Last Film You Watched

[Walken]

Scorsese calling the marvel films 'theme park rides', a pretty good analogy and considering how dreadful endgame was I think he is right to say it. There is nothing but a cheap thrill and a big profit about these movies, which is fine if you accept that but they don't stand up against genuine cinematic achievements

 

[ste d' indica]

Holmes - Game of Shadows.

Its definitely the better of two. Smashin soundtrack.

 

[Yakinblue]

Lethal Weapon...hadn't seen it in years.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Scorsese calling the marvel films 'theme park rides', a pretty good analogy and considering how dreadful endgame was I think he is right to say it. There is nothing but a cheap thrill and a big profit about these movies, which is fine if you accept that but they don't stand up against genuine cinematic achievements

He's absolutely cock on, and about time someone said it.

 

[Zatara]

Yeh, loved it, just don't see why films can never just be left as a single venture.

Well, i think thats a fair point...

However my opinion is that the ending left me wanting more...i understand its an 'origin' movie but id like to see it as a trilogy myself the same as the 3 films with Bale as Batman.

As its just a standalone id be surprised it there werent a couple of spin off films e.g Batman + Joker with Leto as the joker...

 

[McBain]

Scorsese calling the marvel films 'theme park rides', a pretty good analogy and considering how dreadful endgame was I think he is right to say it. There is nothing but a cheap thrill and a big profit about these movies, which is fine if you accept that but they don't stand up against genuine cinematic achievements

Why does a Scorsese picture equate to ‘cinema’? Last I checked his next film is having a limited release and made for Netflix, the absolute antithesis of Cinema. Scorsese’s body of work contorts to public demand because when he steps outside that he gets destroyed. Violence, profanity, machismo, religion, guilt. Scorsese makes pictures with men, about men and for men. He should be in his hands and knees thanking them for getting people back into Theatres

These other genuine cinematic achievements - what are they? Is it Kubrick? Is it Speilberg? Nolan? Or is it only reserved for Tarantino or Kurosawa or Jeunet. You put a sheet up on a wall and project a train coming towards you and take it around the country - is this a ‘cheap thrill’ and doesn’t even come close to a man shaving his face continuously for 5 minutes straight? Which one is the revolutionary leap that wows an audience. When my film school teacher showed us a close shave he thought it was amazing! The audacity! We all thought he was taking the mick but now I know it’s the experience in context to your own.

Kids all over the World will take the MCU and use it as their catalyst to create their own films. They won’t see a Scorsese picture until they’ve watched Marvel a million times and are ready to see Joe Pesci beat the brains out of some schmuck. Cinema is a shared connection in a moment and place in time. Joker is absolutely cinema at its finest. Endgame is cinema at its finest. To some its a bucket of popcorn and ‘Pitch Perfect’. To others it’s a glass of chardonnay and ‘Upstream Colour’.

Any other version of this isn’t cinema. Its made for TV movies and memories of better days. Now we have it all but still people aren’t happy.

 

[Nymzee]

Well, i think thats a fair point...

However my opinion is that the ending left me wanting more...i understand its an 'origin' movie but id like to see it as a trilogy myself the same as the 3 films with Bale as Batman.

As its just a standalone id be surprised it there werent a couple of spin off films e.g Batman + Joker with Leto as the joker...

Here’s what I’ve read off Wiki anyway:

“In contrast to modern comic book films, Jokeris intended to be a standalone film with no planned sequels.[76] While Phillips said in August 2019 that he would be interested in making a sequel, depending on the film's performance and if Phoenix is interested,[46]he later clarified that "the movie's not set up to [have] a sequel. We always pitched it as one movie, and that's it."[146] Warner Bros. intends for Joker to launch DC Black, a line of DC Comics-based films unrelated to the DCEU with darker, more experimental material, similar to comic imprints such as Elseworlds.”


Personally I’d like it to be parked now; leave it as a Joker origin film and move on. However like said above I’d be more than happy for it to spawn say a stripped back Batman film that can then create sequels.

Some films to me are just ruined when they try milk them for sequels.

 

[Walken]

Why does a Scorsese picture equate to ‘cinema’? Last I checked his next film is having a limited release and made for Netflix, the absolute antithesis of Cinema. Scorsese’s body of work contorts to public demand because when he steps outside that he gets destroyed. Violence, profanity, machismo, religion, guilt. Scorsese makes pictures with men, about men and for men. He should be in his hands and knees thanking them for getting people back into Theatres

These other genuine cinematic achievements - what are they? Is it Kubrick? Is it Speilberg? Nolan? Or is it only reserved for Tarantino or Kurosawa or Jeunet. You put a sheet up on a wall and project a train coming towards you and take it around the country - is this a ‘cheap thrill’ and doesn’t even come close to a man shaving his face continuously for 5 minutes straight? Which one is the revolutionary leap that wows an audience. When my film school teacher showed us a close shave he thought it was amazing! The audacity! We all thought he was taking the mick but now I know it’s the experience in context to your own.

Kids all over the World will take the MCU and use it as their catalyst to create their own films. They won’t see a Scorsese picture until they’ve watched Marvel a million times and are ready to see Joe Pesci beat the brains out of some schmuck. Cinema is a shared connection in a moment and place in time. Joker is absolutely cinema at its finest. Endgame is cinema at its finest. To some its a bucket of popcorn and ‘Pitch Perfect’. To others it’s a glass of chardonnay and ‘Upstream Colour’.

Any other version of this isn’t cinema. Its made for TV movies and memories of better days. Now we have it all but still people aren’t happy.

I think you've misunderstood what he meant by cinema

 

[tonyhorne]

Not one to watch with anyone offended by sex, violence and bad language (the latter is by far the most frequent) but an enjoyable enough film to watch of an evening. Re-telling of an old Lynda La Plante TV series...

 

[coollino]

My friend works in the child protection unit in the police and she said around 75% of offenders under 40 own comic film clothing so that's something to think about.

 

[coollino]

He's absolutely cock on, and about time someone said it.

I never used to see the problem when I lived near an independent cinema. now I don't and when I look at the listings for Showcase, they should the same comic trash 8 times a day for a month.

It's just like pop in the 90's.

 

[McBain]

I think you've misunderstood what he meant by cinema

“It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

 

[Billysgingham.]

“It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

Koff lad.

 

[McBain]

Koff lad.

That was Scorsese quote

 

[Billysgingham.]

That was Scorsese quote

My apologies, I thought you were getting all artie fartie.