Marvel Studios’ Black Panther had its world premiere yesterday along with several press screenings in New York and Los Angeles. Soon after, reactions hit social media, and if you weren’t already mega-hyped for this movie, you’re about to be.
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With a few small exceptions, the reactions basically range from “This is amazing” to “This is the best Marvel movie ever.” Yes, some fans and critics are already ready to crown the film the best Marvel movie yet. Is it? Well, you’ll all be able to make your own decision on February 15. But for now, here are just a small sampling of the reactions.
Every #BlackPanther emotion in one video. #BlackPantherPremiere pic.twitter.com/dj4Zzp90Eg
— Andre Black Nerd (@BlackNerd) January 30, 2018
Y’all. Y’ALL. Y’ALL. #BlackPanther is everything I wanted and so much more. Ryan Coogler has changed game for MCU. My God. pic.twitter.com/12dfz0xKkk
— ReBecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) January 30, 2018
So y’all are in for one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. #BlackPanther was everything. pic.twitter.com/XFsAyKRAK4
— no, i’m tired. (@anthoknees) January 30, 2018
Ryan Coogler had something to say, y’all.
So #BlackPanther is a Marvel movie with a message.
The revolution will not be televised but this flick is straight up revolutionary!
Danai and Leticia steal every scene they are in.
I’m crying nerds tears cuz…. pic.twitter.com/AUojmReXb9
— Jacqueline (@THATJacqueline) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther is hands down my FAVORITE @Marvel movie so far! Also, the women in this movie KICK ASS!!! Freaking spectacular! pic.twitter.com/0So83tUt1z
— Jenna Busch (@JennaBusch) January 30, 2018
Wow. Black Panther is the best MCU movie ever. I’m not even being biased. This was by far the best marvel movie to date. #BlackPanther
— Dorian Parks (@DorianParksnRec) January 30, 2018
.#BlackPanther is phenomenal to say the least! All cylinders from direction, acting, production design, costumes and action are Aces!!!
— Wilson Morales (@blackfilm) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther: I never wanted this movie to end, and as soon as it did I wanted to go back. Solid action, smart story, tons of personality. Shuri is my new fave, Nakia is everything, Killmonger is incredible, T’Challa deserves to rule the MCU. Coogler has done it again. ???????????? pic.twitter.com/t9gG3DLuCL
— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is incredible, kinetic, purposeful. A superhero movie about why representation & identity matters, and how tragic it is when those things are denied to people. The 1st MCU movie about something real; Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger had me weeping and he’s the VILLAIN
— jen yamato (@jenyamato) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther is everything we all wanted it to be. A smart, emotional, well-told story. And just f’ing beautiful. pic.twitter.com/dvNDgEH7k0
— Roth Cornet (@RothCornet) January 30, 2018
Hoo boy #BlackPanther. What a ride. The LADIES in this movie are ???????????? Their action scenes made me weepy. (The men are rad too, GREAT performances all around) So much to process!
— Kara Warner (@karawarner) January 30, 2018
Black Panther is the best MCU movie ever. I was blown away from start to finish and I’m not even being biased. This was by far the best marvel movie to date. Thank you, Ryan Coogler! #BlackPanther pic.twitter.com/8Qh0hlOYAb
— Geeks of Color (@GeeksOfColor) January 30, 2018
Saw #BlackPanther tonight at long last, and was so impressed by the characters and world building that Ryan Coogler brought to the MCU. This movie asks the right questions and challenges the right themes, while creating one of the most impactful villains to date with Killmonger. pic.twitter.com/6tBus6KZ2I
— Terri Schwartz (@Terri_Schwartz) January 30, 2018
BLACK WOMEN SHINE in #BlackPanther SISTAS STAND OUT STRONG #MyMelaninIsPoppin
— Jay Washington (@MrJayWashington) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is exactly what you’d expect from Ryan Coogler: A better-than-average superhero movie. I dug the music, the costumes, the gadgets & the intimacy. It’s abt the fight for the future of Wakanda, and thus the fate of the world. The LADIES rule – Lupita, Letitia & Danai.
— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is unlike any other Marvel movie so far. The world building is unique, the story and cast excellent, it’s got rich cultural and political themes and one of Marvel’s best villains. Some issues keep it from the MCU’s top shelf, but it’s still a strong film.
— Don Kaye (@donkaye) January 30, 2018
Has January already given us an Oscar front runner? Because good luck to anyone who tries to take the trophy from BLACK PANTHER costume designer Ruth Carter. The Dora Milaje would like a word.
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) January 30, 2018
Black Panther looks, feels and sounds unlike any Marvel film to date. A visual feast. Wakanda is amazingly realized, the antagonist actually has an arc with emotional motivations. Marvels most political movie. So good. #BlackPanther
— Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is just astonishing. Ryan Coogler has harnessed the superhero movie — and a really fun one! — to explore profound ideas and create vivid images of black excellence that so rarely ever make it to a giant Hollywood movie. Wow wow wow!
— Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther is simply awesome. Extremely bold and as touching as it is thrilling, it boasts GOT-style intrigue, crazy innovative action and a deep bench of memorable characters. Top 5 all-time Marvel movie, easy. More later. pic.twitter.com/mmz8Nuf1sy
— Brian Truitt (@briantruitt) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is not screwing around. By far the most political Marvel chapter, to the point I had to remind myself this is a Marvel movie. BLACK PANTHER is a movie with a lot to say.
Also, Michael B. Jordan … damn
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) January 30, 2018
So much love for Black Panther. The exploration of Wakanda is phenomenal, Erik Killmonger is unquestionably one of Marvel’s best villains, and manages to be both fun and dramatic. Can’t wait to see it again! pic.twitter.com/46fRrYKuul
— Eric Eisenberg (@eeisenberg) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther is exceptional – the James Bond of the MCU. You’ve seen nothing like this in a superhero movie – it’s bold, beautiful & intense, but there’s a depth & spiritualness that is unlike anything Marvel has ever done. It’s 100% African & it is dope af. pic.twitter.com/Z77IjnIjf2
— ErikDavis (@ErikDavis) January 30, 2018
BLACK PANTHER is like a Marvel movie, but better. the action is predictably awful, but this is the first MCU film that has an actual sense of identity & history & musicality. Wakanda is alive. whole cast is great but the women (and the war rhinos) steal the show — Danai Gurira!
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) January 30, 2018
#BlackPanther is a love letter about blackness, to a world that often ghettoizes it without realizing that it is on black backs that this planet revolves.
This world’s livelihood is in our blood. pic.twitter.com/FscW1hWbI6
— Tre’vell Anderson (@TrevellAnderson) January 30, 2018
Black Panther is epic on the outside, but powerful and intimate on the inside. It feels totally different from the rest of MCU in the best possible ways. pic.twitter.com/tJNQJF19wb
— Germain Lussier (@GermainLussier) January 30, 2018
Black Panther opens February 15. We’ll have much more soon.
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25 responses to “The First Reactions To Black Panther Sound Like Marvel Has Crowned A New King”
Well if Twitter and Kotaku say best ever…. then I guess its mediocre
I am already super pumped for the film.
With all due respect though, Twitter is the last place I get movie and game reviews…
wow, just like wonder woman.
anything that isn’t white and/or male these days – because those two equal racist discrimination.
Yes, its great, lets celebrate it, but just because it happened doesnt make it “the best ever”
Someones skin or gender doesnt make things infinitely better before the race has even started.
Honestly, it’s just cool to see an African super hero.
Just like it would be cool to see a South American, Chinese or Antarctican super hero. Diversity just allows for new and interesting locations and scenarios.
Yeah and i fully support that – you know there was already a dude in Iron Man?
he was a super hero – maybe not the same representation, however, the comics are the ones that dictated the races, not the studios.
Why doesnt Stan Lee get accused of racism?
Its the same as that ‘get out’ movie – critically acclaimed racism on screen.
The best movie of the year apparently.
These conversations are not inclusive, they are divisive.
My issue is, the movie has been seen to be getting standing ovations BEFORE it starts.
Its getting high praises from those that havent seen it
and the lead actor saying “this is what africa would have been like if not for white colonisation”
They turn it into a race war, its there to divide – maybe not the movie, but the critics and the comments.
