jimnms, having seen the movie, I can see why people are reacting this positively to it. Have you seen it? Where you have or havent, consider the following.

You are right that this isn't the first black superhero movie. If you ignore comedies starring goofy concept heros, the list of movies narrows. Then, consider movies with black super heros who are not anti-heroes (Spawn, Blade). Why this distinction? Anti-heroes are great, but they aren't characters for a general young audience to aspire to. To notice that the majority of main character superheroes in movies are either partially a joke or a dark/brooding/scary/threatening/antisocial hero might be a drag. especially when you compare it to the pool of white super heroes who aren't (most of them). That's important.

First movie with a mostly black cast? No, but how many such movies arent about slavery, inner city gangs, extreme poverty, surviving racism, genocide or third world conflict. How many are almost purely optimistic blend of science fiction and the beauty of African culture? How many imagine what an African country unmolested by colonialism might look like in the future, where its citizens were allowed to reach their highest potential in terms of culture, government and technology? This is in part what the Afro-futurism science fiction genre is about and its a very rare genre to make it to film.

Especially a film that has a budget of $ 200 million dollars. That budget is important. It says that at this point in history, the largest (maybe?) movie studio recognizes that the public wants to see black characters in this light. That's a big deal too.

And considering how well this movie is doing at the box office, Black Panther is a signal of whats to come. More stories about inspirational black characters told at this kind of block buster scale.

Does that make a bit more sense? I'm sure there are other reasons; one being its a really good movie! Hope this helps.

I love this guy... he so mimics his name sake it is funny. Can't wait to see him in a good block buster.

I love it... people mocking it for american crap culture. Pop quiz, you are 9 years old, it is 1986, can you name ONE SONG that you know was actually produced outside of the US? Being a kid in that era, you knew nothing of what happened outside out boarders.. there was no internet and the only foreign videos block buster had was horrible dubs released in the US.

And I had all these tapes, i can believe this many awesome songs were all from 1986 though. Pretty amazing year.

>> ^Sagemind:

So, get rid of the video rental stores (Block-Buster here is now gone) and make sharing illegal at $500 per download. So what are the people with low income's supposed to do?
Looks like the corporations and their lobbyists are winning.
I guess they could riot in the streets out of boredom.


The corporations and lobbyists won a long, long time ago.

So, get rid of the video rental stores (Block-Buster here is now gone) and make sharing illegal at $500 per download. So what are the people with low income's supposed to do?
Looks like the corporations and their lobbyists are winning.
I guess they could riot in the streets out of boredom.

>> ^ant:

>> ^ponceleon:
Weird, is the music at the 3:30 minute mark the original music? It almost sounds like the beginning of Gladiator when they are fighting the Visigoths or whatever the hell those Germanic barbarians are.
Edit: yeah, that is definitely the music from Gladiator that has been superimposed over this video at the 3:20 mark or so.

Isn't it Pirates of the Carribeans?


Damn, now I'm second guessing it... you may be right! Whatever it is, it is not from this, it is from a major block-buster involving swords.

Psychologic

if in the film industry cartoons generated the same revinue as a block buster film then thats all thay would make,

the fact is in games realy basic crappy games will make as mutch if not more revinue than AAA games,

and my point was outside of graphics just talking purely about game play mechanics.

also Pc is actually home to the casual game movement look at bigfish games , popcap , and then all the flash agragators.

all i am against is rehashed 80s crap and relay obvouse simplistic games, i know its going to take at least 10 years for the full casual games market to go through the mental progression that most core gamers have done already, and until the casual market is educated about mechanics and conventions (that core players alredy know) we are going to see retardedly simple rehash games over and over.

its as if you had a sudden influx of people going to the cinema who didn't understand editing and needed all there films to be in black and white with a guy playing piano in the background. and then waiting for that audience to mature to modern day cinema .

Isn't this from some old school blaxploitation film, I seem to recall having seen rib guy, as a chris rock entry in imdb.

and there it is in the subject, get you sucka.... i couldn't find this at my local block buster, or on the interwebs... suppose i should check into net flicks.