A Shame

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2019)

I just watched this for the first time; fast forwarding through the CGI trash. I stopped after Hemsworth and his friends flew back to Asgard. I look at this "film" as a perfect example of what started the end of true cinema. It only proves a simple fact: If anything is packaged and marketed enough (whatever "anything" may be), the masses will accept it. The very best story telling via cinema us done by a small handful of incredibly gifted directors. Unfortunately, the best are dead; however, there are still a few who are exceptional. This and all other comic book films are not amongst them. Enjoy it all you want; just don't try and compare it with real artists: people like the two best masters of them all: Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles. We still have Marty Scorcese, Terrence Malick, Neal Jordan, Ridley Scott and his heir apparent, Denis Villeneuve. So this ( and other "superhero") type of movie is great if you're 13 years old. If your in your 20's and up, forget it. I suggest watching every film Kubrick made: a dozen plus one he removed. Also, all of the actor Steve McQueen's films (not today's director, who is good); lastly all the great 1970's films. Then make up your mind. As Martin Scorcese wrote an op-ed in the New York Times recently, he basically explained he wasn't denigrating this type of film in an interview he had done in Great Britain. He received a lot of pushback which is why he wrote the op-ed: To explain how these type of films, studios, theaters and their P.P. and marketing strategies done on Late night talk shows promoting themselves (so to speak), they have caused an extreme loss of Independent films (and their corresponding theaters). I agree with him 100%.