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Black Panther (2018)

The users who gave this movie a horrible review are nutters

[8/10 · 6 May 2018]

Black panther is a unique movie. It had the potential to be a hard leftist black power movie and it is refreshing and inspiring that it did not take that approach and instead gave us a story about black people becoming empowered not through violence and hatred but through peace and sharing culture. The politics are not shoved down your throat. Simply existing in the plot is not force feeding. The politics are integral to telling this story correctly in order to make black panther a great hero and role model for the black community. The performances are all great and anything but wooden. After watching tommy wiseau "act" one will never complain about performances ever again. Eric killmonger is a great villain and is very sympathetic and likeable and chadwick boseman plays a stoic yet noble black panther who we grow to care about through the narrative. Shuri was quite funny and reminded me of my own sister. Humor is subjective and some of the jokes definitely Wont land for everyone but that's the nature of comedy. Nothing on this planet is universally funny. I fail to understand where all the 1 star reviews come from. Is it overrated? Perhaps a little bit but this is nowhere near the level of batman and Robin or the dreaded catwoman movie. The narrative is a little bit derivative but killmonger's story makes it quite enjoyable. Is it the best marvel movie? Probably not but it's certainly far from the worst.

Man of Steel (2013)

SPOILERS:this movie is incredibly underrated!

[8/10 · 1 July 2017]

Caution: spoilers may abound. I think this movie is severely underrated. Most complaints I see are of people who can't let go of the vision of superman they got from Christopher reeve who played a superman who was a god among men who never made mistakes and always knew what to do. That's not someone we relate to in this day and age because in our cynical and jaded society it's impossible to be that morally upright. I like Henry Cavill's superman because he plays a man who has to learn how to be superman. He's not perfect out the gate and he doesn't automatically know how to handle every situation right out the gate. Because of this a lot of lives are lost in the battle of metropolis and superman is forced to end zod because there is no other recourse because there is no way to contain him on earth with all the kryptonian tech is destroyed. Whatever you can say about how believable it is that superman didn't have a choice it's still set up well. Krypton was very beautiful and Russell Crowe made a great jor el. As far as the plot for the movie I understand the criticism that the flashbacks don't make sense but I think the death of Jonathan Kent is done very well because it's a sacrifice intended to keep Clark undercover. All in all its not perfect but it's far from terrible.