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Yeah. What A "Great" Movie.

posted 2 years ago by Reaperscout (605)
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25 minutes in and half the dialogue is some variation of "T'Challa is dead." There is "T'Challa is dead," but then they swap out T'Challa with/for "the king" or "our king" or "your brother" or "my brother" or "my son" and so on. I get it T'Challa is dead and so is Chadwick Boseman. Can we move on now? I don't need to be reminded every 5 seconds that T'Challa/Chadwick is dead. Wow. Such "great" writing.

Then the funeral irritated me. Everyone is all smiling and dancing, but everyone carrying the coffin or surrounding the coffin is all sad and stuff.

Oh and the fricking music/score. Good god it's so overused like Wonder Woman's score/music cue in The Snyder Cut of Justice League (every time Wonder Woman appears onscreen or enters the frame/makes her entrance in the scene). I know the movie is supposed to have music/a score and someone will ask "well, what do you expect?" or something like that, but good god. Tone it down on the music/score usage. They have it in parts that don't really need any kind of music/score. But what a "great" movie so far. Absolutely NOT seeing the praise...YET (it might get better). I've been more frustrated with the movie than enjoying it/being entertained. I almost don't want to continue watching it. And lately, if I'm not impressed with the movie within the first 25-30 minutes, I'm not going to like it all. Someone will probably say, "you got to keep watching." Yeah, well, The Batman pulled me in pretty much immediately (that movie felt 30-40 minutes shorter than what it was), and so did other MCU movies (just in case anyone wants to pull that crap of calling me a DC fanboy, I like Marvel AND DC). Plus I'm one of the few that liked Halloween Ends and liked that movie's slow burn and didn't mind it took 40 minutes for Michael Myers to make an appearance. So nowadays I'm pretty good at figuring out stuff early on if I like a movie or not. And so far I'm not liking Wakanda Forever. I'm finding the movie to be more frustrating than entertaining/fun.

[–] BeenSavage (631) 2 years ago

It only gets worse my friend. I dozed off quite a few times tbh. It almost felt like they were obligated to make another Panther movie but for the life of them couldn’t figure out how to make it make sense without T’Challa.

[–] Reaperscout (605) 2 years ago

The movie DID NOT get better for me. No Black Panther action until about 2 hours in (we should've gotten Black Panther about an hour to 1 hour 10 minutes in).

Then they had Namor flying around like he was Mario (they moved the wings from Mario's hat to his feet).

Okoye is giving a new outfit that makes her look like a predator and belongs in a Predator movie.

Nakia was my favorite part of the first Black Panther movie and the kind of love interest I'm looking for when watching a movie (she didn't cry and act like she couldn't go on when T'Challa supposedly died in the first movie, she continued to stay strong and stuff, plus she wasn't drooling every time she saw T'Challa and acting like some cheerleader), but in Wakanda Forever she didn't get to jack, especially action wise. She got to join in on the fight in the first Black Panther.

M'Baku was a complete joke and just there for humor instead of being all savage like in the first movie.

Don't like that they killed off Angela Bassett's character. Bad enough they killed off her Olympus Has Fallen character in London Has Fallen.

Namor was a meh villain too. He should've just been killed off for being so meh/forgettable.

What the frick was the point of having Martin Freeman return? He didn't do jack. All his stuff could've been cut out. He disappears for a while too and then the next time we see him, he is handcuffed and being transported to jail/prison.

And then finally, we probably won't get Black Panther for a while since the new Black Panther is just a kid. Unless they SORAS the character. They've already SORAS'ed Cassie Lang aka Ant-Man/Scott Lang's daughter, so it's possible. Not talking about the 5 year time jump in Endgame post-Thanos snap/The Blip either. The SORAS stuff is happening with Ant-Man 3. And if they go Black Panther: Young Avenger Edition route, I'm going to have to call them out. When did they have time to train him? And that might be some speedy training after what Nakia told Shuri.

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 2 years ago

That sucks that the entertainment/fun factor isn’t there because that’s what I mainly look for when I go to see an MCU film.

For me the weakest MCU films are Captain Marvel, Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World and The Eternals. They’re for me the least entertaining films in the entire MCU so if this is on par with those films but even longer then I don’t think I’m going to be in for a good time when I see it tonight.