Indifferent on Black Panther; it was good not great. I liked Chadwick Bozeman, and it was great to see Sterling K. Brown and Angela Bassett. Michael B. Jordan was annoying AF. I liked the battle around the train, but some of the fight scenes looked fake to me.
Agreed that it was "good not great." But there were lots of individual things that were great to me. I like Chadwick Bozeman, but his accent has never sounded genuine to me, which makes an otherwise pretty good performance by him seem a bit stilted. Mbaku as a character was a bit problematic for me. I like the character and like what they did with him overall. But the fact that he was ready to kill T'Challa during the initial fight for the throne didn't feel consistent with how his motivations and character were fleshed out later on. And I liked how they played Michael B. Jordan's character, but I do
not think that he was one of the best Marvel villains, as some have said. As a villain, I thought he was "good not great." And I totally agree with the train fight scene. Good battle. But at times, it looked so fake CGI that it took me out of the moment. But overall, good movie with some good messaging.
Hopefully, you watched the the mid-credit and post-credit scenes. I forget which is which now, but one is pretty important. (and the other is just cool, even though it may not have much direct bearing on the MCU)
Thor: Ragnarok was a-MAZing, one of the best of the group so far. I generally HATE humor in these types of movies, because it usually takes the form of those stupid "Hasta la vista, babay!" quips that I can't stand, but that was legit one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time, and yet it never once ever took anything away from the battles themselves. Getting not one but TWO fight scenes set to Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song" was like a special little birthday present at the mid-year point. Idris Elba, under-used, but still excellent; Tessa Thompson, excellent (need to see more of her, and maybe kick Natalie Portman to the curb!) and they even made Cate Blanchett, dare I say, HOT (at least when her hair was down; she looked ridiculous in the antler set).
Yeah, agreed on most of that. The issues I had with this one typically get overlooked by most, so must just be me.
But still excellent movie overall. Hopefully, you watched the mid-credits and post-credit scenes on this one as well. If you haven't, go back and do so before going any farther. Please.
And I totally agree with you on the humor aspect. Pretty much all of it really hit home for me.
I just did a sequential watch of Ragnarok, Infinity War, and Endgame recently. And this isn't really a spoiler (well, I guess it technically is, but is VERY minor). But given what Strange says in Ragnarok about actively monitoring beings that are a threat to earth, I am kinda surprised that he apparently doesn't know who Thanos is.