It seems the elder statesmen of film are feeling pretty bummed about the medium. It was only last month when the great Martin Scorsese grimly declared that “cinema is gone,” and now another veteran helmer is also sounding the alarm that the art form has seen better days. “Cinema mainly is pretty bad” director Ridley …
“It seems the elder statesmen of film are feeling pretty bummed about the medium. It was only last month when the great Martin Scorsese grimly declared that “cinema is gone,” and now another veteran helmer is also sounding the alarm that the art form has seen better days.
“Cinema mainly is pretty bad” director Ridley Scott told Digital Spy, adding that he was “concerned” for the future of film.”
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“...However, Scott will never stoop to director a Marvel or DC movie.
“Superhero movies are not my kind of thing – that’s why I’ve never really done one,” he said. “[I’ve been asked] several times, but I can’t believe in the thin, gossamer tight-rope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.
”Instead, he says that something like “Blade Runner” is like a comic strip, and that “you could almost put Batman or Superman in that world, that atmosphere, except I’d have a f**king good story, as opposed to no story!””
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Listen...when I start to share an opinion with the old, straight, white men you know we’re in trouble. Audiences are very literally killing the film industry with their shitty viewing habits. Stop supporting crap blockbusters, superhero movies, and stale franchises and maybe, just maybe we’re still in time to reverse this trend. Everyone will end up suffering if we continue down this path because entertainment is deeply entangled with the human experience. If you suffocate it to death by squeezing out the originality that has been a staple of the industry then we lose a vital and rich part of our culture. It will be a sad day if that happens.