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Francis Ford Coppola Calls Marvel Movies 'Despicable' After Martin Scorsese's Critique

brap

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Based Francis dabbing on the marvel manbabies and their shitty children's flicks

"When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he's right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration…I don't know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again," the 80-year-old filmmaker stated in Lyon, France, after accepting the Lumiere Award, according to Yahoo! News. "Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. He didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is."

 

Moneal

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Based Francis dabbing on the marvel manbabies and their shitty children's flicks




I don't expect to learn or gain enlightenment from any cinema. I mean Coppola made The Godfather 3. What can learned or enlightened about that, other than the fact that he should have let it go after the second one?
 

brap

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These old assholes just hate fun.
Yeah, it's so fun seeing grown adults fight in front of a greenscreen for 20 movies over the course of 10 years.

I don't expect to learn or gain enlightenment from any cinema. I mean Coppola made The Godfather 3. What can learned or enlightened about that, other than the fact that he should have let it go after the second one?
Us adults learned that it's infinitely better than children's capeshit cinema no matter how bad it is.
 

brap

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I didn’t necessarily agree with Scorsese’s take but I kinda understood where he was coming from. In that thread I offered three Marvel films I felt proved his position wrong.

FFC just sounds like a “get off my lawn” dude here, though
He's right about them being all the same but I don't really agree with them being despicable. It was too funny to not post it here though :pie_roffles: :pie_roffles:
 

Weilthain

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I really liked some of the marvel films as in some of them have some real heart and soul to them despite the goofy subject matter.

some are just trash I agree
 
Eh. Blockbusters leaving him and his New Cinema ilk (except Scorcese for whatever reason) without decent budgets to work with is worth getting pissed off at and I sympathize.

However, the motherfucker made Godfather 3 so he brought this on himself.
 

brap

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Maybe people want dumber entertainment as they get generally smarter. Normal people that is (not NeoGaffers)
You'd have a point if the average american wasn't pretty dumb. I'm not even into arthouse movies or anything but people seem ADHD as fuck these days along with being retards that just want to watch children's cartoons and shit.
 

haxan7

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You'd have a point if the average american wasn't pretty dumb. I'm not even into arthouse movies or anything but people seem ADHD as fuck these days along with being retards that just want to watch children's cartoons and shit.
People are generally dumb, but in a broad sense I think they are smarter now than ever before. By smart I don’t mean right, or thoughtful, or any kind of value judgment. There’s just more access to information than ever before, and more people are in a position where they can take in that information and use it
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
The worst part is that the MCU/DCEU isn't a fad. You can tell this shit's going to be going for another 20+ years.

Marvel movies are just selling the same entertainment thats been sold for fukkin years/decades beautiful explosions, fighting and violence I don't know wtf scorsese and coppola are smoking they used the same techniques to sell their sh!t the most memorable scenes in freakin godfather I II are the killing scenes like when Mike shot the cop and drug dealer in the restaurant or when Vito got revenge at the end of Godfather II.

Its like wrestling mofukkers just want to see people gettin power bombed or choked slammed onto tables and sh!t. These same people will also be attracted to seeing Hulk smash. Its a normal urge/desire for many boys/men. No surprise why UFC has risen, either. Many people want to hit the gym and get lean and built so naturally they're going to eat healthier maybe eat more eggs and meat and vegetables and thus, you'll see an increase in testosterone and muscle mass which at the same time increases the desire for this quality entertainment. But when ur cool and calm and not hyped up then yeah these movies might not seem so attractive and interesting thus why a lotta chicks don't give a sh!t about action movies.
 

brap

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Its like wrestling mofukkers just want to see people gettin power bombed or choked slammed onto tables and sh!t.
They actually do that though. In marvel movies it's just people dancing in front of a greenscreen with CGI.

No surprise why UFC has risen, either.
UFC is at an all time low. Even less people watch it than wrestling now.

Many people want to hit the gym and get lean and built so naturally they're going to eat healthier maybe eat more eggs and meat and vegetables and thus, you'll see an increase in testosterone and muscle mass which at the same time increases the desire for this quality entertainment.
Lmao ok retard. Your average fan of these shitty movies are goofy tubby fucks that like bright colors and quips. Nice try though. Real men watch fast and the furious and all that shit. Not childrens films.

Your average marvel fans

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SLoWMoTIoN

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THIS MAN MADE GODFATHER 1&2, AND APOCALYPSE NOW IN THE SPAN OF 10 YEARS.

HE IS RIGHT: OVER THE SPAN OF 10 YEARS, WE GOT NOTHING BUT A FAKE SAD ENDING AND A WEIRDO LOOKING PURPLE MAN SNAPPING HIS FINGERS.

#FuckMarvel
#DespicableMe?
#MoreLikeDespicableMarvel
We should force him to watch Kojima's new movie
he'd ask why teleportation exists if Reedus is delivering unborn babies to same sex couples by foot
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
They actually do that though. In marvel movies it's just people dancing in front of a greenscreen with CGI.


UFC is at an all time low. Even less people watch it than wrestling now.


Lmao ok retard. Your average fan of these shitty movies are goofy tubby fucks that like bright colors and quips. Nice try though. Real men watch fast and the furious and all that shit. Not childrens films.

Your average marvel fans

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hmmm ok *grabs popcorn and re-watches Thor: Ragnorak for the fifth time*
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
have u guys not ever got hyped up and hit the gym and lifted weights on the regular??? eat some egg yolks eat some burgers some kale bread yogurt u will like this sh!t even if its the same ol sh!t violence is violence fighting is fighting. scorsese and coppola r rich, old dudes right now feeding pigeons on a bench in the park is probably more appealing to them right now they probably just eat like a ham sandwich a day and don't lift a finger they're not gonna be into this sh!t its not rocket science. vince mcmahon will like this sh!t tho. r u guys old dudes that like to feed pigeons in the park or something???
 

womfalcs3

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Marvel films have devolved into the same old formulaic shit. There is no depth in the plots and character development.
 
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I seen some shit on pornhub that was thought provoking

like wtf that shit I saw, goddamn some things need to remain inside your body people are crazy as hell

iron Man 1 is great
 
He's right.

Infinity war wasn't a film, It was a 2 and a half hour advertisement for the franchise. End game made no sense and the characters are boring.

The early movies like Iron Man and the first avengers film had a chance to be something, but they quickly descended into Michael Bay-esque fireworks displays n feels.
 
Martin Scorsese compared them to theme park rides, which is a pretty fair assessment.

But for Coppola to call them "despicable" is "old man yells at cloud" nonsense.

There's always been "for fun" genre movies for as long as there's been movies, they take different shapes and these superhero movies are the modern form, but fundamentally it's not anything new.
 

Shifty

Member
The creators of the classics all coming out to collectively shit on the amorphous mass of popcorn flicks that is the MCU?

Dab on, epic directorial bros.
 

sol_bad

Member
Yeah, it's so fun seeing grown adults fight in front of a greenscreen for 20 movies over the course of 10 years.


Us adults learned that it's infinitely better than children's capeshit cinema no matter how bad it is.

Brap, you watch shitty 80's action movies or films that try to be. Don't pretend your a film snob with fine tastes. The movies you watch also involve muscle men acting on camera.
 
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