The House of Gucci director, who has spoken negatively about comic-book based films before as well, was asked by Deadline about his main gripe with the superhero genre.
He's right but people forget the immediate precursor to the MCU was 8 Saw movies, 4 Scary Movies, I forget what number Freddy and Jason got to, along with 3 AVP films, 5 die hards, etc.
Like a lot of people were trying really, really, hard to do exactly what Marvel is doing and just couldn't optimize it. It wasn't the MCU ruining hollywood, it was hollywood getting what it wanted.
Most shit that would be a mid budget movie is now a short TV series.
The number of movies coming to theaters every week that have a good sized budget is way down. Most people simply didn’t find spending $20 to a night at the movies with essentially risky purchases was worth it.
Capeshit movies generally aren’t bad - they are mediocre and people generally know what they are getting so it’s a “good investment “.
That’s what Marvel is - a guarantee of an ok movie of a type.
Because Marvel is actually designed for that specific thing, they just had to switch the medium from a gazillion different comic book series to a gazillion different movie series. Endless expandability is built into capeshit in a way you don't have with other mediums. Look how they try to squeeze as much from the orginal trilogy as possible into each new Star Wars movie so it remains recognizable, which leads to the franchise being stretched thinner with every iteration. You don't have that problem with Marvel, you can easily make a Thor or Hulk movie where none of the other Avengers show up, you can also cross them over with other stuff any way you want, it's how this stuff is supposed to work. If there weren't IP issues with Spiderman and the X-Men, they could probably milk that franchise for another decade or so.
He's right but people forget the immediate precursor to the MCU was 8 Saw movies, 4 Scary Movies, I forget what number Freddy and Jason got to, along with 3 AVP films, 5 die hards, etc.
Like a lot of people were trying really, really, hard to do exactly what Marvel is doing and just couldn't optimize it. It wasn't the MCU ruining hollywood, it was hollywood getting what it wanted.
Yeah but those were, like, 25% of big budget films. Now Marvel and capeshit is at least 75%.
Most shit that would be a mid budget movie is now a short TV series.
The number of movies coming to theaters every week that have a good sized budget is way down. Most people simply didn’t find spending $20 to a night at the movies with essentially risky purchases was worth it. Capeshit movies generally aren’t bad - they are mediocre and people generally know what they are getting so it’s a “good investment “.
That’s what Marvel is - a guarantee of an ok movie of a type.
Because Marvel is actually designed for that specific thing, they just had to switch the medium from a gazillion different comic book series to a gazillion different movie series. Endless expandability is built into capeshit in a way you don't have with other mediums. Look how they try to squeeze as much from the orginal trilogy as possible into each new Star Wars movie so it remains recognizable, which leads to the franchise being stretched thinner with every iteration. You don't have that problem with Marvel, you can easily make a Thor or Hulk movie where none of the other Avengers show up, you can also cross them over with other stuff any way you want, it's how this stuff is supposed to work. If there weren't IP issues with Spiderman and the X-Men, they could probably milk that franchise for another decade or so.