BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Director Says Without Two Scenes It Would Have Been The "Worst Movie Ever"

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is another Marvel movie that ended up slitting the opinions of fans. While some loved and praised it, others just thought it was just an ok movie. The filmmakers involved with the movie were put in a very difficult situation when Chadwick Boseman unexpectedly passed away. That came with a lot of pressure of delivering a film that would respectfully say goodbye to Boseman, but also deliver an awesome film that the fans would embrace and love. That’s a hard situation and they did the best they could under the circumstances.

Director Ryan Coogler recently talked about the sequel and explained that there are two scenes in the movie that made it work. He said that had those two scenes been removed, it would have been "the worst movie ever."

The crucial scenes were the U.N. sequence with that powerful performance by Angela Bassett and the cool action scene that involved the Dora Milaje apprehending the intruders. In the audio commentary for the Marvel release (via The Direct) Cogler explained:

"I'll tell y'all a secret that's funny. We were experimenting with all types of stuff with this movie. And at one point, we experimented with taking these two scenes out of the movie, like [the U.N. scene and the opening Dora Milaje action scene] here. And we were just talking like, 'Yeah, it'll work without it, 'cause X, Y, and, Z.'

"And I remember I came in early at 6am to watch, because I just wanted to watch it down before we tested it with the scenes out. And we pressed play on it, and I was watching it, and it was just the worst movie ever, you know what I'm saying? I was like, 'Oh, this is terrible.' At some point, I was standing up in the screening room completely alone, like 6:45am, and I'm just calling on my phone, calling Nate [Moore], I'm calling everybody like, 'Yo, this is a mistake. We gotta fix this.' But it's a trip to understand how important these two scenes are for the movie to work."

That’s interesting to hear, because technically if the film was a great movie, removing those scenes should not have made it the “worst movie ever.” Two scenes shouldn’t really make or break a good movie. When I read that quote from the director, I’m hearing that those are the only two good scenes in the film worth watching and the rest of it sucks, and it just seems like a weird thing for the filmmaker to share.

What do you think about the comments that Coogler made here?