Being in the bottom tier of MCU movies still means you can be fairly entertaining. Even Iron Man 2 isn’t a total stinker.

“lower stakes than a movie about a god should be.”

“Tolkein’s books were hits in the 60s, but they were still fantasy, something the Academy had previously never really recognized.”

Wakanda deciding to share its resources with the world is literal progress. I’m not sure how else you’d define progressivism.

They have a Merchant Tribe, and a Mining Tribe. Presumably the River Tribe fishes, and presumably the Border Tribe, in addition to guarding the border, raises livestock. Only the Mountain Tribe are do-nothing goldbricks.

Agreed, but that shot of Okeye leaping from the balcony, her dress blazing like the fire of vengeance, was pretty badass.

Based on Costume Designer Ruth Carter’s Oscar speech, I think she’d agree that the costumes were easily the most amazing part of the film.

“The MCU has a tendency to undermine serious events all the time, and have effectively conditioned me to not be too concerned with stakes or consequences, because they will likely be undone later, or they’re something we don’t have to worry about in the long run”

Are they, though? Thanos had already reduced Asgard’s population by half, as was his modus operandi even before he got the Infinity Stones. Are we assuming he doesn’t have conscious control over who gets dusted and who doesn’t? Because the Stones make him omniscient, and all powerful, so I took it for granted that…

The world at large does not acknowledge the existence of Holmes and Watson.

Actually, it was T’Chaka’s idea in Civil War. The most egregious sin committed by Black Panther is completely ignoring the speech T’Chaka is giving in Vienna when he’s killed...the speech in which he was outlining his intentions to bring Wakanda into the world.

Ah, but Return of the King had a literary pedigree. Comic books will never be respected as serious art form, and superhero movies will never be taken seriously by elite reviewers, who’d rather jerk off over some incomprehensible eurotrash like Climax than acknowledge the achievements of films that are actually…

It helps if you remember that there apparently IS a Panther God who more or less acts as the Electoral College in determining who rules Wakanda.

Coogler was wise to cut that scene; not only would it have dangerously overloaded the exposition dump at the beginning of the film, it would have detracted from the nice parallel focus on Killmonger and T’Challa’s relationships with their fathers.

But part of his revenge against Wakanda is to carry out his father’s plans, though. That’s where the global conflict comes in.

“He’s not operating out of greed, or out of a longing for chaos”

Also, say what you like about James Cameron, dude usually puts out a pretty enjoyable movie.

Fucking candyass.

His husband’s Twitter feed is pretty funny.

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy Rachel Weisz, and Rachel Weisz in The Favourite in particular. I will see anything she’s in, which works out great, since I wasn’t going to miss an MCU film in any case.