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20-10-2019, 10:27 PM | #126 | ||
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21-10-2019, 12:07 AM | #127 | ||
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"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. |
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21-10-2019, 02:52 AM | #128 | ||
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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. |
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21-10-2019, 05:48 AM | #129 | ||
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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
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21-10-2019, 01:25 PM | #130 | ||
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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.
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21-10-2019, 01:29 PM | #131 | |||
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21-10-2019, 01:36 PM | #132 | ||
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But I imagine it's a genre he hasn't watched much of anyway. |
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21-10-2019, 02:54 PM | #133 | ||
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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.
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21-10-2019, 03:18 PM | #134 | |||
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21-10-2019, 03:22 PM | #135 | ||
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21-10-2019, 03:22 PM | #136 | ||
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21-10-2019, 03:26 PM | #137 | |||
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21-10-2019, 03:45 PM | #138 | |||
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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.
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21-10-2019, 09:45 PM | #139 | |||
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Ken Loach. He has always disliked Hollywood.
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21-10-2019, 09:48 PM | #140 | ||
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21-10-2019, 09:49 PM | #141 | ||
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Wow, movies are made for profit. That's some amazing insight there.
I suppose he makes them for free? |
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22-10-2019, 05:39 AM | #142 | |||
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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22-10-2019, 08:52 AM | #143 | ||
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Do they think that backing each other up adds gravitas? It just sounds even more petty the more people jump on the bandwagon .
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22-10-2019, 02:40 PM | #144 | |||
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23-10-2019, 11:50 AM | #145 | ||
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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.
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23-10-2019, 11:53 AM | #146 | ||
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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? |
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24-10-2019, 02:38 PM | #147 | |||
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Disney CEO Fires Back at Scorsese & Coppola Over Marvel Movie Comments
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24-10-2019, 02:41 PM | #148 | |||
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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.
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24-10-2019, 03:32 PM | #149 | ||
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(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
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13-10-2023, 06:53 PM | #150 | |||
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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. |
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