Marvel Films

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Has craner been cancelled? In that case, I won't read his essay, which I was about to do

You can't cancel Craner.

 

[luka]

Craner why the angry face when I just expressed undying devotion and loyalty

 

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I will never cancel Craner but more generally speaking he's been cancelled for close to twenty years now

Actually, now I think about it, that's true.

 

[Corpsey]

So Justice League is considered to be not very good by the cognoscenti?

It was critically slagged.

I think DC has an army of fanboys who are convinced that Justice League was a masterpiece before it was cut by the studio and have demanded (Successfully) for the 'Snyder Cut' to be released.

 

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It was critically slagged.

I think DC has an army of fanboys who are convinced that Justice League was a masterpiece before it was cut by the studio and have demanded (Successfully) for the 'Snyder Cut' to be released.

My whole view of this stuff has probably been coloured by the fact that I once watched the last 10 minutes of that monstrosity.

 

[Corpsey]

Craner would hate marvel movies, he's a serious intellectual who reads the western canon

 

[luka]

The thing is though Craner is also ideologically and aesthetically committed to stupid movies

 

[luka]

And these are without question stupid movies

 

[Corpsey]

I think DC are plagued by a desire to do what Marvel have done.

This means they've rushed their 'universe building' and are stuck in this awkward tonal place because they initially were going down the 'dark and troubled' route that Nolan did so effectively. But they've realised that people actually want silly tongue in cheek movies for all the family.

 

[luka]

They want that from Marvel but that doesn't mean they want it from DC DC should stick to their thing and bide their time

 

[woops]

Craner would hate marvel movies, he's a serious intellectual who reads the western canon

how can mythoogical archetypes of gifted superbeings that gross 100 billion cos so many people watch them fall outside, the purview of the western canon.

 

[luka]

Watching Sam Raimi Spider man two now

 

[luka]

They didn't have batman vs superman unfortunately

 

[luka]

@DannyL as a media studies lecturer please give us your top twenty marvel films ranked in order

 

[IdleRich]

somehow i never feature on these round ups which is maybe a good thing at times but not this time

5. woops - an unambiguously sexy dilettante who has recognised the illusory veil between mundanity and aesthetic pipe dreams via intensive immersion in both and transcends this undergraduate argument

Apologies, I hate it when that happens to me. But unfortunately, when it does, you can't just make up your own, it's just the way that the cookie has crumbled and you can't do some stupid Marvel retcon to pretend that you were being considered. Sorry.

 

[woops]

Apologies, I hate it when that happens to me. But unfortunately, when it does, you can't just make up your own, it's just the way that the cookie has crumbled and you can't do some stupid Marvel retcon to pretend that you were being considered. Sorry.

i am more like a 4-issue spin off mini series in an alternate timeline

 

[entertainment]

i've seen every single one of the marvel movies during nightshifts when there was nothing else i had the energy or comfort level to watch.

they all flow together as one operatic mess of teenage fantasy for me although there were some i liked.

but the thing is, you don't give a fuck who made these movies right? was it even people who made them? even the comedic tone seems optimized through five phases of focus group stragetizing.

 

[DannyL]

@DannyL as a media studies lecturer please give us your top twenty marvel films ranked in order

Not that into 'em to be honest. IIRC we picked between two syllabi, and we went for the one without Marvel Films. The franchise as whole doesn't grab me though i think it's a fascinating business innovation. Out of the few I've seen, I liked Guardians of the Galaxy the best, because it really plays it for laughs.

 

[luka]

i've seen every single one of the marvel movies during nightshifts when there was nothing else i had the energy or comfort level to watch.

they all flow together as one operatic mess of teenage fantasy for me although there were some i liked.

but the thing is, you don't give a fuck who made these movies right? was it even people who made them? even the comedic tone seems optimized through five phases of focus group stragetizing.

That's correct it makes no difference who made them or wrote them

 

[luka]

Quite a relief watching this Sam Raimi Spider-Man because it works to different rhythms entirely being a non MCU film.