Live Poll: Are Marvel Movies Cinema?

Yes, I respect him for being so honest yet bold.

Or one could say he obscures the fact that Disney is becoming a monopoly. Like a politician who calls for peace publicly but lets his country sell weapons to dubious other countries.

No, it really doesn't contribute anything to the debate, I feel that Favreau opinion has some joking tone.

After analyzing it a bit I think that James Gunn and Benedict Cumberbatch also have very successful points, I do not think that all this genre is as rotten as Scorsese and Coppola affirm, good movies have been made that could represent the genre, however those that I consider as the best superhero movies are out of MCU, so when this poll is specifically directed towards Marvel movies, my opinion changes dramatically, MCU is not minimally interested in creating an artistic-level cinema.

Thanks, corrected.

If you use 'these', then I think "these kinds" would be more correct.

I wasn't online yesterday.
It is corrected now.

Peter, I can totally agree with these movies mostly taking fewer risks these days. MCU is so mapped out you can practically see what's brewing for next movies in such a detail, especially with other movies being tie-ins that hardly anything can surprise you. That said, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) genuinely surprised me with some of the commentary and scenes, so it's not like they're not taking any risks: they just take much fewer. 

And I love his point about Alfred Hitchcock being his own franchise. As much as I love and like certain franchises, it's hardly comparable with how satisfying it is to know that certain directors have something to offer in each of their movies, regardless of whether it's relatively small or huge, often even regardless of genre. That personal flavor is not entirely missing (in fact MCU often picks up some of the most distinctive directors and it shows), but I can't help but be more interested in some intriguing no budget film debut more than some of the biggest movies right now, even though I am a big sucker for superhero genre. 

I'm kinda partial on his pessimism, though: independent filmmaking is not exactly in full decline and I mean, superhero franchise or not, but a $55M R-rated movie with arthouse sensibilities just somehow earned almost a billion and earlier another unusual take on the same theme that causes so much fatigue earned it's budget more than 10 times at the box office as well. Both Glass and Joker make me hopeful, because despite brutal and rather pressing environment they were still successes and I have a strong feeling that both will also hold up much well than some of the MCU movies. They already hold up better in my case: I never went to see any of the MCU movies twice because so far there wasn't one that ever resonated with me enough to make such an impact. And yet I saw both aforementioned movies twice this year, despite busy schedule. Hopefully, there is always room for smaller movies and passion projects.