5 MCU films in the top 100 films of all time 
Film Martin Scorsese - Marvel movies are 'not cinema'
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Unless I've missed it there isn't a single film from this guy5 MCU films in the top 100 films of all time
I mean, Empire is terrible and always has been. Even as an idiotic teenager I used to buy Total Film instead.
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*googles 'total film top 100'*
Much better.
Goodfellas the best film of all time, though?
*googles 'total film top 100'*
Much better.
Goodfellas the best film of all time, though?
You think that's funny? Does it amuse you?
*angry Joe Pesci noises*
Might have went with Jaws. Lord of the rings as greatest film ever is hilarious.
Has popular opinion ever not been a joke?
Has popular opinion ever not been a joke?
Interesting analysis. I had a similar thought the other week when I watched Vanilla Sky. It struck me how there's a scene where Penelope Cruz is topless and there's a big sexual aspect to Cruise and Cameron Diaz's relationship. I don't hold the film too highly but found it interesting watching a mega Hollywood film which, at the time, did embrace some sexual content.
Not sure what the rest of the articles are like but I've bookmarked the site for further reading.
Really good read. Just from the link I knew they were going to talk about Verhoeven. Robot Cop - Showgirls - Starship Troopers might be the greatest unofficial trilogy on america.
Lots of good movies for us all to enjoy next year #feelingblessed
John Wick Chapter 4 should be good...i guess
I can't believe Avatar 2 is finally coming out 13 years after the original. Really curious to see how it does at the BO given the original is the highest grossing movie of all time.
Disney are playing some sort of chess here. Perhaps for marketing reasons, but endgame became the highest grossing film ever only for a small rerelease of avatar in China to push it back over the line.
Fully expect a rerelease of endgame at some point too.
It will be a gigantic flop.
I actually think people who are in their teens and 20s and perhaps early 30s might be better positioned to comment on that article, AKA do they feel like the movies they were sold generally have less sexual content than movies they've seen from the 70s 80s early 90s.
Look, we gave the world cowboys, Michael Jordan, the Big Mac and Taylor Swift. Please go easy on us during our
I don't think it has any chance of matching the first's success but this is JC we're talking about, there's no way it's flopping.
I have a hard time believing people will care about the movie. The first one was successful due to the novelty factor of 3D. Other than that, it had basically zero cultural impact. I think everything that comes now will disappoint at the box office.
I'd say yes because I think a lot of older films used sex as a means to shock or draw an audience at a time when pornography wasn't so commonplace in media.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/news/a7509/the-10-best-sex-movies-countdown/
I think this list is a good talking point as there's only three recent from the past decade: Nymphomaniac, Blue is the Warmest Colour, and Call Me By Your Name. One is meant to be shocking in its extremity. The other two are LGBTQ+ and I think also meant to surprise the audience albeit in a completely different way (by introducing them to less commonly seen themes).
I imagine most new big budget movies would rather avoid sex if there's no point because it will likely affect what certificate the film gets.
What do you think?
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I agree on the bolded part and the ratings/certificate thing. Although I'm wondering if there's anything else, such as any effects 9/11 might have had in terms of showing sex on the big screen AKA studios very quickly pivoting away from that kind of 'percevied-as-unnecessarily-frivolous/improper-in-these-somber-times' content for a good few years.
Chuck in how major stars showing some skin pre-internet was a surefire box-office draw and how much younger-skewing movies like The Goonies are littered with sex-related jokes/situations (Back to the Future, Weird Science, etc) and some lurker on this thread's got their film-studies thesis wings.
The specific comic-book-movies-are-sterile aspect I think might be heavily a function of the incidental foible that Disney happens to be the peddler for the overwhelming majority of content. There was a pinch of sex/eroticism in each of the Marvel movies before that, I think - maybe except for The Incredible Hulk - i.e. the first Iron Man (Paramount) has a little bit (fair bit?) in it.
That's messed up.
Creative people in being outrageously weird shocker.
The 'cultural impact' of most movies comes from being spammed with sequels and ancillary material all the time. Luckily for Avatar, the sequels are coming.
Must admit, I had a similar reaction. I was hollering and wooping so hard I almost woke up the whole street. When Sonic did that thing nobody expected him to I was overcome with so much joy that I thought I'd died and gone to Emerald Hill Zone Part 2
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I love me some such genuine reactions. Reaction videos in general are one of the best things on the Internet, and that one in particular was wonderful.
I don't think I have interest in any of those movies except Top Gun, and that will probably the only one I'll watch.
No one is under any doubt of what Marvel/DC's are. They're McDonald's/Burger King in film form.
Well, tell that to the Marvel fans who jizz themselves over any Marvel movie.
Kids, sure but ,well, they're kids and its to be expected. I don't think the adults are under any illusions of what these films/2-hour toy commercials are though, not the majority of them anyway.
If anything the adults annoy me the most.
I agree with Cameron. I like Marvel movies for what they are, but they definitely lack the magic that makes for truly epic and memorable films.
The Marvel movies are entertainment on a grand scale. They're not movies to make you think or even feel a whole lot. Its a spectacle and honestly most of the time a damn fine one.
I think what Scorsese is alluding to is cinema in the sense of art from the actors who portray powerful and memorable characters that people will talk about for decades.
Gangs of New York is one of the finest films the past 30 years because of the strong acting of the cast and the cinematic art that came with it, or even a movie like Master & Commander that never saw box office success but to date is my favorite movie of all time, I've seen it at least 10 times. The cinemotagrophy and cast are just too good to not want to relive.
The Marvel movies are more of the same, its beautiful, its grand, but its not memorable like the classics. And thats where the old man yells at clouds comes from.
I recall being in the cinema for LOTR: Return of the King and for some reason I absolutely started to shed tears when Aragorn knelt for the hobbits. It was a powerful scene that came completely unexepcted. I won't give Marvel spoilers but even the emotional scenes are a bit.. lackluster.
I think what Scorsese is alluding to is cinema in the sense of art from the actors who portray powerful and memorable characters that people will talk about for decades.
Gangs of New York is one of the finest films the past 30 years because of the strong acting of the cast and the cinematic art that came with it, or even a movie like Master & Commander that never saw box office success but to date is my favorite movie of all time, I've seen it at least 10 times. The cinemotagrophy and cast are just too good to not want to relive.
The Marvel movies are more of the same, its beautiful, its grand, but its not memorable like the classics. And thats where the old man yells at clouds comes from.
I recall being in the cinema for LOTR: Return of the King and for some reason I absolutely started to shed tears when Aragorn knelt for the hobbits. It was a powerful scene that came completely unexepcted. I won't give Marvel spoilers but even the emotional scenes are a bit.. lackluster.
Agree with this although I think that just makes it more dystopian. The fact most people go into these knowing it's nothing more than 2 hours of nostalgic symbol pretty grim.
Tbh we should start up the prices of Marvel cinema tickets like with cigarettes(At least with smoking it still looks cool).
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Are you being sarcastic? The only genuine thing about that video is the guy is genuinely a feck wit