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Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are 'not cinema'
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I'd say a better comparison than themeparks might be comparing cinema as a whole to food; MCU and (most) other superhero movies are McDonalds - enjoyed by most people, tasty enough, but ultimately disposable and lacking substance. And I'm saying all this as someone who really enjoys most superhero movies! |
What is his definition of "cinema" though. In my mind "cinema" is exactly these kinds of movies, ones that you don't want to watch at home because the action needs to be on a big screen etc They're entertainment pure and simple. Superhero movies are never going to really be that deep or earth shattering but so what, you need a balance aswell
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I'm not the biggest fan of the MCU films, but there's a few I like quite a lot. I find with a lot of blockbusters in the 2010s, including many from the MCU, they don't have a story that works from beginning to end like the best films.
They are a lot like theme park rides but I would say that they are still cinema - big spectacle has always a reason people like films - films don't need to say anything about humanity. One of the earliest ever films was of a steam train arriving at a station, and apparently people lost their minds at that. |
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Well he's got a point.
A great film should give you a feeling in your heart or your stomach. It should give you an emotional feeling of wow. It should speak to you. It should make you come away from the viewing asking questions of it and be in your mind for the rest of the day and days to come. |
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He could easily have come off as "old man yells at cloud", but he's Martin Fucking Scorsese. He looked at Leonardo DiCaprio and thought "I'm gonna turn him into a legitimate actor" ... and he succeeded!
Cinema itself is pretty stagnant at the moment tbh. Like, all horror is these days is "quiet scene, then we're made jump". I enjoyed both IT movies but the recent one had about four instances of "benign person or object suddenly gets huge and runs at character" :joker: All we get from the mainstream these days is franchise movies, remakes, and cheap horror tbh I'd be happy for Hollywood to burn to the ground, leaving only Big Name Directors like Scorsese, Speilberg, etc, and leave the rest to indie directors. Okay, I'm under 30 but I'm the old man yelling at clouds :joker: |
Gatekeeping prick.
Cinema is cinema, his pretentious three+ hour oscar bait is cinema, Marvel films are cinema, even **** like Adam Sandler's filmography is cinema. If this was a few years ago when Marvel was in a creative rut with the films and every one (Bar the Captain America sequels) felt like it was made from the same blueprint then he might have had a point but I think Black Panther in particular has inspired Marvel to do more, it's only Captain Marvel that's been underwhelming recently. |
Scorsese's work will be sought after in a century's time. This super hero fad more than likely won't be.
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I don't think super hero films will ever die down now, the comics never have and the films are an evolution of that. Disney and Marvel have created a machine that can keep going and going now. Scorsese's comments aren't much different to the old guard's disdain for Netflix and the like, Scorsese nor his counterparts can get with the times. |
I agree with him in that some of these movies are not standalone classics so you have to watch 5 or 6 movies to get the full drift
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I don't think future film makers will be studying and taking inspiration from these Marvel films as much as they will be studying Scorsese. They're just really a quick fix, where what Scorsese does is greatness in the art of moving pictures.
Most people can draw a picture, but not everybody is Da Vinci or Rembrandt. Scorsese has earned the right to criticise in this subject, I'd think he has a good idea what he's talking about. |
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I also think that Marvel films could end up being studied because, after all, they are technical feats and Thanos alone will probably be a benchmark for people learning about CGI in cinema. The social relevance of Black Panther could also lead to it being a film that's highly valued down the line, especially from a historic point of view. His criticisms of Marvel films are not much different then the criticisms he got when he was a young director in the 'brat pack'. Every generation is bemoaned by the one that came before it. |
And to be fair to Scorsese, it's very rare you see him criticising films, in fact I can't recall him doing so before, he's usually very positive and enthusiastic when he's talking about cinema, and he's a huge fan of it. So something's got up his nose.
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I should probably stop defending him anyway. You never know what's gonna come out in the future with these Hollywood types.
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Clockwork Orange
a Great Cinema film. |
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Stanley Kubrick was an auteur but he will forever be an absolute prick for what he did to Shelley Duvall.
I find it difficult to appreciate his work when he essentially drove someone in his care to madness. |
I kind of feel his generation were more creative film-makers than the people making films now.
The current films are made by Gen-X'rs and older Millennials that grew up in the 80s with all the great popular culture that came out of that decade, and for whom Star Wars in 1977 was year zero for films - they kind of want to copy all of that, and the earlier films of the seventies that they admire. Obviously the way the Internet hypes up the big superhero films and recognisable IP, at the expense of everything else, contributes also. |
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She never really acted much after that film was done and the experience has been attributed to driving her off the edge as she suffers from mental issues now. I can't really appreciate his talent in the light of what he did to Shelley Duvall. |
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