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Not on the topic of She-Hulk, but I remembered another reason why I take issue with the whole "Marvel movies are not cinema" stance - even if the movies may not be ambitious in terms of story, they often display ambition in other ways. You'd think audiences will always head out to see comic book movies no matter how crappy they are, or that movies like The Avengers being huge events is a foregone conclusion even though that begs the question of either why Hollywood never bothered to make such a film before, or why the previous closest attempts at such a film like say The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Van Helsing weren't anywhere near as big. Or heck, this says nothing about the effort it really takes to realize characters like Batman, Iron Man, and Captain America in film. I know Batman isn't Marvel but you get the idea.

Again, I'm genuinely concerned by this definition used by people like Scorsese. Is Jurassic Park cinema then? Are the Indiana Jones movies cinema? I've always felt like Spielberg movies are often at least as much like theme park rides as 'cinema', including his dramas, but I generally find that to be more good than bad. Are Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and Predator cinema? Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this but still.

I have never seen The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fully but I have seen Van Helsing. I wouldn't say the latter is good per se but it has its charms. Coincidentally Van Helsing had the same composer as most of the Avengers movies, heh.