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CB-Musings Episode 101: T'Challa Forever
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Movie #18 = Black Panther(2018)
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What's up my savvy geeks, mark savvy here. So happy to be back. I was away for a couple of weeks. You took a little bit of a break because I went on vacation in Japan. I went to Kyoto. Osaka and Tokyo. What an experience. It was such a fun trip. I don't want to go too into it. I'll do another episode where I dive into more of my experience there, but for now, I just want to give an explanation about where I was and let's get into the next movie on our list. Black Panther. For me, what stood out the most about black Panther was it's world-building the way they established Wakanda, the way they established the history of vibranium and what the black Panther has meant, has meant to their society over the centuries was just so sick. And I think the music also played a big part in. Immersing us into this world. It feels like you who don't remember Kendrick Lamar produced the soundtrack for the black Panther and he did an excellent job. It was just an incredible list of tracks that were specifically designed for this film and specifically designed to. Kind of aid in that world, building that I mentioned. I always said gardens of the galaxy was my favorite soundtrack in the MCU. But those were all popular classic rock songs that had just locked. This has to be the best soundtrack in the MCU, because it was specifically created and cultivated designed for this film and the world building of Wakanda. So it makes it especially special. That's not tongue twister. On top of the music, it was the costumes, the way they presented Wakanda. The kind of the way they. The way they portrayed. Respect in their culture and that whole history, it was just so cool. It was so powerful to wow. I always wondered, should they have recast it Chadwick Boseman I don't know what the right answers. As a fan. I want to say, I wish they recast it Chadwick Boseman, because I think the challah is a really cool character and I would have liked to see him continue. However, I acknowledge that it's, it's not my place to say what the right thing is to do here because it's more than a movie to a lot of people. And their decision was to not recast him. And I don't think that was the decision of Kevin FYGI or the Marvel heads. I think it was. More the decision of Ryan Coogler and speaking with the family, they wanted to honor Chadwick. They wanted to give him a funeral in a, in a sendoff in the next film. Which I totally respect. It's cool. If you ask me though. I wish. If you weren't going to recast them. I honestly wish. Uh, Killmonger didn't die. I wish he had a redemption arc and he took on the mantle and honored his people. Like maybe he was in prison and then he broke out and, and went through this whole redemption arc. I don't know. But in the comics, I'm pretty sure. He has a redemption and he actually becomes a black Panther and a good one. So there was a path to that, but I guess they decided to keep him dead but if we're talking about highlights of this film, and aside from the culture that I mentioned, Killmonger is top. Level villain. He was so bad ass like, oh man. Dude. I want to swear more, but I'm trying to give this PG. He killed it. No pun intended Killmonger. When he like took off the shirt and you saw all those marks on him from all the people he killed. I was so APIC. And when he decided to pull the sword out, so he would die in the end. So I guess obviously he's not, he died, but I don't know. You still could have saved them, maybe. But that scene at the end, when you. Remove the sword. Cause he didn't want to, he didn't want to be imprisoned. I was sick. I was such an epic line. ,Kroll who has portrayed by Andy circus. For those of you who don't know, Andy circus is I would argue most well known for. Uh, playing Gollum, but he also did. Um, Uh, the planet, the apes Caesar. So he's done a lot of like really famous. Characters that you never saw his face. Cause he wore the motion suit. But now in this film and also in the Batman, you see his like acting chops. He also is the director of venom, which is okay. But in this film, he acted really well. Like the villains were very strong in this movie. Very strong. All of it was led by, in my opinion, the best performance of the film though, was Chadwick. Boseman is the black Panther kinked challah. He was. An amazing king. I think if. If all was said and done into Charla, stayed in the MCU, he should have been a leader of the Avengers. He could have bankrolled, everybody. He could have had set up a really cool, like. I could see you probably wouldn't want to set up. One more concept, but maybe he would have. Uh, visited the Avengers compound more. He would have been more involved in everything. He's he's like a perfect character. He he's made to be a king the way he speaks to his people. His. Uh, how humble he is just so awesome. The first time I watched it, I was able to watch it on my birthday, which is February 16. That's when it came out and it came out about, let me do the math six years ago. So it came out February 16th, 2018. I remember seeing it. And it was just. The best birthday ever. My wife, my girlfriend at the time got me these Ottawa senators pajamas. I'm a huge auto centers fan. And then we went and saw the movie. I wasn't wearing the pajamas people. What makes people go to the theaters because pre pandemic, post pandemic, I don't think it really matters. You got to give people a reason to go to the movies. They're not going to go. I'm sorry. Like they're not going to go see horizon. That's not a movie. A lot of people will see. So those movies have to have a lower budget. This movie had a budget of $200 million. So if you're going to commit to a budget like that, you gotta be pretty confident that it's going to do well. When you see this film, do you think it did well? I'm curious listeners, let me know in the comments I want to say, I think the black Panther had some of my birthday magic going for it. Birthday magic. Cause on a budget of 200 million, this film crushed it. I made 1 billion, $350 million. On a $200 million budget. So yeah, I made over a billion dollar profit. Sick. I'm not surprised this film was such a big deal when it came out. I don't know if people. We're hyping it up before it came out or maybe afterwards when people saw it at word of mouth spread and starts to do really well. I don't know, it came out six years ago. I don't remember. I want to do something a little different with this one, though. Usually I have the rankings updated before. But right now, I'm actually going to read the rankings. And say if I think black Panther's better than that film. So in 17 at 17, we had iron man through his black Panther. Better. Yes. 16, is it better than dark world? Yes. 15 is Ironman two. Better than that one 14 ant man, better than that one. 13 Thor. Yeah. I think some people would disagree, but I think it's better than Thor. 12, the Hulk definitely better than the Hawk. 11 in the first Spider-Man. Yep. It's been in that one. Now we're getting into the top 10. So at 10th place as guardians of the galaxy volume two. So the question is. Is black Panther. Better than guardians of the galaxy volume two. I'm going to say yes by Panther makes the top 10. Now we go to Ironman. This is tough. I really loved iron man. I'm going to say. Black Panther stays at number 10 does not pass iron man. I just really love that film. So epic. So that means our top 10 as it stands right now is black Panther a number 10. Ironman nine number eight, age of Ultron. Number seven, Dr. Strange number six. Captain America. Number five gardens of the galaxy volume one. Number four, Avengers, number three, winter soldier, number two, Ragnar rock and holding down. Number one. And our rankings is civil war. We are almost at the end of phase three, which has proven to be the best. Phase in the MCU. I'm looking up at the upcoming phases and yeah, it's definitely gonna be the best phase. So far, at least. Up next though. It was a movie that might. Hit number one next. I love infinity war. Oh, I just give away the title. Avengers, infinity war is coming up next week in our MCU rewatch. Oh, what a phase. I'm your host, mark savvy. So happy to be back. Thank you for listening tune in next week.