With the first showings kicking off as I type this, I figure it's time to get a spoiler thread going. Will be seeing this Friday night myself, so I'll see you guys back here then...
QRI-Ag said:
Wakanda Forever is SO GOOD, the girls rock, the music, the emotion, everything is on point. Of course it is probably the best of this phase imo. I didn't care much for Thor:Love and thunder of doctor strange 2.
Brian Earl Spilner said:
I went into this not particularly hyped, and not the biggest fan of Letitia Wright.
She absolutely killed this role. I didn't necessarily buy her as the actual BP, but she was fantastic in the movie overall.
As a Mexican, I absolutely loved Namor and seeing the Mayan culture depicted onscreen.
I think the movie was probably 20 minutes too long, which is the biggest complaint I've seen. And the final battle was kind of anticlimactic imo. But overall I enjoyed it more than 1, mainly due to Namor.
Brian Earl Spilner said:
I went into this not particularly hyped, and not the biggest fan of Letitia Wright.
She absolutely killed this role. I didn't necessarily buy her as the actual BP, but she was fantastic in the movie overall.
As a Mexican, I absolutely loved Namor and seeing the Mayan culture depicted onscreen.
I think the movie was probably 20 minutes too long, which is the biggest complaint I've seen. And the final battle was kind of anticlimactic imo. But overall I enjoyed it more than 1, mainly due to Namor.
Aggie_Journalist said:
I really hope I'm in the minority on this, but this is as underwhelmed as I've ever been by a Marvel film.
There was some good
- Angela Bassett was nails
- The moments of Shuri dealing with her grief, hurt, and anger were compelling, start to finish
- The surprise cameo from Killmonger was a great "Wow!" Moment and perfectly upped the ante on the conflict within shuri
But most of the movie just didn't click for me at all
- The action was all forgettable
- Everything about the iron man lady was head-shakingly bad. Zero character development. Zero explanation for how she assembled a friggin Ironman suit in her garage. And her suit in the climax looked like a poor knockoff of Samus Aran from Metroid.
- Namor was a less-compelling Killmonger clone in terms of "revenge against the colonizers" motive. I hardly felt a think for him or his people good or bad. It's like they realized they goofed by killing Killmonger and so they tried a do-over where Killmonger v2 lives, but Killmonger v2 sucks and I hope we never see him again.
- Speaking if Namor living, the abrupt decision to end the fighting was not earned. We didn't see any reason for Shuri to have this epiphany of "let them live." She just went from "Namor must die" to "lol nevermind" because the scriptwriter realized it was time for the movie to end (and this inexplicably happened AFTER the Marvel Navi had killed hundreds of wakandans on that stupid ship.)
- The attack on Wakanda was … what the heck was that? You know they're attacking by water, you say you're closing the waterways, but they still get in no problem? And what was with all the random water explosions in the city - had the Marvel Navi dropped cherry bombs down all the toilets?
- Mid credit scene was a big MEH.
- The script had no idea what it was doing with Martin freeman or Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Nobody could fill the hole that Chadwick Boseman's death left in this cast
I really hope other folks enjoyed this more than I did. The first black Panther is a top-5 marvel movie for me, but the sequel is bottom-5 material.
I do think this is correct, but I'm not going to fault people who didn't like it because it honestly gave me big Batman v Superman Martha vibes.fig96 said:
I thought it was pretty clear that Shuri had an epiphany after seeing the parallels between her and Namor and realized she didn't want to become that, it was a bit sudden but started with her trying to get over having seen Killmonger when she took the heart shaped herb.
I personally enjoyed most of the action sequences and loved how Namor moved, but to each their own.
I'm with TCTTS on the end credits scene, totally didn't see it coming and loved it.