James Cameron criticizes Marvel and DC movies: “Everyone acts like they’re in college”

James Cameron has been giving a lot to talk about lately. The “Titanic” director has given several interviews over the past month due to the re-release of “Avatar” in theaters. Now, on the occasion of the launch of the promotional campaign for ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’, the long-awaited sequel that hits the big screen on December 16many others await the director. In one of these talks with the New York Times, Cameron blamed Marvel and DC, harshly criticizing superhero movies..

The three-time Oscar winner said: “When I see those big, spectacular movies, I’m talking about Marvel and DC, no matter how old the characters are, they all act like they’re in college”.

“They have relationships, but they don’t really. They never hang up their boots for their kids. The things that truly ground us and give us power, love and purpose? Those characters don’t experience it and I think that’s not the way to make films.”Cameron added.

not the first

In this way, the director of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ joins many other big names in cinema who have already criticized superhero titles. Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola or Jane Campion are some of the stars who have previously criticized this type of genre.

In an interview for Empire magazine in 2019, Scorsese, the director of “Taxi Driver” and “One of Us”, accused the company chaired by Kevin Feige: “I don’t watch Marvel movies. I tried, but that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest thing to them I can think of, however well done, with the actors doing their best under these circumstances, is the theme parks. It is not the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional and psychological experiences to another human being.”.

For his part, the famous director of “The Godfather”, Coppola, was much more severe in his statements when he was in France to receive the Lumiere Award for his contribution to cinema: “When Scorsese says that Marvel movies are not cinema, he is right, why we hope to learn something from cinema, we hope to get something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration. I don’t know if anyone gets anything by watching the same movie over and over. Martin was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say he was despicable, and I say he is”.