Why The MCU Is The Pinnacle Of The Art Of Cinema

Why The MCU Is The Pinnacle Of The Art Of Cinema May 7, 2018 0:58:56 GMT via mobile

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Post by coldenhaulfield on May 7, 2018 0:58:56 GMT

May 7, 2018 0:47:39 GMT merh said:

May 6, 2018 22:20:47 GMT coldenhaulfield said:

So basically you've never heard of critical thinking.

I comprehend critical thinking.
Why would I argue with a tv show over ots plot?
The writers would make more sense but i dont usually have access to them, just message boards with other fans I can discuss stuff, but that is with the fans there.

Debate is great.
The stuff of this thread?
Not really

Where is the point in tearing apart a post on a bulletin board when the original poster isnt here to argue his point?

I'll argue points from critic reviews, etc, but Norm booted up a thread last posted on on June 18, 2017.

Why?

To laugh at the opinion of a poster no longer here?

I was a moment from writing an epic poem outlining the history of cinema and touching on profound masterworks like Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor or Kubrick's 2001, and then I realized this boils down to two points.

Doing a homework assignment & he saw a connection to sonething he loved?

1 - What the MCU thrives on is equal parts satisfaction and the age old concept of anticipation breeds desire. Now that might not sound like much of a revelation, but consider every film that comes out, we're simultaneously excited to be watching it, while also desperately longing for the eventual return of the other characters who aren't in this one. And it's that longing that adds to every film without Marvel having to do any teasing at all. A tasteful analogy would be like banging an entire cheerleading team and constantly saying "yes the blonde again! yes the brunette again! yes the latina again!" every time you rotated. When we were watching Dr. Strange, every last one of us was imagining how the first encounter with the main Avengers would go down, and the same with Ant Man. With Panther and Spidey it was reversed. We got their first interactions with the team, but then just below the surface every last one of us was wondering how great it was going to be to see them on their own, and it was that anticipation by itself that added to Civil War.

I saw Thor around a dozen times in the theater. I knew each time watching it I was going to buy another ticket by the scene on the roof where Thor is talling about Yggdrasil. I found it a wonderful tale of redemption. In trying to establish himself as an adult in his own right, Thor forgot about all he had been taught by his father about being a good king as well as a good man. The movie is his realization his father was right & not just a foolish old man out of touch with the modern world.

Stanton was applying that concept.

I have read too many anime articles in my time but I remember one that touched upon repetition. They have the chant to become Shazam or the Sailor Moon transformation because children love familiarity. They see that part coming up & it is familiar. They anticipate tje segment, maybe chant the words.

When we tried to help myb30-something schizophrenic brother-in-law the doctor warned our effort should be applauded, but would likely fail as the problem was most mentally ill like comfortable-familiarity. They don't like the psych meds because theu arent used to them. They often self-medicated as teens so they trash the psych meds & return to the street drugs that arent actually helping. Its also why its so hard to end addictions. Most people get into a groove & unless change is forced on them (move to another place) or they get sick of it (putting a bucket out to catch the rain from the hole in the roof), they stay put. So what Stanton was refing was that familiarity. We know IM. Then we meet Widow, etc. It was the familiarity of Coulson in the movies.

2 - But here's where the MCU fire burns brightest. And I mean literally here. Right here with the advent of the internet, we can also stoke that fire brighter than they ever could in, let's say the 70's. How great would it have been to see a Han solo movie (see what I did there), while the original Star Wars trilogy was going on.

I always thought it would have made more sense to do the LAST 3 movies Lucas had planned next while his actors were still the right age than pop over to the prequels.

And I would have LOVED a Solo movie. Never cared much for Luke.

Or any of the other anthology films we're about to get. The internet itself is largely why those things can exist now, because the fan base has a way to grow and connect, and why they did not exist then. The MCU is a product unique to this generation specifically because of that, and because of it, it is the franchise that will always be known for ushering in the next evolution of cinema. Not Lord of the Rings, not the Matrix, but the MCU will be the franchise that will stand out for being the driving force in what the potential for cinema can really be

Whatever.

But Norm booted it back.
Because you wanted to laugh at Stanton?
Feel superior to him?