THREAD. Reading overall trends in criticism is fascinating to me. To be clear though, overwhelmingly positive reviews are a miracle. I don't want any dialogue to overshadow that or miss what makes a movie like Black Panther so amazing.
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But I'm also fascinated by the reasons people don't like stuff. And what it can tell us about the ways we engage movies, all to help move the overall dialogue forward by addressing core misunderstandings.
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And the one criticism that I'm seeing pop up again and again with Black Panther is a "just a comic book movie" and people are just reading in too deep." To which I have a few thoughts.
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The first is that every single piece I've read this far has been semiotically responsible and referencing the text. Which is sort of remarkable. I'm hard pressed to think of a movie that's actually inspired THIS much 1:1 analysis and it makes my heart happy.
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Meanwhile, this sort of "just a ___" criticism is inane. People use the same lgoic with "it's just a movie!" to discount cinema as artform all together, so by all means, don't be quick to line up your thought process with that.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
To preface, I love and greatly respect your work - but I think its possible to not be on the side of 'discounting cinema as an artform all together' and also not liking Black Panther.
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I love the representation of minority figures as superheroes - but superhero movies are tough for me to engage with due to its formulaic, and often monolithic take on what can be culturally complex issues
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I know others cheered when Martin Freeman's character was drowned out by the mountain tribe's howling noises and silenced - but I thought that scene was symbolic of the critical space afterwards - to me the, near-unanimous critical response is problematic, and not an achievement.
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I kind of feel like instead of reading the whole thread you just stopped there. Because... the rest of what I say.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
=D Thank you for responding. I did read the rest of your thread. And you do address what you refer to as "inspired reflection." I just wanted to throw one more voice out there in my own words, is all. Just to add to the landscape.
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