Black Panther official movie thread (11/3/17) 1 1

[namisgr]

30 minutes ago, ExNihilo said:

I saw an interview with the cast mentioned that it wasn't just a largely black cast.  But the fact that they were portraying characters that children could look up to.  They weren't criminals, drug dealers, slaves, etc.  Instead, they got to portray, strong warrior women, scientists, roles that promoted strong African heritage/traditional themes, etc.

Agree and understood.  That's why I mentioned four movies that portrayed African Americans as drug dealers, thugs, or slaves.

[Aweandlorder]

back page at this week's billboard magazine

 

[Bosco685]

Denzel Washington Paid for Chadwick Boseman’s Acting Studies

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Chadwick Boseman was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where he opened up about a story he’s long been keeping to himself. Specifically, it involves The Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad gathering funds from her famous friends to help fly kids overseas to study at Oxford. And it turns out, Boseman’s particular trip to the iconic school was paid for by an equally famous thespian.

 

“I didn’t have money to pay for this, and so she [Rashad] got a few of her friends together and, you know, they paid for us to go. I didn’t know at first – when I came back – and I’ve basically been holding this secret my whole career, [but] when I came back I got a beneficiary letter. And it said, ‘Denzel Washington paid for you.’ You know, and I was like, ‘What?'”

 

Boseman kept the story to himself for years, wanting to tell Denzel Washington how much it meant to him if they ever met. As Boseman tells it, that happened right before his big cover story on Rolling Stone, which mentions the story for the first time. It’s even more surreal when you consider Denzel Washington was once considered for Black Panther.

 

 

[fantastic_four]

That's a VERY vague description of what Denzel did that could range from he paid for a plane ticket all the way up to Denzel paid for years of Oxford tuition, room, and board.  Without more details I've got to assume he just paid for a short trip to visit the university for some unspecified reason.

[fantastic_four]

1 minute ago, fantastic_four said:

That's a VERY vague description of what Denzel did that could range from he paid for a plane ticket all the way up to Denzel paid for years of Oxford tuition, room, and board.  Without more details I've got to assume he just paid for a short trip to visit the university for some unspecified reason.

Wikipedia says it was a summer program at Oxford after getting a degree at Howard where Rashad was one of his teachers.

[Gatsby77]

10 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:

back page at this week's billboard magazine

 

The Black Panther soundtrack slipped to # 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart this week after spending the prior two weeks at # 1.

I think it goes to the film's broader cultural significance.

When's the last time a comic book movie soundtrack hit # 1 on the billboard charts at least twice in a row?

The only contenders that come to my mind are:

Batman (1989) - by Prince (# 1 for six weeks)

D**k Tracy (1990) - by Madonna (I'm Breathless) -- topped out at # 2.

 

Edited March 6, 2018 by Gatsby77

[Bosco685]

2 hours ago, fantastic_four said:

Wikipedia says it was a summer program at Oxford after getting a degree at Howard where Rashad was one of his teachers.

Chadwick Boseman notes this in the video, where it was a summer program and in the end he received a benefactor letter calling out Denzel Washington covered his costs for the program. So when he met him years later, he thanked him for the support.

[davidpg]

Did I see the same movie everyone else did?

Saw it last night, found it easily the weakest of all the latest Marvel movies.  Acting was not good, effects were hugely subpar and looked even worse with the 3D.  Fight scenes (that I don't really care about in a film) were completely uninspired.  

It was an origin story, I get it.  I'd have preferred a one hour Netflix special over the 2 hours I spent at the theatre.  

[AnthonyTheAbyss]

14 minutes ago, davidpg said:

Did I see the same movie everyone else did?

Saw it last night, found it easily the weakest of all the latest Marvel movies.  Acting was not good, effects were hugely subpar and looked even worse with the 3D.  Fight scenes (that I don't really care about in a film) were completely uninspired.  

It was an origin story, I get it.  I'd have preferred a one hour Netflix special over the 2 hours I spent at the theatre.  

As of right now there are 4,381 people who disliked this video.  You can't please everybody.

 

 

[fantastic_four]

1 hour ago, AnthonyTheAbyss said:

As of right now there are 4,381 people who disliked this video.  You can't please everybody

I'm #4,382 who doesn't like spiders.  

[ExNihilo]

4 hours ago, Gatsby77 said:

The Black Panther soundtrack slipped to # 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart this week after spending the prior two weeks at # 1.

I think it goes to the film's broader cultural significance.

When's the last time a comic book movie soundtrack hit # 1 on the billboard charts at least twice in a row?

