Saw it with the wife Sunday afternoon. Good flick, lots of fun and enjoyed it.

Saw it last night and really liked it. Marvel has been killing it lately. Ragnorak and Black Panther were some of their best.

Super excited for Infinity Wars.

Fifth highest (U.S.) Opening weekend box office numbers of all time. Damn. Only Marvel film higher is the original Avengers.

Jordan was awesome in his role. He’s really coming into his own.

Had hoped they could somehow keep him in the universe to use in infinity war

He was superb. Killmonger was definitely one of the best villain roles in the entire MCU films. Its too bad he had to die, but i understand why they did it. It was a reason for T'Challa to change his stance on his countries isolationism. Loved the wrap around story and the way they tied it together at the end in Oakland.

That line by Killmonger too " My ancestors knew it was better to die by jumping off the boats than live a life in chains" was great. I cant believe that made it into a Disney 4 quadrant movie.

Lots of racial division in this thread - just saying, pull it together guys.

Thanks!

Including me?
I didn't say a thing.

No - you seem nice.

It's where we are now, recognize your privilege.

:eek:

I guess I want to see this film now.
Everybody seems to rate it well

Have you seen Hostels yet?

Yeah, I had just thought it’d be cool to have him stay around, as they had to burn that actor and such in just one movie.

Timely

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ROFL

Killmonger's modus operandi is kicking T'Challa's ass, and always coming back or staying alive. If they go by the comic continuity he'll be resurrected.

Good movie...but not great.

Funny how T'Challa/Black Panther was for Wakandian interests first, borders etc.

Then the oppressive black character of Michael B Jordan gets him to change his mind at the end to open up bridges to other nations.

Racist

He could have stood up at a press conference and said "I am Black Panther" like Iron Man but some cop would have just shot at him.


There you go. I hope that was the politics that you wanted injected into the thread.

Racist.

NSFW language:

No, not yet. I just looked it up, kind of looks intense

I loved it. Hype is totally deserved. My mild criticism of some battle action being a little confusing and/or boring is tempered by some simple facts that place this film well above other marvel fare (of which I am a fan.). Marvel is not known for visually beautiful films but this is absolutely a leap forward for them. The performances especially from Michael B.Jordan and Chadwick Boseman are fresh, dynamic and layered, best complete cast in ages. I even loved Andy Serkis and I have a vendetta against him for how he disrespects animators. Nice to see him deliver all by himself. It was great world building, great cultural development, and at its core great story with emotional stakes and a deeply personal primary conflict which is refreshing in a huge marvel movie. I loved the ritual combat fights just found the larger end battle and the Korea fight and chase a little confusing and boring. Also, the fighting rhinos looked like shit. Overall, it is now my favorite marvel movie.

Just to give a bit of an example of how far Marvel is ahead of DC right now.

Black Panther (four day totals): Domestic: $235,000,000
Justice League (Full run totals): Domestic: $228,616,472

Black Panther's way ahead of Doctor Strange and Thor: Ragnarok, too, but they also finished with higher domestic box totals than Justice League.

Wait. Hostels, Hostel, or Hostiles?

Blue Steel

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dammit. I messed it up - Hostiles

Ah, OK. Somebody was raving about that movie on a talk show a while back. Somebody famous. Can't remember.

My bad . . .

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They stole an entire line from Unforgiven. I did like the movie though.

I don't want to hijack this thread, because that'd be racist - but it was the best western I've seen - by a pretty big margin - I'd say Outlaw Josey Wales was my prior #1

I really enjoyed the movie. Easily top 5 of the Marvel movies with CA: Winter Soldier being at the top for me.

I agree with the previous comment that Ulysses Klaue stole the show. I wish there was a way to get rid of him without killing him. Maybe a Captain America cameo to take him into custody or something.

Racist

ROFL:clap:

heh,

reminded me of an old 70s Blaxploitation movie or a Kung Fu film where you might see one or two token white guys show up to help 'sell it' to white audience.

I thought it was a really good movie. Kudos to the actors as others have praised. Well deserved. But, one of the top MCU movies? Sorry but not in my universe.

