Director David Cronenberg says that super hero movies aren’t offering much to the world of film beyond large profits for the studios.
When asked if he’d considering directing one, he replied, “”I don’t think they are making them an elevated art form,” he said of top-shelf filmmakers and their tentpole pics. “I think it’s still Batman running around in a stupid cape. I just don’t think it’s elevated. Christopher Nolan’s best movie is Memento, and that is an interesting movie. I don’t think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they’re 20 million times the expense.”
Cronenberg did admit that he appreciated Nolan’s technical efforts, with IMAX cameras and the like, but was still unimpressed with the actual movies. Unlike horror films, which he says have the potential of being art, comic book films don’t stand a chance.
“A superhero movie, by definition, you know, it’s comic book. It’s for kids,” Cronenberg asserted. “It’s adolescent in its core. That has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying, you know, Dark Knight Rises is supreme cinema art, I don’t think they know what the f— they’re talking about.”
Yeah he doesn’t to direct a movie that will gross over $200 million worldwide. He just need to make gross movies.
Yet another person who believes that comics are only for kids and that they could never be an artform. Doesn’t he realize that something similar was once said about films.
Also, I believe superhero films are better than horror films for the mere fact that superhero films have plot, while horror films are just about some idiot slowly opening a shower curtain to find nothing and when they turn around a blurting sound plays. Not many people actually try to make films into art, and I assume he’s the same.
Wah.
Well he did make Scanners (my head asplode), The Fly (amazing remake of the 50s classic), and the Dead Zone (don’t shake hands), so he isn’t all bad. But Dead Ringers was just plain sick, imho. I just don’t think that he has elevated his films to an elevated art form. Contrast them with Captain America, Sin City, the Burton Batman movies, the Spider-man movies, the Superman movies, or the Avengers movie. Maybe I like the pulp look of comics translated into movies, but I will take that over Dead Ringers or just gross horror, no matter how artsy the delivery.