Black Panther
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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 19:09
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Deadpool shocked me. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started it and I really don't remember laughing out loud at some parts of it in quite some time. I've never really been a fanboy of anything except for maybe Firefly when I saw it, but my love for the first Deadpool movie might be as close as I ever come.
Obviously for completely different reasons, but yeah, DP to me nailed it much like Firefly. It really stood out, from the very start, and I was hooked. Bought the damn thing too, which is something I never do!
As for Killgrave and Jessica , I'm hearing that David Tennent was roaming around the set, indicating that he'll still be in Jessica's head, at least from time to time in the next season. Should be fun.
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Did a little digging on the matter of sold out theaters and empty seats. One story I found said that Octavia Spencer bought out a theater (I believe it was Atlanta) for poor kids to attend. Another story I came across spoke of a young girl in Flint Michigan raising $16K to buy out a theater so that only young kids her age could see the movie.
Flint Story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/02/20/10-year
-old-little-miss-flint-helped-hundreds-of-underprivileged-kids-see-black-panther-over-the-weekend/?utm_term=.f543bcf76aee
Octavia Spencer
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/octavia-spencer-famili
es-chance-hidden-figures-article-1.2947777
Two great stories to hear about. I'm sure there are more like this. Actor Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), singer Kendrick Lamar, and Rapper T.I. joined the many black entertainers to follow suit.
http://www.metro.us/entertainment/movies/kendrick-lamar-tde-free-black
-panther-screenings
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/02/20/chadwick-boseman-
buys-showing-black-panther-underprivileged-youth/353994002/
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/mayor-bottoms-eventually-attend-free-bla
ck-panther-screening/YolGQmBbOkuK8ob2yHVovK/
It's a beautiful thing to see.
SGG
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
But I am curious as to why anyone would buy up tickets and not show up for the screening. It just doesn't make sense.
SGG
Been to this cinema before, and hadn't notice such a discrepancy. You can see what seats are available online before you purchase, and as I said, it wasn't until mid afternoon before I could find a seat which wasn't front row or very last row. This to me says 'sellout ', or very nearly so. When I did get a seat, it was mid level, but on the aisle. Every seat above and below , aisle to aisle, was " not available ", and yet when I got to the movie, only a smattering of people were actually sitting in those seats. Most were wide open. I fully expected it to fill in, as the movie started, but it never did.
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Speaking of beautiful things, there is an online petition that Disney give 25% of the profits of Black Panther to inner city schools and black communities in America.
Fuck 25%. I say give it all.
Ball's in your court, Disney. You want to go all SJW now, so put your money where your mouth is.
https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-25-of-marvel-studios-
profits-from-the-black-panther-film-invested-in-black-communities
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:So these theaters were empty because the poor kids were illiterate? Or they needed to rob all the empty houses while their neighbors were at the film?
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:Quote:Did a little digging on the matter of sold out theaters and empty seats. One story I found said that Octavia Spencer bought out a theater (I believe it was Atlanta) for poor kids to attend. Another story I came across spoke of a young girl in Flint Michigan raising $16K to buy out a theater so that only young kids her age could see the movie.
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:Been to this cinema before, and hadn't notice such a discrepancy. You can see what seats are available online before you purchase, and as I said, it wasn't until mid afternoon before I could find a seat which wasn't front row or very last row. This to me says 'sellout ', or very nearly so. When I did get a seat, it was mid level, but on the aisle. Every seat above and below , aisle to aisle, was " not available ", and yet when I got to the movie, only a smattering of people were actually sitting in those seats. Most were wide open. I fully expected it to fill in, as the movie started, but it never did.
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
But I am curious as to why anyone would buy up tickets and not show up for the screening. It just doesn't make sense.
SGG
Flint Story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/02/20/10-year
-old-little-miss-flint-helped-hundreds-of-underprivileged-kids-see-black-panther-over-the-weekend/?utm_term=.f543bcf76aee
Octavia Spencer
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/octavia-spencer-famili
es-chance-hidden-figures-article-1.2947777
Two great stories to hear about. I'm sure there are more like this. Actor Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), singer Kendrick Lamar, and Rapper T.I. joined the many black entertainers to follow suit.
http://www.metro.us/entertainment/movies/kendrick-lamar-tde-free-black
-panther-screenings
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/02/20/chadwick-boseman-
buys-showing-black-panther-underprivileged-youth/353994002/
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/mayor-bottoms-eventually-attend-free-bla
ck-panther-screening/YolGQmBbOkuK8ob2yHVovK/
It's a beautiful thing to see.
SGG
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Did I ever tell you guys the story about when I went to see Shaft with my girlfriend in the theater? I probably did.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I don't mind seats being bought up, but I would like to have seen them USED. I remember how guerilla marketing for for Firefly DVDs lead to TBDM. I bought 2 of each, to lend, so far be it from Browncoast to make a fuss, but empty seats isn't what I think they were expecting. Sure, ticket sales matter, but it really is a fun flick, so why not go the extra mile and make sure someone goes and sees it for those purchased tickets. Concessions would appreciate it, I'm sure.
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So, you have to be the stupid asshole. Damn, this was a celebration and a good deed that was extended to the less privileged.
You could have even kept your racist remarks to yourself, but Noooooooo, you got to play the fucking fool.
God damn JSF. I just don't get it......
SGG.................I'm not mad, just disgusted.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:So these theaters were empty because the poor kids were illiterate? Or they needed to rob all the empty houses while their neighbors were at the film?
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Did a little digging on the matter of sold out theaters and empty seats. One story I found said that Octavia Spencer bought out a theater (I believe it was Atlanta) for poor kids to attend. Another story I came across spoke of a young girl in Flint Michigan raising $16K to buy out a theater so that only young kids her age could see the movie.
