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Day 10 of the 30 Day Film Meme - " Favorite Superhero Film"

This is easy.

When it was first announced and I was invited by an acquaintance to special preview - I was kind of ...ambivalent about it.

But then I saw it - with a mostly black audience, I think myself and one other person was white, and in 3D, and then I went to see it again.

Folks? This film blew me away. It was a game changer. It flipped all the preconceptions of a superhero film on its head. Not only that, it flipped the token racial roles - instead of having a token black sidekick and black minor villain, it had a token white guy sidekick and white villain. And having seen basically every superhero film made, with a few exceptions, I was blown away.

Women who were stronger then men and not superheroes? Black women? Plus a variety of roles for women - in a movie with a male lead? Whoa.

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That was a very charming film - and quite good for its time. It actually proved that you could do a good superhero film.

(Now, if only the sequels didn't suck. Although I did enjoy Superman II. And yes, I think I've seen all of them --- even the one with nuclear boy. It was Superman VI, I think? I saw it with friends in England - we were bored one night and saw it - and well..)

But the first film - was quite good.

Edited 2020-09-10 01:36 (UTC)

Day 10- of the 30 Day Film Meme

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