It's through Regal which is a bigger chain though. The article is about independent theaters which wouldn't have the power like Regal does with several hundred multiplexes.
That's a good post.OP you know damn well this is just gonna be the same bad thread that got closed last time. But let's just go over all the facts.
-Marvel movies are cinema. They are giant blockbuster movies that happen to have the serial storytelling of television, and can ba quite formulaic in their structure and aesthetic choices, but cinema all the same.
-Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time who's forgotten more about movies than you'll ever know. Why did people think a 76 year old man needs to give a fuck about Captain America lifting Thor's hammer, I'll never know. But he doesn't need to like them and that's ok.
-Martin Scorsese is not "gate keeping". Gate keeping requires power, control, like a comic store manager keeping a woman out until she can name all the Fantastic Four members. Disney owns 1/3rd of all ticket sales this year. Disney is taking over not just movies, but television as well, until its all one big slurry of "content". Disney has influenced, directly or indirectly, just about everything that gets made in Hollywood today. They are not being gate kept. THEY ARE THE GATE. MCU fans, you are the monoculture. You won! Your style of movies is safe and gets safer every year. It's the auteur pictures from artists like Scorsese that are being gate kept. They are the outside and have to go through Netflix to even get made.
It's through Regal which is a bigger chain though. The article is about independent theaters which wouldn't have the power like Regal does with several hundred multiplexes.
Damn they pretty hung. Lol. Must have ERA accounts
When disney criticism is "MCU are crap cinema, people should watch X pretentious shit from Y director to learn about the medium, fucking casuals", i think that side ends up looking far worse.
Same old shit when people bash pop music, or any popular-mass market entertainment media. It's pathetic as fuck.
And labelling movies as "pretentious shit" because they aren't Marvel isn't pathetic?
black panther easily but who knows what would be remembered 20 years from now. Phantom Menace came out 20 years ago and people still actively talk about.
this is right out of 2003 lmao
Scorsese never said everybody should only watch classics or cult movies, or that MCU is "crap". He said that, for HIM, "cinema" is another thing.
Also the Disney remakes are more killing cinema than the MCU
Someone should be in movie jail after the cinematic disaster known as The Lion King remake
I have seen posters previously say the Russos are the best action directors working right now.The best part of this saga is page one posting comparing a marvel film to terminator 2.
OP you know damn well this is just gonna be the same bad thread that got closed last time. But let's just go over all the facts.
-Marvel movies are cinema. They are giant blockbuster movies that happen to have the serial storytelling of television, and can ba quite formulaic in their structure and aesthetic choices, but cinema all the same.
-Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time who's forgotten more about movies than you'll ever know. Why did people think a 76 year old man needs to give a fuck about Captain America lifting Thor's hammer, I'll never know. But he doesn't need to like them and that's ok.
-Martin Scorsese is not "gate keeping". Gate keeping requires power, control, like a comic store manager keeping a woman out until she can name all the Fantastic Four members. Disney owns 1/3rd of all ticket sales this year. Disney is taking over not just movies, but television as well, until its all one big slurry of "content". Disney has influenced, directly or indirectly, just about everything that gets made in Hollywood today. They are not being gate kept. THEY ARE THE GATE. MCU fans, you are the monoculture. You won! Your style of movies is safe and gets safer every year. It's the auteur pictures from artists like Scorsese that are being gate kept. They are the outside and have to go through Netflix to even get made.
Trash post. Comparing MAGA douchebags to MCU fans...
A new low here, but somehow the toxic side is the one against the shitty Scorsese takes, lmao.
Lol
Right so holding MCU responsible and calling them an invasion is a bit silly if the issue began in early 80s, which was my point with all these things.
The only thing I don't understand about his comment is there is only one "Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron." Is he saying they make big, tentpole films but there are only a few of them and thus release films far and apart from each other whereas Marvel churns them out every single month and thus crowds the market?
Are you telling me Star Wars didn't invade cinemas and merchandising to a similar extent during its original trilogy?
Are you telling me Star Wars didn't invade cinemas and merchandising to a similar extent during its original trilogy?
Not at all. Star Wars was gigantic but there were only 3 over a decade compared to the 20+ marvel movies over the last decade.Are you telling me Star Wars didn't invade cinemas and merchandising to a similar extent during its original trilogy?
I'm not really sure how Marty commenting on the state of cinema has turned into two big threads about Marty vs the MCU. He didn't even say anything bad it.
He's talking about innovation. Marty came up in an era where filmmakers were constantly trying to push the boundaries of cinema. Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron (a little later) did this with great films that basically created the template that Hollywood has been imitating ever since because of the profit. Now we have a bajillion films that strive to replicate that success, but what do these films bring to the evolution of cinema that wasn't done before? Hence the "there is only one Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron". That ground has already been broken.
The films that do make their stamp don't come from the Disney's, Universal, and Paramount's of the world anymore. They come from smaller studios while the big guys save their funding for big blockbusters. Marty doesn't view cinema as a dollar figure, it's a culture to him, and he's saddened by the emphasis on crowd pleasing films over interesting works that progress the form.
Small correction, 3 moves over two decades. =)Not at all. Star Wars was gigantic but there were only 3 over a decade compared to the 20+ marvel movies over the last decade.
Not at all. Star Wars was gigantic but there were only 3 over a decade compared to the 20+ marvel movies over the last decade.
Not at all. Star Wars was gigantic but there were only 3 over a decade compared to the 20+ marvel movies over the last decade.
Welp, I guess people who find Scorce's statements unfair and a tad gatekeep-y are Nazis now, pack it in boys, the Anti-MCU crowd has reached their biggest low yet.
Sad to see that movie discourse on Era has reached this sort of level, but I guess some people just gotta feel good about their superior Cinema/Kino no matter the cost.