Bear with me while I finish up pouring gasoline on myself,
because apparently there’s no way I can make it easier to cop backlash for what
I’m about to put down on paper. I would so very dearly prefer for this not to
turn into part of the larger discourse concerning Martin Scorsese and his
opinions on the modern state of blockbuster cinema, but because line-drawing is
all kinds of easy, I feel like reviewing this movie is only going to further
embroil me in a conversation that, to be honest, is kind of killing my
enthusiasm to discuss movies. I’m firmly in the ‘don’t make judgement calls on
other people’s tastes in fiction’ camp, and considering my continuing showings
of praise for comic book movies around here, I want to make all of this
perfectly clear before I deliver the big news. Martin Scorsese’s latest… I’m
just not feeling it.
