Is this true? Seems like a pretty historical event in film history

Is this true? Seems like a pretty historical event in film history.

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>historical
*hysterical

what about i am legend

What is Hancock, then?

Or even more directly related, Hancock and Suicide Squad.

what about boss nigger?

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>tfw no one remembers Blade

It had a fucking trilogy

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The same way the Valkyrie in Thor 3 and the yellow ranger in the new Power Rangers movie were the “first openly gay superheroes”

>what is Django Unchained
>what is any Will Smith movie
>what is 90% of Samuel L Jackson's filmography
>what is Luke Cage
>what is Blade
>what is more than half of the films released in the current decade

It's hilarious, really. I liked Blade goddammit.

Also, Shaft.

Uh, Blade? Are these people for real? There was 3 (THREE) films and a TV show and these so called "journalists" unironically think they deserve a fucking job.

This is blatantly untrue. Jesus Christ, why does everything have to be non-stop racial propaganda now?

>90% of Samuel L Jacksons filmography

Cameos in kids films?

Maybe if you define "featuring a black hero front and center" as "the film is about the hero being black."

Still, probably not. Coming to America fits that description, for example.

Blade
Django Unchained
Hancock
I am legend
The Dark Tower
Men In Black 1-3 (could argue that they were duo films, but will smith was the main-character)
Bad Boys 1-2
After Earth

Throw in Fast and Furious franchise as a whole if you consider vin diesel or the rock black.

Finn got cucked out of the main character role for no good reason. He's a way better character than Rey and I don't understand why blacks aren't complaining about a black man getting overpassed by a white woman

I thought commies at Salon would be upset about the movie, just like the commies on twitter considered it features an isolationist techno-fascist dictatorship that colludes with CIA to stop outside forces from bringing their kingdom down

it's true when you can just make up terms like "blockbuster-format" to make your point correct, yeah

Their full speed back-pedal was glorious, people are still memeing about it in the edited articles replies.

And he got passed again for the fat Asian cunt in the new movie.

I like how the marketing direction for this movie has been to systematically delegitimize every other movie that’s ever featured a black protagonist

Its funny how this site is like groundhog day. Everyday something is posted, people debate and shitpost about and around it, some actually refute, prove, dispel or disprove some of the points raised by the article, and as soon as the thread dies... we're back at the start. Anything that's not a shitpost is disregarded. We had the same about The Last Jedi last month. Some user sat down and made a twelve point list why the movie is bad despite pink haired admirals, fat chinks, gravity in space or Superleia. And yet. Every thread after that still managed to be about those same things.

So does Blade.

Doesn't even say "super hero" or "comic book super hero", but the much broader term "hero". And that's an unbelievably stupid thing to say, cause even Beverly Hills Cop fits that definition.

And Hancock, and MIB. I guess even Pluto Nash.

It looks like reactionary, imperialist propaganda cynically using Black power aesthetic/themes.

There are a bunch of massive blockbuster Will Smith movies, probably some Denzel ones I'm not remembering.

Wasn't Independence Day like the original modern blockbuster?

desu i thought that was the other 10%, but checking it nah i guess you're right

Bad Boys
I am Legend
Blade is a direct contradiction even if it did say that.

More like they gave him the exact same story arc for two movies in a row. It's like they forgot his character development happened in TFA

No, not at all. There has been big budget movies before this one with black leads. Some of them have even made pretty good money.

But I'm guessing Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Sam Jackson or Jamie Foxx don't matter. Maybe they are not black.

The replies to the tweet are golden. twitter.com/Salon/status/960985253853761536

>dr shitville
>hero

The post triggered me hard. The left has gone full Stallinist.

I think they mean cartoon superhero adaptation, Django Unchained hardly counts. Criteria was blockbuster, so that rules out Luke Cage. What did Samuel L. Jackson play? A jedi? Not a superhero. Only Blade and Hancock are valid arguments

>Man, Will Smith's tan is wild
My sides are in orbit

Just a friendly reminder that outside of USA no one even knows this is coming out.

learn to read, my friend.
>super hero

>implying Stalin would've tolerated freedom of speech
straight to the Gulag

>blaxsploitation never happened

>Blazing Saddles
>black hero
>co-written by Richard Pryor
>nominated for 3 oscars and 2 baftas
>arguable blockbuster-level box office returns for the era

>blockbuster-format

The fuck this shit mean?

Blade came out in 1999 and was a fucking marvel property how fucking stupid are these people

I'm guessing they just made it up to make sure that movies like Beverly Hills Cop won't count. It's not like Murphy was one of the biggest movie stars for a good while during the 1980's.

boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=blade.htm

Sure, the Blade trilogy only grossed $205 million total ($344 million inflation corrected), but whatever.

No they just know people like you are also professional victims that will go check out the article/tweet

Danny Glover was the star of one of the biggest action franchises of the 80s. I assume they mean "comic book super hero," but even then you have Blade.

Nature of a fast-paced, anonymous culture where threads come and go in a matter of hours. The fact that new clickbait articles and retarded twitter posts pop up with comparable regularity doesn't help, either.
Making those bannable would go a long fucking way towards repairing Sup Forums, Sup Forums, Sup Forums and Sup Forums.

