Its kind of weird, there is a lot of praise for Black Panther but i have yet to see anyone rate it above a 7 or 8 which is baffling. So what gives? Is it just getting credit because it happens to feature a large portion of black actors/actresses or is it actually an entertaining movie? Dont get me wrong, a 7 or 8 is a decent score for a movie but considering the hype i would of figured people would be rating it higher.
To me personally the hype is not always about the quality of a movie. It's a Marvel movie so of course it's entertaining, but the "hype" or excitement or whatever you want to call it is because it really has staying power and is getting repeat business from people who are finally seeing something on the screen they have wanted to see to they are going to see it as much as possible. If it was a bad movie and all it had going for it was being the first real black Superhero movie it wouldn't have been #1 again last week. Basically it's the perfect storm of a good movie that is also a cultural milestone. Wonder Woman rode a similar wave last year despite being simply a "good" movie. Even if Black Panther 2 is a better movie objectively, I doubt we see this kind of phenomenon again. I think it's cool, even though I don't quite understand it myself.
EDIT: If you really want to understand some of the hype, there was a great roundtable from Kevin Smith's Fatman on Batman Podcast with Mark Bernardin where he did a roundtable review with the creators of the comic and a few others to explain the significance of the movie to them. Kevin himself is not on this episode, but its a good listen regardless: http://www.smodcast.com/channel/fatm...tman?audio=208
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I've been curious about this myself. I've avoided reading much about it, because I hate spoilers and don't plan to watch it until it comes out on Digital to stream on VUDU, but have come real close a few times to reading some articles to see what has made it so popular. I think I read it was the first movie since Avatar to top the box office for 5 weeks. Even when a movie has a great opening weekend, they usually fall out of the lead after two or three weeks, because typically revenue drops by a tremendous amount every week.
Dogma - 8/10
Been going back through the Kevin Smith library since he almost died a few weeks back and I hadn't seen this movie in years and forgot how good it was. It never reaches the heights of Clerks or Chasing Amy (his best film by far in my opinion) but it never takes itself too seriously either despite the subject matter which was deemed "controversial" before anyone even saw it. Plus, the fact that he protested his own movie when it was released is still one of the funniest things ever:
The Nice Guys - 10/10
Fantastic, overlooked flick.
Pacific Rim: Uprising - 8/10
I have no idea why I enjoyed this movie so much. I didn't really care for the first one, but my son loved it so we decided to go see this late last night at the last minute. It actually accomplished in many ways that I felt the first one didn't, namely fulfilling the promise of seeing giant robots fight giant monsters in a fun way (like the old Godzilla or Ultraman flicks) without relying too much on melodrama. There are some hammy moments, but the movie is almost self aware of them and almost dismisses them immediately. And the best part? ALL the fights are in broad daylight with easy to follow action, unlike the jumbled mess of something like the Transformers movie. But the one thing I really loved is that this finally felt like a live-action anime or a good Voltron movie and all the logic holes were explained away by the fact that you need to accept the premise itself is bat-shit crazy. Once I heard the phrase, "The entire city has been moved to to the underground shelter, you are free to engage" I just settled in and watched the ridiculousness unfold without worrying about how much of a logistical nightmare it would be to hide the citizens of Tokyo underground.
If you like old monster destroys city flicks with the soul of Starship Troopers, this movie will be right up your alley. Everyone else just roll your eyes and move along, nothing to see here.
Rim Job 6
3/10
Predictable plot but ends with a bang.
Atomic Blonde- 7/10
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