A Closer Look at 'Black Panther's Record Smashing Opening

by Brad Brevet



February 20, 2018

Actual grosses for the weekend are in and Black Panther continues to break more and more records after becoming only the fifth film to ever deliver over $200 million in its first three days of release and the second largest four-day gross in history. Those, however, are just some of the highlights from this past weekend and we'll begin by taking a look at the film's performance, beginning with the charts where Black Panther sits at #1.

LARGEST FEBRUARY OPENING WEEKEND - $202,003,951
PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER: Deadpool ($132,434,639)

LARGEST WINTER SEASON OPENING WEEKEND - $202,003,951
PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER: Deadpool ($132,434,639)

LARGEST PRESIDENT'S DAY WEEKEND OPENING - $242,155,680
PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER: Deadpool ($152,193,853)

LARGEST MONDAY - $40,151,729
PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($40,109,742)

LARGEST THURSDAY PREVIEW GROSS IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY - $25.2 million
PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER: Deadpool ($12.7 million)

Beyond those charts, Black Panther places second only to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as the second highest four-day gross of all-time and the second largest Sunday of all-time by just $485,750.

Black Panther also places second only to The Avengers on several charts, including the second highest opening for a comic book adaptation, for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for a Marvel Comic adaptation and for a superhero movie. For that matter, within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther has already outgrossed the lifetime domestic totals for Doctor Strange ($232.6m), Thor: The Dark World ($206.3m), Thor ($181m), Ant-Man ($180.2m), Captain America: The First Avenger ($176.6m) and The Incredible Hulk ($134.8m) and will top Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259.7m) once Tuesday grosses arrive.

This is what worried me. I thought "this movie is going to surprise a lot of people. It will be better than people think."

Then came the hype.
The hype around this made me think of TLJ - critics all knelt down to praise it and didn't seem able to find any negatives.

This I find odd because much of the CGI of the Panther looked very early Spiderman-ish. Not up to the level of a Marvel film at this point. That said the cast is solid and from what I hear this sets up Panther to be a big player (similar to his role pre-Secret Wars II.)

I know I'll end up seeing it at the theater but I'm hoping the insane hype doesn't ruin a really solid flick...

In the comics Panther is almost like a mix of Dr. Strange and Iron man. In that I mean there are mystical/magical elements to his character while being a very technologically advanced character.

Did they do a good job of showing both sides in the film?...

A little bit but not really, IMO. I definitely picked up an Iron Man-Spider Man vibe to his powers and a peacetime Captain America vibe from his persona. It was a pretty cool mix.

I could see why Black Panther and Captain America would get along really well. They are both personifications of their respective nations.

Amazing film! I thought the little sister stole the show actually. Love her from 'Black Mirror' and 'Humans'. Fight scenes on the waterfall and at the casino were epic in terms of the camera work.

I thought the casino fights were shit really. Hard to tell what was even going on. I did like the waterfall fight scenes but they were short lived. I like the movie but not so much I was in awe or anything. I would definitely give it a solid 7 or 8 out of 10.

Yeah, not a lot of mysticism besides one thing in the spoiler. He was more advanced Batman to me. A regular man without any inert powers with generations forward tech.

uhhhh

He had to lean on his sister who is the smartest person in the MCU, so he's more James Bond IMO.

Typical...

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Anyone look at Rotten Tomatoes score recently? It says it has a 77% audience score right now. If you look under the audience reviews they have the "There are no featured audience reviews yet. Click the link below to see what others say about Black Panther!". I have never seen anything like that for a movie of this nature. If you click the link it is taking you to some reviews but then you also see a lot of five stars stating things like "man, can't wait to see this!" and "The trailer looks amazing!". It looks like it is counting people who are just saying they want to see it.

It's racist

There are actually groups out there intentionally giving it 1 star ratings because they are racists. This is a known phenomenon based on social media.

Of course there are also I'm sure a lot of people rating it higher because it stars black people. Social justice and all.

Not sure if these groups cancel each other out or not. At the end of the day, it seems to be regarded as a good movie by most people, and I'm not sure why anyone would expect much more than that from a superhero/comic book movie.

