re: What movies are the most controversial on the m/tv?

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The Crying Game


Damn good movie

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How was Black Panther controversial?

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It was a movie with black superheroes, and it's the general criticism that the only reason it got the reception it did is because of race. Like it probably helped, but we also have some racist fricks around here looking for anything to offend their whiteness.

It's just another marvel superhero movie that I'll probably never bother to see.

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Kids were getting days off from school to go to BP. There were fund raisers to help pay for tickets to the movie. BP was nominated for a fricking Academy Award. It currently has one of the highest RT scores in history. You would think that the film captured the return of Jesus Christ to the earth with all the praise heaped on it. In any rational universe it was a solid B to B+ movie.

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The fact that it was able to connect with an audience that deeply is impressive in its own right. Let people enjoy things how they want to, I can imagine it must be awesome to be a young black kid and have a superhero finally that it’s a huge mainstream hit and feels more representative of what you are.

You can’t sit here and complain about Hollywood turning all these historically white roles into characters played by black actors while also deridding a movie for being able connecting with that audience while being an original concept at the same time.

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Black Panther isn't real. It's no one's culture.

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You have a weak understanding of the concept.

Most things that are culturally significant to people are not real or 100 percent accurate. A huge population of this world base their entire culture on ancient religions, and at the end of the day at least one of them has to be completely made up

The movie sucked, but there are also some bigots.

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feels more representative of what you are.

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What does this mean and why do people keep saying it?

I've been watching super hero movies and anime since I was a kid I never once thought Goku or Vegeta were representative of who I was. Because they're not real.

This psychotic belief that Black Panther is representative of black culture is just that, psychotic. The movie is about a group of arse backwards tribesman who despite all of the money and technology in the world are still arse backward tribesmen. So... That's how you all view the black community, great, I wouldn't aspire to that.

The thing that got me about BP was how it was spun as a positive that they purposely kept foreigners out. The very same people claim it's racist to do the same in real life.

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other than I cannot stand Michael B Jordon.

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I generally like him, but I felt he was trying way too hard in BP. Way too over the top

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She dropped the ball on purpose in a league of their own

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TLJ hands down

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I feel like at the time of release it was more controversial than it is now. I think time has helped everybody settle into the fact that it was pretty awful.