Black Panther

[Shalamar]

I loved it. Great story, amazing actors, eye candy galore ... I left the theatre with a huge smile on my face.

[save lilo!]

Very good and fun interview with Lupita and Trevor Noah -- Daily Show

My eyes are just tearing up constantly whenever I think about this movie!

[codert]

I loved the movie. Ryan Coogler did a great job directing this super hero masterpiece. I need to find time to see it again. I am ready for the sequel and if they will introduce Storm.

[Neurochick]

I just saw it today. Wonderful movie, so much more than just a super hero movie.

Loved Michael B. Jordan in this movie, always great to see anybody who was in "The Wire" make it big.

And a bonus seeing Sterling K. Brown from This is Us in this. The man is everywhere!

And of course, the WOMEN in this movie, awesome. And I adored the scene when the General had to wear that wig and thought it was disgusting, my friend and I were like, "that's a statement."

[kostgard]

Saw it today too. At an 11:30 AM showing on a Sunday when it’s been out for three weeks, and the theater was still packed.

I loved that it was more than a shoot em up action movie. T’Challa had a lot of big issues to grapple with. And I loved that women carried huge parts of this story - Okoye, Nakia, and Shuri were awesome (and of course, Angela Bassett is a legend).

On a shallow note, I wish they would come out with a Black Panther jewelry line. Everything was beautiful. In one scene Lupita was wearing a pair of simple green stud earrings, but the green stones were gorgeous.

And finally, after this and Wonder Woman I hope Hollywood figure out that they can make movies not geared towards the white male gaze, and it will be good and everyone can enjoy it. I haven’t seen all of Justice League (only what people have posted on YouTube), but what I have seen feels like such a letdown after WW when you see these same characters again, but made for the white male gaze. Just in the clips I saw online there were numerous shots of Diana’s ass (including one shot that was framed specifically so her ass in tight pants would be in the middle of a shot) and an up-skirt shot we just didn’t get in WW. And the Amazons went from women warriors who went into battle fully dressed for it with their hair pulled back in practical braids and ponytails to scenes where half of them are practically in bikinis (despite being in a situation they knew was dangerous going in and some of them were on damn guard duty wearing metal bikini tops) and some of the very same Amazons who had practical hair in WW are running around with hot-rolled curls. Like a copy of Southern Hair from the late 80s/early 90s washed up on the shores of Themyscira and they all decided to emulate the styles. It was just so disappointing after seeing those women the way a woman would want to see them. JL was a box office disappointment, and I hope DC learned a lesson. I think I trust Marvel more to present the BP characters the same way Coogler did next time we see them.

[Neurochick]

One more thing that got me about this movie, was seeing John Kani, who played T'Chaka. Kani is South African and as I watched him, I noticed that his left eye wasn't moving and then I remembered that he lost his eye from clashing with police in apartheid South Africa. He wrote a play called "The Island" that he starred in. It made it to Broadway in in early 70's, my high school class went to see that play, and I still have the playbill from 1975.

[Babycakes]

Mar 4, 2018 20:44:57 GMT -4 Neurochick said:

One more thing that got me about this movie, was seeing John Kani, who played T'Chaka. Kani is South African and as I watched him, I noticed that his left eye wasn't moving and then I remembered that he lost his eye from clashing with police in apartheid South Africa. He wrote a play called "The Island" that he starred in. It made it to Broadway in in early 70's, my high school class went to see that play, and I still have the playbill from 1975.

Here's another bit of BP movie trivia. Young T'Chaka is played by John Kani's son.

[Ladybug]

Just chiming in again to voice my agreement with how the women in this movie ROCKED. They were intelligent, strong, supportive, kick ass, and they were definitely not there just to be eye candy or a plot point for the main character. In a "standard" superhero movie, W'Kabi and M'baku would've been T'Challa's sidekicks, and the hero would've had a couple of romantic scenes with Nakia - or saved the women from danger. But they made the three women the ones who had his back throughout the movie, with a lot of support from his mother. And I don't remember any gratuitous shots of the women - they were gorgeous but they looked like WARRIORS. People on Twitter were saying the Wakandan women could beat Wonder Woman in a battle, but they wouldn't even fight. The Wakandan women and the Amazons would join forces.

Have they announced a sequel yet?

[lea1977]

I loved it, I would want to see it again because so much happened but it did leave me with this urgent need to start a arm toning regime.

[save lilo!]

Mar 12, 2018 19:14:32 GMT -4 lea1977 said:

I loved it, I would want to see it again because so much happened but it did leave me with this urgent need to start a arm toning regime.

Saaame. Lupita actually had to tone it DOWN because she was getting too buff so that’s her not even working out at 100%.