According To Some, 'Black Panther' Just Became 'The Greatest Movie In Cinematic History&

Image Credit: Marvel Studios

Website lulz.com claimed a victory on Thursday saying the upcoming superhero movie, Black Panther, bet big on "diversity" and became king of cinema.

Some quotes from their article:

"RIP Citizen Kane. Reviewers and audiences agree and Black Panther just claimed the title of best movie in cinematic history. That’s no coincidence.

"Black Panther famously bet the farm on diversity and went full black everything, and it paid off in equal measure."

First, we don't think lulz.com understands what diversity truly means, so we're going to help them out.

Merriam-Webster defines the word diversity as the following:

The condition of having or being composed of differing elements : variety; especially : the inclusion of different types of people (such as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization programs intended to promote diversity in schools.

Black Panther's cast is, indeed, mostly comprised of black people:

Image Credit: IMDB

There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it does not mean this movie is particularly diverse and the same could be said if the roles (pun intended) were reversed.

It appears that too many misunderstand what diversity means and use it in the wrong context. For instance, Yahoo Style recently wrote an article about a "diverse" photo shoot of ALL black women:

Thankfully, many of their readers pointed out the discrepancy and they later changed the title of their story.

Moving along:

"The masterpiece Marvel movie has achieved an unprecedented 100% TomatoMeter and 97% “Want to See” rating on premier movie rating website RottenTomatoes, with independent thinkers in other outlets all joining in on the orgiastic heaping of praise."

We just had a peek at RT's score for Black Panther and, surprisingly enough, the TomatoMeter score dipped two percentage points, bringing it to 98% (which is still extremely high):

Image Credit: Rotten Tomatoes

Now, the two critics who voted the movie as "rotten" may have just committed career suicide as no doubt countless of misinformed SJWs will accuse them of being racist.

Nevertheless, we did want to point out something that Rotten Tomatoes announced regarding this movie.

IndieWire wrote a piece which stated the following:

"Rotten Tomatoes is taking a preemptive stand against anyone who is planning to negatively impact the 'Black Panther' fan score out of hate. The alt-right Facebook group 'Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys' made headlines this week when it announced plans to sabotage the 'Black Panther' score out of hatred for Marvel. The group previously took responsibility for targeting 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' with negative scores.

"The group has created a Facebook event called 'Give Black Panther a Rotten Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes' that is set to launch February 16, the day 'Black Panther' opens in theaters nationwide. The event has the following mission statement: 'Due to the sudden rise in those disgruntled with Disney business practices, especially due to the corporate manipulations which created falsified bad press for the DCEU, I feel that it’s time to strike back at all those under Disney and bring down the house of mouse’s actions for paying off the critics that hurt DC Comics on film and for other parties affected by them.'

"A spokesperson for Rotten Tomatoes reacted to this threat in a statement given to the The Wrap:

"We at Rotten Tomatoes are proud to have become a platform for passionate fans to debate and discuss entertainment and we take that responsibility seriously. While we respect our fans’ diverse opinions, we do not condone hate speech. Our team of security, network and social experts continue to closely monitor our platforms and any users who engage in such activities will be blocked from our site and their comments removed as quickly as possible."

Hate speech... what is it and who determines what it is? Using derogatory and racist slurs is obviously a no-no and ethically/morally wrong, but the term "hate speech" is so subjective and up to interpretation.

We think Rotten Tomatoes has compromised its own integrity by announcing they will be monitoring and deleting negative user reviews for this movie. Every mod on their site has their own opinion and definition of what "hate speech" is or isn't, but we're guessing they are going to play it safe and delete most, if not all, of the negative reviews.

Now, back to lulz.com's article:

"Keen observers will note that it certainly didn’t hurt that pasty cave trolls from the active white supremacist cyberterrorism group 4chan came up with 'operations' to attack the movie — which, as usual, immediately blew up in their faces (thanks in part to our exposé)."

Really? Labeling 4chan as a "cyberterrorism group" and using ad hominem attacks such as calling them "white supremacist pasty cave trolls" isn't really helping to prove your case, lulz: