BLACK PANTHER - SO COOL
That movie was so cool. So good. I totally thought it was a good movie. The best. So cool. And another thing - it was cool. It becomes clear very early on that this is an origin story for the character, and with that, you’re not going to get as much of the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK as you’d hope. What you get in its place is one flashback after another. The screenwriting team of Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Alastair Siddons goes heavy on emphasizing the father-daughter relationship. Providing Lara a motivational push is one thing, but the film’s desire to be taken as a serious family drama often feels forced. As happy as I am that the studio learned from the mistakes of the previous films and decided not to just cater to teen boys (there isn’t an unnecessary shower scene this time around), the producers lean a little too heavily into the BATMAN BEGINS formula. The crafted an origin-story based on the success of the rebooted video game series but lost the sense of fun associated wi