Marvel/DC movies

[Nicomo Cosca]

(12-23-2021, 11:00 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote:

I'm not a fan of formulaic things, on the whole; film, music, etc., I just don't care for any of it and Scorsese is the king of formulaic.

He also ripped off Infernal Affairs (the Departed) and will never own up to it, so he can go kick rocks.

It's why I can appreciate Silence; apart from it dripping with Catholicism and Japan (2 of my favourite things lol), he didn't cast/use any family or rehash actors on the project, he didn't go through his normal use of contemporary music and he actually did a film not based in modern times.

He hit it out of the park. I can't call him a, "bad," director as a result, because he did something out of his comfort zone and it is probably his best film (from a quality/critical standpoint).

Just formulaic to death and I can't stand it lol

Well, I certainly don’t feel that strongly one way or the other about The Departed (it’s fine), but Scorsese made some of the best films of all time earlier in his career (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, etc). He’s also way more versatile that people give him credit for. The same guy that did all the gangster stuff has also done films like The Age of Innocence, Kundun, After Hours, Bringing out the Dead, The King of Comedy, etc. He’s actually my #1 favorite director (along with Kubrick). And probably always will be.

Also, my wife hated me for dragging her to see Silence when we were dating lol. It was at one of our local art house theaters and that’s a long and heavy film when you aren’t in comfy seats. He did reuse an actor in that one btw. Liam Neeson was in Gangs of New York.

It’s also kind of funny you brought him up in this thread given his opinion on the state of cinema, and particularly all the big comic book franchises and IP’s.