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The Incredible Avengers
Marvel’s Avengers is what every summer blockbuster aspires to be — the perfect popcorn epic.
— Xenocrates
This is, by all means, the new gold standard in summer blockbuster entertainment.
If you’ve read my blog, you know I don’t stop to review movies unless they have some kind of cultural significance. The last time I did that was to expose why people instinctively gravitate towards an obnoxious waste of film such as Transformers 3 that does away with story telling for big, loud, expensive, set pieces. However, Avengers is not such a movie. It is a genre defining epic that does the impossible: tell an outlandish, implausible tale with spectacular cohesion and believability. This is the movie Transformers 3 should have been and here’s why:
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Why are there no Black male superheroes or non-white superheroes on the avengers besides Fury? This came to my mind when I saw Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye alongside each other, all quintessential Nordic males, all the main highlights of the battles.
When Black People start making GOOD super hero movies, that will change.