I have my IMAX tix for Friday, and can't wait to see it.

yes, it’s becoming a problem. I can show anyone here how to build a bot in an afternoon. Program it to make thousands of posts every day under hundreds of different names and you don’t have to do a thing. Ever again.

If you motivated for political/social/racial reasons, those numbers go up.

Alt-right trolls bringing down the scores, yeah. That's a thing now. Same thing happened with TLJ.

That's sad, honestly and if you've followed me on here - I mesh very well with the black man - It's sad in this day and age.

I love the reviews where they give it half a star and say it looks bad.

If you haven't seen it yet why are you reviewing it? I'm sure there is no motive there at all. *sarcasm*

Damn, I must be really out of touch with the comics. Reed Richards was always the smartest dude in the MCU.

In the Cinematic Universe Shuri is the most intelligent

Ah, riiiight. Marvel CINEMATIC Universe.

I wasn't using my brain. My b.

I dunno, this guy might have something to say about that:

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Lupita Nyongo was looking gorgeous

Meh.... not necessarily in the comics.

Just as Howard told Tony he was limited by the technology of his time, you could make the same case for Tony here. Wakandan tech shits on the stuff Tony's been dealing with.

Either way, none of these guys are as smart as Reed Richards. It's a shame they couldn't work the F4 and X-Men into the MCU. They could use Reed, Doom, Silver Surfer, Phoenix, Franklin Richards, etc.

Well, to be honest, the Fantastic Four kind of sucks. It's like someone took a Champions RPG group and made a comic of it.

As opposed to those who give it a 5* rating without actually having seen it or simply because of the cast.

I saw it last night and really enjoyed it, but it's not even close to the top MCU movie.

The F4 is lame as hell but what's important is the rights tied to them, particularly Dr. Doom, Silver Surfer and Galactus.

I do love me some Dr. Doom. Silver Surfer is cool enough. IDK about Galactus.

Very good flick. Well acted, deep storylines, pro-con with the sociopolitical aspects, great scenery, good sci-tech, decent fights (although the CGI is definitely a little "early Spiderman-y"). I'd put it pretty high. My favorite is still "Winter Soldier", followed by "GotG", the first "Iron Man", and maybe "Avengers". I enjoyed "Ragnarok" but I thought it was a bit scattershot so I'd probably rate "BP" above it.

The Marvel ‘brand’ is so strong right now. They could make a movie about two superhero powered kittens and open it to $100 million. That’s how strong their brand is right now.

If there were as many people doing that as there were alt-right racist trolls trying to systematically bring its score down, it would even out. There aren't.

Having seen it, I'd have to disagree. Only GoTG #1 is even close to it for me.

Top 5 for me but Winter Soldier and Civil War(which should of been Avengers 2) still hold the top 2 spots.

Something I caught right away in the film that was pretty cool:



I personally found that to be pretty awesome!

Pretty sweet. My nickname at work was Shaka Zulu for a few years.

I saw it this weekend, it was very good. I'd still put GotG, Deadpool, and a few others above it in terms of my favorites, but it was another excellent installment by Marvel.

$700 million in 2 weeks.

Finally saw this. I thought it was a underwhelming. Not bad, just not what I was expecting especially after reading the reviews here.

I disagree with that interpretation. This was an origin story so I expected him to be a bit weak. I would have liked to see some cool mystical stuff in this one but I don't think it was necessary for the plot. That first fight he was fighting for a tie and his adversary was fighting to the death. That first fight against Killmonger, I expected Killmonger to beat his ass. He's nowhere near as 'hard' as Killmonger was. And he didn't have to accept Killmonger's challenge. I'd say accepting it showed a character flaw; arrogance. And not everyone just went along with the outcome. That particular conflict was one of the pivotal chunks of the movie's plot.

As for his ability (or lack of) in the ritual fights, I think that can pretty easily be explained by him having the black panther power stripped from him just prior to the fight. If you're used to fighting all juiced up, it's got to be difficult to then fight without the juice and would take some time to get accustomed to it.