I feel like it must come from pantomime,” she said, unsurprisingly adding that she will “never” make one herself. Sometimes you get a good giggle, but I don’t know what the thing is with the capes, a grown man in tights. She then elaborated on what rankles her about the genre.“They’re so noisy and, like, ridiculous. Jane Campion: In a November 2021 Variety interview, the Oscar-wining director offered a succinct opinion: “I hate them,” she said. “I watch them on the plane so I can fall asleep.” “When I see Marvel movies, my eyes glaze over," he said. Roland Emmerich: Emmerich, who trafficks in disaster-driven event pictures but has never done a straight-up superhero movie, offered pretty derisive comments to Insider back in 2019. Notably, Scott called Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator “superhero movies,” but praised their scripts and the fact that they didn’t rely solely on special effects for spectacle. They’re fucking boring as shit,” he said. “Almost always, the best films are driven by the characters, and we’ll come to superheroes after this if you want, because I’ll crush it. Ridley Scott: While promoting House of Gucci, his second film to hit theaters in 2021, Scott threw an alley-oop off the backboard to himself during an interview with Deadline. Also the soundtrack of Marvel films is quite horrendous.” “The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there's so many laser lights. “Companies are interested in female filmmakers but they still think action scenes are for male directors,” she said in an interview with Daily Pioneer. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” he said, likening them to “theme parks.” (Jodie Foster actually made a similar “theme park” comment at the end of 2017.) His comments in a 2019 Empire interview circulated far and wide.
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Martin Scorsese: The godfather of anti-superhero movie sentiment, at least from a discourse-starting perspective.
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It’s tiresome, but it’s also kind of hilarious at this point, so here’s a list of every director who’s had beef with the likes of Marvel-heads lately. You can practically set your watch to it: a cinema legend chimes in on a genre that was never really made to appeal to them in the first place, comic fans lash out in response, and the whole thing devolves into a meandering argument about art versus popcorn schlock on Twitter. Asking critically acclaimed auteurs for their thoughts on the genre has become a small cottage industry. But the genre remains a lightning rod, especially for directors who haven’t directed one-or simply won’t. As they’ve become the central pillar of entertainment, superhero movies have attracted increasingly prestigious directors, writers, and stars-Chloé Zhao’s Eternals came out the same year she won dual Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for Nomadland.