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Originally Posted by BigRichard
Hell the first one was completely overrated. It wasn't bad or anything, it was just not nearly as great as everyone tried to make it out to be.
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Black Panther was huge, in my opinion, because it was the first really big movie since Blade, whose R rated horror and violence really narrowed the target audience, featuring a non tokenized, badass black superhero in King T'Challa.
For years, we've seen marginalized groups that aren't represented, get handed tokenized versions of established white superheroes.
Here. Have a Black Spider Man. Here, now Sam Wilson is a Black Captain America, when he was already totally legit badass as Falcon. This Black Captain America shit is a demotion for Falcon, IMO.
Nobody cared to put the effort in and create an ethnic superhero that was original, or to give the spotlight to already established badass ethnic superheroes that exist.
They just race swapped big names and expected that to placate the masses.
Black Panther was an all audience friendly, decades established badass black superhero. A member of the Avengers, given a huge budget for his own movie. Not some half-assed race swapped superhero.
It was a great film. I really liked it up to the point where they killed off Killmonger. Such a huge mistake. Great character portrayed by a great actor that could have given a big lift to future films.
I have not seen Wakanda Forever, and I likely won't, because I've seen several reviews that said it just didn't work and T'challa really needed to be recast.
T'challa should have been recast. He's too big of a character in terms of just straight cool factor, and way too important in terms of a non tokenized original black superhero just being deleted because the actor who played him passed away. You just can't do that shit.
Chadwick Boseman died. It sucks. That doesn't mean you kill off T'Challa.
We've had another Joker since Ledger. Wasn't as good, but you don't just stop portrayals of the character because one actor died.