r/movies Feb 17 '18

YMS - Black Panther

https://youtu.be/urBtAEObqoQ
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u/PintoI007 Feb 18 '18 edited Feb 18 '18

Don't worry knowing this sub in a few months they'll turn on this film like they did wonderwoman, avengers 2 and homecoming a bit. The marvel hype will die down it'll go back to being cookie cutter with this sub calling this movie medicore (which I agree with).

Then the cycle will repeat with Infinity war.

Also the amount of strawman in this comments section is absolutely hilarious. Why is this subreddit so triggered over a negative review of a marvel movie?

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u/MattDobson Feb 18 '18

Why is this subreddit so triggered over a negative review of a marvel movie?

For this Marvel movie, I think you and I both know why.

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u/kacperp Feb 18 '18

Because it was hyped as gamechanging but actually is just another typical marvel movie

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u/vanquish421 Feb 19 '18

Thank you. It has fuck all to do with racial politics for the majority of us. It was just a mediocre film that got way overhyped and overrated.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix Feb 18 '18

It’s because YMS is almost disgustingly cynical. I can just imagine him sitting in a chair with Moonlight on in the background laughing to himself about how stupid black people are for embracing a comic book movie made by a bunch of rich white people.

Dude specifically says he doesn’t care about the political aspect of the movie and then embraces it anyways when he wants to express HIS cynical view.

It’s a movie. It’s entertainment. It’s meant to be cool and fun. Not all movies have to have a ground breaking message and be philosophically deep in order to be good.

And his smugness doesn’t even allow him to see that REAL people are having a REAL connection to the movie. He didn’t even mention Michael B Jordan almost at all or his character. He’s just being immediately dismissive of all the black people out there who have talked about how the film relates to them, probably because he’s not black himself and doesn’t understand why people would be connected to the film. Which is fine, except it makes me suspicious about his opinions regarding films like Moonlight being nothing more than dissassociative appreciation because they are Indy films that are much more dramatic and philosophical.

He’s not even right btw. The film was only funded by rich white execs. It was MADE largely by African Americans. Again, YMS being super dismissive and cynical.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18 edited Jul 03 '18

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u/ParkerZA Feb 18 '18

And now we're in another circlejerk...

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18

I'm surprised my comment is controversial, as it is simply how Reddit and moneyed interests work, especially when it comes to movies and TV.

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u/ParkerZA Feb 18 '18

I think it's more the implication that initial praise doesn't qualify as real discussion. I get what you're saying, negative posts are usually drowned out on release, but I seriously doubt it's due to a marketing team.

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u/bassbadiya Feb 19 '18

The rlm review is out and hey were mehh about it. The tide has turned already cause now they can actually parrot an opinion that the rest of reddit can circlejerk with.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18

Nah, Marvel movies are completly fine. People just like to pretend that they'd rather be watching something "deep".

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18 edited Feb 18 '18

Nah, Marvel movies are completly fine.

You say that as if it's objective fact. A lot of people feel most MCU films are mediocre and they're justified in thinking that.

People just like to pretend that they'd rather be watching something "deep".

Maybe they do prefer movies that have more substance than your average MCU movie but then again for some MCU fanboys like you that seems impossible so you resort to making dumb strawman arguments like this.

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u/bloodlustshortcake Feb 19 '18

People just pretend they don't like banging their head repeatedly against the wall to act smart!

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u/Brandon_Me Feb 18 '18

I've yet to see Black Panther, but Wonder Woman is a bad movie. It was bad the day I saw it and is still bad.