That’s what Martin Scorsese meant when he declared, in 2019, that Marvel movies aren’t cinema. Within that, a lot of them are fun enough, but there’s no mystery to them. But big-studio comic-book films tend to be top-heavy, rib-nudging, and visually bombastic, with rigidly overdetermined arcs. They’re really two entirely different forms.Ĭomic books, as I recall them from my youth, are fleet, terse, and puckishly deadpan, and you never know what the next panel will bring. A reason for that relates to one of the least-remarked-upon insanities of our comic-book-movie culture, which is that comic-book films, or 98 percent of them anyway, couldn’t be further removed - in tone, look, attitude, and effect - from comic books. Released in 2018, it was a comic-book movie so spry and urgent, with such hypnotic imagery, that it left most comic-book movies in the dust. Or maybe the second, since “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was like that too.
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