The only contenders that come to my mind are:

Batman (1989) - by Prince (# 1 for six weeks)

D**k Tracy (1990) - by Madonna (I'm Breathless) -- topped out at # 2.

 

It should also be mentioned that the only reason why it was bumped down to #2 was because the #1 album sold was a Bon Jovi album that was a free giveaway with ticket sales for his upcoming tour.  If not for that, the Black Panther soundtrack would have remained #1.

[jsilverjanet]

3 hours ago, davidpg said:

Did I see the same movie everyone else did?

Saw it last night, found it easily the weakest of all the latest Marvel movies.  Acting was not good, effects were hugely subpar and looked even worse with the 3D.  Fight scenes (that I don't really care about in a film) were completely uninspired.  

It was an origin story, I get it.  I'd have preferred a one hour Netflix special over the 2 hours I spent at the theatre.  

Anyone who denies this movies importance clearly has an agenda. How dare you say anything negative of the movie that will change Hollywood and future generations of of children*

 

*sarcasm

[davidpg]

4 minutes ago, jsilverjanet said:

Anyone who denies this movies importance clearly has an agenda. How dare you say anything negative of the movie that will change Hollywood and future generations of of children*

 

*sarcasm

Sarcasm well received

 

[SpideyFein]

Hey all you BP fans, I'm planning for my class tomorrow and we are studying technology around the world. I'm going to show this video. I found it quite interesting. There are some slight spoilers. If you are into tech and the tech within Wakanda, check it out. https://mashable.com/2018/03/06/black-panther-futuristic-technology/#MhIdEkFk5PqO

 

[szav]

Saw it today and I'd give it a 4.5 out of 10, and call it one of the weaker entries of all the Marvel movies.  It was pretty much what I expected, a good piece of Hollywood fluff with decent special effects and action sequences and really not much more than that.

I find the notion that this movie is game-changing, original, or will have any lasting cultural impact utterly laughable.  It was basically Coming to America+Final Fantasy+Any Super Hero movie and that's pretty much it.  Watchable once but nothing special, and not something I'll be talking to anyone about after this post and not something I could ever see myself watching again.

[namisgr]

8 hours ago, SpideyFein said:

Hey all you BP fans, I'm planning for my class tomorrow and we are studying technology around the world. I'm going to show this video. I found it quite interesting. There are some slight spoilers. If you are into tech and the tech within Wakanda, check it out. https://mashable.com/2018/03/06/black-panther-futuristic-technology/#MhIdEkFk5PqO

 

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting take on the fictional technologies, and it reminded me again of what was so sensational about the screen depiction of Wakanda.

 

Edited March 7, 2018 by namisgr

[Prince Namor]

 

On 3/5/2018 at 11:58 AM, goldust40 said:

What is so pioneering about this film, dammit?? There's been plenty of black cinema before, some of it excellent, some of it less so. So there's been a dearth of action heroes (but not a complete absence) who are of African descent? Great, let's have loads more, and could we leave the politics out of it next time?

Yes... the real 'pioneering' victory of this film will be IF we can now get a black hero, or an Asian, or a homosexual, etc. where it doesn't have to be ABOUT the fact that they're black, or asian or homosexual, etc.

Doubtful it'll happen in my lifetime... plenty of media manipulation to keep everyone feeling divided and hateful... but it SHOULD be the goal....

[Prince Namor]

On 3/5/2018 at 3:19 PM, jsilverjanet said:

There was a moment during last nights oscars where they talked about doors opening etc. they referenced Thelma and Louise and how that movie was going to change how Hollywood looked at women etc 

plenty of other films like you said have been more significant, far more powerful yet have had little impact in real change

the reality here is that Disney has found a formula to mass market an idea that the population has decided to consume without question 

I don’t doubt the money is any good, I just doubt that the movie is groundbreaking as some others have made it seem

 

Give the people a voice to revolt and change, just not the actual means to do it.

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1	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	BV	$936,662,225	2015
2	Avatar	Fox	$760,507,625	2009^
3	Titanic	Par.	$659,363,944	1997^
4	Jurassic World	Uni.	$652,270,625	2015
5	Marvel's The Avengers	BV	$623,357,910	2012
6	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	BV	$619,140,525	2017
7	The Dark Knight	WB	$534,858,444	2008^
8	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	BV	$532,177,324	2016
9	Black Panther	BV	$506,427,710	2018

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By next Monday BP should be # 7 on the  All time domestic box office list.