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I've been a Marvel Zombie since 1972, but Scorsese's not entirely wrong.
― Galangal Baker (WmC), Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
xp It’s still gotta sting a little!
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
Coppola is the exemplar of the "one for them, one for me" philosophy. He knows that taking a commissioned job doesn't necessarily say anything about a filmmaker's personal work.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
that said, I'd hate to be the director on the end of this stinging rebuke from the big man:
"It was considered that I had made Apocalypse Now and I'm like a Marty Scorsese type of director, and here I am making this dumb Disney film with Robin Williams. But I was always happy to do any type of film."
oooohh, shots fired!
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
it is about superhumans and cartoon gods
this is mostly where the films fall a bit flat for me, i guess. they're mostly entertaining, i'm pretty deferential to them, and i consider at least Ragnarok to be some kind of masterpiece. but they don't really move me or really make me care that much.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
"But I was always happy to do any type of film."
Worth noting he filed for bankruptcy three times between 1990 and 1992 thanks to taking risks on stuff like One From the Heart.
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
Francis Ford CaptainEO
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
(Again, before anyone gets butthurt, I hold Coppola in the highest esteem.)(But also: Francis Jack Coppola)
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
Now he’s flush, cuz he added some wine to that cheese!
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
Why are we still litigating this?
These are popcorn flicks, do we care that Scorsese feels like they're not Ingmar Bergman flicks
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
That's an insult to popcorn flicks.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
Not really
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
a popcorn flick is not such an ordeal
― j., Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
Hyperbole on overdrive
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Bonnie and Clyde and Jaws and Psycho and Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park were all popcorn flicks.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
The MCU is the middlebrow Oscarbait dreck of popcorn flicks.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
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― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/R4SBb8M/bored.gif
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
Bluish green is the greatest color on earth! Greenish blue on the other hand makes me projectile vom and anyone who likes it is literally satan, omg u guys
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
Sunrises fill me with joy! Sunsets otoh are like the goatse of the sky.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
Netflix Originals:MCU::prestige TV:popcorn flicks
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
dang what does that make DC?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
Vudu Originals
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
Things that are round : things that are edible :: things that make noise : things that are flammable
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
eepOppOrkAh ah
And that means Eat my ass
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 October 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
New bjork album pushing the envelope i see
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 October 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
I admit I was not aware of the precise context of Scorsese's comments, and would like to praise the interviewer for the implicit "you know this is some gimmicky shit, right?"
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
It’s ok nobody looked at the contextScorsese made a children’s film this decade! He isn’t against them - his mildly stated opinion on these ones should be taken in good faith in the context of a lifetime of extremely catholic (lol) moviegoing. People imagining he’s coming from a place of snooty hauteur are either being disingenuous or actually don’t know anything about who is talking
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 07:00 (four years ago) link
Disney-Marvel (good), 2019: ooh better make the Ancient One a white woman, we don't want the Chinese government thinking they're Tibetan. Martin Scorsese (bad), 1997: here's my movie about the Dalai Lama, the invasion of Tibet, and the slaughter of its people. Aint I a stinker?— Patrick Marlboroughoul!!! (@Cormac_McCafe) October 22, 2019
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 07:03 (four years ago) link
I am very sorry that those people exist, but none of them exist on this thread, so Give Us a Fucking Break.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
This bullshit standard would Mean 'Babe: Pig in the City' isn't cinema either, and I won't stand for that!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 07:58 (four years ago) link
hmm if only there were a relevant difference between beings of superhuman capability and beings without it
― j., Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
xxp ok, to put a finer point on it: the thread explains why if “Scorsese vs marvel” is really an actual thing that we have to do it’s gonna be Scorsese all day unless you’re a fucking cop 😜
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
The thing is, for me it's not about Scorsese vs Marvel, and it's been dispiriting to see how few fellow film nerds are able to see past that framing. Of course Scorsese films are better! The thing is, was what he said accurate or not, and it's not. And of course it's harsh! 'That's not cinema!' Coppola called them 'despicable!'. It's okay to agree, and think that Coppola is right to call Taika Waititi the maker of a 'despicable' film, but of course it's a harsh attack on a fellow film maker.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
xp It's not an actual thing though? He's allowed be a mensch and have a lousy opinion in his old age - it's a blessing he doesn't have more (other than the whole Polanski business, where he hardly stands out).
I look forward to this discourse reaching its final form, where he declares that he's going to make a hiphop track a superhero movie that will show us all, then makes increasingly infrequent references to it in interviews over the next decade.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
It’s a good opinion I’m afraid
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
Here's a good opinion: People who rate opinions on whether they are 'good' rather than 'correct' can go fuck themselves.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:28 (four years ago) link
it's a bad opinion i'm afraid
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
Well, you can go fuck yourself, I'm afraid
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
*lubes up*
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
lol :)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
Okay, genie, I guess my second wish will be to undo my first wish for Marvel movies that are good + fun. I thought we were ready but clearly we aren't. We just aren't.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
You can have nothing but marvel movies for the rest of time, but you must pay the ultimate price: some people not liking them
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
wins doing good sisiphyean work itt
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
lmao wins
― devvvine, Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
Anyone insisting that people have to like Marvel movies is a putz.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
Scor*s*ese made a children’s film this decade! He isn’t against them - his mildly stated opinion on these ones should be taken in good faith in the context of a lifetime of extremely catholic (lol) moviegoing. People imagining he’s coming from a place of snooty hauteur are either being disingenuous or actually don’t know anything about who is talking
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 24 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
I know he made a children's film this decade, but the moral of that film was 'poor Georges Meliés' so I don't think that disproves him as a filmsnob...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
This seems, for whatever reason, to be a topic where nuance can find little purchase.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Thursday, 24 October 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link