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Orrex

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12. Saw it last night. Quite a good film!

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:23 AM

Oct 2019

Very different from other "comic book movies," and it would have stood on its own just fine without any ties to the DC mythos.

Of course, comic book movies aren't cinema. Just like sci-fi films aren't cinema, and westerns aren't cinema, and period romances aren't cinema, and gangster films aren't cinema, ad nauseam.

Scorcese is far better at making films than I'll ever be at watching them, but his complaint sounds very similar to that of "serious" writers who insist that genre fiction isn't "really" literature.

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Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are not cinema [View all] Ron Obvious Oct 2019 OP

I agree. obnoxiousdrunk Oct 2019 #1

He has a new movie coming out, right? underpants Oct 2019 #2

I don't like the entire genre but we went through the long "live action" period hlthe2b Oct 2019 #3

Even great artists can fail to identify art. aikoaiko Oct 2019 #4

Well, they are. shenmue Oct 2019 #5

I wonder how he feels about Joker. Orrex Oct 2019 #6

It's an interesting question Ron Obvious Oct 2019 #8

Saw it last night. Quite a good film! Orrex Oct 2019 #12

"Black Panther" isn't cinema?? klook Oct 2019 #7

The eye of the beholder... Newest Reality Oct 2019 #9

can't stand them either Locrian Oct 2019 #10

I think of film like I think of books. It's just a medium for expression SuprstitionAintthWay Oct 2019 #11

Can't stand them...too much CGI....basically a video game LeftInTX Oct 2019 #13

Odd, pressbox69 Oct 2019 #14