Comments by "Morgan King" (@MorganKing95) on "Thomas Flight" channel.

  1.  @babalarassrah  "Good for them" And bad for the food industry and people's health
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  2.  @babalarassrah  Not if McDonald's continues to take over every restaurant, and groceries become so expensive that it's more affordable to just buy McDonald's food
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  3. Evolves? Sounds more like it's a devolution: we basically went from a fancy restaurant to McDonald's
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  4. That's like saying "Then start your own hotel chain" whenever someone leaves a negative customer's review
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  5.  @hyche23ify  So people are only allowed to voice their opinion if they're in the same business/field? In that case, where's your 500k YouTube channel and videos with millions of views?
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  6. "Scorsese is just an old mob film director" Hmmm, let's see: - "Who's that knocking at my door": romantic drama about catholic guilt - "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore": comedy-drama about a widowed mother trying to become more attached to her son - "Taxi Driver": a post-Vietnam movie about an insomniac conspiring against the government and saving a prostitute - "The King of Comedy": a black comedy about celebrity worship and media culture - "Raging Bull": sports drama about the life of Jake LaMotta - "After Hours": black comedy about a man experiencing a misadventure during the night - "The Last Temptation of Chris": religious drama - "Cape Fear": psychological thriller about a rapist seeking revenge against his attorney - "The Age of Innocence": historical romantic drama - "Gangs of New York": historical drama about violent gangs during the Civil War - "The Aviator": drama film about the life of Howard Hughes - "Shutter Island": psychological thriller - "Hugo": historical adventure film - "The Wolf of Wall Street": black comedy about the life of Jordan Belfort - "Silence": historical religious drama Way to cherry-pick and show off your biases here! Scorsese is probably one of the most versatile directors of his generation
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  7. What has Scorsese made that's so phenomenal besides GoodFellas "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Cape Fear", "The Aviator", "Wolf of Wall Street", just to name a few and they were boring to me Mentally lazy, just like Gen Z. No wonder you like superhero movies so much
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  8.  @donaldpepera2928  Oh no! I don't agree with your assessment of Scorsese and actually care about argumentation. How boring!
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  9. The difference is that 90% of movies today are blockbuster movies for mentally lazy people
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  10. The mafia makes billions on drug and human trafficking. Does that make it a good or desirable thing? Also, you're on a YouTube channel with way more subs and views than yourself, projecting your insecurities at him rather than engaging with the topic like he does. A pretty Beta move
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  11. Oh great, cherry-picking mob movies when Scorsese also has made "Taxi Driver", "New York, New York, "Raging Bull", "The King of Comedy", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "The Age of Innocence", "The Aviator", "Hugo", and "Silence", just to name a few
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  12. You obviously haven't seen "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Age of Innocence", "Shutter Island", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "Silence", "The Aviator", "The Wolf of Wall Street", "Hugo", and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", so good job on cherry-picking and showing off your biases
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  13. "None of his movies have done that well financially" Hmmm, let's see: - Cape Fear: 192 million - Casino: 116 million - Gangs of New York: 194 million - The Aviator: 213.7 million - The Departed: 291 million - Shutter Island: 295 million - Wolf of Wall Street: 392 million And I'm not even adjusting for inflation here. Your statement applies better to Paul Thomas Anderson. Besides, box-office success doesn't automatically equal cinematic quality, otherwise movies like "The Last Jedi", "Independence Day", "Transformers", and "Avatar" would be considered cinematic masterpieces, whereas movies like "The Shawshank Redemption", "Grave of the Fireflies", "The Iron Giant", "Citizen Kane", and "Fight Club" would be considered garbage movies Also, if you've actually watched his crime movies, you'd have noticed that the protagonist is often called out for his violent behavior, or clearly regrets it. On top of that, only a fraction of his movies are about organized crime. Ever heard about "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "New York, New York", "Age of Innocence", "Gangs of New York", "The Aviator", "Hugo", "Last Temptation of Christ", "Shutter Island" and "Silence"? And what exactly is he jealous of? He has more than enough money to be satisfied with, and he has way more awards and general acclaim than most directors working today Conclusion: do some research before you type!
