![]() ![]() Fans of the character had waited for decades, Wesley Snipes tried to get the film made on the success of Blade in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, but it didn’t happen. We hadn’t had a Black Panther movie before Feb. That we know him does not mean we crave a big-budget movie based on his exploits. All due respect to a character I adore, but most moviegoers perhaps look at Superman in a way not dissimilar to Tarzan, the Lone Ranger or King Arthur. versions of the Man of Steel that used the “Hey, look, it’s a Superman movie!” as a selling point. As we pass the 80 th birthday of Superman, we should note one reason that the recent Superman movies (every Superman movie since Superman II in 1981) haven’t set the screens on fire. It was the first Black Panther movie and it was the first “of its kind” superhero flick. However, Black Panther was the clear “if you see one movie this season” pick for almost any given demographic.īlack Panther was a box office monster for at least one reason it shares with last year’s Wonder Woman. Yes, I wish Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim: Uprising and Annihilation had performed a little better, mostly because A) I liked them and B) they too represented blows against “big movies must start white dudes” conventional wisdom. Again, in a world where adults go to the same films as their kids and only see maybe one movie sans kids a month, it was hard to argue that they shouldn’t see Black Panther in that would-be date night. It was a top-tier superhero movie from the trusted MCU franchise and a lot of what stood in its path was comparatively lacking. Yes, the Walt Disney film was a generational moviegoing event for folks who looked more like Chadwick Boseman than Martin Freeman. ![]()
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