Ah I see now.
I wonder what the Inifnity Stones are made of.
Ah I see now.
I wonder what the Inifnity Stones are made of.
Need to make the movie scarier.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
https://www.thewrap.com/fox-moves-de...avengers-solo/
It took me a good 15 seconds for the "I see what you did there" but this has to be the worst Marvel poster yet right?
That depends.
- Every person on that poster is a black woman. This is notable because "Black Panther" isn't specifically targeting a black audience (eg: "Girl's Trip"). I've never seen a studio do that for a mainstream movie.
- The design looks off to my American eyes. But if I placed this poster (and other recent Marvel examples) next to ones from Hong Kong and China then it'd look right at home.
It's a fan made poster.
Here's the guy: https://twitter.com/MrDesignJunkie. He made more in that motif.
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Oh thank god.
Ah man that's a bummer. I thought Disney had done something interesting for a sec.
So very tired of peopl actively looking deep into things to find something to be offended by.
This whole “Who Can Be the Wokest?” contest needs to end soon.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
They should've shot in Africa, think of all the Wakandans they could've employed.
Insurance would've sadly skyrocketed on the film.
No kiddding, where did they shoot? Misiones?
Sense8 continues to be trailblazers.
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Jesus. I dunno. You guys sound awful. And ignorant and unimaginative.
Pointing out Disney's hypocrisy isn't the same as taking offense. "Black Panther" sells itself, partially, as a movie about black pride. Judging by social media, there's a helluva lot of people who will see it on that basis. (The title itself derives from a major black power movement in the United States.)
Location matters because place matters and place matters because it's an aspect of identity. Wakanda might be fictional, but it's a powerful idea---a prosperous black nation that wasn't repeatedly destroyed by European colonialism. That might be important to Black Americans because it imagines a sense of place for people who have no sense of place. It's a comic book counter to history.
The snarky response from the other twitter user is dumb because Tatooine and the Death Star have no real world analogues. They don't, in and of themselves, represent anything. That "Star Wars" is set in outer space isn't fundamental to its story and what it might've said about the real world.
Hollywood routinely shoots on location to lend a sense of realism. Shooting in Africa would have benefitted local economies, it would have been a huge boon to the African film industry, and it would have turned every star of "Black Panther" into a cultural ambassador. Imagine how powerful it would be to see Chadwick Boseman or Michael B. Jordan tell Jimmy Kimmel about Africa, right down to a country and a city and a town. In detail. Or tell Conan O'Brian about the people who lived there, the languages they spoke, the clothes they wore, the music they listened to. We'd have weeks of major pop culture coverage that would oppose the idea that any country is a "shithole" country.
That first twitter poster is pointing out that Disney made a movie about place and the idea of place, about the importance of identity, but didn't care enough to commit. On a fundamental level, it seems like they made a movie about black pride, and one that appropriates black pride, but didn't understand what makes black pride difficult in the United States, or what "representation" might really mean.
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Just to clarify, mine was an honest question. If you're more or less inserted in the world of filmmaking you usually find out about it when a big international production is taking place here.
But yeah, looked it up and they filmed in Iguazú Falls.
May be relevant: https://medium.com/@nickw84/weaponis...s-5257e3f1d93c
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I don't think I can read that website since they use [‘People’,] over there. It just makes me shudder at the sight of it. Good post, tho. I agree about selecting outrage on twitter like a drive-thru order.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Medium isn't a British website, it's just a blog platform. And most professional British journalism sites would put the period and comma inside, too (The Guardian does). Putting it outside seems to be more of a personal choice among bloggers.
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Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Made me smile and that's why i go see these things.
It's like these movies are trying to trigger me with how Pym particles work.
HE COULDN'T DRAG THE BUILDING IT STILL HAS THE MASS OF A BUILDING
Sigh.
Looks cute.
It's really inconsistent. I forgot if they explained it in the first movie, but in the comics, you retain your body mass when you shrink, that's why Ant-Man still packs a grown man's punch even when he's tiny. But for some reason it also makes inanimate objects easier to carry? Eh, let's call it Particle Magic starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
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I'm not big on the previous one -- understand *in concept* why it is liked (smaller Marvel, less explosions, etc etc) but just find the execution lacking -- and with all the same creative team behind this I'm probably gonna keep my expectation in check all the way.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Ope. I meant to see Ant-Man but never got around to it.
Maybe it was a suitcase designed to look like a building and Pym make it giant-sized so nobody would mess with it and now he's just shrinking it back down to its original size.
Ever think of that, smarty guy? Huh? Huh!?
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