Ridley Scott slams super-hero/mcu movies

This is also true for superhero movies.

It's ironic when directors go off about different kinds of films, when they themselves should know how difficult it can be for some genres to resonate with audiences. Sci-fi flicks for example hardly ever win awards because general audiences have a hard time wrapping their heads around what's being portrayed on screen. Some people just hate fantasy because they can't see beyond the elves or magic wands or whatever to the very human story being portrayed.

Also, Ridley, more than one poster on this site has referred to Blade Runner as "boring as shit," so you know how it goes. You can't please 'em all.

If they've been mediocre to terrible then why are you here? Was IronMan2 mediocre or terrible?

That's pretty rich coming from the guy that did Legend (1985), one of the most beautiful looking fantasy films ever. But it's boring as hell.


 

Stellan Skarsgard has words:

When appearing at the Gotenberg Film Festival, the actor made a number of points about the criticism given to Marvel’s work by Scorsese and had some interesting things to say at the time.

“What Martin Scorsese wrote in his article [in NYT] was not that it was Marvel’s fault because it’s not and he knows that. The fault is that we have, for decades, believed that the market should rule everything and that the rich should get richer. And that is the root of it all because what has happened is that all the different small distribution companies have been erased. It’s a monopoly everywhere.”



He continued, “Some film companies are not anymore run by people who want to make money specifically out of the film because they like the film. They are run by big corporations that want 10% back on their invested capital. Which means that as long as they sell popcorn, it’s fine. That’s why all the mid-range films lower than 100 million dollars in budget and over 3 million dollars in budget, they don’t exist anymore.”

In conclusion, he added, “Mid-range films are those that can slowly grow in the cinema. They opened in a few cinemas and they went for years. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was continuously running in Stockholm for 20 years. That will not happen now. So it’s not all the fault of Marvel. It’s the fault of an idea about how the economical systems of the world should work. Because these systems are all fiction, but the fiction that we have had for the last couple of decades has led to this.”



In The Guardian, Skarsgard expanded on this, explaining that while he doesn’t have any issues with superhero movies, the market has turned them into all-encompassing giants that prevent “mid-budget” movies from finding their true success. He explained:

“I’ve got nothing against superhero movies. I’ve been in a couple and they definitely have a place. The problem is that the system that allows eight people to own half of the wealth in the world enhances the power of the market forces, so small and independent cinemas rarely exist any more outside a few big cities. There’s no distribution channels for all the mid-budget films that have the best actors, the best writing, because they can’t throw up $3m for a marketing campaign. When cinemas let them in, they do so for one week and if it doesn’t pay off in a week, they’re gone.



Remember that The Godfather first opened in 100 cinemas in the United States – big films now open in 4,000. They had small ads in the New York Times, but it grew and grew because it was such a good film. The people’s opinion has no chance any more. And that is sad.



I think that we should have Marvel films and more rollercoaster films. We should have other films, too. And that’s the sad thing: when raw market forces come in, studios start being run by companies that don’t care if they’re dealing in films or toothpaste so long as they get their 10% [return]. When AT&T took over Time Warner, it immediately told HBO to become lighter and more commercial. They were always making money. But not enough for an investor.”

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