Marvel Fans React To Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’

3 years ago by kingmongoose7877 to c/movies

In a controversial opinion piece penned for The New York Times, acclaimed film director Martin Scorcese argued that Marvel movies cannot be classified as cinema. The Onion asked fans of the action movie franchise what they thought of Scorcese’s latest film, Killers Of The Flower Moon, and this is what they said.
GONADS125 38 points 3 years ago

“Rooting for the Osage would be much easier if they had a hero on their side like Captain America.”

There is such an elegance to The Onion's satire hahaha.

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TheImpressiveX 34 points 3 years ago

My favorite part was when DiCaprio's character said "So, that's it? We're some kinda Killers of the Flower Moon?" Then the entire audience cheered.

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hansl 13 points 3 years ago

“It’s mooning time!”

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Anticorp 8 points 3 years ago

Flower flower mooning time

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CitizenKong 3 points 3 years ago

Flower Moons? Assemble!

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aaronstc 22 points 3 years ago

Read the headline and almost ate the onion.

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nostradiel -33 points 3 years ago
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newthrowaway20 30 points 3 years ago

It's an onion article...

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ExLisper 5 points 3 years ago

I like onions.

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raoulraoul 10 points 3 years ago

And the winner of today's WOOSH Award is... @nostradiel@lemmy.world! Congratulations! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Destraight -15 points 3 years ago

What is this? Reddit? Just can't shake that whoosh out of your head? Oh wow you really showed them by using your goofy wooshing

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raoulraoul 6 points 3 years ago

Aww, admit it...it whizzed right over your (pointed) head too.

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echodot 2 points 3 years ago

People always complain that no one ever reads the article.

Well this guy read the article but didn't engage his brain at any point in the process, which is almost worse.

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Anticorp 6 points 3 years ago

Do you like onions? How bout them onions?

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echodot 2 points 3 years ago

It's so obviously satire. I wonder about people like you. Inability to detect satire is a sign of sociopathic tendencies.

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sagrotan -42 points 3 years ago

Nevermind the "marvel fans" (I didn't even know that there were some left, but ok, there are trump voters left, so...) but this could be very marvel-like. Copy paste Scorsese instead of marvel shit. I mean every time the same actors, all have one face for all their roles, sorry is different though, however in the core mostly the same. Won't watch it 10/10. Last Scorsese I watched was the Irishman and boy, what a waste of time that was. When things are a bit better than the absolute worst doesn't make them good. If you got time on your hands while not-watching movies: the world is full of great graphic novels, I recommend "megalex", everything connected to the incal, Fred Beltran's work and start to explore from there. Beats movies made after 2018 anytime.

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raoulraoul 9 points 3 years ago

Is this the best you can do?

First off, it's The Onion. It's satire. Would your reaction have been as crybaby-ish and prejudiced if it came from, say, Mad Magazine?

Secondly, I'm not even going to get into defending Scorsese's body of work nor his achievements in the motion picture arts. I'm going to talk slow and use small words so you can follow along, Mr Comic Book Man.

Copy paste Scorsese instead of marvel shit. I mean every time the same actors, all have one face for all their roles…however in the core mostly the same.…Last Scorsese I watched was the Irishman and boy, what a waste of time that was.

1967 - Who's That Knocking at My Door
1972 - Boxcar Bertha
1974 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1977 - New York, New York
1982 - The King of Comedy
1985 - After Hours
1986 - The Color of Money 1988 - The Last Temptation of Christ
1989 - New York Stories: Life Lessons
1991 - Cape Fear
1993 - The Age of Innocence
1997 - Kundun
1999 - Bringing Out the Dead
2002 - Gangs of New York
2004 - The Aviator
2010 - Shutter Island
2011 - Hugo
2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street
2016 - Silence
2023 - Killers of the Flower Moon

I've left out exactly five movies of Scorsese's oeuvre…oops…filmography. The unwashed masses, you included, tend to remember only those. I'll admit De Niro's presence definitely "colors" a film regardless of his role and I'd go as far as to accuse De Niro more than what with you charge Scorsese. So, Mr. "the world is full of great graphic novels" -- which is how fully-grown, emotionally-stunted adults call (and justify) comic books -- go jump in the East River.

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GONADS125 9 points 3 years ago

I always find the criticism of his use of particular great actors hilarious and bewildering. How is the cultivation and use of creative partnerships a bad thing?

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raoulraoul 2 points 3 years ago

🤝

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Lols 6 points 3 years ago

I’m going to talk slow and use small words so you can follow along

I’ve left out exactly five movies of Scorsese’s oeuvre…oops…filmography. The unwashed masses, you included, tend to remember only those

which is how fully-grown, emotionally-stunted adults call (and justify) comic books

is being able to smell you through my phone part of a bit or do you actually talk like this

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raoulraoul -7 points 3 years ago

Yes, I do actually talk like this. The odor from your phone is most likely your accumulated breath, spittle and other grime. Consider 1) wiping down your phone (at least) daily with a disinfectant wipe, 2) washing your hands occasionally and 3) using a toothbrush and toothpaste more often.

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Lols 6 points 3 years ago

sometimes i worry about how i come across to other people

then i see someone responding like this because someone else doesnt care enough about watching the correct pictures on a screen, and i actually feel pretty good about myself and the amount of self awareness i do manage

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spark947 4 points 3 years ago

I won't be as crude as the guy you are responding to and deny Scorcese's achievements. But we can all admit that he was taking the piss a little bit with the Irishman. Its a movie in the MCU - the martin cinematic universe. He gathers his avengers (De Niro, Pesci, Keitel) for an ensemble film within the Gangster oeuvre. He defends this by insisting that he went through the motions of "establishing" an "emotional core" or whatever. But at the end of the day, it's De Niro saying "c'mere, whassamatta" again. Brought to you by special effects.

I personally think that there is nothing wrong with this, and Scorcese is a very saavy movie promoter to juxtapose how he makes films against the marvel method. But I do think that Marty is taking the piss just a little, even if it is in a pretty fun way.

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beefcat 2 points 3 years ago

Scorcese’s problem with “marvel movies” is the lack of creative control afforded to the filmmakers rather than their derivative nature. These two concepts are often intertwined, but not mutually inclusive.

He was actually in talks to direct Joker a film highly derivative of his own work, but ended up turning it down because he did not want to have to answer to the studios demands for how this existing world and characters should be handled.

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spark947 1 point 3 years ago

Well, he has also been criticizing them in the sense that creating these movies are not done in pursuit of a creative purpose. That there is no emotional risk. I think it is an apt criticism - but where is the great creative risk in making another gangster movie staring Robby and Joey?

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Anticorp 4 points 3 years ago

To be fair, everything after 1999 is a DiCaprio movie. Hehe. But he's one of the most talented actors in Hollywood, of course a legendary director is going to prefer him.

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