Jumanji is literally the number 1 movie in the country right now.

>Twitter sucks
did you just realize?
Understand this. Social media is bad for several reasons. But the main one is the lack of editorial responsibility. The truth doesn't fucking matter. Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism. By promoting moronic tweets (by baiting), you're still doing these retards a favor.
Why do people take social media posts seriously?

there's no "super" in the salon plug, just black hero

Still pissed that they managed to fuck up a completely unique idea and turn it into a generic capeshit

This board is such shit. You know its fake. Theres already like 4 BP threads. All of you kys

I didn't check it out and I don't feel victimized. I just find it shocking that we live in a world where people with sub-80 iqs aren't euthanized when they turn 18.

This thread has me wondering if black lead actors aren't over-represented in blockbuster movies?

Take your own advice, retard.

>Hero

Jesus Christ Blade was 30 years ago

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And Spawn
And unfortunately Steel

Except that Beverly Hills Cop was the highest grossing film of 1984, which makes it a blockbuster by any metric

It's just a leftist getting mad that people are laughing at his retarded ideology.

You think this phenomena starts and ends here?
People are like groundhog day my man. They go to bed, they reset, they start doing the same shit the next day. And if some of them learn, they move on, and then they get replaced by new idiots that fill the space. There's always more.

Catwoman is stretching it though. i don't think anyone wants to remember that one.

>we've hit the point where having a black cast means its a flawless masterpiece
jesus fucking christ

Independence Day

Eddie Murphy was **BANK** in the 90s as well.

I don't know why people are surprised about inconsistent writing with different directors that don't give a shit about films that aren't theirs.

>Featuring a black hero
>black hero
>hero

Fuckin dumbass, bet you are bright red right now faggot.

I assume Shaft didn't do well either. All I can remember from that is wondering why Christian Bale agrees to be in it.

A challenger appe--
>first blockbuster-format
Clever girl.

Didn't Book of Eli do fairly well?

Ahem.

this nigger is in the cover of time magazine haha

Book of Eli was good, what happened to the Hughes brothers? (black directors, but I'm sure Salon thinks Black Panther is the best black-directed movie too)

>A blockbuster is a work of entertainment – especially a feature film, but also applied to other media – which is highly popular and financially successful.
Pretty sure Beverly Hills Cop qualifies.
Budget $15 million[2]
Box office $316.4 million[3

There was tons of black cinema in the 90s. Spike Lee, John Singleton, Hughes bros like you mentioned, Robert Townsend and more .

157 million WW on a budget of 80 million. Not quite a winner, but might have done its money back on the long game through rentals, home video and TV.

The left is literally convinced we live under apartheid of something, and they're finally tearing it down.

>1997
Try harder.

Blade came out in 1998 user.

For comparison, here are the profits for Jaws, which is generally considered the "first blockbuster."
Budget $9 million
Box office $470.7 million

>Suicide Squad
Can someone explain to me why this was hated? Not because it was a bad movie, of course it was. But isn't it the most diverse superhero film at this point, so wouldn't these idiots be all over it?

>Black lead
>Woman lead
>Group is lead by an intimidating black woman who was one of the few decent things about the movie
>hispanic
>Killer Croc is black
>Japanese woman
>Woman and black guy are the villains

Considering people lose their shit over diversity, why didn't they lose their minds over this? It's obvious they don't care about quality.

is this a real movie

When everyone felt politically obligated to say they loved Get Out, at least that was actually a good movie!

I haven't seen Black Panther but I assume it's the typical capeshit filler.

Still, it’s a long time

The Hughes never have had a solid hit despite their movies have been pretty well cast. From Hell did only modestly, 74 million WW with a budget of 35, Book of Eli didn't quite make its budget back either.

They do have that Alpha movie coming. The boy and the fist domesticated dog VS the harsh world.

No its fake.

What exactly constitutes a "blockbuster-format"? Sounds like a hell of a baseball stat to me.

Do they just mean superhero movie? Or a movie whose main purpose is to make a bunch of money, rather than be a good movie?

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Menace remains one of my all-time fav movies. Just perfect.

I've actually never seen Dead Presidents (because I've heard it's not good).

Will smith isn't black enough for them so he doesn't count

>completely unique idea
>his entire character is literally superpowers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(film)

Holy shit I'm hyped!!!
>After a Steppe bison hunting expedition 20,000 years ago in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home all the while developing a friendship with a gray wolf, forging the tentative first bond between man and canine.[2][3]

The left will be screaming since they cast white actors of course.

What about Blazing Saddles?

Blockbuster literally just means a movie that makes a ton of money. Blockbuster format would be a movie that is calculated to make a lot of money. So they are basically just saying that this movie is a calculated effort by corporations to fleece people.

Dead presidents wasnt that bad. I even had the soundtrack. I like those stories where its a bad ending for the protagonist.

OK will check out. I remember that being the obligatory halloween costume for all my black friends as kids.

Wicky-wicky-Wild Wild West would like a word with you, Salon

Fuck, Men in Black for that matter.

Fuck, pretty much all of Will Smith's resume for that matter, he's been one of the biggest box office draws of his generation for his entire career.