Black Panther - Marvel Comic stuff is generally not my cup of tea, but I enjoyed Black Panther enormously. The heroes, sidekicks, and bad guys tended to be more nuanced than I’d expected, not the standard one dimensional characters. The CGIs were impressive, and the entire Afro-futuristic look of Wakanda (the hero’s homeland) was incredible. There was much food for thought, but it didn’t pound you with A Message the whole time.
Lots of violence, but it’s comic book violence, not blood and gore violence. And the female warriors kick some serious butt!! I want a golden spear too!!
Interesting watching it with a almost completely white audience in rural Washington County outside of Hagerstown. From what I could tell from overheard conversations as we left, most of the audience really enjoyed it. So much for the conventional wisdom that white audiences won’t go to movies with a predominantly black cast.
