also it leans too much on 60s and 70s spy/political thrillers, which would actually be nice if it was good enough to not make me wish I was watching one of those instead
I haven't watched Winter Soldier and probably never will, but the first Captain America is kinda the epitome of a pretty box with nothing inside to me.
I haven't watched Winter Soldier and probably never will, but the first Captain America is kinda the epitome of a pretty box with nothing inside to me.
"Discussed in the Intermission editorial "Wrights and Wrongs", which was about the backlash against Marvel over the departure of Edgar Wright from Ant-Man over Creative Differences. He feels that, while the auteur theory makes a lot of solid points, it's not applicable to every film, especially not big, studio-driven blockbusters like the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also argues that, while it's produced a lot of great movies in both the '70s New Hollywood and in independent cinema, it's also led to the undue, premature elevation of filmmakers who are more about style than substance (citing Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan as examples) and the passing over of talented directors who don't have a particular "style" (such as the Russo Brothers)."
I haven't watched Winter Soldier and probably never will, but the first Captain America is kinda the epitome of a pretty box with nothing inside to me.
yeah
except everything nice about said pretty box is like a Walmart brand Hellboy
I haven't watched Winter Soldier and probably never will, but the first Captain America is kinda the epitome of a pretty box with nothing inside to me.
yeah
except everything nice about said pretty box is like a Walmart brand Hellboy
"Discussed in the Intermission editorial "Wrights and Wrongs", which was about the backlash against Marvel over the departure of Edgar Wright from Ant-Man over Creative Differences. He feels that, while the auteur theory makes a lot of solid points, it's not applicable to every film, especially not big, studio-driven blockbusters like the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also argues that, while it's produced a lot of great movies in both the '70s New Hollywood and in independent cinema, it's also led to the undue, premature elevation of filmmakers who are more about style than substance (citing Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan as examples) and the passing over of talented directors who don't have a particular "style" (such as the Russo Brothers)."
I do think there is genius in Hollywood films that gets overlooked by using the auteur model, but the MCU is definitely not a good example to make that argument with.
I haven't watched Winter Soldier and probably never will, but the first Captain America is kinda the epitome of a pretty box with nothing inside to me.
yeah
except everything nice about said pretty box is like a Walmart brand Hellboy
I should watch those films sometime.
they are very pretty movies, with workmanlike plots, but the prettiness and the flashy dialogue more than compensate
to me they are like the platonic idea of a Fun Flashy Movie
I know that Naney, at least, will disagree with this, but at this point, I think the only MCU film that will hold up as a good film in the future is the first Iron Man.
I know that Naney, at least, will disagree with this, but at this point, I think the only MCU film that will hold up as a good film in the future is the first Iron Man.
I know there was one of them that I genuinely liked, but I cannot recall which it was
Oh, I learned a lesson from the twentieth century That I don't think we can just dismiss After one hundred years of inhumanity The lesson that I learned was this
it really astounds me how bad shyamalan has gotten
like, I can understand putting out subpar stuff whilst resting on laurels, but some of the framing he used in the last airbender was so obviously just flat out wrong to even the most casual viewer that I'm like ??????
I know that Naney, at least, will disagree with this, but at this point, I think the only MCU film that will hold up as a good film in the future is the first Iron Man.
I know there was one of them that I genuinely liked, but I cannot recall which it was
they have all kinda blended together for me
My guess is Guardians of the Galaxy.
It is the only MCU film I am still interested in seeing eventually.
Kenneth Branagh, Joss Whedon, and the Russo Brothers are very different directors, but fuck if you could tell that from the movies they made for Marvel/Disney.
The thing I liked about GotG was that it at least felt like a James Gunn movie.
it really astounds me how bad shyamalan has gotten
like, I can understand putting out subpar stuff whilst resting on laurels, but some of the framing he used in the last airbender was so obviously just flat out wrong to even the most casual viewer that I'm like ??????
it really astounds me how bad shyamalan has gotten
like, I can understand putting out subpar stuff whilst resting on laurels, but some of the framing he used in the last airbender was so obviously just flat out wrong to even the most casual viewer that I'm like ??????
I still really want to see The Last Airbender just for laughs.
I'll say that at least some of that may have not been his fault. He was supposed to be the shepherd of a Franchise™, after all. He may have just given up on trying to fight the executives on it at some point.
Like I was really into the Village, and I thought it was scary, and then Shyamalan walks out in a modern-day park ranger's outfit, and I was like "oh fuck, goddamnit"
Now I'm just thinking back to Signs and the whole climax consisting of "The aliens saw a planet covered in a deadly substance and decided to invade it anyway."
Kenneth Branagh, Joss Whedon, and the Russo Brothers are very different directors, but fuck if you could tell that from the movies they made for Marvel/Disney.
The thing I liked about GotG was that it at least felt like a James Gunn movie.
I thought that the original Iron Man at least felt like a fun Jon Favreau/Robert Downey, Jr. collaboration project. I didn't get much of a "blockbuster" feeling from it at all.
The MCU will probably crash the minute Downey decides to leave.
Now I'm just thinking back to Signs and the whole climax consisting of "The aliens saw a planet covered in a deadly substance and decided to invade it anyway."
It makes more sense if you assume that it's a hazing ritual for the aliens to join a space fraternity.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it's like a paint by numbers picture, or the aforementioned soylent
except everything nice about said pretty box is like a Walmart brand Hellboy
to me they are like the platonic idea of a Fun Flashy Movie
What's the M. Night Shyamalan "style"
they have all kinda blended together for me
That I don't think we can just dismiss
After one hundred years of inhumanity
The lesson that I learned was this
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
like, I can understand putting out subpar stuff whilst resting on laurels, but some of the framing he used in the last airbender was so obviously just flat out wrong to even the most casual viewer that I'm like ??????
I may at some point
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
you should watch the folding ideas episode on it
Because I am not.
though one may or may not like that