An interview with Paul Verhoeven on The Sunday Times has the Dutch filmmaker of “Basic Instinct” and “Starship Troopers” complaining about today’s sexless Hollywood movies:
“It’s about crashing and blowing up, stuff” Verhoeven said about today’s studio films. “Sometimes these movies are fun, but the narrative tells you nothing about us now. I don’t see any other thought in Marvel or Bond movies.”
“There was always sex in Bond!” Verhoeven added. “They did not show a breast, or whatever. But they had some sex.”
So, how many A-list directors is that now who have bashed superhero movies; I’m adding Verhoeven to the ever-expanding list that includes Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Denis Villeneuve, Bong Joon-ho, Lucrecia Martel, David Cronenberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, David Fincher, James Mangold, Luc Besson, William Friedkin, Ken Loach, John Woo …