Virtue Signalling in Movie Reviews

Considering Black Panther currently has the 5th largest US gross of all time, and will soon be in the top 10 highest grossing Worldwide movies of all time I wouldn't say the reviews were "overly positive"

If it was an average movie it wouldn't be a box office success.
 
Well they are Star Wars movies, and were always going to do big business

Really, MCU movies are always going to do well enough, but Black Panther is particularly huge. It's bigger box office than Civil War, which had a lot of the established characters.

I'm not trying to argue it's the best film ever, because it isn't but I don't believe the reviews are good because of "virtue signalling". It's because the movie is good.

'Wrinkle in Time' had middling reviews because it's not good.
 
its certainly not a bad film, i just don't think its the 'best super hero film ever' or 'ground breaking' etc.

the transformers films are far far worse and they make a lot of money!!
 
VincentHanna said:
Considering Black Panther currently has the 5th largest US gross of all time, and will soon be in the top 10 highest grossing Worldwide movies of all time I wouldn't say the reviews were "overly positive"

If it was an average movie it wouldn't be a box office success.
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So you're saying popular equals quality. That is a pretty silly thing to say.
 
Well in some ways it does. Why didn't Justice League do really well for instance?

Though the fact that 'Furious 7' did so well at the box office does show that quality and popularity can be mutually exclusive.

Most of the time, critical reception of movies has no influence on box office, so it wouldn't even matter if they were "virtue signalling" - I just don't believe they are.
 
Wonder Woman is terrible. I've tried to watch it twice now and turned it off both times. I don't believe I've mad it half way through the film.
 
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Watched black panther last weekend and was disappointed. Some ropey CGI and a bit of a gimp for a main character. Michael b Jordan was much better lol. It's definitely a case of popularity through hype that had led to it's success. That hype isn't because of the script or acting, there is definite bias there.
 
I think it was quite obvious that Black Panther was going to get massive virtue signalling in the reviews, I called that in the thread about the move before the reviews came out. It does undermine the reviews a bit, it was quite likely going to be a decent film but people were getting hyped up purely at the fact it even existed and that seemed to inflate scores.

DrToffnar said:
No one forgot about Blade. No one forgot about Catwoman. Marvel and DC choosing to target certain demographics IS a big deal precisely because of the very specific melting pot of culturally relevant ingredients that's made these sorts of movies tremendously popular.
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What does Blade have to do with this?
 
black lead role "superhero" film that no one bats an eyelid about because it was 20 years ago when BLM wasnt fashionable.
 
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