Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has famously criticized Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe and other such superhero properties, and now he’s at it again. This time, however, Francis Ford Coppola hasn’t just criticized Marvel movies. He’s also taken the opportunity to criticize modern blockbusters as well.
He revealed his thoughts while speaking in an interview with GQ, first saying that studio films have merely transformed into today’s “Marvel pictures.” And, to describe a Marvel picture, he says that they’re merely the same movie “made over and over.”
Here’s what he had to say in full regarding modern MCU films:
“There used to be studio films. Now there are Marvel pictures. And what is a Marvel picture? A Marvel picture is one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different.”
He then discussed his criticisms for modern blockbusters:
“Even the talented people—you could take Dune, made by Denis Villeneuve, an extremely talented, gifted artist, and you could take No Time to Die, directed by…Gary? Cary Fukunaga—extremely gifted, talented, beautiful artists, and you could take both those movies, and you and I could go and pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together. The same sequence where the cars all crash into each other. They all have that.”
Obviously these aren’t the first times that Francis Ford Coppola has criticized Marvel or recent blockbusters. But it is interesting to see him use more recent examples, especially listing films such as Dune. In any case, Marvel and other such modern blockbusters are still as popular as ever, so regardless of Coppola’s thoughts, it doesn’t seem like anything is going to change. As such, fans of cinema will likely have to continue to endure these types of films, whether they enjoy them or not.