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I still can't bring myself to see this

posted 4 years ago by kuatorises (7467)
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There's a small handful of MCU movies I had not seen: Both Spiderman flicks, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel. I did recently check out the first Spiderman.

I was thinking about checking Black Panther out, but then again caught a clip on YouTube and was completely and utterly turned off by the effects. That is pretty much the entire reason I can't bring myself to watch this movie. It litearally LOOKS bad. I cannot believe effects this bad still exist, especially from Marvel/Disney, which we know can do much better. Why did they go cheap on this?!

[–] Corbell (10995) 4 years ago

One of the reviews I watched pointed out that the fight scenes are more "realistic" in that if you have people dressed in black fighting at night, you would not be able to see it very well, so the scenes looked like crap.

The answer, as they did in Blade, was to WELL LIGHT the fight scenes, even though that made no sense.

Beyond that, there is just the, to me, inexplicable coupling that seems to marry, DESIRE TO DO PROPAGANDA, and LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE AUIDENCE.

It is a terrible movie. I watched it. There is so much bad with it, that...

[–] kuatorises (7467) 4 years ago

I have NOT seen it and can still say "realistic" is not a word that can be used to describe this movie's effects.

"Beyond that, there is just the, to me, inexplicable coupling that seems to marry, DESIRE TO DO PROPAGANDA, and LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE AUIDENCE."

I don't know what any of this means.

[–] Corbell (10995) 4 years ago

There seems to be an inability to want make a movie a vehicle for political propaganda while still respecting the audience enough to produce a quality piece of entertainment, IMO.

[–] kuatorises (7467) 4 years ago

What propaganda is Black Panther pushing?

[–] Corbell (10995) 4 years ago

General anti-Western-ism, tinged with racism. At one point the Black Panther's sister refers to the cia character as a "colonizer".

The movie is peppered with shit like that.

[–] scannerdarkly (1397) 2 years ago

I had a coworker tell me he saw it in theaters and he said "I was one of the only white people in there and you could just FEEL how anti-white the room was. Like the tension was palpable in the air".

[–] triplea (3577) 4 years ago

It's a pretty crappy movie.

[–] ManToTrust (1660) 4 years ago

It’s pretty bad, not going to lie. You’ll be checking your watch more than the screen.

The one redeeming feature it has is that the woke villain trying to cause a race war is completely rejected by the hero.

[–] Burk48917 (11442) 4 years ago

Not really. They give him a ridiculous amount of consideration, only because of "what his people went through". No other villains get cradled as they die with it written to be sympathetic. They forget he MURDERED his girlfriend a day or 2 earlier because it was convenient.

[–] subratjain1 (203) 4 years ago

You Sir, are a wise man. Do not watch this. It's terrible.

[–] kuatorises (7467) 4 years ago

I've watched multiple clips on YouTube and the effects are just brutal. It takes me right out of the movie. it kills any sense of tension or drama.

[–] Burk48917 (11442) 4 years ago

It's almost as bad as Thor 2, but not quite. Bottom 5 MCU movie for sure.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 4 years ago

It's one of the best MCU films. The poor cgi issue only comes up in the final fight scene between the two. Narratively and thematically, it's one of the most complex. I'd say it's worth a viewing.

[–] millsey72 (10672) 3 years ago

Your loss. This is the MCU movie with the least amount of white privileged people in it

[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

Funny this was recently bumped. I recently named a bunch of MCU movies I hadn't seen yet on a FB post. This was one of them. 100s of people called me a racist. What has our society come to?

[–] Burk48917 (11442) 2 years ago

The word racist doesn't mean anything anymore because it's become a generic insult like "jerk" or "asshole", but people know it has such a negative connotation that they want to excessively slander people undeserving of its label. It's been overused and incorrectly used to the point that it's no longer taken seriously by people capable of independent thought. It's happened throughout history, with calling out witches centuries ago, or accusing everyone with "commie" decades ago. There will always be a certain part of the population that wants to be on the current team topic, and will ignore common sense to do it.