Avengers movies except for Endgame. That means it was widely seen and enjoyed by Black and white audiences alike. Moreover, while not being without problematic areas, it was also generally critically praised. It actually won 3 Academy Awards (score, costume design and production design) and was nominated for Best Picture.
And Black Panther was just Boseman’s best known role. He also played Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and James Brown.
You don’t have to watch his movies. But maybe everyone would be better served by trying to empathize with how iconic he is to the Black community (and wider audiences) instead of shitting on his oeuvre before his body is even cold.
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That’s not that weird.
I don’t always dislike action, but it’s usually tedious.
To me a real action film is something like Free Solo. I felt in that film like I imagine others feel in the big battle at the end of a superhero movie.
I don’t hate superhero movies. I wouldn’t go to a theater to see them (haven’t since my kids were little) but sometimes when I’m resisting going to sleep they are ok. But most complaints about them are silly. What do you expect? At the very least they have to be appealing and understandable to young adolescents. And, actually movies for younger children (Up, Wally) are often very good, but they know for sure that parents are in the audience. 17 year olds go see superhero movies on their own.
But it wasn’t perfect, therefore it cannot be good!
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Braveheart was more than a movie for us Scottish folk, it started a real trend here and IMO is party responsibe for the rising of the SNP…
(Us Scots have been fighting like that for years and is a right of passage in most city’s in Scotland, everyone gets with the crowd and goes to the park for a running battles as teens. I’ve still got the scars to prove it.)
I generally don’t like all the Superhero movies too, like yourself I enjoyed Guardian of the Galaxy and I still fire up the Dark Knight rises once a year just to remember the best movie in a long time imo, its so good, but all those Avengers and Marvel movies Ugggg god there horrible to watch and just generally fall flat.
I didn’t even finish Deadpool 
but I did enjoy Will Smith in??? That movie 
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Clovis, jal and I have been pooping on them for years.
It gets exhausting to only like/pretend to like stuff that is critically lauded. I used to be like that with music. I was about as pretentious as possible and would only listen to the stuff pitchfork and more obscure blogs promoted. Nobody likes that person who shits on stuff that is popular and just OK. Its also just weird not being able to enjoy something that isn’t a masterpiece.
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Was that before you learnt how to build straw men?
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Dude, you’ve spent all morning attacking Black Panther for being anti black, video games and superhero movies for being anti intellectual and still just want to keep digging?
You even personally attacked skydiver for faintly praising the film, and imo owe her an apology.
This rivals some 2p2 bad posting streaks.
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In what way was Black Panther demeaning to Africans? I missed something here.
Lol
You still havent understood the point so I give up I guess.
Ok one final time.
It has nothing to do with being anti black, and everything to do with being anti African, mainly through ignorance caused by a lifetime of terrible media misrepresentations.
Can’t say it simpler than that I’m afraid but the incessant straw men have their own story to tell.
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