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Black Panther
Apr. 3rd, 2018 06:19 pmAt last I've rejoined the tide of civilized society: I've seen Black Panther! And I had much the same reaction to it as I had to Wonder Woman, another superhero that I heard hyped to the skies before I actually saw it: both of them were fun, solid movies, but neither blew my tiny mind the way that the hype led me to expect them to.
(Also, Black Panther did manage to stick its landing, whereas Wonder Woman bobbled a bit at the end.)
And in both cases, although I did enjoy their action stories, I would have really liked to get more time to just explore the worlds the filmmakers built. With Wakanda in particular I felt like there was enough loving attention to detail to make that eminently worthwhile, although clearly the result would not have been a Marvel superhero film, so honestly this is not really a criticism of the film so much as an admission that I am clearly not the best audience for superhero films. "Yes, we could have another fistfight, but do you know what would be really fun? A festival! There could be lanterns and special festival foods and maybe a pop-up amusement park. COULD THERE BE BABY RHINOS IN THE PETTING ZOO?"
But maybe the DVD will have making-of extras, sort of like the Lord of the Rings movies, where they go in detail about the thought process behind their world-building decisions and what ramifications those decisions had for the material culture of the movie? This is a brilliant idea, Marvel should totally steal it if they aren't working on it already.
(Also, Black Panther did manage to stick its landing, whereas Wonder Woman bobbled a bit at the end.)
And in both cases, although I did enjoy their action stories, I would have really liked to get more time to just explore the worlds the filmmakers built. With Wakanda in particular I felt like there was enough loving attention to detail to make that eminently worthwhile, although clearly the result would not have been a Marvel superhero film, so honestly this is not really a criticism of the film so much as an admission that I am clearly not the best audience for superhero films. "Yes, we could have another fistfight, but do you know what would be really fun? A festival! There could be lanterns and special festival foods and maybe a pop-up amusement park. COULD THERE BE BABY RHINOS IN THE PETTING ZOO?"
But maybe the DVD will have making-of extras, sort of like the Lord of the Rings movies, where they go in detail about the thought process behind their world-building decisions and what ramifications those decisions had for the material culture of the movie? This is a brilliant idea, Marvel should totally steal it if they aren't working on it already.
