it's like the dietary equivalent of theaters serving a guaranteed four screens worth of Doritos every week, and if you blink and miss the moment they shove a nice dish out on the buffet for a week, you'll get more Doritos
I love some Doritos in moderation, but this is getting insane
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
gentlemen you can't kvetch about comicbook movies in here, this is the Disney-Fox thread
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
But that's not the fault of 'super-hero' cinema! That's a logical continuation of the blockbuster / tentpole paradigm established by Lucas and Spielberg! Without Superheroes, Disney would still make exclusively remakes of old cartoons, and Warner Brothers would make a gritty reboot of The Wizard of Oz, or something.
yeah but superhero movies are the movies that are doing it now, today - whatever their antecedents are, the effect theyre having is what it is. Its not like he should have said 'those movies aren't cinema, nor would a theoretical different bad movie be, if it were to be made in an alternate universe where comic book movies don't exist."
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
it's like the dietary equivalent of theaters serving a guaranteed four screens worth of Doritos every week, and if you blink and miss the moment they shove a nice dish out on the buffet for a week, you'll get more DoritosI love some Doritos in moderation, but this is getting insane
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
'not food' is the analogy there.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
I think Scorsese et al would argue that what is being served is not cuisine
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
in any case, as a friend is fond of quoting, there are many things you can eat that are not food
Are there really people who believe that what Scorsese meant was that marvel movies are literally not movies?
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
'I hate all these burger bars, they're not cuisine'
That guy would be laughed at :)
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Yes, it’s silly of him to prefer to eat better food
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), 21. oktober 2019 18:49 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
He literally continued: Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. I think you're underestimating how stupid Scorsese is.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
So the way you interpret that quote is that he is so stupid he literally thinks they are theme parks
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
Can somebody cut and paste the definition of "rhetoric" cos I can't be bothered
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
oh fred b has bullshit opinions on things other than politics? who knew
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
we oft misunderestimate him
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
i also wd prefer you not post an opinion on a film in response to me ever, fred
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
It is bemusing how this is even controversial. People enjoy theme parks.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
I think it's more bemusing that so many people want to defend the comments when they are obviously wrong and stupid.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
imo both Scorsese and Coppola have comprehensible opinions *and* I enjoy most of these flicks
since I can't move beyond one analogy, it's like someone telling you they don't like a restaurant because the food is bland, but you go there on occasion because it's comfort food. you completely understand why they have no interest in it, but you're up for small doses yourself
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
I'm currently pondering what the first Fox property is that Disney will remake. Live action version of Fox Animation's Anastastia? Hrrm, probably not
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
many xps to the morbs tweet but, director's point aside, Bodied kind of sucked.
I think of superhero movies as in the same category as Broadway spectaculars; there are good and bad ones and some can be subversive and some are poisonous and occasionally there's a run of Uncle Vanya. More often it is variants on The Black Crook.https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/02/musical-month-black-crook
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
The crying over this is some ugly sore winner shit imo, whole industries devoted to catering to your shitty tastes but you still get to come the embattled outsider because the old man was MEAN about captain America wahA while ago I came up with the idea for a gritty reboot of “it’s a good life”, that classic twilight zone ep where the kid is the centre of the universe and so everyone else is forced to watch the same baby programme and have birthday cake for dinner every single day. The only thing thing you need to change is make him a 30something and the punishment for any reaction short of rictus-grin approbation is to be turned into a funko pop
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
well said
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
although, prior to these comments, I would imagine a bunch of these people would buy a Scorsese or Coppola funko pop
they probably still would, because they have to have a full collection
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
'sore winner' or not, at the end of the day what Scorsese and Coppola is saying is just straight up wrong. and stupid. and that's honestly more important to me than who is an outsider or an underdog or whatever.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
yes, they have opinions about art that are "wrong". a thing that definitely exists
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
btw Maleficent II "underperformed" at the b.o.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), 21. oktober 2019 21:36 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Whatever, you're too full of bullshit to continue on communicating with. I'm going to listen to my favorite country record, Original Pirate Material.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
"Show me on this Funko Pop where the mean old directors touched you..."
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
when did movie box office first become a spectator sport that the public took sides with? Star Wars?it's a perverse thing to engage in imo but i am as guilty as the next person of wanting to be an INSIDER
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Probably about 10 minutes after Spielberg took this ad out in Variety.
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/566f52cc3da6b2362869d83a/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/star-wars-pop-culture-ss01.jpg
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
"Your hyperspace performance package"?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Saucy
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
he meant cocaine
― Number None, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Big Hyperspace Performance Package Energy
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
#1 film for more than five parsecs
― Galangal Baker (WmC), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
the fucks are at it again
― mh, Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
this is infuriating tbh
― rob, Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
starting to think disney might suck and be bad, honestly
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
just let people enjoy things you monster
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
but i enjoy thinking disney sucks and is bad :(
― genre: post-britpop (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
More like a 'Tragic Kingdom', amirite?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
no doubt
― mh, Thursday, 24 October 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Disney+ is good now
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-jim-henson-company-is-bringing-an-alien-talk-show-c-1839355960
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
if they straight-up Space Ghost it, i'm sold.if it's the tonight show but with baby sinclair as the host, hard pass
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Earth to Ned is about a blue alien named Ned and his lieutenant, Cornelius, who find themselves abandoning their planned invasion of Earth because they’re too fascinated with popular culture. Their talk show features Ned interviewing celebrities to chat about all the things he finds so amazing about Earth and its people.
I appreciate how they've made this incredibly accurate.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
oh, lol i missed the ned connection
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
xp Would buy ticket
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 25 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link