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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 7351008" data-attributes="member: 1125">one of the things that Marvel has done well (and been praised for) is that they have been able to make movies that would fit across a variety of genre and not just 'superhero action'  With that in mind we have had Cap 1 as a war movie and Cap 2 as a political thriller.Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor have also not been superhero movies and to some extent neither was Civil War.Related to this is the critiscism that MArvel movies all follow a standard formula and retread the same old  standard tropes, but personally I think that these are strengths. That Black Panther bases itself firmly as a Spy film is a good thing, it gives a fun, familiar hook for audiences to relate to, which can then be subverted via the presentation of Tchalla's obligations as King and then layered with the the narative of colonialism and diaspora, tradition and isolation v altruism and modernity, all within a relatively standard 'King v Ursurper' trope. I liked it.(As for Antman, while the size change thing was a great gimmick, I think the same story could have happened with out the Pym particles, indeed the story itself  reminded me of Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (1985 movie) in particular the training montage - but maybe thats just me.</blockquote>