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Topic: Thank You Martin Scorsese!! Martin Scorsese Compares Marvel Movies to Theme Parks: ‘
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Martin Brooks
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 900
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002
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posted 10-06-2019 12:21 PM
The problem isn't all the superhero and comic book movies. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a willing audience to see serious films in theaters anymore. There's no audience today for films like "12 Angry Men" or "Sunrise at Campobello" or the Truffaut or Louis Malle films. The first film the woman who I married and I saw together was "Closely Watched Trains", a Czech film. And we saw it in a local theater in a working class section of Brooklyn. Think 18 year olds are rushing to see films like that today? It's still surprising to me that a theater playing those kinds of films existed for so many years in that particular section of Brooklyn. Obviously, it's long gone.
And while I love Scorsese and most of his films, one could argue that the extreme violence that most of his movies incorporate is as ugly as the violence and destruction in comic book movies. He might incorporate better actors and rely less upon CGI, but take "The Irishman" and put it in space, and you have a comic book movie.
Hollywood always made a lot of garbage. The films that Scorsese loves were mostly seen by relatively few people. We tend to remember the great films, but if you pick up a newspaper from back in the day, you'll see that there was always plenty of trash - it's just that we've now forgotten about it.
Back in the day, there were enough people to fill art houses and they were viable because as cities declined, rents were low. But in today's world, it's hard for movie theaters in prime locations where real estate is expensive to survive playing any type of movie. And when leases are up, I expect a lot of theaters in many cities will close.
I don't blame Hollywood or its directors and writers. I blame ourselves. Hollywood generally makes the movies we want to see. And the enormous revenues that many comic book movies earn is proof that we (and international audiences, which for most films, is now the majority of the revenue) want to see them.
Adjusted for inflation, Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-man: Far From Home all grossed over $1 billion each (Domestic + International).
But looking back 39 years to 1980, it really wasn't much different. The top 15 domestic films were The Empire Strikes Back, 9 to 5, Stir Crazy, Airplane!, Any Which Way You Can, Private Benjamin, Coal Miner's Daughter, Smokey and the Bandit II, The Blue Lagoon, The Blues Brothers, Ordinary People, Popeye, Urban Cowboy, The Shining and Seems Like Old Times.
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