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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 108 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.world 34 points 3 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. 😂

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I doubt very much Borderlands will be good, but I've been wrong before.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

If a trailer is supposed to sell it, it's gonna flop hard. Cause the trailer didn't make it look good.

[-] ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

It looks like it was made by someone who has not played even a single Borderlands game before.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 47 points 3 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.world 8 points 3 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.

[-] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago
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[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 3 months ago

The MCU is slop, JLC is right.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 38 points 3 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.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 35 points 3 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.

[-] b00m@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Disney is doing to Marvel what redditors are doing to jokes

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Employing them as moderators?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 3 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". :)

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 16 points 3 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.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 13 points 3 months ago

Scorsese is wrong. Bad art is still art.

[-] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

He didn't say the MCU is not art.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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.

[-] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Where do you get that from?

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

This was obvious with the first iron man. At it's foundation there was no conflict. Tony could do anything and always wins. That gets old without superb writing and frankly they just don't have it.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 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.

[-] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

What a worthless article, lol. It's bad enough anyone actually gives a shit what her opinion is on this subject, it's worse still that here we are, another level down, where people are writing whole articles giving a shit about those who give a shit about said opinion.

Who cares?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Only people who read articles. Im assuming. Just trying to help answer your l likely/possibly rhetorical question

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not bad, it's just mostly not good, just OK.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It was bad when bucky and cap threw punches that Iron Man recoiled from

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