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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9202744">I think he was right when he complained about Marvel movies. If people like them, more power to them. But i have the same reaction he does when I try to watch that stuff (which may just mean I am out of touch or my expectation around film was shaped differently, but I have a hard time not agreeing with the comparison to them with rides). I think the other part of this is, there have always been 'ride' movies. There isn't anything wrong with them. But these days, if you don't like comic book films, it feels like everything put out is filled with CGI explosions, superheroes wrecking cities and more. That is probably a very unfair and broad generalization, but I don't like these movies so I have a slim impression of them to work off of (which i am sure Scorsese is in the same boat, he can't get into the nuances of them like a fan). I also find it frustrating, whatever one thinks of his opinion, it did kind of make him a favorite pillory Overated is one of those red flag criticisms to me when I see it used. It is up there with 'lazy writing'. There is just something not terribly specific about it, and the critique seems very focused on things happening around the work that with the work itself. I think overrated is also a kind of rhetorical technique that gets people to almost feel ashamed or uncool for liking something. And to be fair things can be overrated. It is just one of the more common things you hear now and often applied to targets that are perplexing (I don't personally care much for the Beetles, but I would never call them overrated based on what I know about music for example, and calling them such has become a kind of pastime on youtube apparently)</blockquote>

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