OPINION Is Marvel's Black Panther movie really a "special moment" for Black America??

[Duwop]

nah b/c meteor man just wasn't that memorable

shrugs

you really telling on yourself now.....


shit was damn good movie, and memorable for all the reasons you attaching to am movie that didn't even come out..

but because it didn't have the trendy hype wagon of a marvel production.... it wasn't memorable,,



but it was written and directed by black man, and a character he created.....with an all black cast....i remember the shit outta it....loved it.....


but we can easily shrug it off???

 

[5th Letter]

Disney

And if Tyler Perry or another black film studio was involved then that would be truly 100% (or as close to it as possible) a black production.

 

[Duwop]

WHO CARES if they never saw a MCU flick before

1) they gon be lost af if they dont understand how this film affects the rest of the MCU

2) what if this gets them more interested in BP the character and want to read up on him and buy the comics and whatnot

but i guess point no. 2 really dont matter since BP wasnt created by a black person

like i said, they're making too big of an issue out of a movie just cuz the shit looks good....

but people are trendy, black folk are no different i guess,, i think avatar was wack juice ... but it was the highest grossing movie of all time....cuz it was so pretty.....


people like pretty shit......i get it... but separate the pretty from the significance it carries.....just cuz something looks good doesn't make it more important than something that might be a lot more ugly

 

[Playmaker88]

You guess??? lol. black people trendy as fuck

 

[AP2.5]

you really telling on yourself now.....


shit was damn good movie, and memorable for all the reasons you attaching to am movie that didn't even come out..

but because it didn't have the trendy hype wagon of a marvel production.... it wasn't memorable,,



but it was written and directed by black man, and a character he created.....with an all black cast....i remember the shit outta it....loved it.....


but we can easily shrug it off???

nah...you not gon do that

i didnt say it wasnt memorable b/c it wasnt made my marvel. Thor 2 was made by Marvel and it sucked. What else you got?

i watched meteor man a few times, and fam, i hate to tell you, it was just ok. Let me add, in my opinion. Meteor man came out in 93, I was 10. IDK what else to tell you. Then again, you are talking to someone who, when it came out, didnt have the same view on the world as I do today. I appreciate the contributions Robert Townsend made to cinema. Five Heartbeats is easily in my top 10 movies of ALL time.

to your last point, its funny you say this when we were having the NL debate and you was saying how people just wasnt checking for NL like that, but now you painting Meteor Man as some cinematic marvel (no pun) when it was just ok.

 

[Duwop]

You guess??? lol. black people trendy as fuck

so we on the same page..

i forget, you arguing against em or with me....??

 

[Duwop]

nah...you not gon do that

i didnt say it wasnt memorable b/c it wasnt made my marvel. Thor 2 was made by Marvel and it sucked. What else you got?

i watched meteor man a few times, and fam, i hate to tell you, it was just ok. Let me add, in my opinion. Meteor man came out in 93, I was 10. IDK what else to tell you. Then again, you are talking to someone who, when it came out, didnt have the same view on the world as I do today. I appreciate the contributions Robert Townsend made to cinema. Five Heartbeats is easily in my top 10 movies of ALL time.

i was 11

and i thought it was great to see the images of my own people on the screen being superheroes and community folk. there were some thugs, but i inthk the story glamorized the everyday man, and it really inspired me to be the best i could be... especially at the end when the whole community stood up behind him...i was only 11 but i wanted to be just like meteor man.........someone who care about the people around him and my entire community could stand behind....


it sucks that it didn't leave a stronger impact on you......

 

[AP2.5]

like i said, they're making too big of an issue out of a movie just cuz the shit looks good....

but people are trendy, black folk are no different i guess,, i think avatar was wack juice ... but it was the highest grossing movie of all time....cuz it was so pretty.....


people like pretty shit......i get it... but separate the pretty from the significance it carries.....just cuz something looks good doesn't make it more important than something that might be a lot more ugly

avatar was wack, however, speaking from a cinematography perspective, it gave way to a lot of things directors started doing with their films.

 

[AP2.5]

i was 11

and i thought it was great to see the images of my own people on the screen being superheroes and community folk. there were some thugs, but i inthk the story glamorized the everyday man, and it really inspired me to be the best i could be... especially at the end when the whole community stood up behind him...i was only 11 but i wanted to be just like meteor man.........someone who care about the people around him and my entire community could stand behind....


it sucks that it didn't leave a stronger impact on you......

again, 10 yr old AP and 34 yr old AP are going to watch that movie with two vastly different perspectives. I didnt say the movie was trash, it was just ok.

 

[Duwop]

So you honestly think BP is dimming black history month....

i got one better for you...

go in any school in this country any grade and ask kids to tell you about MLK, Malcolm, Obama, and T'challa

see who they get most excited about, and who they know the most about, who they look up to more.

:shrug3:

 

[Playmaker88]

so we on the same page..

i forget, you arguing against em or with me....??

against you i agree niggas are trendy.. thats it.

 

[Duwop]

against you i agree niggas are trendy.. thats it.

well it's trendy ass niggaz that's overreacting to this movie, and it's screaming to our overall identity crisis as a people, and ultimately i see that as more harmful than good...

as much as i wanna like this movie....i'm already irritated by the obnoxious.."casual fans"


and u exactly know what i'm talking about.....

the people who swear this is the greatest movie to ever black people of any black people movie ever....and COMPLETELY forgot about meteor man....

like this literally just happened in front of us....i'm not even exaggerating or making it up......

u know u see it......

