Marvel Films

[luka]

It's better for me. I'm experiencing the childhood I never had. All my friends (except Craner the Curmudgeon) love these films and would readily lay down their lives for Captain America.

 

[catalog]

to watch and revel in them now is a rereat, but that is also understandable, given the circumstances we find ourselves in

 

[luka]

It's not a retreat didn't you listen to Stan? Do you think you are more intelligent than Stan? He is JARVIS. Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.

 

[catalog]

but he's also quite young and not as far as we are from childhood

 

[catalog]

trust me for you, now, to be into these films, it's a retreat. but it's fine, whatever floats your boat.

 

[craner]

Stan was just putting a intellectual gloss on his own guilty pleasure. This is what committed intellectuals feel like they have to do.

 

[catalog]

i mean, im into crushed crisp packets on the canal towpath. we've all got hangups.

 

[luka]

You don't know how to analyse and understand media like me and Jack. You think it's just a passive exercise. Lie down and be pleasured.

 

[craner]

It's like Owen Hatherley vetting everything politically before allowing himself to like it.

 

[craner]

You don't know how to analyse and understand media like me and Jack. You think it's just a passive exercise. Lie down and be pleasured.

You two are different, I was talking about an intellectual heavyweight like Stan.

 

[Corpsey]

Marvel films don't fit into Craner's personal self-image so he can't possibly enjoy them. He's barred from entry.

 

[yyaldrin]

This gives you some idea of what it was like seeing it at the cinema on opening night:


It was weird. Made me think they're really not movies in the traditional sense.

were you screaming like this as well? 😂

 

[craner]

were you screaming like this as well? 😂

Finally, an intelligent question.

 

[luka]

Don't you think it's weird that the whole world apart from Craner and catalog thinks these are the best films ever made. The cinema is full of people openly emoting, whooping, sobbing, panting, drooling, ululating.... it's a religious cult as much as it is cinema but we have to listen to the opinions of Craner and Catalog?

 

[craner]

Don't you think it's weird that the whole world apart from Craner and catalog thinks these are the best films ever made. The cinema is full of people openly emoting, whooping, sobbing, panting, drooling, ululating.... it's a religious cult as much as it is cinema but we have to listen to the opinions of Craner and Catalog?

It's like being locked in a room with a load of rabid QAnon weirdos.

 

[craner]

I heard Wonder Woman 1984 looked ravishing.

 

[Corpsey]

I was laughing and cheering along. I'm a man of the people, tuned in to the primary emotions that move through the masses.

 

[craner]

Don't you think it's weird that the whole world apart from Craner and catalog thinks these are the best films ever made. The cinema is full of people openly emoting, whooping, sobbing, panting, drooling, ululating.... it's a religious cult as much as it is cinema but we have to listen to the opinions of Craner and Catalog?

Basically Star Wars fans, but a different franchise.

 

[Corpsey]

Not a flinty hearted pseudo-intellectual peeking bitterly through a crack in the curtains.

 

[catalog]

@luka you need to splash some cold water on your face and go and rent ALL of michelangelo antonioni's films right now and watch them all. THen come back in disgrace after having a damascene moment and drop to your knees and kiss craners feet