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Tuesday
Nov052019

Twitter's Dark Fate: To forever speak of Marty vs Marvel

a curated batch of amusing or interesting tweets about the movies...

AND THE SCORSESE VERSUS MARVEL "CONTROVERSY" CONTINUES UNABATED ON TWITTER. SERIOUSLY IT'S BEEN A MONTH AND IT DOESN'T STOP. 

 

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#TeamMartyScorsese #FuckDisney

Also, I would TOTALLY be on board with reviving peanut butter with a screener for PBF!

November 5, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterChris

Scorsese is absolutely right and he's being way too polite.

November 5, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Scorcese is 100 percent right.

Marvel movies entertain billions of people and earn bajillions of dollars. The idea that they are the underdog in any way because Marty dares to call them shallow is hilarious.

Especially when critics and the Academy roll over easily enough. Intelligent people acted like Michael B. Jordan did Hamlet last year! That's proof enough that Marvel expects to be graded on a curve and the media is happy to oblige.

November 5, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterCW

@CW - YES to your point about how some critics give Marvel way too much leeway. ESPECIALLY given that if any other franchise were to do some of the shit Marvel's been doing the last few years, they'd be EVISCERATED.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterChris

CW and Chris, I've always found the goodwill most critics have towards Marvel movies to be strange, to say the least..... specially when they trnd to be so vicious towards other franchises.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda

CW and Chris, I've always found the goodwill most critics have towards Marvel movies to be strange,curious, to say the least..... specially when they trnd to be so vicious towards other franchises.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda

I don’t understand the Feinberg tweet, and the Tim Robey tweet is just a trite unfunny observation. They must be a good friend of Nathaniel’s to pick from the 1000’s of identical instances of this tweet from all the “witty” gays on twitter.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterAw bless

Aw bless -- the Feinberg tweet is a joke about aggressive awards campaigning.

Amanda -- it is a bit strange but critics also go easy on animated films for the most part. I think certain companies and genres inspire a certain kindness... or unwillingness to really dig in for fear of looking like a bully (which is hilarious given that these are hardly the scrawny weaklings of the movie world with any right to worry about bullying.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Am I going to be the only one to mention that the Hugh Jackman clip includes a brief appearance from VIOLA DAVIS?! She brings a level of intensity you would not expect to her two lines about keeping the sidewalk free of dog excrement.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterBiggs

I think that was the point of the tweet, Biggs.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterTeppo2

I keep reading Biggs' comments over and over... I can't tell if it's really that dumb or if it's actually self-aware.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered Commenterbeyaccount

Nat: Honestly, I at least get it with the movies. It's how the recent TV doesn't get bottom of the barrel reception that stuns me. Jessica Jones S3? Runaways S2? Those have gotta be...74%? 86%? Um...what? Those seasons were dumb as crap, and not even fun dumb. I mean, the Hellcat storyline? Yikes. Even just "Oh, hell no!" hurt to hear (and that's leaving aside the fact that, personally, that costume looked better than basically every modern superhero costume, even the movie ones), let alone where the plot line ends up. And, as for Runaways? Julian McMahon as Jonah makes most Phase 1 and 2 Marvel villains look like Loki in comparison, and it's not even like they had an excuse to cast him. Freed from the expectation of living up to Doctor Doom...he's STILL an impossibly lame villain. And Elizabeth Hurley (who you may remember from that Wonder Woman pilot) is taking over the villain role for Season 3. That show isn't even trying, are they? And yet: 74%. 86%. Who the crap is giving those shows a pass over OBVIOUS bad calls?

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

I'm still missing nothing then not being part of Twitter.

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered Commentermarkgordonuk

I really am that dumb. God bless!

November 6, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterBiggs

Um okay Volvagia.....

November 7, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterSide I
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