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ZenOfThunder
I rewatched this one when Chadwick Boseman passed and I didn't remember liking it as much as I did the third time through. It's a very well built movie with likable characters and a cool setting that sometimes looks like a PS2 game. Makes sense as the A-Team was probably working on Infinity War at the time, but you can also tell how much love went into this.

PrinceKaro
The landmark movie that features the MCU's first black superhero who isn't a boring military douchebag with zero personality.
This film marks the real introduction of Wakanda, a confederacy of high tech african tribes (plus a bunch of grunting neanderthals in the mountains for some reason) who all live in secrecy in their moon-metal paradise that somehow nobody has found out about until this point. It is equal points stupid and charming and probably done as about as well as could have been in a serious superhero movie.
Suspension of disbelief aside, it is very easy to get caught up in the world of african atlantis where the new king T'Challa has to defend his nation and crown from a gangsta interloper who seeks to destroy Wakanda's very way of life.
It is all very compelling up until the ending where all of a sudden they want to try and make Killmonger a sympathetic character. Yes the same Killmonger who has been a janky wrestling heel for the whole movie. The sociopathic genocidal maniac whose rhetoric nearly started world war 3. That Killmonger.
Now there is nothing wrong with a bad guy being sympathetic, but that is clearly not what they were doing with Killmonger for three-fourths of the movie.
Killmonger's strength as a villain is one of comparison, a dark mirror of T'Challa that shows what could have been if he didnt have the fortitude of character to avoid going down the path of vengeance and hate. He is a character that bares some eerie (and assumedly intentional) parallels to Adolf Hitler. Then it is suddenly aww I'm sowwy poor baby you had a rough life so that's why you are a sadist who carves marks into your own skin for every person youve murdered so hey brother, lets watch the sunset together!
Black Panther the film may not be as radical an idea as his first appearance in the comics in the 1960s but it is still culturally important. While quality-wise it is certainly not best picture material, it still remains entertaining.
RIP Chadwick Boseman

BetrayedTangy
Ill admit it took me a couple of viewings to really appreciate Black Panther. Seeing it in theaters I was pretty disappointed, most of the action scenes felt pretty unspectacular for being this far in the MCU and the plot felt very messy with a lot of lore dumping and a ton of side characters to try and keep track of. However my last two issues ended up paying off, because once you understand it all its a really cool movie. Sure the action still isnt great, but TChalla trying to live up to his father, while still carving his own path and avoiding the same mistakes is awesome. My issue with the side characters still lingers a bit though, Klaue feels really wasted especially with how fun of a character he was, plus Everett Ross really had no business being this prominent in the plot. Like he was pretty lame in Civil War, so I really didnt care about him here. Regardless its still a pretty good movie and rest in peace Chadwick Boseman, you put in one helluva performance as King TChalla.

Corrik7
I think Black Panther is a good movie. But, I also find it rather generic also. Black Panther suffers from the being unkillable for the most part. Any time he takes too much damage he just explodes it back out. There lacks a lot of weight at times in this movie besides in the duel. Killmonger is a relatively good villain. The plot is also commendable as far as differing ideologies. I think this movie gets overrated a lot because it is the first African-American superhero movie. I think if you changed the skin color to all Caucasian people, a lot of the praise for this movie dissipates to a moreso generic film. That said, the movie is good. Just not the best thing ever many consider it.

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