Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Nov 11 2022 | Starring 2023 Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominee Angela Bassett. She did not do the thing!

[Krissykins]

Ah this didn’t work for me unfortunately. 
 

The underwater stuff just wasn’t well done, at all. Some of the effects made me cringe. Namor miscast, with ropey dialogue and wooden delivery. 
 

Angela, Danai and Lupita were great. 
 

2/5 

[Verrows]

I am very pleased! That is all for now.

 

Oh and also, Letitia's performance was most definitely NOT overstated. Star of the movie.

 

More to come later!

[Verrows]

8 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:

i liked it. a little under part 1 they'd be around the same area in my rankings. really loved all the stuff w/ namor and his people and everything else is just fine. has the same weaknesses as the first one; action could've been cooler, the jokes never land, and there's a little too much martin freeman.

Did we see the same movie??

[Menor the Destroyer]

8 hours ago, Macleod said:

 

South Korea doesn't seem to like/incorporate superheroes into their culture -- interestingly, they're one of the few major film-producing countries in recent years that hasn't produced anything in this genre! -- So this whole sensibility would always be a little obtuse to them, seemingly...  It's an interesting thing.  But that's cool -- I prefer most South Korean movies over most Hollywood movies these days, anyway... 😁

Pre-Covid SK was one of the most MCU-crazy countries.

[dudalb]

10 hours ago, Macleod said:

Not surprising, but... WAKANDA FOREVER and BLACK ADAM unlikely to be released in China:

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-black-adam-china-release-1235260069/

I think that Xi and the CCP are gradually going to simply close off Chinese theaters to Western movies.

OTher then Authoratarin dictatorships suck, not much you can say about that.

[Verrows]

12 minutes ago, dudalb said:

I think that Xi and the CCP are gradually going to simply close off Chinese theaters to Western movies.

OTher then Authoratarin dictatorships suck, not much you can say about that.

Eff the communist CCP. That is all.

[Noctis]

Definitely enjoyed the film and the highs are higher than the first but this has much more significant pacing issues than the first.

 

Angela Bassett was the MVP. Letitia did her best, and she gave an enjoyable performance. Liked the villain, too. He was menacing when he needed to be.

 

However...I must say...the blue people needed to either look more "fantastical" or just...different. Because on land, they literally just seemed like people with blue paint who raided a Halloween store. 

 

Great ending when everything comes full circle.

[Noctis]

Lupita is so underrated. Nakai better have a much bigger role in the third film - she's easily my favorite. And Okoye was great as well.

 

 

[Verrows]

1 minute ago, Noctis said:

Lupita is so underrated. Nakai better have a much bigger role in the third film - she's easily my favorite. And Okoye was great as well.

 

 

They were all really good weren't they? The lead women all brought it hard.

[OncomingStorm93]

Clunky. Very clunky. It wasn’t dumb like Black Adam, or tonally all over the place like Thor 4, but could have been a lot more streamlined narratively like Strange 2. This had a lot going on, the pacing lacked flow, several character decisions didn’t feel true, and yikes at a couple of the VFX shots.

[Nikostar]

95 RT verified audience score
3.8 Letterbox Rating
92% approval PostTrac rating
A Cinemascore
 

expect some great legs.

[Potiki]

11 hours ago, Macleod said:

 

South Korea doesn't seem to like/incorporate superheroes into their culture -- interestingly, they're one of the few major film-producing countries in recent years that hasn't produced anything in this genre! -- So this whole sensibility would always be a little obtuse to them, seemingly...  It's an interesting thing.  But that's cool -- I prefer most South Korean movies over most Hollywood movies these days, anyway... 😁

 

There is at least one superhero genre film from Korea. It is from the director of Train to Busan, it is pretty decent as well. 

 

[Borobudur]

Is it only me or I actually Eternals is just as good as BPWF as a slow moving MCU fare? 

[Saul Goodman]

A cinemascore, legs gonna be good.

[Krissykins]

I think they should’ve filmed the underwater scenes the same way they did with Aquaman, or tried to at least. 
 

I kept thinking the actors here were going to stop breathing 😂 didn’t get the vibe that they lived under there at all, when it looked like they were struggling so much lol. 

[JWR]

Damn. This was really good. 

[Cruel Summer]

Damn, this was awful

[cdsacken]

2 hours ago, Cruel Summer said:

Damn, this was awful

oh don’t be ridiculous. At worst it’s average. At best it’s good.

 

my rating is above average.

[cheesypoofs]

I planned on watching this in a theater. I missed the opportunity watching the first in a theater, and this one looks very good. 

 

All summer long, one of my best friends and I were working on building a home theater in my basement. We went all out with the sound, the seating, snacks and etc.. The screen is 100" but can even go up to 175". We finished the home theater enough to watch movies and play games on it about a month ago. I still have posters and decorations to hang up, but it's essentially done. It's just small stuff from here. We watched Halloween Ends for the first movie on that movies opening weekend. We just played video games on it this past Sunday. He was also here this past Saturday for my oldest daughters birthday party. On Thursday, he passed away in a complete freak accident. 

 

I'm just heartbroken. Considering the themes of this movie and what's going on in my personal life, I just wouldn't feel comfortable watching it in a theater. I would be a wreck. I'd much rather be a wreck in the home theater we built together instead of being a wreck in public 💔

[jedijake]

Great movie! Clunky and maybe slightly disjointed BUT I attribute that for the truncated post-production timeframe. It had the same amount of flaws as No Way Home. Not NEARLY as all over the place as MoM, but not as "linear" as Shang Chi or the first BP movie. (by linear, I mean straight forward simpler story telling).

 

The parts that were slower really needed to be slower. I won't say much about the actual plot here and will reserve that for the spoiler thread.

 

As for performances, yes, Angela was tremendous BUT......LETICIA-WOWOWOW!!!! We can talk all we want about best supporting actress for Angela, but I could see (never gonna happen) a best actress for Leticia because she was unbelievably good!