15 Hollywood Bigwigs Who Are Sick of Marvel, Too

These Hollywood darlings call the MCU, “Boring,” “Hard to watch,” and “Despicable.”
15 Hollywood Bigwigs Who Are Sick of Marvel, Too

In the past 15 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has pumped out 30 movies (with 12 currently in various stages of production), and has completely changed the filmmaking industry for the foreseeable future. The now multi-billion dollar worldwide phenomenon seems to have split Hollywood into three camps. Those who are in the MCU, those who are desperately trying to claw their way in, and those who pray for its demise.

As we’ve seen with other franchises, once Hollywood stumbles upon a winner, they put all their eggs in that basket. It’s how they make the big bucks, baby. This isn’t the first time they’ve scrambled to capitalize on a trend, but has it gone too far? This isn’t a 4th installment of The Matrix, or Indiana Jones… We’re talking about dozens of movies here. That kind of mass production would make McDonald’s proud, but “real” filmmakers have a bone to pick. These 15 Hollywood darlings are far from thrilled with the MCU, and they were more than thrilled to speak their minds.

Francis Ford Coppola took Scorsese’s criticism to new heights.

CRACKED PRY HERE OOD FAME FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA THINKS MARVEL IS DESPICABLE. When Scorsese says that Marvel pictures are not cinema, he's right because we expect to learn something from cinema. Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. Не didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is.

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Even Tim Burton thinks the tormented hero formula is played out.

CRACKED TIM BURTON THINKS MARVEL NEEDS A DRASTIC SHIFT. Не finds Marvel movies boring because they regurgitate that same old grim and tormented hero formula, and thinks the genre needs to reinvent itself.

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Jodie Foster is fracking pissed!

CRACKED W C JODIE FOSTER SAYS MARVEL IS RUINING VIEWING HABITS. Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking - you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth. It's ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world.

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Ridley Scott curses Marvel movies.

CRACKED RIDLEY SCOTT CALLED MARVEL MOVIES F*CKING BORING AS SHIT. Не also said they have weak stories and their scripts are not any f**king good.

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Sally Field would rather play Forrest Gump’s mom than Spider-Man’s aunt.

CRACKED SALLY FIELD SAID MARVEL CHARACTERS HAVE NO SUBSTANCE. Playing Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man, Sally Field said it was really hard to find a three-dimensional character. You work it as much as you can, but you can't put ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag.

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Simon Pegg wants an emotional journey.

CRACKED TIVI 8 SIMON PEGG SAYS MARVEL MOVIES DON'T MAKE YOU THINK. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot.

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It’s Wabbit Season for James Mangold.

CRACKED 49 JAMES MANGOLD LIKENED MARVEL CHARACTER ARCS TO ELMER FUDD. The director of 2017's Logan said, You take 120 minutes, you take 45 of it for action, what are you left with, divide it by 6 characters, you have the character arc of Elmer Fudd in a Warner Brothers cartoon. That formula is empty for me.

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David Fincher doesn’t get that warm feeling.

CRACKED DAVID FINCHER LIKENED MARVEL MOVIES TO BONFIRES. The is still filled with kids, it's just they're all on their phones. It's a social event like a bonfire, and the movie is the bonfire. It's why people gather, but it's not actually there to be looked at, because the bonfire is always the same.

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This director said “Cut… And paste.”

CRACKED DENIS VILLENEUVE SAID MARVEL IS ZOMBIFYING US. The Dune director said, Perhaps the problem is that we are in front of too many Marvel movies that are nothing more than a 'cut and paste' of others. Perhaps these types of movies have turned us into zombies a bit.

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