[quote=John McClane]The action scenes are some of the most impressive work I’ve seen on a cable television show. Like they are very sophisticated. Long shots, lots of momentum. Violence is quick and brutal.[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane][quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]The logistics worked out so that I had to watch something on the laptop last night. A little birdie had mentioned [i]Gangs of London [/i] and I threw on my Grados and dived in.

Brutal 😲 I’m guessing AMC+ content is not being shown on cable, even though the filth-flarn-filth levels are low enough. [/font][/quote]Welcome to the party. Wear a mouth guard.[/quote]

Is that stuff any good? Is the violence… brutal enough? Should I give it a try?[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]And I do recall it did air on cable: TiVoed it.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]The logistics worked out so that I had to watch something on the laptop last night. A little birdie had mentioned [i]Gangs of London [/i] and I threw on my Grados and dived in.

Brutal 😲 I’m guessing AMC+ content is not being shown on cable, even though the filth-flarn-filth levels are low enough. [/font][/quote]Welcome to the party. Wear a mouth guard.[/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]I can’t be the only person who thought Gareth Edwards and Gareth Evans were the same person :suspicious:[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]The logistics worked out so that I had to watch something on the laptop last night. A little birdie had mentioned [i]Gangs of London [/i] and I threw on my Grados and dived in.

Brutal 😲 I’m guessing AMC+ content is not being shown on cable, even though the filth-flarn-filth levels are low enough. [/font][/quote]

[quote=Wyldesyde19][quote=crumbsroom]I can address all of this in my thread, eventually. I've already crawled out of my hole long enough. The sunlight is beginning to burn.[/quote]
I’ll look forward to it 👍[/quote]

[quote=crumbsroom]I can address all of this in my thread, eventually. I've already crawled out of my hole long enough. The sunlight is beginning to burn.[/quote]

[quote=Wyldesyde19][quote=crumbsroom][quote=Wyldesyde19][quote=crumbsroom][quote=Wyldesyde19]Super hero films have become their own sub genre by now. [/quote]

The issue is film, at least in the mainstream, has completely stagnated. It could have been any sub-genre that did this. But now studios dumbheads have pounced and viewers appear to now be at an apathetic low of never wanting to be challenged again.

All Scorsese is appealing to is for audiences to break out of the apathy that only one kind of film matters anymore.

Also, he's old, so of course it comes out as a crank mad that things are changing. But he's old and right.[/quote]
What’s curious is that everyone is acting like this is some recent phenomenon. It isn’t[/quote]

It's not about trends. Those will always and have always existed. It's about the specific kind of dominance superhero films wield. If it had been nearly twenty years of  slasher films or giallos or Kaiju films blotting out the sun, I would approve of Scorsese bitch slapping those too.[/quote]
This is a huge exaggeration, though.  Between Marvel and DC, there’s about 6-8 films released yearly.  That comes to a small percentage compared to all films released during a calendar year.  And DC joined the game very late, while Marvel hasn’t even released that many per year until about 2012.  So you’re talking about maybe less than 100 films total. Maybe slightly more. 
By comparison, I know for a fact there are over 200 Giallo released from the 60’s until the late 80’s.  
So they’re hardly “blotting out the sky”. 
They are, however, dominating the box office, which I had thought no one here cared about anyways.  Let them have the Box Office. I’m mostly going to the theaters to see films like Beau is Afraid, Infinity Pool, And Winnie the Poo:Blood and Honey anyways. The kind that attract smaller crowds but I always felt were far more deserving of my time anyways.  
Except Blood and Honey.  That was surprisingly crowded.  And awful.[/quote]

[quote=crumbsroom][quote=Wyldesyde19][quote=crumbsroom][quote=Wyldesyde19]Super hero films have become their own sub genre by now. [/quote]

The issue is film, at least in the mainstream, has completely stagnated. It could have been any sub-genre that did this. But now studios dumbheads have pounced and viewers appear to now be at an apathetic low of never wanting to be challenged again.

All Scorsese is appealing to is for audiences to break out of the apathy that only one kind of film matters anymore.

Also, he's old, so of course it comes out as a crank mad that things are changing. But he's old and right.[/quote]
What’s curious is that everyone is acting like this is some recent phenomenon. It isn’t[/quote]

It's not about trends. Those will always and have always existed. It's about the specific kind of dominance superhero films wield. If it had been nearly twenty years of  slasher films or giallos or Kaiju films blotting out the sun, I would approve of Scorsese bitch slapping those too.[/quote]

[quote=WHITBISSELL!]I had a good friend in high school that was really into Bowie. That's the last time I remember hearing TVC15. He was also one of the first people to get into Queen. The rest of us were listening to Lynrd Skynrd and ZZ Top.[/quote]