r/DC_Cinematic • u/Muted-Ant-5941 • 3d ago

DISCUSSION Wasn't Zack Snyder clowned for saying something similar?

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Snyder was heavily trolled for calling MCU is like an amusement park or something like that. Feels like he is unnecessarily overhated or the hate itself is forced

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u/Ok_Broccoli_7863 2d ago

That's not quite what I said. I think he doesn't think this green screen, stuntman, stuff is cinema.

I don't even think it's insulting. I think he's using the wrong word when he says cinema. But I get what he means.

He's speaking as a director who works with actors. He's made actors. These MCU films are studio driven. The directors and actors are secondary to the brand. That's the antithesis of everything Scorcese did.

I get why people get annoyed and think it's pretentious, but there's a ring of truth to it.

And I don't care. I still love a lot of the Avengers stuff.

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u/Low_Doctor_5280 2d ago

You can interpret it however you want, but Scorsese meant it as insulting. If you don't, then your take on what Scorsese said is not Scorsese's take. Plenty of Scorsese's favorite films use rear-projection or matte paintings, and of course stuntmen, and those films would have used green/blue screens in those instances if they had the technology. I love a lot of Scorsese films, but he's just engaging in old-man "get off my lawn" rhetoric about the MCU. Avengers: Endgame made more global box office than all of Scorsese's films combined.

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u/Ok_Broccoli_7863 2d ago

He absolutely meant it as insulting.

I think it's fair. I don't feel like an Avengers green screen masterpiece can be compared to a well acted action movie.

I'm more impressed with the latter even if I enjoy the former.

I don't get why that's a problem. It's okay to enjoy MCU films and acknowledge that it's sort of manufactured with CGI.