Directors who don't like Superhero Movies (not just Marvel)
Oct 29, 2019 19:29:45 GMT
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Post by sostie on Oct 29, 2019 19:29:45 GMT
So Scorsese sort of criticised them, Fincher wouldn't want to make one, Coppola hates them and so does Loach (no surprise).
So what other directors loath (or love) superhero movies.
Roland Emmerich
I felt that when I saw some of these Marvel movies or DC from Warners. I felt, Oh my God, that looks familiar to me. Why is Superman bashing so many buildings? I was actually warned already by Steven Spielberg that this will happen. He said Independence Day will be the most imitated film of the next 20 years – and he was right.
David Cronenberg
A superhero movie, by definition, you know, it’s comic book. It’s for kids...This has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying The Dark Knight Rises is, you know, supreme art cinema, I don’t think they know what the f**k they’re talking about.”
Christopher Nolan’s best movie is Memento and that is an interesting movie. I don’t think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they’re twenty million times the expense
Mel Gibson
I’m really baffled by it (Superhero movies). I think there’s a lot of waste but maybe if I did one of those things with the green screens I’d find out different. I don’t know. It seems to me you could do it for less. If you’re spending outrageous amounts of money, $180 million or more, I don’t know how you get it back after the taxman gets you and after you give half to the exhibitors. How much did they spend on Batman V Superman that they’re admitting to? And it’s a piece of s**t.
Terry Gilliam
Technically, it’s brilliant (Ant-Man). But it’s also predictable, ultimately. We know where it’s gonna go, so the structure and the shape is all there…That’s my problem – I don’t get the surprise I used to get. I want to go and be more surprised.”
Now we’ve got to get all the Marvel Universe dancing with each other, so Superman has now got to make love to Batman or something….The Bible is more interesting, and the stories are more surprising and actually more human.
William Friedkin
(modern cinema)is all about Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Avengers….all kinds of stuff that I have no interest in seeing at all. Films used to be rooted in gravity. They used to be about things.
Alejandro Inarritu
The audience is so overexposed to plot and situations and poop that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human. Superheroes – just the word hero bothers me. What the £$%& does that mean? It’s a false, misleading conception, the superhero. Then, the way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right wing.
Ridley Scott
Superhero movies are not my kind of thing...I can’t believe in the thin, gossamer tightrope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.”
Blade Runner really is a comic strip when you think about it: it’s a dark story told in an unreal world. You could almost put Batman or Superman in that world, that atmosphere, except I’d have a f**king good story as opposed to no story.
John McTiernan
These are films made by fascists. Comic book heroes are for businesses.The cult of American masculinity is one of the worst things that has happened in the world during the last fifty years. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of this stupid illusion. So how is it possible to watch a movie called Captain America?
Lucrecia Martel
(after being offered Black Widow) The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights… I find them horrible. Also the soundtrack of Marvel films is quite horrendous. Maybe we disagree on this, but it’s really hard to watch a Marvel film. It’s painful to the ears to watch Marvel films
And a few positive comments...
Quentin Tarantino
a couple of weeks ago I started catching up with some of the Marvel movies so I could go see ‘Endgame. I just finished ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ so next up is ‘Doctor Strange. Actually, the last one I saw was ‘Ragnarok.’ I loved it. It was my favorite one of the series since ‘The Avengers’ – drastically my favorite
Steven Spielberg
I love the Superman of Richard Donner, The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, and the first Iron Man, but [the] superhero film that impressed me most is one that does not take itself too seriously: Guardians of the Galaxy. When his projection was over, I left with the feeling of having seen something new in movies, without any cynicism or fear of being dark when needed.
Post more if you can find them
So what other directors loath (or love) superhero movies.
Roland Emmerich
I felt that when I saw some of these Marvel movies or DC from Warners. I felt, Oh my God, that looks familiar to me. Why is Superman bashing so many buildings? I was actually warned already by Steven Spielberg that this will happen. He said Independence Day will be the most imitated film of the next 20 years – and he was right.
David Cronenberg
A superhero movie, by definition, you know, it’s comic book. It’s for kids...This has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying The Dark Knight Rises is, you know, supreme art cinema, I don’t think they know what the f**k they’re talking about.”
Christopher Nolan’s best movie is Memento and that is an interesting movie. I don’t think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they’re twenty million times the expense
Mel Gibson
I’m really baffled by it (Superhero movies). I think there’s a lot of waste but maybe if I did one of those things with the green screens I’d find out different. I don’t know. It seems to me you could do it for less. If you’re spending outrageous amounts of money, $180 million or more, I don’t know how you get it back after the taxman gets you and after you give half to the exhibitors. How much did they spend on Batman V Superman that they’re admitting to? And it’s a piece of s**t.
Terry Gilliam
Technically, it’s brilliant (Ant-Man). But it’s also predictable, ultimately. We know where it’s gonna go, so the structure and the shape is all there…That’s my problem – I don’t get the surprise I used to get. I want to go and be more surprised.”
Now we’ve got to get all the Marvel Universe dancing with each other, so Superman has now got to make love to Batman or something….The Bible is more interesting, and the stories are more surprising and actually more human.
William Friedkin
(modern cinema)is all about Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Avengers….all kinds of stuff that I have no interest in seeing at all. Films used to be rooted in gravity. They used to be about things.
Alejandro Inarritu
The audience is so overexposed to plot and situations and poop that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human. Superheroes – just the word hero bothers me. What the £$%& does that mean? It’s a false, misleading conception, the superhero. Then, the way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right wing.
Ridley Scott
Superhero movies are not my kind of thing...I can’t believe in the thin, gossamer tightrope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.”
Blade Runner really is a comic strip when you think about it: it’s a dark story told in an unreal world. You could almost put Batman or Superman in that world, that atmosphere, except I’d have a f**king good story as opposed to no story.
John McTiernan
These are films made by fascists. Comic book heroes are for businesses.The cult of American masculinity is one of the worst things that has happened in the world during the last fifty years. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of this stupid illusion. So how is it possible to watch a movie called Captain America?
Lucrecia Martel
(after being offered Black Widow) The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights… I find them horrible. Also the soundtrack of Marvel films is quite horrendous. Maybe we disagree on this, but it’s really hard to watch a Marvel film. It’s painful to the ears to watch Marvel films
And a few positive comments...
Quentin Tarantino
a couple of weeks ago I started catching up with some of the Marvel movies so I could go see ‘Endgame. I just finished ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ so next up is ‘Doctor Strange. Actually, the last one I saw was ‘Ragnarok.’ I loved it. It was my favorite one of the series since ‘The Avengers’ – drastically my favorite
Steven Spielberg
I love the Superman of Richard Donner, The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, and the first Iron Man, but [the] superhero film that impressed me most is one that does not take itself too seriously: Guardians of the Galaxy. When his projection was over, I left with the feeling of having seen something new in movies, without any cynicism or fear of being dark when needed.
Post more if you can find them
