Another Badass "Black Panther" Trailer!
Monday, October 16, 2017 at 10:00PM 
Chris here. Okay guys, hear me out: Marvel is getting good again? Aside from business-as-usual as the Avengers arc closes, the superhero house will give us Cate Blanchett in drag for Thor, Pfeiffer in the Ant-Man sequel, and of course the most eagerly anticipated: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.
Excuse me while I pick my eyeballs off of the floor. The goods on what Coogler has created keep getting better and better, and a brand new trailer has yours truly at a fever pitch. The amount of set pieces and plot threads already at play in this trailer suggest that it might be another bloated actioner, but there are genuine thrills everywhere, all the more rapturous for the film's existence in our current political atmosphere. Chadwick Boseman may be our star, but its most exciting element might be its celebration of black women - let's all geek out over Danai Gurira's Okoye.
This (paired with Wonder Woman) feels like the first time in quite a long while that superheroes are actually awe-inspiring on a deeper level. It pays to have an identity all your own and not retread on the diminishing returns of other retreads. It's going to be a long four months waiting for this one.
Reader Comments (12)
"how much more are you hiding?"
now i have an opening line if i ever meet chadwick boseman or michael b jordan
Angela Bassett as the Queen Mother is perfect. She has that regalia expected in a queen but also someone who is a badass. I'm fucking stoked for this.
I've never watched a Marvel movie (!!!!!!!!) but surely this will break my streak -
Angela Bassett
Lupita Nyong'o
Forest Whitaker
Michael B. Jordan
Chadwick Boseman
Danai Gurira
How could I not?
I wanna be Angela Basset.
It's like Marvel finally realised they can be a bit braver with their marketing and their filmmaking choices.
Glenn -- well, we'll see about filmmaking choices. It *does* look pretty thrilling but there's stil the chance it will end up being just a noisy big thing in the sky and crashing machines finale.
this cast though, hello!
I suspect it could see Wonder Woman just for the thrill of something new, representation wise, in superhero movies. It's so weird that Hollywood keeps thinking people don't want variety within their sameness (favorite genres) because they do. They can be excused for thinking the audience doesn't want variety in the "types" of movies (box office tends to be predictable in that way) but not thinking they want variety in casting / leading players/ etcetera is insane.
Looking forward to it, but it's difficult to get excited for its visuals so soon after Blade Runner. Compared to that gorgeous and incredibly tangible world this looks like a cartoon. None of it has weight.
Looking forward to it, but it's difficult to get excited for its visuals so soon after Blade Runner. Compared to that gorgeous and incredibly tangible world this looks like a cartoon. None of it has weight.
Marvel movies never have aesthetic weight. Black Panther is aided in its reliance on Afrocentric imagery to convey its universe. Everything feels more expansive because it.
Tr: Except you're comparing a dystopian vision and an, ultimately, utopian one. If you want to compare Black Panther against white media, the real question isn't how Wakanda stacks up against Blade Runner 2049. The REAL question is how the cinematic Wakanda stacks up against modern visions of utopia, like Friendship is Magic or Star Trek: Discovery.
/3rtful: Just talking the movies, Winter Soldier and Civil War would like to have some words. They looked "serious" without over compensating to the point of parody (like the DCXU), but I'd argue equating a weighty aesthetic with quality is...missing the point...with superhero media.
I am officially starting the Angela Bassett in Everything campaign.
(Sigh) No one?