Listen, Jamie’s just saying what a lot of us are already thinking
  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    4 months ago

    She isn’t calling the MCU “bad.” She’s calling the current phase bad. Not exactly a hot take, I think a lot of the fans would agree that post Endgame has been very hit and miss. She doesn’t need to apologize for this. I will be glad to take an apology from her about the Borderlands film and her role in it, though.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      4 months ago

      She isn’t calling the MCU “bad.” She’s calling the current phase bad. Not exactly a hot take

      They literally say it in the most recent MCU movie. 😂

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
    50·
    4 months ago

    It’s not bad, it’s just kind of meh mostly. Shouldn’t have to apologize though.

    Also, Everything Everywhere All At Once is probably my favorite movie and Trading Places is possibly my favorite Christmas movie.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Trading Places is possibly my favorite Christmas movie.

      If you want another good Christmas story with Jamie Lee Curtis, might I recommend season 2 episode 6 of The Bear.

          • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
            23·
            4 months ago

            Yes, good job. Now tell me… Do the movies frame this as a good thing? Or… maybe… the whole point of his entire ten year character arc is that he learns the error of his ways? He changes from a selfish jingoistic narcissist into a compassionate leader and mentor who eventually sacrifices himself to save others.

            Maybe one day you’ll have some character growth too and watch the second half of a movie.

            • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
              12·
              4 months ago

              Tony Stark was literally designed to be the worst person Stan Lee could imagine.

              Because they wanted to see how such a character could manifest as super hero anyway.

              I think he succeeded.

              • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
                8·
                4 months ago

                Sure, if comics were real we all know Gotham would be better off if Bruce Wayne would focus on philanthropy instead of dressing up like a bat but no one would make a movie about that because it would be boring.

                Sounds like comic book movies aren’t your thing but generally when your story introduces problems like a purple alien guy with a genocide glove the right answer actually is to put on a robot suit and shoot lasers at em.

                • delirious_owl@discuss.onlineEnglish
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  Nah, I think the message was that when Stark finally killed himself, the world was a better place.

                  I was am a big fan of watchmen. This genre doesn’t need to celebrate terrorists. The comedian was condemned.

                  Hell, X-men was great as an allegory for gay people defending themselves.

                  MCU was just terrible.

          • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
            8·
            4 months ago

            Tony Stark is a fictional character that can’t commit war crimes because he isn’t real…

            Get your head checked 🤡

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      My brain, and it should have fucking known better!, just went "justice league what? DCU is still worse than marvel… Oh Jamie Lee Curtis. "

      I’m so burnt out on acronyms and initialisms online these days. This is how i know im old now, cant keep up lol

      • snowsuit2654English
        3·
        4 months ago

        To be fair, I made up JLC as an acronym for Jamie Lee Curtis on the spot lol

  • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    Even if she was the only person in the world thinking this she shouldn’t have to apologise for her opinion. It’s not as if she insulted individuals or something.

  • profdc9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    When Martin Scorsese said “Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema.” He’s right. Yes, it’s a motion picture, and it’s entertainment. But superhero movies are a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but in the end signifying nothing. They have plastic, unrelateable characters that are there solely to be cheered and booed with some pseudoscientific mysterious nonsense that stands in for the gods and devils of mythology. If CG wasn’t used to produce mind-numbing effects, the movies would look ridiculous and absurd. At least some older movies (like Superman I and II in the '70s) had Superman learn about the limits of his power and his ability to be a hero.

    The same problem is with Star Trek. The TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY were about the characters and ideas. If the story is too tied up in the treknobabble or speculative technology, it becomes boring. It’s about working together and growing from experience. Once it became about battles, speculative technology, petty squabbles and soap opera dynamics between characters, it became boring and unexceptional, just another expensive mediocre spectacle.

        • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          “Cinema” is what movie snobs call movies that achieve a certain level of snootiness that the snobs consider “art”. By saying the MCU isn’t cinema he’s saying the mcu isn’t art. He is incorrect. Their quality is debatable, but they qualify as art simply by being movies.

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Thank you for this comment, I’m in agreement with Scorsese since he made the statement.

      The films are entertaining for sure, but none of the Marvel films are what I’d call timeless masterpieces nor could I imagine them having that capability. The worst part is how Disney still try and bully cinemas to showing mostly films by them and their subsidiaries - other films here sometimes stay in a cinema for a week or so at most, and most slip under the radar for me to discover years later.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    4 months ago

    I’m fonder than most with regard to some of the recent outings, but as a take, and especially as a joke, calling the current Marvel phase “bad,” is just sort of… well… true.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

    “was asked what phase the MCU was in in a set of rapid-fire questions. Without skipping a beat, and likely due to the fact that she was literally representing a property that deals in mean jokes, Curtis simply responded, “Bad.””

    Such a missed opportunity… The correct answer is “hotdog fingers”. :)

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Superhero movies are worthless drivel. I love cinema, go every week generally. I’ve stopped watching any of these stupid superhero action movies. I just don’t care. They are poorly done, stories are wildly dull, and they don’t deserve my money.

    I’m lucky to be able to go to films from all regions of the world played on the big screen major cinema. The stuff being cranked out by Bollywood is far superior. The dramas, the action, the comedy, all better. Even their superhero movies are equally meh.