Fi you know I love you yeah? I wanted to be silent about this shitty opinion of yours but since you chose to post it for all to see thus souring a beautiful experience for so many people who value your opinion, I have decided to add my own opinion to counter yours. You said
There was nothing special about the storyline, to me. It felt all too flat.
I totally disagree with you. You were either very distracted or you were prejudiced against the movie even before you watched it. The story line was simplistic yet brilliant. It was basically about T’Challa committing everything to right a wrong that his Father T'Chaka had done thus saving his kingdom from a tyrant who was hell bent on proving the strength of Wakanda to other nations out of hate & definitely not out of love or out of a wish to help other people. T’Challa’s Father had made a mistake in the past that birthed a monster and T’Challa corrected it by killing Killmonger. He also chose to learn from his Father’s errors and at the end we saw him begin a movement to provide the much needed aid to other nations.
It was a movie that was shamelessly African and rich in nuances of the African culture. There was an award winning statement in the movie where the dead King T’Chaka told his son, the new King T’Challa, that he was a very good man and it would be difficult for him to be a king. This is the truth in reality. Good men rarely make good kings/politicians because when the time comes to make tough decisions, they often choose to do what’s right than do what’s best. And this was eventually what T’Challa did when challenged by Killmonger. He chose to let his powers be stripped away, to fight a man who was obviously wicked and hell bent on destroying everything. As the king, he could have simply ordered him killed and his orders would have been obeyed. But he chose to fight fair and lost it all, thereby proving his father right. However the fates smiled on him and gave him a second chance and he was helped by N’Baku whom he had shown mercy in the beginning by not killing him after he had challenge his right to the throne.
He used both his strength and his good sense to defeat Killmonger and despite allof killmonger’s atrocities, he still showed him kindness by helping him fulfil the longing to see the beautiful sunset his father had promised him. What better leader could a people ask for?? You said Killmonger would have been a better king, that’s almost as treasonous as saying Adolf Hitler was a good leader!
In your critique of their accents you said
Not after watching a black girl get a Nigerian name (Okoye) and a Ghanian accent to boot. Where on earth is that done? Asides Wakanda that is!
Guy what planet are you from??? Wakanda is a fantasy country and they reserved the right to pattern their language and accent after any African country! The fact that they chose to pattern some of their names and some of their accents after Nigeria was laudable! If you had taken time out to watch the movie without bias, you would have noticed that they patterned the accents of the different STATES/TRIBES in Wakanda after different African nations, some Ghanian, some Nigerian and several others. As Nigerians we chose to identify with them a great deal because three of their names sounded like ours Okoye, N’Baku and N’jobu. I’m sure Suri, Nakia,T’Challa & T’Chaka must be patterned after some other African country too. The movie may have had issues which people disagree with but ultimately it was a fantastic one and I must declare that I LOVED IT!