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Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

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Just back from black panther

Guessing this is a comic strip and being the first movie they laid the groundwork (like Wonder Woman did).

Liked the characters and look forward to seeing the stories develop
 
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mookie1995 said:
Just back from black panther

Guessing this is a comic strip and being the first movie they laid the groundwork (like Wonder Woman did).

Liked the characters and look forward to seeing the stories develop
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Yes. Black Panther also appeared in Captain America Civil War and will likely be in both upcoming Avengers films.
 
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mookie1995 said:
Just back from black panther

Guessing this is a comic strip and being the first movie they laid the groundwork (like Wonder Woman did).

Liked the characters and look forward to seeing the stories develop
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I'm going Saturday morning on the ultra screen. Looking forward to it.
 
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I will probably wait a week or so. Even though I dont much care for that universe I will pay to support a film such as that. (like others did going to Wonder Woman) It is important to show Hollywood diversity is not something to be feared. Word is like Jenkins wasnt Coogler isnt signed for the sequel so Disney is going to have to pony up big cause BP is about to crush the box office.

Speaking of Wonder Woman:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More people watched <a href="https://twitter.com/PattyJenks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PattyJenks</a>'s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WonderWoman?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WonderWoman</a> on HBO than the Olympics over the weekend: <a href="https://t.co/eYNbSwUw4X">https://t.co/eYNbSwUw4X</a> <a href="https://t.co/Rj4wKf6Okb">pic.twitter.com/Rj4wKf6Okb</a></p>— Decider (@decider) <a href="https://twitter.com/decider/status/963915428165808128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I find these movies much more interesting these days.
 
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Handyman said:
Word is like Jenkins wasnt Coogler isnt signed for the sequel so Disney is going to have to pony up big cause BP is about to crush the box office.
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Disney will find the loose change in the sofa cushions.
 
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ticapnews said:
Disney will find the loose change in the sofa cushions.
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Maybe but they do sometimes let directors go even after successes. I would think they are smarter than that in this case though. (just like WB with Jenkins)
 
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Bottom Of The World:

A young couple looking for a new start in LA stop in a SW town....where their reality starts to bend.

Kind of a mindf*, lotta pieces being thrown together. The ending of the movie is a nice sum of all those pieces though. Patience is indeed a virtue in this movie.
 
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Black Panther was fun. I loved the mythology of the character. Very well directed. Strong female roles. It should do very well. If there weren't so much Super Hero fatigue right now it would probably crush records all over the place.

Fits in with the MCU perfectly. After credit scenes were very well done and slot the culmination of the MCU storyline very well. Can't wait for Avengers this spring.
 
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From what I can tell (only from trailers) the story seems to stand on its own. That will help it a ton against the fatigue. And while this wont have a record style opening it will have massive legs. Wonder Woman made the money it did because weeks later many women were still going. Mothers took daughters, grandmothers went hell even girls night out would choose to see that. (gf's mom did that with her friends) When I saw it the third time (took my dad) the theater was still half filled almost all women.

Black Panther will have the same thing only with the Black Community. This is one of those seminal moments. Yes there have been movies like this before, hell even superhero movies before (Blade) but this is a major franchise in a massive universe. This can be a game changer.

Hell even on tv...the Black Lightning TV show on CW is pretty good.

We are living in an era when Hollywood is getting stale in many ways so it is important to remind them that taking chances is a good thing. (though Coogler is hardly unknown at this point)
 
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Bad Genius. 2017 Thai film surrounding h.s. kids that get caught up in a test-cheating scam designed to make some of them a lot of money, including the protagonist that grew up as a, "good girl" but couldn't resist the opportunity. Very well done. The movie tries to balance the line between serious social commentary and farce and it's brilliantly pulled off.
 
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Comic book movie after comic book movie after comic book movie. Just a whole bunch of crap I have no interest in ever watching, because I'm not a teenager.
 
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Comic book movie after comic book movie after comic book movie. Just a whole bunch of crap I have no interest in ever watching, because I'm not a teenager.
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There are plenty of other films available. Of the 15 films at my local theater only one is a comic book film, and 1 is Star Wars. There are 13 other films to choose from.

Also, not a single Top Category Oscar nomination went to a comic book movie. So, there's a whole bunch of films to see.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/list-2018-oscar-nominations-1202668757/
 
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Comic book movies may not be dominating the cinemaplex right now, but wait until summer. Seven of the top 11 box office films of 2017 were CBMs or Star Wars. That isn't changing. It's also all anyone in the movie media wants to discuss. I've stopped watching Movie Talk everyday because 16 of the last 20 episodes have centered around CBMs. It's getting old. But they're still making money like nothing else in the market, so it will continue.
 
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Comic book movie after comic book movie after comic book movie. Just a whole bunch of crap I have no interest in ever watching, because I'm not a teenager.
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They're not for teens. Watch Captain America Civil War or Dark Knight.

Read The Killing Joke or The Long Halloween.

Saying cbm's are for teens is akin to saying Jim Henson wrote the muppets for 7 years olds. Try watching now, a whole lot of adult humor there.
 
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solovsfett said:
They're not for teens. Watch Captain America Civil War or Dark Knight.

Read The Killing Joke or The Long Halloween.

Saying cbm's are for teens is akin to saying Jim Henson wrote the muppets for 7 years olds. Try watching now, a whole lot of adult humor there.
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They're for adolescents. The tropes and the deeper meanings, particularly the darker ones, turn the cranks of teenage males. Honor. Lone Suffering. Anomie. Disillusionment. These are the arrows in the quiver of every navel-gazing 16 year old boy. Which explains why the heroes of the genre -- the Frank Millers and Alan Moores -- are themselves frozen psychological adolescents in real life.

Mature people realize that life is complicated and these overheated "heroic age" Great Truths are just conceits and poses. Comic book movies live in the world of those poses -- they are entertaining as a way to reach back to childhood and remember all the colors and the drama. They are about our nostalgia for childhood when villains were the worst thing we could imagine.

Real evil doesn't come from villains; it doesn't even come from inside as the long, dark teatime of the soul (itself the conceit of the Romantic Era). Evil is banality. That doesn't make for a good story.
 
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huh?

mookie didn't see the bad guy in black panther as evil. not even close.
 
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Kepler said:
They're for adolescents. The tropes and the deeper meanings, particularly the darker ones, turn the cranks of teenage males. Honor. Lone Suffering. Anomie. Disillusionment. These are the arrows in the quiver of every navel-gazing 16 year old boy. Which explains why the heroes of the genre -- the Frank Millers and Alan Moores -- are themselves frozen psychological adolescents in real life.

Mature people realize that life is complicated and these overheated "heroic age" Great Truths are just conceits and poses. Comic book movies live in the world of those poses -- they are entertaining as a way to reach back to childhood and remember all the colors and the drama. They are about our nostalgia for childhood when villains were the worst thing we could imagine.

Real evil doesn't come from villains; it doesn't even come from inside as the long, dark teatime of the soul (itself the conceit of the Romantic Era). Evil is banality. That doesn't make for a good story.
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Sorry but this is a ridiculously simplistic way to look at all of this. And the fact that you name Alan Moore and Frank Miller (2 guys who havent done anything of value since the late 1980s especially Moore who is a misogynistic weasel that borders on pedophillia ) shows you arent as learned on the subject as you think you are.
 
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