John McTiernan reinvented the action movie in the ‘80s with “Predator,” and “Die Hard.” The ‘90s fared just as well for him with “The Hunt For Red October,” “Die Hard With A Vengeance,” “The Last Action Hero,” and “The Thomas Crown Affair.”
To celebrate his filmography, McTiernan was the guest of honor at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival last month. Some of the interviews he gave are starting leak out, here’s one where he doesn’t hold back on his distaste for superhero movies:
I hate superhero movies. I think they are socially toxic. But they are only the culmination of a profound phenomenon, unprecedented for about 250 years: money has become the master standard of the graphic representations of our time.
Of course, McTiernan isn’t the only filmmaker who has come out against the superhero genre, there are too many, but here are a few of the names that I’ve gathered:
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Bong Joon-ho, Lucrecia Martel, David Cronenberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, David Fincher, Paul Verehoeven, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron Ridley Scott, James Gray, Jane Campion, James Mangold, Martin McDonagh, Luc Besson, William Friedkin, Ken Loach, Oliver Stone and John Woo.