John Woo ‘Never Liked Watching’ Superhero Films and Prefers ‘Scorsese’s Movies’: I Like ‘Real Cinema. There Aren’t Many Movies Like That Lately’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Action movie icon John Woo is not watching superhero movies, he recently told The New York Times in an interview ahead of the release of “Silent Night.” Woo, the Hong Kong director acclaimed for films such as “The Killer” (1989), “Hard Boiled” (1992) and “Face/Off” (1997), said he much prefers “real cinema” like Martin Scorsese movies. “I’ve never liked watching movies with big special effects, or anything based on comic books,” Woo told the publication. “I prefer Martin Scorsese’s movies, that kind of cinema.
I can’t wait to watch ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ I like old-fashioned movies, you know? Real cinema. There aren’t many movies like that lately.” Scorsese has shared his own criticisms of superhero movies over the years and garnered significant media attention in October 2019 when he told Empire magazine that Marvel movies were damaging the exhibition space.
He argued that the comic book genre had put a stronghold on movie theaters and was forcing mid-budget movies out of the mainstream marketplace. “I don’t see them.
I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” Scorsese said at the time about Marvel movies. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks.
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