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.
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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. 😂
Yeah. I doubt very much Borderlands will be good, but I've been wrong before.
If a trailer is supposed to sell it, it's gonna flop hard. Cause the trailer didn't make it look good.
It looks like it was made by someone who has not played even a single Borderlands game before.
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.
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.
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The MCU is slop, JLC is right.
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
To be fair, I made up JLC as an acronym for Jamie Lee Curtis on the spot lol
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.
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.
Disney is doing to Marvel what redditors are doing to jokes
Employing them as moderators?
"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". :)
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.
Scorsese is wrong. Bad art is still art.
He didn't say the MCU is not art.
"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.
Where do you get that from?
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.
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.
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?
Only people who read articles. Im assuming. Just trying to help answer your l likely/possibly rhetorical question
It's not bad, it's just mostly not good, just OK.
It was bad when bucky and cap threw punches that Iron Man recoiled from