(Dir. Ryan Coogler 2018)
PG-13 It's taken me forever to finally go see this. I'm not sure why it took so long because I've been excited to see this since before it came out. I finally made the time to go see it because I knew I definitely had to before I saw Infinity War. Which I still haven't seen so consider this a spoiler free blog. Like many others I've gotten kind of tired of origin stories. This, I would say is my exception to that. Part of that is before this movie came out, I can honestly say I didn't know about Black Panther. I knew the basics of all the other heroes so at a certain point watching all of their origin movies just felt like something I had to get through before I could get to the fun movies. I went into Black Panther not knowing what to expect. Was the film a little predictable? Yeah, but honestly most Marvel films are. Heck most superhero movies are. But I didn't mind because the plot and character were pretty much entirely new to me. Plus, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that part of how cool this was was getting to see bad ass black men and women on screen. This is definitely one of the prettier Marvel movies. They still had that patented Marvel wash out of color, but the vibrancy of the character's outfits and surroundings made up for that. I loved getting to see the variations of cultural dress in Wakanda. Definitely better than the sweatshirt, hat, and sunglasses ensemble that so many of our favorite superheroes wear. I would love to see a short promo video where Thor and T'Challa get together to talk about fashion. I also noticed that this movie used camera movement to infuse scenes with meaning more than other films. They still did the typical actions movie cuts and somewhat shaky camera movements to make you feel the action, but they put a little more symbol into their shots as well. For example, the upside down rotating shot when Killmonger was crowned really captured the feeling of the world being turned upside-down. The only thing I didn't love about this movie was Shuri and her use of memes. I love Shuri, I really really do, but whenever she made a meme or vine reference I could just feel the awkward middle aged script writers forcibly cramming those in there. It just didn't feel natural at all. I love the idea of her being a meme loving teen, but they did not work it in there well.
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Aubrey KirchhoffI'm just screaming into the void and somehow getting graded on it. Archives
April 2018
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