MCU Meets 'Real' Cinema: Like Thor? Try The Prestige
This week, the Oscar nominations were revealed, and there was the usual level of debates and discussions around who made the cut and who did not. Lady Gaga, Alana Haim, and Jodie Comer - the three hipster’s choices for Best Actress - all missed out in favour of expected nominees (Kristen Stewart), Academy darlings (Nicole Kidman, Oliva Colman), and different, even less favoured hipster's choices (Penélope Cruz, Jessica Chastain). Best Actor is set to be hotly contested between Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Smith, and Andrew Garfield. Denis Villeneuve missed the cut for Best Director. Two different real-life couples (Javier Bardem & the aforementioned Penélope Cruz, and Jesse Plemons & Kirsten Dunst) were nominated together. But one topic has dominated all others: Spider-Man: No Way Home missed out.
It is monumentally stupid that this was the topic of discussion at all. The Academy does look down on certain genres - Lupita Nyong'o's horror turn in Us was unfairly overlooked a few years back - and superhero movies are perhaps not treated fairly, but Spider-Man is not Logan. It never really deserved to be in the running. The discussion highlighted one of the biggest (and most boring) issues in modern film discourse - what do we do about the MCU?
Related: MCU Meets 'Real' Cinema: Like The Incredible Hulk? Try City Of God
Ever since Scorsese threw the lightest of shade at the MCU, it has been at war with 'real’ cinema, but we're here to end the war one film recommendation at a time. Starting with the beginning of the MCU in Iron Man, we've been matching Marvel movies up to 'real' cinema, in the hopes of showing cinephiles that the MCU has more variety than is usually assumed, and in the hopes of getting MCU fanatics to branch
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