 

[Playmaker88]

i got one better for you...

go in any school in this country any grade and ask kids to tell you about MLK, Malcolm, Obama, and T'challa

see who they get most excited about, and who they know the most about, who they look up to more.

:shrug3:

Nigga. thats a terribad example..

one because thats on the fam .. school lightly touches on each... More so on MLK than any.. the disconnect has to be fixed from home.. thats on the parents..

and Kids always are more excited about xbox, gta call of duty..or comic book characters you can ask any teacher and they will tell you this..

 

[konceptjones]

obama was a cool as president, i enjoyed his 8 years it was inspirational and it showed the countries growth. However shit still shit.......

I was happy when the nigga won, but i ain't cry like it was the begin of new days for black america.....i thought niggaz was overacting then......that's why i lvoed that boondocks episode.. shit stay capturing how i feel about shit.....

i used to clown tyler perry movies... i mean i had a few of them cuz i knew chicks liked to watch them... but i clowned them too...got called a hater.....they made fun of that shit too...on fucking point....


this shit no different....i'm making all these points now, and niggaz acting liek they don't get it...

but wait till a black comedian makes fun of the black folk hype from this movie....

let there been a boondocks episode where niggaz weas beeing super extra and animated about seeing the movie...

everybody would laugh their asses off.....cuz they know it's true...

but when i say it now.....i'm reaching....

niggaz take shit so seriously they dno't even see the humor in the silly shit they doing

I think a big part of the hype is not that it's here, but that it's FINALLY here. A lot of people remember how Wesley Snipes said he wanted to do a movie based on the Black Panther character since the early 90's, and Hollywood was going to allow him to do it too. He was supposed to star in it and everything and it kept getting tossed around, announced that it was moving forward for years and then... nothing. Next thing you know, Wesley is Blade and shit if off the hook so after the first one some folks was like "aiight bet, now he can get back to Black Panther..." but it never happened. Here we are well over 20 years later and cats like me that were heavy into comics back then are finally getting a movie we were promised back in college... and ths shit looks dope as fuck. This level of hype is natural.

Honestly, I don't think it would have gotten the right treatment had it been done back then. I doubt the budget to do it justice would have been there back then. I mean, Spike Lee could barely get money to make his movies, Robert Townsend's budgets were minimal as fuck, Matty Rich and Singleton's flicks were shoestring, so even with Wesley being as big a star as he was back then I doubt he would have gotten enough money to do it right.

 

[Duwop]

Nigga. thats a terribad example..

one because thats on the fam .. school lightly touches on each... More so on MLK than any.. the disconnect has to be fixed from home.. thats on the parents..

and Kids always are more excited about xbox, gta call of duty..or comic book characters you can ask any teacher and they will tell you this..

yea it was loaded as fuck, but the point remains a fictional character about to be the most important figure in the black community during black history month, and that shit is worth a discussion about what it says about us as a people..

1 we're trendy
2 identity crisis
3 niggaz gonna nig

 

[Duwop]

I think a big part of the hype is not that it's here, but that it's FINALLY here. A lot of people remember how Wesley Snipes said he wanted to do a movie based on the Black Panther character since the early 90's, and Hollywood was going to allow him to do it too. He was supposed to star in it and everything and it kept getting tossed around, announced that it was moving forward for years and then... nothing. Next thing you know, Wesley is Blade and shit if off the hook so after the first one some folks was like "aiight bet, now he can get back to Black Panther..." but it never happened. Here we are well over 20 years later and cats like me that were heavy into comics back then are finally getting a movie we were promised back in college... and ths shit looks dope as fuck. This level of hype is natural.

Honestly, I don't think it would have gotten the right treatment had it been done back then. I doubt the budget to do it justice would have been there back then. I mean, Spike Lee could barely get money to make his movies, Robert Townsend's budgets were minimal as fuck, Matty Rich and Singleton's flicks were shoestring, so even with Wesley being as big a star as he was back then I doubt he would have gotten enough money to do it right.

i agreee with all that,,,

it's just these niggaz killing me

 

[Playmaker88]

well it's trendy ass niggaz that's overreacting to this movie, and it's screaming to our overall identity crisis as a people, and ultimately i see that as more harmful than good...

as much as i wanna like this movie....i'm already irritated by the obnoxious.."casual fans"


and u exactly know what i'm talking about.....

the people who swear this is the greatest movie to ever black people of any black people movie ever....and COMPLETELY forgot about meteor man....

like this literally just happened in front of us....i'm not even exaggerating or making it up......

u know u see it......

i really dont know anyone like this.. i mean we all are going to see its because shits looks poppin and has a all black cast whats not to love about that .... and it doesnt look wack. and it cant be pigeonholed its a black star wars. and when you have something like that fanaticism is going to happen but i think you are amplifying the shit you see a lil to much after all your in marlyand

gun store liquor store, gun store liquor store

 

[Duwop]

 

[Duwop]

i really dont know anyone like this..

 

[Playmaker88]

@King Du



you really doing this..these corny memes are representative of reality.. these are jokes b.... wait a sec a just saw a commercial about taking a trip to Wakanda using bitcoins..