Was the Paedophile being treated as a protagonist?:umm2:

That gives off Angel vibes with Buffy.

Edward / Bella is a direct Angel / Buffy rip off and that's weird enough on it's own, but no, I'm talking about Jacob's (the were wolf) BLATANTLY romantic (though they try to frame it otherwise) connection to Bella's daughter... Who is an actual child in the film. I'd say physically aged around 8? And the actual character isn't even 8, she's a baby.

It's a tough sell.

:umm2:

I'm glad to have never seen a single Film from that franchise.:joker:

Francis Ford Coppola now.

https://news.yahoo.com/coppola-backs...173112180.html

First and foremost Movies are supposed to be entertaining, I think that Coppola fails to understand that not every story has to be an emotional Drama where you gain something out of it as he puts it.

It's people like him why we get an episode like He Said, She Said from Brooklyn Nine-Nine as they don't understand what story they're making and they make a bastardised story.

He'd have been better of saying "I don't know" and stopping there since that's all it amounts to.

"When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he's right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration."

Honestly don't understand how anyone can so confidently make sweeping "we" statements like this. He means that's what HE expects to gain from cinema - and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that - but it's not what everyone is looking for, at least not all of the time. Sometimes, absolutely. Sometimes cinema is about being given something to think about. But sometimes it's about SHUTTING OUT the world for a couple of hours, not thinking about it more. Sometimes being forced to ponder the world and the human condition is utter torture. And that's no less a legitimate use of cinema. I honest to god envy these people who apparently never need that.

Francis is just being an old man screaming at the sky.

I've never been a huge fan of his. The first two Godfathers and Apocalypse Now deserves respect but everything else he has done has been hit and miss at best. He has built a career based on former glory and failed attempts to match up to what he put out before. One of the most overrated auteurs in the history of film.

Apocalypse Now is another film which is tangentially related to Lucas <3


tbh I can see what he means about "watching the same movie over and over", some of them feel a bit "samey", but each also has different characters which make it so you don't mind:)

I think the same-y criticism would have been fair a few years back when the MCU films were basically all made with the same blueprint but I feel like they've broken that blueprint now tbh.

Absolutely. Alot of times, it's just about action, entertainment and getting away from the real world more than anything, especially in these times,where the world in general is just a bit depressing

Tbh most genres churn out movies that are samey and repetitive. Including the so-called character studies. That criticism isn't restricted to a genre he doesn't like.

But I imagine it's a genre he hasn't watched much of anyway.

It's also really hypocritical when he's done films like Dracula and Jack which were both cynical cash grabs that certainly didn't have any deeper meaning beyond the source material in Dracula's case or Hallmark logic in Jack's.

I remember Francis Ford Coppola saying previously how he didn't hold Star Wars in high regard, and thought Lucas was capable of more.

https://ew.com/article/2015/12/08/fr...-george-lucas/

As much respect as I have for Lucas, I'm not sure what "more" he's capable of! The Prequels show what he's like as an "actor director", and he virtually invented special effects for both trilogies!

Agree.
Take pornographic films for example :)

:joker:

American Graffiti is a really good comedy and THX 1138 is a kind of art-house dystopian science fiction film, though I've not seen that.

Ken Loach. He has always disliked Hollywood.

https://news.sky.com/story/ken-loach...inema-11841486

Wow, movies are made for profit. That's some amazing insight there.

I suppose he makes them for free? :idc:

..I’m pretty sure that Ken..(..and Martin..)..rated The Simpsons Movie as an all time great and personal favourite...

Do they think that backing each other up adds gravitas? It just sounds even more petty the more people jump on the bandwagon :shrug:.

Ken Loach Says Marvel Films Are
"Made as Commodities Like Hamburgers"

Also on James Big Link

Yeah, that's what they are. The McDonald's of movies. They're just fun but disposable entertainment.

tbh I'm sick of Hollywood in general, or at least the Big Studio System. The "big name" directors who pretty much make what they want are cool, as are the indies, but I'm glad it seems the MCU is winding down a bit.

I'm so glad we have intellectuals like Ken Loach to tell us Hollywood movies are made to generate profit.

What would we do without him?

Disney CEO Fires Back at Scorsese & Coppola Over Marvel Movie Comments

https://www.cbr.com/disney-ceo-fires...ovie-comments/

How sad of an individual do you have to be, to get offended over movie popularity? Scorsese and Coppola come across as little kids who aren't getting the attention they feel they deserve.

To be fair Scorsese and Coppola are basically auteurs, their movies are their own and the result of a creative spark. Black Panther is just one in a line of mass produced studio created products. All Coogler had to do was paint by the numbers.
(Obviously directing any movie is a big task, I'm not saying he had an easy time, but to compare any MCU movie to any auteur movie is just daft)

edit: it's like comparing the six Star Wars movies to the ones that came after

Marty's new movie "Killer's of the flower moon" arrives in UK cinemas this week.

3 and half hours long film.

I'm going next Friday.

Scorsese is one of the living great film makers in history. So you have to go see his films on the big screen.

i view it like music. It's like someone saying only classical music is pure and good

Not a massive fan myself. I do like some of them, just not all of them.

Do you like Scorsese movies, Nessa?

He is of Italian family origin.

Yes, of course. One of my favourite directors.

Because that sentiment should be going to Screamo Music.:hehe:

Ken Loach sounds like a bundle of joy.

And nothing screams "imaginative" in entertainment than making essentially Biopic Movies.

Going to see "Killer's of the flower moon" tomorrow.

Good luck with it Alf.

Hopefully you will enjoy it.

Scorsese now says he has hope for a different cinema to emerge after the success of Oppenheimer and Barbie this year.

With his film "Killer's of flower moon" and Ridley Scott's "Napoleon" also coming out soon, 2023 could be a renaissance year for cinema.

Let's hope it influences a new breed of film directors to follow in the footsteps of living greats like Christoper Nolan, Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott.

Wow!