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  14. 1. Mob films are only a fraction of Scorsese's filmography, which ranges from romantic movies to psychological thrillers to sports dramas to black comedies to satirical films to religious dramas to historical dramas. 2. In virtually all the movies where the protagonist is a bad guy, it's later acknowledged that he is doing something wrong and faces the consequences and/or learns from it. If you're gonna bring up the hero's journey (or just story structure in general), then flaws and false beliefs are what grounds the protagonist, makes him/her more relatable, and by extension more human. The perfect and over-idealized superhero movie landscape is not relatable at all and instead takes me out of the story, and even when the superhero is flawed, it's muddled by the conventions of the superhero movie genre 3. It's the editing and filmmaking techniques that truly make a director stand out and makes a name for himself/herself. Superhero movies are formulaic and predictable, and thus the director is dispensable
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  15.  @donaldpepera2928  At least I watch the things I criticize
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  16.  @donaldpepera2928  Aww, the Marvel fanboy can't even stick to the main topic. How cute! Bottom line: you think Scorsese only does crime movies when that's only a fraction of his movies, and you haven't seen his other movies and are strawmanning them to make you seem knowledgeable when you really aren't. Great argumentation, kid!
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  17.  @donaldpepera2928  You're not even trying anymore at this point
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  18. "MCU films are like riding a ride at a theme park. It's fun" And then it quickly stops being fun and ends up being repetitive and disposable, whereas movies by Scorsese, PTA, Tarantino, Fincher, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kazan, Hiyazaki, Coppola etc. are those that sticks into your brain for days even after you've watched it the first time, and can be discussed from multiple angles and perspectives for an eternity
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  19. The pandemic changed the world. Does that mean it should have been ignored altogether?
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  20. Scorsese has way more merits than any Marvel film director. The only people who really benefit from the superhero movies are Disney and a few of the actors, whereas nobody remembers the directors nor the producers
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  21.  @donaldpepera2928  Oh yeah? Prove that you've seen them!
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  22.  @donaldpepera2928  Yeah, I thought as much. Criticizing something one hasn't even watched
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  23.  @donaldpepera2928  Cherry-picking and generalization, don't you just love it?
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  24.  @donaldpepera2928  Let's add strawmanning to the list in addition to cherry-picking
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  25.  @lordsnow8438  Marvel fanboy logic: if the assessment (oh, sorry! I mean "judgment") is incomprehensible and/or backed up by an actual field of study, it must be pretentious
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  26. And here, ladies and gentleman, is a mentally lazy manchild who thought movies were invented in 2010!
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  27. I've never seen anyone rapidly turn their heads to the side in less than 1 second whenever I've seen them being nervous. If anything, they've looked more paralyzed
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  28. Editing isn't irrelevant. The long-take of the titular character in "Phantom of the Opera" (2004) for example slowed the pacing so much down (there were many unnecessary long-takes in that movie), while the shots of "The Karate Kid" (2010) during the fight scenes were so fast and short that I felt I was getting a seizure (that combined with unnecessary medium shots)
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  29. "What about all the gangster movies in the 80's?" What about them? He directed 5 movies in the 80's, none of them really being crime films
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  30.  @aquelarre7616  He is. If you've seen one MCU movie, you've seen them all
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  31. ​ @WL1264  The Dark Knight trilogy isn't Marvel, and Nolan also has "Memento", "The Prestige", "Inception", "Dunkirk", "Tenet", and now "Oppenheimer", under his belt
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  32. McDonald's can have hundreds of people standing in line or gathering at the serving area. Does that make the food high quality? Nope. Is the visit to McDonald's going to a highly cultural experience that will stand out from someone's mundane daily life? Also no
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  33. Go woke, go broke!
