Is Anything A Greater Cinematic Achievement Than The MCU?
Dec 13, 2017 19:40:27 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Dec 13, 2017 19:40:27 GMT
Spooky Ghost Ackbar said:
That’s it! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but you’ve got the uncanny ability to recount my thoughts more succinctly than I ever could. 
Just as television is becoming more like film, film is becoming more like television, and I don’t think that kind of movement will do justice to either medium. The scope of the former is not made for epics, the scope of the latter is not made for episodes. Marvel has accomplished something remarkable, yes (not “one of the greats,” however), but at what expense to cinema as a whole? Nowadays everyone waits around for after-credits sequences, just to see what will come next in a series—thus degrading the magic of watching shadows dance on a screen, as Mervyn LeRoy phrased it. The movie itself has only become a part of a larger whole, and what does that imply for quality?
People are more willing to accept mediocre movies like Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 because they're episodes of a bigger saga.
Just as television is becoming more like film, film is becoming more like television, and I don’t think that kind of movement will do justice to either medium. The scope of the former is not made for epics, the scope of the latter is not made for episodes. Marvel has accomplished something remarkable, yes (not “one of the greats,” however), but at what expense to cinema as a whole? Nowadays everyone waits around for after-credits sequences, just to see what will come next in a series—thus degrading the magic of watching shadows dance on a screen, as Mervyn LeRoy phrased it. The movie itself has only become a part of a larger whole, and what does that imply for quality?