“There should be emotional things no matter what,” James Gunn said on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast. “We’re not going to over extend ourselves at DC. We’re going to be very careful with the product we put out and make sure everything is as good as it possibly can be.”
In an interview posted today, Gunn detailed why he thinks superhero fatigue isn’t a real thing, and in reality it’s a problem with spectacle films. The interview is a great one, covering lots of ground like working on the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and his plans for the DC Studios.
In a section of the interview where Gunn clearly gets passionate, he details what is really going on when superhero movie haters say superhero films have worn out their welcome.
“I think that what has happened is people have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories. And they have gotten to a place where ‘oh it’s a superhero let’s make a movie about it.’ And ‘Oh let’s make a sequel because the first one did pretty well.'”
“They aren’t thinking about, why is this story special? What makes this story stand apart from other stories? What is the story at the heart of it all: Why is this character important, what makes this story different that it fills a need for people in theaters to go see, or on television.”
“I think people have gotten a little lazy. There’s a lot of biff pow-wham stuff happening in movies. I’m watching third acts of superhero films and I’m not feeling a rhyme or reason to what is happening, I don’t care about the characters.”
Certainly, fans of superhero movies will be pondering which films he may be referring to. I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide on that score.
Credit: Marvel
Gunn continued, “And they’re too generic. There’s this sort of middle-of-the-road type of genre tone that so many superhero movies have as opposed to having very different genres. I like very serious superhero movies. I like very comedic superhero movies.”
“I like to see these different types of stories as opposed to seeing the same story told over and over again,” Gunn said.
“People say superhero fatigue. But I think that, that’s not a real thing. People are fatigued with repetition. I don’t think it’s really just superhero movies. I think you’re seeing it now, it’s spectacle films in general.”
“There’s a lot of spectacle films made, and they’ve just have gotten really generic, and they’ve gotten boring. And they aren’t about characters, and there’s no emotion to them,” Gunn added.
You can watch the whole interview below, with the discussion about superhero movie fatigue starting around 45 minutes in.
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