marcorossi at 3:23AM, Nov. 27, 2019

@ozoneocean It's true that Scorsese's comment wasn't a judgment of value, but then different genres have different structures and styles because they have different esthetics, so the two things can't be completely independent.

Ozoneocean at 11:38PM, Nov. 26, 2019

Most of you guys are still taking Scorses's comment as a value judgement, haha! I tried to explain that it wasn't :(

hushicho at 5:21PM, Nov. 26, 2019

I think the films are pretty despicable, but then I used to be a reader of the comics and enjoyed the experience of seeing the development of sequential art. Those characters and stories in the films are the very definition of "in name only", and most of the people whose interest was piqued by the films end up kind of cruelly appropriating everything related. And of course there's the fact that these films are basically just trying to sell you a product in whatever way they think you should digest it. They're not trying to make a piece of cinematic art. They are advertising a product to you that they wish to make desirable.

cdmalcolm1 at 8:58AM, Nov. 26, 2019

I think they are upset because Marvel & DC stories have been refined by decades of story telling in comic Form. Hollywood writers left so producers went to stories written decades ago & forged it to fit today’s audience. So now that comicbooks got into the major league of filming, they see that as a threat because it’s making money over the films they consider Cinema. They don’t like superhero movies or action films for that matter. The Movies are a point of view to bring fantasy to life. It is an action based film. For them to say that about Marvel movies is also saying the same thing to all action type films. Why not just call it like it is for all action types & not single out Marvel? Now what if all the marvel movies were made as Drama films, or thrillers? Would they have said the same thing? Everyone is not going to like the same type of film as them; but to say that a marvel movie is not cinematic? that’s ridiculous.

KAM at 6:36AM, Nov. 26, 2019

Scorsese's remark about the Marvel movies being like theme parks made sense to me. There are basically two levels a movie affects you on. The surface level "Bang! Pow! Zoom!" of a lot of action and special effects, and the emotional/intellectual level where you have to pay attention to the dialogue and little details to get the most out of it. It's easy to see the Marvel movies as the former because, well, what do you see in the commercials advertising them? Bam! Pow! Zoom! ;-)

sphinx8k at 3:14AM, Nov. 26, 2019

Whatever they said it's just their point of view, but the majority of the population of the world will remain the fans of Marvel contents ...isn't it ?

marcorossi at 2:38AM, Nov. 26, 2019

There is a deeper problem about this. When we look at artistic products, one generally expect them to have some sort of artistic value, which however is often in the eye of the beholder. Generally if someone says that the stuff I like is crap, I will take it as a personal offence because it implies that I'm at some level a bit stupid, but then on the other hand if one can never say that movie X or comic Y is crap then there is no meaning in saying that X or Y are good either.

bravo1102 at 12:48AM, Nov. 26, 2019

Coppola started his career about a decade before Spielberg and Lucas. He started out with Roger Corman in the 1960s. Both Lucas and Spielberg started around 1970.