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  34.  @Eldron2027  I'm 26. Just like everybody else, I let go off my juvenile childhood fantasies. Someday you will hopefully grow up, get over your Peter Pan syndrome, let go off childish superhero movies, and start watching adult movies. If not, then I can't help you
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  35. If you're going to challenge the conventions, then your suggestion should at least be something that's still aesthetically pleasing. For example, you could be creative and original by making a Star Wars movie consisting solely of Jar Bar Binks literally pissing over Han Solo's grave, but I don't think most people would enjoy that
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  36. I beg to differ. I've watched "Taxi Driver", "GoodFellas", and "Raging Bull" too many times to count, and I always find new perspectives each time
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  37.  @NicoBlackXIV  You mean everyone who's grown up and isn't living in a fantasy world agrees with me. Marvel are kid's movies about manchildren wearing tights and pretending to save the world, with nothing authentic about them whatsoever. The reason you think The Irishman is a turd is because you cannot relate to actual human beings, and because the movie doesn't have explosions, cheap CGI, and mindless action all the time
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  38. You don't need to be a filmmaker to recognize bad editing; you base your judgment on the standard other filmmakers have set
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  39. The problem is that these cheap and mindless superhero movies' dominance are the equivalent of a town or even big city only having McDonald's as an option, and where healthy food are super-expensive compared to junk food, and good restaurants constantly risk going bankrupt
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  40. Way to generalize hip-hop there. Gangster rap is not the only rap genre out there
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  41. Not everyone has been president, but that doesn't make criticism and analyses of presidents any less valid. Also, it's no secret that Oscars are rarely awarded solely based on merit, even those who truly deserved it, so that's pretty much irrelevant. Also also, there are a bunch of artists out there who either haven't won a single Oscar (hi there, Hitchcock, Fellini, and PTA!) or haven't even been nominated (hi there, Tarkovsky and Leone!). Does that take away their greatness?
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  42. It's also funny how people constantly talk about Scorsese's mafia movies (as a way of discrediting him) when they make up such a small portion of his filmography
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  43. Evolving or devolving?
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  44. If you're 12 years old
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  45.  @Eldron2027  25 and still having the mentality and tone of a child. That's why you're so worked-up and unable to keep your cool, and resort to calling someone a loser. Hopefully, it's just a phase
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  46. @TheHandsomeman  Are you really comparing them as a whole, or just their crime movies? Because none of them have crime films as their primary genre. Yes, "The Godfather" is amazing, and so is "Apocalypse Now", but outside of those two and maybe "The Conversation", how many Coppola movies can you name that have actually been widely acclaimed outside of smaller circles? Scorsese by comparison made "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "The Aviator", "The Age of Innocence", "Shutter Island", and "The Last Temptation of Christ", while still making what's probably the second-greatest crime film of all time ("GoodFellas")
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  47. Hitchcock never won an Oscar. Also, this is about art and aesthetics, not hard science. I don't need to be Gordon Ramsey to know that my steak has been burned
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  48.  @CarterCreativeContent  What makes you an authority of what people don't get bothered by and not? You're also contradicting yourself by claiming that everything is up each and everyone like there are no standards or authorities for anything, but then come off as an authority yourself by claiming that the editing doesn't bother anyone. There's also something called "being critical to sources", and if the option is to listen to someone who has done some basic research (yes, BASIC research) on film editing or a random anarchist troll, then my decision is pretty obvious. "Pedantic and overly know it all tone". That's just some lazy excuse and defense mechanism people use just because they don't understand something or feel alienated, almost as if everything in this world has to be written for high school students
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  49.  @CarterCreativeContent  Said the guy who was emotional in both his original post and in his first reply. You're such a hypocrite with double standards
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  50. "Marvel knows to grab attention every few seconds to keep up with the wondering minds of people" What wondering minds? They're caricatures with no personality or internal conflict. I'd rather watch a slice of life movie with deeply complex characters, than a movie that's purely external and have characters with no personality "As well as cutting through language barriers" Subtitles exist, or are you telling me that you're too lazy to read them? "With more action than conversation" So, it has no substance then? Conversation is what reveals a character's personality, motivations, and inner struggles, which is way more compelling than watching flat characters blow up things "These 'authentic' cinema might be too slow for now" So you're just mentally lazy and have an attention span of 2 minutes? Good to know!
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