Black Panther tops box office.

If you could find ANYONE here claiming anything like it. Looks like the real title of the thread should be "movie goes over the head of far right reactionaries."

 

And we have adults still believing in Bigfoot.

 

And that Trump won the election. No doubt there is overlap.

 

Unless skin color and holding sticks is their culture then there is absolutely nothing about the African culture in this plot.

 

Easy enough

 

Similarities to some cultures =/= representing the entire continent. That should be "easy enough" to understand.

 

Not even close..
BUT, certainly One of the Biggest Financial FLOPS Ever...
^That is undeniable...

 

There ARE no superheros. They're not POSSIBLE. Scorsese is right. As a moviemaker Marvel makes a really good comic and having a comic book trope as the major speaker for a whole race seems racist in the extreme to me.

 

Agreed. We are talking about a fictional setting. Films often take place in fictional settings.

"For a whole race" doesn't factor in. It just isn't the case. It isn't presented in the film as "for a whole race." That's purely in the imagination of far right reactionaries.

 

So it looks as if you are an example as well. So maybe you can answer me. What cultural similarities does Wakanda have with Africa?

 

Perception is everything, as is depiction

 

And there is no vibranium. It's a superhero of metals

 

And yet you found it necessary to reply. I assume you were one of the few who went to see Strange World and loved it. I await your positive review.

 

That seems a discussion more suited to an MCU reddit thread but the short answer is yes, it was the Vibranium.

 

Africa is a continent. The second largest continent on the planet. Your question makes no sense.

 

As did you. Meanwhile, what's Strange World? Last film I saw in theaters was Nope. Very good, by the way

 

It's a piece of fiction. This can't be news to you.

 

Strange World was the film I was referring to that you found the deep need to reply back about. If you are not reading the posts that you reply back to or follow the thread so you understand the context well, that would explain a lot.

 

But they aren't routinely just totally impossible. Truth is stranger than fiction not a stranger to it. We won't believe fiction if it's not but Marvel does it all the time. It often makes a good story and great FX but valid social commentary (like Wakanda IS being sold as ) not so much.

 

I replied regarding Black Panther, not Strange World.

 

So you are against all films featuring fictional materials and fictional nations? I don't buy it.

 

Well some on here see similarities so please explain even if it’s just to some parts of Africa

 

Do you have any idea of how many times I have had to disabuse students of the notion that even the most "rudimentary" forms of esp have any real undisputed scientific acceptance at all? We are raising a whole generation that accepts all kinds of fantasy without question. Are voting machines hacked by direct brain connections far behind?

 

There are tons of interviews about the costuming, dancing, location shots, etc if you are honestly curious.

 

Dude, "unobtanium" is one of the most common tropes in all of science fiction. You've clearly read Atlas Shrugged based on some of your previous posts, and this is just ANOTHER piece of fiction involving a fictional metal as a key plot point and a hidden technological paradise shrouded with fictional invisibility technology. It's the same ****ing thing. Black Panther was pretty modest when it came to such elements when compared to most of the rest of science fiction. Hell unobtanium is so common as a trope that Avatar just gave up on giving it a real name and called it just that. Pretending this this film is in any way unique or outlandish in the world of sci fi is just mind numbingly nonsense.