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Topic	Was the MCU the worst thing to happen to cinema?
IShall_Run_Amok 05/24/20 12:41:10 AM #43:	FortuneCookie posted... Okay, yes, Hitler is the worst thing to happen to anything. Well, not just Hitler, but imperial Japan too, and I can't imagine the Soviet Union did a lot of good for the preservation of the pre-war films of the countries they grabbed in the immediate aftermath. Though to be fair, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak, and Georgian cinema all experienced their own golden ages while in the grip of communism, both because of "profits don't matter; this is communism, go nuts!" state funding and in spite of "but make sure you don't criticize the government or communism or promote capitalism" state interference (or the occasional military action, and sometimes just seemingly random vicious ass-hattery). World War I was also pretty bad, but cinema was still very young so there wasn't all that much to destabilize just yet, and if anything the catastrophe wound up being a bit of a needed kick-in-the-ass for creative voices and the industries that promoted them, at least in Germany (surprisingly, because of the whole, you know, economic devastation thing), France and the USA. Its easy to say all of this in retrospect; I'm sure nobody was having fun making movies during or immediately after WWI in Europe, but in retrospect it certainly wasn't as bad as during/immediately after WWII. --- Isn't Steppenwolf a rock band? I don't want rock and roll music in my superhero movies. The lore is ruined. <cite>IShall_Run_Amok posted [p:939623207] in Was the MC... [t:78714203]...</cite> <quote>FortuneCookie posted... </cite> <quote>Okay, yes, Hitler is the worst thing to happen to anything.</quote>Well, not just Hitler, but imperial Japan too, and I can't imagine the Soviet Union did a lot of good for the preservation of the pre-war films of the countries they grabbed in the immediate aftermath. Though to be fair, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak, and Georgian cinema all experienced their own golden ages while in the grip of communism, both because of "profits don't matter; this is communism, go nuts!" state funding and in spite of "but make sure you don't criticize the government or communism or promote capitalism" state interference (or the occasional military action, and sometimes just seemingly random vicious ass-hattery). World War I was also pretty bad, but cinema was still very young so there wasn't all that much to destabilize just yet, and if anything the catastrophe wound up being a bit of a needed kick-in-the-ass for creative voices and the industries that promoted them, at least in Germany (surprisingly, because of the whole, you know, economic devastation thing), France and the USA. Its easy to say all of this in retrospect; I'm sure nobody was having fun making movies during or immediately after WWI in Europe, but in retrospect it certainly wasn't as bad as during/immediately after WWII. --- Isn't Steppenwolf a rock band? I don't want rock and roll music in my superhero movies. The lore is ruined.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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