Wakanda Forever fills it with lots of subplots. The new Black Panther's major failing is the inevitable hole in the middle, caused by the death of star Chadwick Boseman. This from a fan of great big movies - the sort that only cinema can pull off. Pretty good setups all, but where do you go from there? The answer was to make them bigger, but not particularly better, to make them more crowded, but not particularly more complex or interesting. Thor was an entitled prince suddenly stripped of everything and starting from scratch. The original Iron Man was about a self-centred billionaire who became a halfway decent person.Ĭaptain America was a 1940s Boy Scout hero flung into today's complicated, film noir world. With great cast lists come a great number of subplots that need servicing, and frankly in most stories - from Oedipus Rex and Hamlet to Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - you really only need one lead character. But that's not enough to fill up 30-plus movies, is it? And above everything, my issue with the last few years of comic-book movies is they're so unfocused. Character development is pretty much limited to the initial Origin Story, which I can sum up as follows. I mean, if you can do pretty much anything, then why should I care about you? Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the 30th film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe,Īdd to that all the DC Comics films, and the Spiderverse and X-Men movies and the number becomes astronomical.īut as I say, like Adaptation's John Laroche and his fish, I've had enough.įor a start, they're too damn big now.
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