Flint Story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/02/20/10-year
-old-little-miss-flint-helped-hundreds-of-underprivileged-kids-see-black-panther-over-the-weekend/?utm_term=.f543bcf76aee
Octavia Spencer
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/octavia-spencer-famili
es-chance-hidden-figures-article-1.2947777
Two great stories to hear about. I'm sure there are more like this. Actor Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), singer Kendrick Lamar, and Rapper T.I. joined the many black entertainers to follow suit.
http://www.metro.us/entertainment/movies/kendrick-lamar-tde-free-black
-panther-screenings
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/02/20/chadwick-boseman-
buys-showing-black-panther-underprivileged-youth/353994002/
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/mayor-bottoms-eventually-attend-free-bla
ck-panther-screening/YolGQmBbOkuK8ob2yHVovK/
It's a beautiful thing to see.
SGGQuote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:Been to this cinema before, and hadn't notice such a discrepancy. You can see what seats are available online before you purchase, and as I said, it wasn't until mid afternoon before I could find a seat which wasn't front row or very last row. This to me says 'sellout ', or very nearly so. When I did get a seat, it was mid level, but on the aisle. Every seat above and below , aisle to aisle, was " not available ", and yet when I got to the movie, only a smattering of people were actually sitting in those seats. Most were wide open. I fully expected it to fill in, as the movie started, but it never did.
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
But I am curious as to why anyone would buy up tickets and not show up for the screening. It just doesn't make sense.
SGG
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Quote:So tell us: why are all these seats empty?
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
So, you have to be the stupid asshole. Damn, this was a celebration and a good deed that was extended to the less privileged.
You could have even kept your racist remarks to yourself, but Noooooooo, you got to play the fucking fool.
God damn JSF. I just don't get it......
SGG.................I'm not mad, just disgusted.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I don't mind seats being bought up, but I would like to have seen them USED. I remember how guerilla marketing for for Firefly DVDs lead to TBDM. I bought 2 of each, to lend, so far be it from Browncoast to make a fuss, but empty seats isn't what I think they were expecting. Sure, ticket sales matter, but it really is a fun flick, so why not go the extra mile and make sure someone goes and sees it for those purchased tickets. Concessions would appreciate it, I'm sure.
The theater itself would appreciate it. They don't make a dime off of the movies anymore. Any empty seats was all money straight to Disney who did not have to pay any of the operating costs of the theaters where this happened.
On another note, I do have to kind of agree with SGG there JSF. That did come off as pretty racist, or at the very least pretty ignorant. If anybody here was to blame, I would say that it was the people who organized the buying of the tickets and not getting people to fill the seats. If that happened then it clearly was just a virtue signaling stunt that they didn't even bother to follow through on, showing how little good the gesture actually had behind it.
I think we need to remember at this point that it's all hearsay anyhow. How many thousands of theaters showed the movie opening weekend? Even with an eye witness account here of empty seats in a theater there's no way of knowing if this was the norm or not.
Also... instead of jumping straight to stereotypical reasons why the seats might not have been filled, maybe we should apply Occam's Razor here. Maybe a lot of the black youth in this country just isn't that into the Superhero Movies. Just because the media is in love with this movie for all the progressiveness behind it, kids don't think that way.
I'm not going to pretend to know what white kids are into these days, let alone black kids, but I've got to chuckle a bit when the media or the activists would just assume that black kids would want to go see a superhero movie because it stars a lot of black characters and takes place in Africa. I'll tell you one thing that kids don't give a shit at all about... the color of the Director of the movie or anybody else that was behind the camera. I think at the end of the day, kids don't really give a shit about all of that like the adults do, and that's a good thing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:This sounds like BS. How does the cinema charge $5 for one ticket and $11 for the next? For all movies? And then the next cinema always charges full price? And they don't make a dime? Is Disney signing off on every individual cinema's pricing for each film and Showtime?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:The theater itself would appreciate it. They don't make a dime off of the movies anymore. Any empty seats was all money straight to Disney who did not have to pay any of the operating costs of the theaters where this happened.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I don't mind seats being bought up, but I would like to have seen them USED. I remember how guerilla marketing for for Firefly DVDs lead to TBDM. I bought 2 of each, to lend, so far be it from Browncoast to make a fuss, but empty seats isn't what I think they were expecting. Sure, ticket sales matter, but it really is a fun flick, so why not go the extra mile and make sure someone goes and sees it for those purchased tickets. Concessions would appreciate it, I'm sure.
Quote:So your reason why the seats were empty is the kids are not SJWs.
On another note, I do have to kind of agree with SGG there JSF. That did come off as pretty racist, or at the very least pretty ignorant. If anybody here was to blame, I would say that it was the people who organized the buying of the tickets and not getting people to fill the seats. If that happened then it clearly was just a virtue signaling stunt that they didn't even bother to follow through on, showing how little good the gesture actually had behind it.
I think we need to remember at this point that it's all hearsay anyhow. How many thousands of theaters showed the movie opening weekend? Even with an eye witness account here of empty seats in a theater there's no way of knowing if this was the norm or not.
Also... instead of jumping straight to stereotypical reasons why the seats might not have been filled, maybe we should apply Occam's Razor here. Maybe a lot of the black youth in this country just isn't that into the Superhero Movies. Just because the media is in love with this movie for all the progressiveness behind it, kids don't think that way.
I'm not going to pretend to know what white kids are into these days, let alone black kids, but I've got to chuckle a bit when the media or the activists would just assume that black kids would want to go see a superhero movie because it stars a lot of black characters and takes place in Africa. I'll tell you one thing that kids don't give a shit at all about... the color of the Director of the movie or anybody else that was behind the camera. I think at the end of the day, kids don't really give a shit about all of that like the adults do, and that's a good thing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That is the best reason I've heard.
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