Film Martin Scorsese - Marvel movies are 'not cinema'
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I can appreciate the tears, I felt exactly the same when it appeared I had to go see the movie once in the theater. Thankfully those plans fell through.
Maybe each time he went it had a different ending that Dr Strange saw would happen.
I wonder if that'll be one of the what if episodes?
What a loser.
He's mentally ill I'd imagine.
Then he bought the Blu Ray and kept watching it all day right? Probably watching it again as we speek now.
Can we be sure he actually did it? Like, couldn't he have just bought the tickets then fecked off just to get the Guinness kudos? Unless an adjudicator was there on each occasion, in which case wouldn't that person be entitled to share the record?
Somewhere out there, Scorcese just kicked his cat in pure anger.
Proving his point really. Anyone thinks Marvel films are good has no idea what films are supposed to be about.
Between Superhero nonsense fast and furious tripe and fecking cgi monsters fighting each other i pity anyone pays to watch that garbage. Just a waste of life
I like them. I also like lots other films. Some of them are silent from the 1920s. Some are Italian from the 1940s, and some are even 1970s films made by Martin Scorsese. I have many types of films in my library and I watch them based on my mood at the given moment. No different to eating a burger and chips every now and then rather than insisting upon haute cuisine every meal.
Who has pity over people for liking this shit, anyone who cares that much are worse.
Be interesting to hear what Scorsese thinks now, because of COVID cinemas need Marvel movies more then ever to stay in business. I know quality wise it won't change for him but his other point was taking up screens and so on. At this point without these films (not just Marvel, DC, Fast and others) isn't a cinema industry. I know people say that's always been the case, which partly true but this is different.
Be interesting to hear what Scorsese thinks now, because of COVID cinemas need Marvel movies more then ever to stay in business. I know quality wise it won't change for him but his other point was taking up screens and so on. At this point without these films (not just Marvel, DC, Fast and others) isn't a cinema industry. I know people say that's always been the case, which partly true but this is different.
Are you being an opinion snob now? Tsk tsk tsk...Film snobs and music snobs are the worst
That's like saying Boxing needs Jake Paul which clearly is not the case. Marvel is the Jake Paul of cinema. Even the actors in them know they are garbage
This analogy has been used a few times in this thread. And it works. So long as you remember that burgers are fundamentally inferior cuisine. Easy to make, not very good for you and all a bit samey.
Even if they are a tasty guilty pleasure every once in a while.
Boxing isn't dead though or close to it. My local cinema on my street had to shut out for good recently, multiple chains have had to shut, Cineworld was so close to shutting down too. Cinema was dying before COVID (edit- I know people will say that's because of Marvel, I would disagree this issue started before those films opened), this has made it worse.
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Marvel movies fans sound like Amadeus with pochettino.
Yeah, but what was insinuated is that someone who enjoys something that is inferior is wasting their life. If it's a choice someone has made that will make them fleetingly happy and offer a moment of hope and comfort, then that should be considered a good use of their time.
If I fancy a bit of escapism after a difficult day (or year, in many people's cases), then I'm going for some junk food and a superhero film, not snail porridge and Rashomon.
Does the Media Museum up there not show movies? It's all I know about Bradford tbh.
That is taking me back Media Museum, the flying carpet (no one get that reference). Though last thing I saw was the final ep of Planet Earth in 06 in the iMax. I still think it shows educational things but the iMax is propped up by selling tickets for big movies. The rest gets government funding from what I remember.
Don't agree with this point at all. There is space for all sorts of films. Some people enjoy marvel films. I love Fast and Furious. There's a space in cinema for art house, blockbusters, Oscar bait, indie films, sports films etc.
If you don't like marvel films, just don't watch them. Simple.
Do you not get sick of them?
I watched loads of them, enjoyed them but I thought Endgame was fine point to jump off. I tried Wandavision, same old guff. Totally had my fill of the MCU, they're all the same at this point. All the characters in that video, they've all been in a dozen+ movies at this point.
I watched loads of them, enjoyed them but I thought Endgame was fine point to jump off. I tried Wandavision, same old guff. Totally had my fill of the MCU, they're all the same at this point. All the characters in that video, they've all been in a dozen+ movies at this point.
Not even close to being true.
yes it is
Some people are massive comic fans and will watch these with delight. I know my best mate grew up on these comics so it's loving it.
Then there's a whole new generation of fans they'll get with these new movies. They turned the likes of Thor and Iron Man into heroes as popular as the big ones like Spiderman and Batman, and now they'll do the same with a new set of heroes.
I have no issues with films like these coming out, they have a market and they serve that market well.
Thats an entertainment industry first, people "conveying emotions next".
How many MCU films have Angelina Jolie or Kumail Nanjiani been in up till now? Zero.
I have watched Marvel movies and I enjoyed some of them, but I do think the saturation of the market with these films is problematic. Nowadays, it’s tough to get an original story made. Everything is sequels, remakes and comic book flicks.
I think that was Scorsese’s concern but I didn’t really like the way he put it because it came across as very snobbish. And the irony of that is the fact that his films can pander to the lowest common denominator in many ways because they are often over-reliant on violence.
He’s one of the best Americans around at the moment but he’s hardly Kurosawa or Bergman when it comes to the subtleties of the cinematic arts.
Marvel movies are the pinnacle of art. I'd much rather zone out for 2 hours on mindless trash shouting and hollaing at the screen than watch a pointless 8 hour Hungarian movie about the bleakness of the universe and the absurdity of the cosmos.
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