Posted on 02/18/2018 11:23:05 AM PST by SMGFan
“Throw in easy access to a theater as well. In 1939 some folks may have been a hundred miles from the nearest theater and movies were a rare treat.”
Especially in the Midwest and West. Even today movie theaters are few and far between in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, parts of Minnesota, New Mexico and some other places.
Economically movies weren’t the first choice for entertainment for most people.
A very rare treat!
FrankR, great retort! Thanks for the good laugh. I like your style.
JoMa
The Black Panther was a Marvel comics character well before Huey Newton and Bobby Seale stole the name.
Yes, I know. So what? Connotations don’t change over time? Of course they do.
I am not sure what movie started things being different and pushing the envelope but it could have been “Blow Up” with David Hemmings in 1966. Although that film was pretty tame compared to “Midnight Cowboy” in 1968.
Maybe you didn’t see “Titanic,” which by far the most overrated movie.
I saw on the news some white women raving about the movie and getting donations and arranging to transport loads of children to watch the movie.
“Where are the white women at?”
One of the few quotes from the movie that can be posted in polite company.
It would be difficult to choose the most overrated movie, though I’d put another Cameron film up there: Avatar. No doubt there are lots of people who think that’s a great film, but I thought it was a simplistic, heavy-handed, preachy movie, with much of the scenery copied from World of Warcraft (the MMORPG, not the film). Apart from some good special effects, I found very little to like about it.
I just want to state here that I’m a big fan of Marvel movies, television and of course their comics, which I’ve been reading for 50+ years.
I follow all the announcements by Marvel over the past few years about the MCU—Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Black Panther movie has been in the works for some time.
If it is over hyped it is not by Marvel. People here need to let it be. It was not written to be an anti-white movie, for God sakes!
It’s been around as an idea since Capt America Winter Soldier, Deadpool, Antman and Iron Man 3.
Stop promoting it just because it is black. Stop degrading it just because it is black. Wakanda was always a place in the comics—it is where vibranium comes from; in Africa below the Sahara Desert. And guess what?
Africa below the Sahara is black.
Really, Marvel/Disney didn’t make that up just to appease BLM!
Seemed it was some kind of community center (Iowa?). I wasn’t interested and switched it off. One woman did the talking, said something about seeing different kind of people in films.
yes, sometimes people want things to fit their narrative.
Possibly. I think also WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, which had strong (for its time) language & adult content. Also, the hippie movement was just starting.
By 1967 the decadence was underway; we had morally bankrupt films like BONNIE & CLYDE and THE GRADUATE.
When adjusted for inflation, these movies can’t touch GWTW. Of course, that does include the various rereleases of GWTW that have happened over the decades. You can go to Box Office Mojo and look at an adjusted list, and the top 10 is a quite different story.
The guys making these movies are too stupid to even know when they put out a deeply conservative movie. I understand Firefly was very conservative in spite of the fact that Joss Whedon is a leftist nutbag. He doesn’t even get it. Same with the guy who plays Captain America who is apparently mostly leftist because his brother likes dudes.
It’s because the BLM crowd is acting like it is a watershed moment in radical black history and that its success will validate their movement. Some of us would have liked to have seen that effort fail, but the movie was a success, so time to move on.
Agreed.
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