re: Black Panther RT score should have been 50% at best

Lmao you got dunked on

I bet if you were the star of a movie called I'm a Little Bitch it would get 99% approval ratings.

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Be honest. You have no idea how that rating works.

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RT is just fresh/rotten, like you've said.

However, I do think it's deceptive marketing, because we've been conditioned by other ratings up until pretty damn recently. Most people read the 98% positive, and they 'perceive" that to be a grade of 98 out of 100.

Someone said this movie does little to push towards Infinity War. If that's true, I'll wait and catch it at home. At this point, with Marvel, I'm in for Infinity War, and I'm in for GOTG and trippy space fantasy (ie Thor Ragnarok). Otherwise, like for Dr Strange and Spiderman: Homecoming, I'm a little burnt out, and will catch it when I do, no big rush.

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liar

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Nice mastery of the English language and well thought rebuttal.

Black Panther was OK at best, like you said.

I have no idea where the Michael B. Jordan love in this movie came from...he wasn't that spectacular at all.

I thought Chadwick Boseman did a fine job, but I think the writing/directing for this movie SUCKED and Disney has pigeonholed these marvel movies if I had to guess.


The political shite was far too weakly presented to make any difference at all. If the writing had been better I might've cared, but it seemed as if it was just thrown in there.


The movie was absolutely void of emotion on any level.

One of the worst marvel movies, but still okay. I likely won't ever see this movie again.

Also, not on the political propaganda level of star wars.

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There is honestly nothing funnier to me on this site than morons who don't understand how Rotten Tomatoes works.

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Yep. Every other day someone is bitching about it when they don’t even know what it means

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If you are honestly objective after seeing it, I doubt you’ll think it deserves 100% rating.
It’s average.

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So you’re either refusing to read or just don’t understand math

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Black Panther was OK at best, like you said. 

I have no idea where the Michael B. Jordan love in this movie came from...he wasn't that spectacular at all. 

I thought Chadwick Boseman did a fine job, but I think the writing/directing for this movie SUCKED and Disney has pigeonholed these marvel movies if I had to guess. 


The political shite was far too weakly presented to make any difference at all. If the writing had been better I might've cared, but it seemed as if it was just thrown in there. 


The movie was absolutely void of emotion on any level. 

One of the worst marvel movies, but still okay. I likely won't ever see this movie again. 

Also, not on the political propaganda level of star wars

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Or more than likely there was none there but you were looking so hard for it expecting it to be there you made some up in your head

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The Atlantic-Political Visions of Black Panther

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Yes, Black Panther is another multizillion-dollar installment in the burgeoning Marvel Cinematic Universe. But that is not all that it is. Other superhero movies have dabbled in big ideas—the Dark Knight trilogy most notably, and the X-Men franchise to a lesser degree. But their commitments to the moral and political questions they contemplated were relatively haphazard and/or peripheral. The arguments Black Panther undertakes with itself are central to its architecture, a narrative spine that runs from the first scene to the last.

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The Guardian

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For some activists, however, Ryan Coogler’s film and mostly black cast is much more than a refreshing comic book story that breaks down stereotypes in an industry dominated by white film-makers. The Afrofuturist film has sparked renewed calls from attorneys, families and civil rights leaders for the release of more than a dozen incarcerated former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP), the radical group founded in 1966 in Oakland, California.

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Fox News- "Marvel tackles politics, race, with jaw-dropping new film"

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This is certainly the most woke superhero film to date. Beneath the expected genre clichés, Coogler provides a flourish to a number of current political and social issues ranging from border security and the refugee crisis to inequality and black empowerment. Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), a spy and Black Panther’s former lover, maintains a running argument throughout the film that Wakanda should have open borders to share the country’s advanced technology and provide aid to refugees, an idea strongly opposed by the king and later exploited by Killmonger.

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NY Times

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Coogler played football in high school, and between his fitness and his humble listening poses — leaning forward, elbows propped on knees — he reminds me of what might happen if a mild-mannered athlete accidentally discovered a radioactive movie camera and was gifted with remarkable artistic vision. He’s interested in questions of identity: What does it mean to be a black person or an African person? “You know, you got to have the race conversation,” he told me, describing how his parents prepared him for the world. “And you can’t have that without having the slavery conversation. And with the slavery conversation comes a question of, O.K., so what about before that? And then when you ask that question, they got to tell you about a place that nine times out of 10 they’ve never been before. So you end up hearing about Africa, but it’s a skewed version of it. It’s not a tactile version.”

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You're right, I made it all up.

Haven't seen the film, but

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The political shite was far too weakly presented to make any difference at all. If the writing had been better I might've cared, but it seemed as if it was just thrown in there. 

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Or more than likely there was none there but you were looking so hard for it expecting it to be there you made some up in your head

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Black Panther is the king of a sovereign country. He becomes king after his father is killed while speaking to the UN.

If there are NO political references in this, then that's a bad move... that's the basis of his character.

And political stuff has already been infused into Marvel; half the world's population hates Tony Stark because he's a defense contractor. Cap deals with Hydra within Shield, which could double for the current FBI scandals (although I don't think they planned it that way )

From what I read of the spoilers, most of the plot is political in nature. How much is presented as positive or negative, I don't know. But it's essential that it be there, otherwise he's just another adventurer.

And to be clear, let's keep politics separate from race on this board, ok?