One thing that bothered me concerning the technology of Wakanda. What exactly is their energy source that's powering all their tech? Vibranium, by itself, doesn't produce its own energy even if it's the strongest and most rare metal on Earth. In fact, its major property is that it reflects energy that's directly applied to it right back (Black Panther's new suit absorbing and releasing that stored up kinectic energy). So do the Wakandans have Arc reactor tech, same as Stark Industries, or from some other power source? I'm actually confused about this part since the light and energy bolts that their weapons emit do look similar to Tesseract energy from Red Skull's Hydra tech. My wife, who's Brazilian, argued that panthers were only native to the Americas. She's only half-right in that panthers in the Americas are black jaguars while African and Asian panthers are black leopards. Different species, just comes down to coloration. Just thought that was intestering. For science.
Heh, I just learned that recently. I think it’s cool that Killmonger’s Panther suit was apparently named the “Golden Jaguar”, since he too is from America. Though, being from Oakland, “Mountain Lion” might have been the more appropriate big cat for him...
Saw it tonight w my stepson...we both thought it was pretty MEH. I was bored for much of it. I agree w the poster below. I told my son i didnt understand how they have all of this amazing, shapeshifting, energy tech, when all they have is a vibrating metal? Makes zero sense how they can use vibranium to create force fields and holograms to hide wakanda...and yet just now figured out sneakers?!
That was a joke, the shoes eliminate all the sound they make, those aren't rubber soles. They are completely quiet. They are used for infiltration and sneaking around.....so the joke is she called them sneakers. As for the power source, it's rumored that in the next Avengers movie we find out they have an infinity stone, which is why Thanos will be attacking Wakanda.
It was fun, it more or less tackled everything I expected it to do, and had a good cast, so usual Marvel fare. Spoiler It ultimately is more an origin story for Wakanda itself than T'Challa which is perfectly logical given his extended focus during Civil War, and the differing points of view of what Wakanda should be in regards to the world is the obvious way to go about such a film. Which sounds far more negative than I intend to, it very much is what a Black Panther film should be given the universe that has been built, and that's good. I did absolutely love their take on Shuri and how it changes the Black Panther dynamic, giving her the technological genius means the traits associated with Black Panther are actually split between both siblings, coupled with the actors chemistry, it just makes a joy to watch their scenes. Given the themes of the film, the siblings is definitely what any sequels should bank on
I think my favorite line of the movie was when the ape tribe dude says, Spoiler If you say one more word I'm going to feed you to my children. Just kiddng, we're vegetarians. God damn was that scene hilarious. This movie was just great as a whole. It had a serious tone to it, but the comedic moments worked extremely well. The visuals in the astral plane were gorgeous. Killmonger is right up there with Vulture, Loki, and Red Skull in being some of the MCU's best villains. They made him extremely sympathetic and a great villain. I also loved how they Spoiler had the camera upside down just before he goes to sit on the throne to signify how messed up the situation is. The action was well done. The camera work was superb. Surprisingly, the soundtrack was utterly fantastic. I was expecting it to be nothing but rap music and what I got was a soundtrack that was quite tribalistic. Amazing work from the composer. I kind of want to say this might be my second or third MCU movie to date now, but it seems like they just keep getting better and better with every movie and with Infinity War coming out in less than three months, I better wait before I even bother proclaiming that factor. Who knows, by the end of the year my list could be completely different.
When talking about the trains the sister indicated that Vibranium can be unstable under certain situations. Taking a bit of a logical guess here but they must have some way to harness the energy that is released if you purposely destabilize Vibranium. Since it's a fictional metal I've got no clue at all how much Vibranium it takes to generate power for things like the weapons. Although being an advanced society you have to wonder if they don't have things like hydro, solar, geo-therma or other ways of generating power that look different than how we harness those energy sources.
I can't believe they made a movie called "Black Panther" and it's about a descendant of the Black Panthers and we're supposed to be on the CIA's side.
Are we, though? One of the most puzzling things to me was how they casually had Ross mention Killmonger killing hundreds of people and destabilizing countries during his CIA Black Ops days. Now, I realize Ross would probably see that as normal (being CIA himself) but talking to non-spooks in that way? Weird.
?? The character Black Panther has no relation to the Black Panther Party and in fact predates the movement. Not by much, but the fact remains that the Black Panther Party did not yet exist when the character was created. Also, it was the FBI that plagued the BPP, not the CIA. Unless you just mean any US government agency in general.
IDK what the deal with the original comics is, but the movie capitalizes on the association. The whole conflict is, who is the real Black Panther, the son of a radical who's agitating for world revolution, or a liberal tech-billionaire? Killmonger's father gave that little speech about how "they assassinate our leaders, they fill our cities with drugs", that second part was (supposedly) the CIA.
After some consideration, I'm changing my mind about Killmonger. I think I was a bit too nitpicky about him, but I gotta admit he is one of the best MCU villains. I did say I liked his arc and his actor is great so I don't know what came over me to calling him "Bland Loki".
I think Marvel has been doing a great job with it's villains ever since Homecoming. Vulture was a screwed over blue collar working man that was fucked over, Hela was fucked over by her own father for doing what she was raised to do and with Killmonger, home runs all around.
Maybe Marvel/Disney listened to the criticism that their villains just weren't cutting it as movie villains.