re: Black Panther is now the highest grossing superhero movie of all time

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If you think the fact that black panther had a majority black cast didn't make a difference to some people

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This is called moving the goalposts. We've now gone from "it's so obvious that one of the main reasons it did well is because of all dem blacks" to "black cast...make[s] a difference to some people." People in this thread aren't arguing that it made a difference to some people, they're arguing that a significant reason for its success is the fact that there are a lot of black people in it. That could, in fact, be true. But nobody has offered a shred of proof in that regard. Citing people praising its cast isn't proof unless you can account for $1.2 billion dollars by showing these people spent all that money.

A number of the commenters haven’t seen the movie. That tells you something. I saw the movie twice. It was one of the better super hero movies I have seen. There were a couple of cringe worthy lines but it’s definitely worth seeing.

Trivia:

After Jack Kirby and Stan Lee realized that there was a militant group named The Black Panthers, they changed the character's name to Black Leopard. That didn't click as well, so they changed it back.

However transient, virtue signaling can be a powerful, powerful force.

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Oddly enough it’s also the lowest grossing movie in terms of concession sales.

The dollar stores across the street from the theaters are doing very well, however.

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Guilty as charged. I got a big bag of candy and a bottled water from the store to snack on in the movies. I hardly ever buy concessions in the movies.

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What should it have been called?

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African American Panther?

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n Opelousas the Mayor and other government officials have been buying out the theater since release bringing school children and whatnot selling out the theater literally every day

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Ole Reggie ain't springing for all that

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What should it have been called

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Did you miss my point entirely?

Black Panthers is also the name of a militant black political party. There's something called subliminal suggestion going on here. You think Marvel didn't know what they were doing creating this character and naming him that?

It's like calling Iron Man "White devil"

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First appearanceFantastic Four #52 (July 1966)

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The Black Panther's name predates the October 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party, though not the black panther logo of the party's predecessor, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), nor the segregatedWorld War II Black Panthers Tank Battalion.[2][3] Stan Lee, co-creator of the comic, denied that the comic was named after any of the political uses of the term "black panther", including the LCFO, citing "a strange coincidence".

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I know you want to try hard on this and Stan Lee loved to unashamedly grab whatever he could to promote the House of Ideas (X-Men beating Doom Patrol to the stands), but c'mon.

You're placing too much on race on this. A lotta white folks and a lot of black folks like BP. But the concept of a big studio not making a gag movie or based on a comic as an after thought is new. Of course more blacks will get up to see a hero that looks like them. And there isn't anything wrong with that. The thing here is Black Panther is living in your mind as a bunch of thugs instead of a comic character who has had pretty good runs over the years.

The big news here is Marvel Studios has to be breathing a sigh of relief as other actors contracts run out. They might have a new Iron Man to tent pole here if Carol goes south.