Well, that escalated quickly. Early Wednesday afternoon, a new Happy Sad Confused podcast interview with The Suicide Squad director James Gunn reignited comic book movie Twitter’s favorite argument: Why doesn’t Martin Scorsese like superhero movies? More particularly why doesn’t he like Marvel superhero movies, which when asked about several years ago, he said were “not cinema.” Perhaps unwisely, Gunn gave his two cents on that subject when pressed on the matter.
“I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel, and that was the only thing that would get him press for his movie,” Gunn said about the legendary filmmaker, noting how at the time of his criticisms of superhero movies, Scorsese was doing press for The Irishman. “So then he just kept coming out against Marvel so he could get press for his movie. So he’s creating his movie...
“I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel, and that was the only thing that would get him press for his movie,” Gunn said about the legendary filmmaker, noting how at the time of his criticisms of superhero movies, Scorsese was doing press for The Irishman. “So then he just kept coming out against Marvel so he could get press for his movie. So he’s creating his movie...
- 8/5/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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