Are Marvel movies cinematic?

[tripplej]

There is a big debate going in in Hollywood. Lot of folks going one side or the other.

Some say, Marvel movies are nothing more than green screen action shots for amusement while others say it is not and far more complex and integrated cinematic experience.


from cnet,

Francis Ford Coppola jumped into the fray over Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel movies, calling his fellow director "right" and calling the wildly successful film franchise "despicable."
"When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he's right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration," the 80-year-old director of the Godfather series and Apocalypse Now said Friday. "I don't know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again," Coppola told reporters in Lyon, France, according to the Agence France-Presse news agency and France 24.
Coppola's comments come a week after Scorsese, director of classics such as Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, called the blockbusters in the marvel Cinematic Universe "not cinema" and said "theaters have become amusement parks."

From bgr,

Friends star Jennifer Aniston, who’s set to star in Apple’s upcoming series The Morning Show for its forthcoming streaming service Apple TV+, to the Scorsese side of the argument. In a recent interview, she too laments what she sees as the diminishment of the film industry overall thanks in part, as she puts it, to the “big Marvel movies.” “You’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it’s big Marvel movies,” Aniston tells Variety. “Or things that I’m not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen.” She goes on to bemoan the disappearance of an era of moviemaking that’s probably gone for good. One characterized by Meg Ryan-led rom-coms, and titles she specifically mentions like Heaven Can Wait, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.'

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what do you guys think?

 

[phillihp23]

I would agree. Marvel has become an overrated trip too Disneyland. It once was great, but not so much anymore.

 

[Mark C Flick]

I think they are cinematic in so far as Merriam-Webster is concerned. I also agree with Scorsese and Coppola in that they are entertainment. When I think of cinematic I think of films like Lawrence of Arabia, Badlands, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blade Runner, Open Range and the like.

 

[tripplej]

Marvel movies will not win oscar for best picture to movies like "Gone with the wind" or some epic like "The Last Emperor", etc. but I think they are entertaining and for the ticket price, well worth the price of admission. Cinematic in the sense of entertainment, go to the theater, escape from reality and become one with the movie, yes.