Neill Blomkamp Calls Denis Villeneuve A "F***ing A**hole" Over MCU Comments

Mcu is a garbage factory he is right completely.none of mcu movies are good .

i feel exactly the same way. while stuff like antman and doctor strange was still fun, its just the same thing over and over. the whole avengers thing of combining huge movies was cool and remarkable but its done now. ill just imagine seeing anthony mackie, natalie portman in next big marvel crossover will feel like one of those "scary movie" b grade parodies.

but what does villeneuve and the other critics try to accomplish? make people think "aah he is so right, these mcu movies are actually stupid from the same mold, i didnt know it"

its like complaining that bold and the beautiful is stupid, over and over. does it make the viewers stop watching them? no. but it makes you as a complainer sound like broken record with nothing else to do

granted, the interviewer kinda baited him into that answer. "there are so many amazing big movies out now, why you think your movie is worth shit?"

It's like Madden and fifa. A cheap, easy, cash grab. I can't blame the publishers it's a proven method to make lots of money

I feel like there’s a little bit of jealousy in some of these directors. I agree that a Marvel flick isn’t the same type of film (or “cinema”) as The Godfather, Citizen Kane, or Gone With the Wind. There’s a clear difference. But was Terminator 2 “cinema”? Was Star Wars? Were the old Errol Flynn swashbucklers or Roger Moore James Bond flicks “cinema”? I mean if the purpose of the medium is to entertain then Marvel is doing it successfully. They are entertaining a wide diversity of people who don’t mind forking over the cash to sit in a theater for a couple hours. Yes they’re popcorn blockbusters, and yes sometimes the themes are reused….but I mean Hollywood has remade so many classics (ie True Grit, Scarface supposedly) at this point, I don’t think that’s really a serious problem. Eventually the craze will wear out, and these guys can continue making black and white films with subtitles that no one understands but argue about the meaning of for years…

I love movies but I also grew up reading comics and seeing the characters brought to the big screen with respect for the source material while enjoying it with my kids…that’s what I’m paying for when I go to the movies.

marvel's successful formula is 100% cut and paste...has been for quite some time. Any director who gets upset by hearing that is just cashing in on it anyways. People enjoy them obviously for entertainment and the studios can also check off the diversity box. I've been tired of the formula and want it to die out, but if people still enjoy it all the power to them.

I like Villenueve's movies, but this Dune stuff this is starting to worry me.

They might have poured just a little too much pretension into it. At the end of the day, It's a sci-fi movie with people wearing silly costumes and riding on giant worms. And judging by the trailer that literally shows most of the movie, they aren't really going anywhere the 1984 version didn't.

I'll be watching it. But at home, on HBO. Sorry Denis. No theatrical gross for you.

Actually, @P00DGE, what he said was "pretty much cut-and-paste movies with slight alterations". And yes, that is true, and no, there's nothing wrong with that.

Villeneuve does come across as a pretentious ass. Movies exist as art and entertainment. Based on every interview i have seen Villeneuve give, he looks down on those that just want to be entertained or just make and entertaining movie