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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

JD said:
Oh, OK, that's not as bad as I thought. I thought he was had more or less called them trash that only idiots liked. Which would have been kind of hypocritical since stuff like Jurrasic Park or Ready Player One aren't really that far off from superhero movies.
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Spielberg has executive-produced a superhero TV series, Freakazoid!, though it was a spoof of the genre. He executive-produced The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro, based on the first costumed/masked hero in American fiction; several of the Transformers movies, which are arguably superhero-adjacent; and Men in Black, based on an obscure comic book. And he produced and directed The Adventures of Tintin, based on one of the world's most popular comic book heroes, albeit not a superhero.
 
The ones talking actual trash about them are the ones jealous that they can't get more funding or attention for their own projects anyways.
 
Anwar said:
Yes. Without his latest complaints, the Irishman wouldn't have gotten the attention it did. The mans' best is far behind him.

It's like William Friedkin after Star Wars obliterated Sorcerer.
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Anwar said:
He hasn't had a really good movie since Pulp Fiction, either.
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:lol::lol::lol:

Yeah, still no.

I don’t share Scorsese’s opinion in its entirety but he does raise some interesting points. As for your assessment of Tarantino? You’re simply wrong. But thank you for playing.
 
Ovation said:
:lol::lol::lol:

Yeah, still no.

I don’t share Scorsese’s opinion in its entirety but he does raise some interesting points.
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His points are nonsense, seeing how he himself indulges in the "Theme Park" stuff.

As for your assessment of Tarantino? You’re simply wrong. But thank you for playing.
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Nah, he's hit and miss. Nice, pretentious dialog though.
 
It's not Scorsese that sought attention. It's the interviewers. These comments, as well as the Tarantino ones, and pretty much all comments from filmmakers of this kind, were made as answers to questions in longer interviews. Why does Scorsese's opinion on superhero movies even matter? He makes completely different movies to what Marvel and DC put out. Because you can generate clicks with it, you can fill a news cycle with it and reactions to it.

All because some people feel so insecure in their own opinions that they feel personally attacked when someone disagrees with them. Seriously, go ahead, disagree with the man, but to go on about it three years after Scorsese actually made the comments, come on. Get over it, already.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
All because some people feel so insecure in their own opinions that they feel personally attacked when someone disagrees with them. Seriously, go ahead, disagree with the man, but to go on about it three years after Scorsese actually made the comments, come on. Get over it, already.
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Did you feel James Gunn was being insecure when he spoke out against Scorsese?
 
Kai "the spy" said:
It's not Scorsese that sought attention. It's the interviewers. These comments, as well as the Tarantino ones, and pretty much all comments from filmmakers of this kind, were made as answers to questions in longer interviews. ... Because you can generate clicks with it, you can fill a news cycle with it and reactions to it.
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Exactly. We need to resist the efforts of sensationalist media to manipulate us into reacting a certain way. Always read the news defensively, and try to find the original, full comments and their context, rather than just the edited and slanted versions meant to provoke controversy, or to manufacture the illusion of a story where there is none.

The kind of clickbait I particularly hate is "Actor says they'd return to Famous Role if asked." Of course virtually anyone is going to say yes to "Would you hypothetically accept a paying job?" That's the most obvious thing in the world, and does not remotely qualify as news. But the 24-hour news cycle demands content, so there's too much pressure on journalists to invent content out of nothing, rather than saving their reporting for what's actually newsworthy.
 
In this case, the comment comes from a passage in Tarantino's book that is coming out so it could be argued that it was placed to seek attention.

There are two comments, one is understandable about how he wouldn't want to be a hired hand and seems in response to a question. The other where he compares the genre to the death of the musical and says auteurs can't wait for the day it's over is from the book.
 
fireproof78 said:
So we reward this behavior with attention? That makes perfect sense.
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You must understand that some people think any criticism of certain superhero films must mean the critic is "jealous" (yeah, sure), or is some sort of failure in his career. The people who make such charges think the world falls to its knees in absolute worship of certain superhero productions, when nothing could be more removed from the truth.
 
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