Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’

themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  C’mon bro-- comic book movies have even ruined comic book movies at this point 😅

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bad movies are bad movies. Many movies are adapted from tv, books, and fairy tales. The only thing special about comic book movies is that they are all based on existing stories that have accompanying artwork. There are important scenes, moments captured in time, and I could understand how an auteur might feel hamstrung by the existing imagery.

    But how is that different from making a pirate movie, where everyone looks and talks like Long John Silver? Or a gangster movie where everyone dresses and talks like James Cagney?

    If he’s complaining about big budget CG action flicks, those aren’t specific to comic book movies, either. Avatar, Mission Impossible, Inception, Planet of the Apes, shit go back to Towering Inferno or the old Harryhausen movies. People want spectacle, wonder, and adventure. That’s not new. That’s why the comics exist in the first place.

    If he’s complaining about studios churning out blockbusters and crowding the release calendar, yeah that’s got to be frustrating. Just pick a weekend right after a DC release, and you’ll do fine.

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It absolutely is yelling at clouds.
  They’re just fun scifi westerns, not the end of cinema.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just a catchy headline to mask the fact that the whole point of this article is to advertise his new movie.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good point

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• famousringo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man who makes only gangster movies angry at people who make only superhero movies.

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