Don’t expect John McTiernan to be waiting in line for the next Marvel movie. The director best known for “Predator” and “Die Hard” was recently interviewed by Premiere France about his first film more than in a decade as well as the current state of the action genre. Den of Geek has translated excerpts of his conversation, with lines like “I hate the majority of [major studio] films for political reasons, I can’t really watch them. I’m annoyed the second they start” being typical of his thoughts on contemporary blockbusters.
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Captain America in particular seems to irk the filmmaker. “The cult of American hyper-masculinity is one of the worst things to have happened to the world during the last 50 years,” he says. “Hundreds of thousands of people have died because of this idiotic delusion.
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Captain America in particular seems to irk the filmmaker. “The cult of American hyper-masculinity is one of the worst things to have happened to the world during the last 50 years,” he says. “Hundreds of thousands of people have died because of this idiotic delusion.
- 7/13/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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