I’m going to watch it, just like the all the others, but i wont pass judgement until i do.
Did you actually watch Get Out?
It’s a great movie about the social expectations of black people, and how the idolisation of the black physique can be a problem. They turn something that is a common occurrence for black people (I.E being treated differently in a social situation due to your race) into a horror story, which helped me as a white dude understand what it is like to be someone who isn’t the majority.
if you just saw it as “Kill Whitey” then you were watching it with your mind already made up on it.
i saw it before release thanks to a few sites around the web – and before i fully understood the premise. I went in blind and left with a bitter taste.
It was direct enough to demonise and entire race, which is what i thought years of fighting for equality would have diminished
Why? Because im white? expressing my dislike has done naught but identify me as a racist
not dissimilar to your last comment…
I think you missed what Jordan Peele was trying to say with Get Out. It was not a movie that attacked white people or called all white people racist. Heck, its biting comedy wasn’t even targeted at your typical outwardly racist person. It was a commentary and critique of a very specific kind of people: The people who project an apparently progressive liberal world view, however, when you pick away at the surface, it reveals that this apparent progressiveness isn’t really about inclusivity at all. It’s a perverse interest in the novelty of the ‘other’ and the social benefits and accolades afforded someone who appears to be accepting and ‘woke’.
TBH, as a white guy, I really want to see the Arabian Knight, Abdul Qamar, get his own movie. The idea of using the demons in the Karan as the bad guys is really cool, and also the Hulk shows up in the plot line. So, we get more Hulk.
Then you tie it in to the demons are the reason for ISIS, and you have an anti ISIS moive to boot as well.
His info.
http://marvel.com/universe/Arabian_Knight_(Abdul_Qamar)#axzz55pFKefJt
Other people’s Tweets are not a article. They are not even sophisticated enough to be get a consensus on whether or not a movie is amazing or shite.
These are just everyday people!
And you can’t trust everyday people because they listen to Justin Bieber and watch sequels to Hotel Transylvania and the like.
People on Twitter aren’t even every day people. They tend to be people with very strong opinions on things. Consensus doesn’t exist on twitter, it just tends to be two extreme views in an echo chamber being amplified by retweets.
While any standard, non controversial view is drowned out or hidden due to how normal it is.
Seriously looking forward to Black Panther. He was one of the most interesting and coolest characters of Captain America: Civil War, so I’m pretty pumped to see his own movie.
Also, Twitter = bad place to get movie/video game reviews.
So 2018 won’t be the year we move on from the hype machine, unfortunate.
CONSUME
Looks really good. Marvel movies are generally entertaining at worst, so I’m in.
Please stop doing these Twitter round-ups. They’re not journalism.
Black Panther seems to get the Diversity Crowd and “You go Queen!” seals of approval…
I don’t know, I saw the trailer for this before The Last Jedi and it just looked like Black Panther chasing cars which is pretty much what he did in Civil War!
My resistance to fiction is usually set to maximum whenever someone trots out some made up country no-ones ever heard of for dramatic purposes (US movies and TV used to do this all the time with made up names of countries in Europe or Asia so they didn’t offend anyone with their stereotypes)
So Wakanda is already stretching credulity as far as I’m concerned but with the early reactions maybe it hangs together really well so wait and see I guess!
So wait… you think that they should have abandoned the whole idea of Wakanda? And drastically changed the character’s backstory (and the whole backdrop of the Marvel world) because having him come from a real-world African country would be more grounded in realism?
Yeah, weird argument.
Wakanda is fine.
Just like Doctor Doom’s Latveria is fine.
Speaking of which, I’d love to see a good treatment of Doctor Doom.
I’ve heard the new Fantastic Four was quite good?
*snicker*
Dont even
No absolutely not I’m just saying whenever you wheel out a made up place that’s supposedly on earth (I count “Sokovia” in that category) i find that sort of trope annoying – they shouldn’t change it – the comic is older than I am FFS – Im just interested to see how it’s handled because these Marvel movies started off plausibly enough with Iron Man and now they’re in pure science fiction territory!
Plenty of diversity here, if you don’t count Asians….which Hollywood is quite happy to white or black out.
I’m psyched for this movie but according to Twitter Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman were amazing films so…