Pffftt....Black Panther. Holy God, you would think this was movie was the biggest cultural achievement that ever existed the way people talked about it. When the reality is that although it isn't terrible, it's isn't all that great either. Just sort of generic. The guy who plays Black Panther is charisma-less, the villain is basically Black Twitter come to life, the sister is sort of racist and the only sort of likable character was the girl from Th Walking Dead, which is likely why she had the most spotlight in Infinity War among the Wakandans.
There was also parts of it that were laughably bad. It was almost like a racist dude made this movie to poke fun at Africans. Why does this super advanced society still have primitive practices, cultural facets and mindsets?? Like why do they have grasshut skyscrapers?? It just seemed really goofy in certain aspects. It's also sort of insulting considering that when Kirby and Lee created Wakanda, the world wasn't as small as it is now, I feel like putting the most advanced society in the world in a part of the world that has the highest poverty and violence and all other sorts of problems would be as weird as if you made the most fictionally advanced society in the US be in rural Appalachia with skyscrapers made of double wides or something.
The first Avengers is another one that did well because it was successful attempt at crossing over super heroes for a massive team up. Other than that, it's as pretty bland film. It looks like a really expensive TV movie with no real impressive camera work or cinematography, a lot of the costumes look silly, the plot is basic and seems like it was crafted by a first year creative writing student, and Whedon's dialogue just makes every character seem sort of petty, snarky and annoying.
Captain America: Winter Soldier is another one people go ape shit over that I have never understood why really. Yes, I will concede that the action scenes in it are amazing but the plot and events are so juvenile. It's like the pre-shcool version of The Manchurian Candidate in many ways. Cap learns everything he needs to know conveniently from a television screen in a bunker, Hydra magically had infiltrated and took over SHIELD with out any real explanation as to how, Bucky's Cold War roots are barely mentioned or brought up despite his name and huge honking red star on his shoulder. It always just seemed like a sophisticated idea for a film that was tremendously dumbed down.
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