Okay so just saw Wakanda Forever and I have several? thoughts
Fucking gorgeous. Beautiful. Amazing.
I actually started crying during the opening sequence. Only time it happened, but damn does it hit you right out of the gate.
The length kind of got me but it's pretty forgivable given the substance it contained
Michael B. Jordan, I was not expecting you, but damn if I wasn't excited
I mean I was literally bouncing in my seat during that scene
Namor's character was phenomenally written and played out, like god damn the Black Panther movies have far and away the best villains in the MCU
This is absolutely just a me thing but the moral complexities in this story are so well layered that there were several times I had an inner debate about the most moral paths for Shuri to take
I'm glad that Shuri didn't end up Queen, I don't think ruling the nation would be something she ever wants to do
The character arcs all felt very natural
The pure, unfiltered grief in Wakanda forever is phenomenal and radiated around the whole theater, by far the saddest MCU movie
Martin Freeman, you are so useless, ily
Ngl, Ramonda's death was the biggest curveball, and tbh it would've stung more if she had been more developed in the first movie
It was fitting to have Okoye move on from the Dora Milaje, like yes they are a part of you, but with everything you've been through - literally leading Wakanda through the Blip - you can clearly grow beyond them
And I feel like we could've seen more of Riri, though we know she's got a future in the MCU so it's easy to let go of
The fight choreography was? immaculate
Everything about Talokan was amazing
As for awards, I'm betting on several: SFX, Cinematography, Score, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Huerta)
Overall the best MCU film - best MCU thing frankly - to come out since Endgame, I'd say it's an 8.8/10
M’Baku in Wakanda Forever is proof that you can give a Marvel character funny moments while also giving them emotional depth without taking away from the heart of the movie (and actually adding to it)
thinking about how shuri’s journey of grief is not linear, it’s not the 5 stages we’re used to starting with denial and ending with acceptance. She spends a good majority of the story oscillating between denial or her grief over her brother, then anger, that anger that deepens and morphs into all consuming vengeance. How her grief eats her whole, how it eats namor whole, how it eats wakanda whole. how she never gets her moment of catharsis, never lets the grief settle and set in, never lets herself grieve until the very, very last scene. when she burns the funeral gown marking the end of the grieving period, when her’s only just begun.
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