| TranceformerFX said: My gripe is that Black Panther doesn't deserve it's critical praise and box office success because it's status was achieved by having an all black cast - that's it. [...] The movie is successful because everyone was black, not because it was good movie - which it wasn't. The action choreography was terrible. |
You think the movie is overrated? Fair enough. There are plenty of movies that I think have been overrated, and plenty underrated. Beyond that, movies are a bit subjective (for instance, I think Black Panther was a good movie, though not great).
This does not mean that "the movie is successful because everyone was black."
In the first place, not everyone was black. In the second, there have been loads of movies with predominantly black casts over the years. Some have been commercially successful, others not. Some have been critically successful, others not. Some of these movies have been both flops and panned. Black Panther has been both commercially and critically successful -- and apparently you think it doesn't deserve its success -- but that doesn't mean that the reason for that success is "an all black cast" (which is also untrue).
It's true that society is currently going through a bit of a "social justice" phase, which might result in certain grade inflation in cases like these (though take care when looking at something like RT, which is a weird aggregate metric). I don't care for that sort of phenomenon either, but it still has to be understood in terms of a history that includes slavery, institutionalized discrimination, etc. It's understandable, given that context, that people would be excited for certain successes within the black community -- and no, that wouldn't be the same thing if you simply swapped "black" out with "white," because the history and context aren't nearly the same.
Ideally, and all else being equal, would we treat black and white identically in these sorts of ways? I think so. Maybe someday the wounds from past injustices will heal enough to allow for that. But in the interim we must try to understand and deal with the reality that has led to this current situation.
