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But what pisses me off this time is because Swanpride is completely right: Black Panther isn't being nominated by its merits as a movie, it isn't even being nominated by its cultural importance, its being nominated so the Academy can point to it and say "See, we're not racist! We put Black Panther in the running for Best Movie!"
Let's all be honest here: d'y'all really, sincerely thinks the Academy cares about the points and discussions Black Panther uses for its story? The very same Academy that put Green Book, one of the pinnacles of "White person saves black people from racism", as deserving of the same glorified position?
Mother's Basement made a video about it last, but if you don't have the time to watch it all, the point is that the Oscars are not a popularity contest or a prize of recognition for movies that push forward the medium: it's one giant wanking session for the industry.
It's why mediocre shit like The Boss Baby gets nominated for Best Animated Movie, when far more imaginative Asian and European animations barely get a chance to join. It's why it took 40 year, 40 sodding plodding years for Roman Polaskin to be barred from the Awards, despite being a convicted fugitive rapist.
So yeah, the Oscars are bullshit, everything the Academy decides on is bullshit, and I refuse to glorify it any further by treating it as something worth of serious discussion, so call me when we decide to talk about something worth talking, like Vision and Wanda favorite sexual positions.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jan 23rd 2019 at 10:16:26 AM
The family tree was just as confusing in the comics, though it had Hank Pym in the role of Ultron's dad (making him Vision's grandpa) instead of Tony Stark.
Although since Vision in the MCU was a joint project between Tony and Bruce, they would both be his dads.
Edited by M84 on Jan 23rd 2019 at 9:50:21 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised@Hail Muffins Well, there is some light in the shadow due to the nominations of Roma.
Vision has way more daddies...there is is Jarvis (plus human Jarvis as granddaddy), Tony (who is both his daddy AND his granddaddy due to creating Jarvis), Bruce, Thor and let's not forget Ultron.
He also has a mommy in doctor Cho.
Edited by Swanpride on Jan 23rd 2019 at 5:58:25 AM
I have a headcannon that Wanda is really into BDSM. Her powers make it really easy.
Frankly, I had some of those before, and all I did was get burned.
I'm fully convinced at this point that the onlu way to fix the Oscars is to burn everything to the ground and make snowmen with the ashes, kind of like how Capcom fixes Resident Evil whenever it comes back to being shit.
"I have a headcannon"
You have a large, smoothbore, gunpowder weapon in your head? Must be painful.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 23rd 2019 at 9:49:59 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm really happy for Marvel and for everyone involved in Black Panther that it is getting these nominations. The politics can go screw themselves.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah, Black Panther (2018) kind of used up all of T'challa's most well-known enemies within the first film. Killmonger and Klaw are dead, and M'baku is no longer a villain. There's definitely villains from his Rogues Gallery you can use, but those three were his most well-known.
See, I'd never even heard of Black Panther before the film, so they could bring out anyone as a villain and I wouldn't know the difference.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They could always adapt the war between Atlantis and Wakanda.
It wasn't exactly the peak of Comic Book story-telling, but hey, Civil War wasn't, either.
but Aquaman is DC property you cant just have two franchises going to war with each other!
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverCBR, I believe, stated that the next Black Panther movie should have Doctor Doom as the villain. Basically, they would adapt Doomwar
, which might be interesting.
Edited by alliterator on Jan 23rd 2019 at 10:28:20 AM

Award shows in general are stupid. It's just nice to see new ground broken.
This is apparently the first ever Superhero film nominated for best picture, so clearly the Oscars committee saw something in it that other films like Infinity War or others didn't have.
And if it was just about "black people liked it", then The Hate U Give would've been nominated for something, or they would've just been fine with stopping at nominating Blackkklansman.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jan 23rd 2019 at 7:30:54 AM