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Roland Emmerich Says Marvel Movies Are Silly

In a new interview, Roland Emmerich - whose Independence Day: Resurgence is not being screened for critics - has some choice words for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The director, who once made a movie in which an alien invasion was thwarted via computer virus, says that people wearing capes is "silly".

Here's the quote, via The Guardian:

“When you look at my movies it’s always the regular Joe Schmo that’s the unlikely hero. A lot of Marvel movies, they show people in funny suits running around. I don’t like people in capes. I find it silly when someone dons a superhero suit and flies. I don’t understand it. I grew up in Germany, that’s probably why.”

 

[strafer]

directors say the craziest things.

Probably because he hasn't been asked to direct one. He will come around.

 

[Sephzilla]

This is the same guy who ended a Godzilla movie with Godzilla being killed by normal military weapons. In all likelihood he just doesn't "get" them.

Also I'm pretty sure Thor is the only hero in the MCU with a cape.

EDIT: Marvel movies are silly, but so are his movies and he probably doesn't seem to get that his movies are just as silly as Marvel movies.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

They are silly.

What are we mad about.

Man who doesn't get things doesn't get things, continues making intellectually bankrupt pap.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Yes Roland, because having a chase sequence where your characters are literally being chased down a long hallway by global warming in The Day After Tomorrow was so much more grounded and realistic in comparison.

 

[Dabanton]

His entitled to his opinion. Not sure why people would deny him that.

Out of interest are their any german created superheros?

 

[MMarston]

Well, they are sooooo...

 

[CrocMother]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

 

[ElTorro]

Says the guy who made a movie in which humans hack into an alien mothership with an IBM laptop.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

This is certainly a pot to kettle scenario but it's not like he's wrong in any way about marvel movies specifically, or the overwhelming majority of superhero movies generally.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

Old marketing bullshit. For whatever reason, ID4 was the chosen form of abbreviation by the marketing team at Fox, and everyone just kinda went along with it.

 

[Dalek]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

ask him.

 

[fallengorn]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

Because that's what the marketing for the first one did.

 

[Caja 117]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

Independemce Day july 4th

 

[John Kowalski]

Growing up in Germany is definitely one way to not have early and constant contact with superhero culture and i perfectly understand his point.

 

[ExVicis]

Roland Emmerich...c'mon.

 

[echoshifting]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

That's been a thing since the '90s.

Some of the original promotional material even used "ID4" iirc

edit: beaten like an alien crash-landing on erf

 

[CrocMother]

Old marketing bullshit. For whatever reason, ID4 was the chosen form of abbreviation by the marketing team at Fox, and everyone just kinda went along with it.

Ok thanks, I was worried it was something obvious that I was missing.

 

[Kolx]

I don't like them at all but I don't agree with choice of words he made.

 

[Freshmaker]

I'm dumb, can someone explain why people are abbreviating it as ID4?

Independence Day 4th of July. ALso there was a legal dispute over the title Independence Day which led to ID4 appearing on stuff for a while.

 

[ExVicis]

What are we mad about.

It's the clearest case of pot calling the kettle black I've ever seen.

I'm not mad about anything though if that was still a question.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Independemce Day july 4th

You spelled idenpendendneys wrong.

It's the clearest case of pot calling the kettle black I've ever seen.

How?

"I don’t like people in capes. I find it silly when someone dons a superhero suit and flies. I don’t understand it."

This is not a weird, out-of-bounds sentiment for people to have.

 

[Escape Goat]

Roland pls

 

[wrowa]

His entitled to his opinion. Not sure why people would deny him that.

Out of interest are their any german created superheros?

Well, there's Workhardman, Stayupearlygirl, Nofunallowedboy and Angela Merkel for starters.

None of them as popular as our super villain though.

 

[Dalek]

Also I'm pretty sure Thor is the only hero in the MCU with a cape.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

They are silly. And thank goodness for them.

Emmerich's movies are silly too, of course.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

Action movies in general are silly.

But im glad we can have a big budget action film in 2016 that doesn't have Marvel or DC in the opening credits.

 

[Mugsy]

Well, there's Workhardman, Stayupearlygirl, Nofunallowedboy and Angela Merkel for starters.

None of them as popular as our super villain though.

Now I want to see Angela Merkel with Thor's hammer and cape on.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Emmerich...STFU

 

[AntChum]

To be fair to him, being unapologetically silly is Marvel's shtick - and it works beautifully.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

EDIT: Marvel movies are silly, but so are his movies and he probably doesn't seem to get that his movies are just as silly as Marvel movies.

I'm very certain he understands just how fucking silly his stupid movies are. The quote doesn't even say he thinks Marvel Movies are silly. The quote specifically states he thinks watching someone put on a superhero costume and start flying is silly.

 

[El Topo]

Out of interest are their any german created superheros?

I can't think of any. If there are any, then they are pretty unknown, even among German geeks.The whole superhero genre, including comics, just never reached the importance that it did in the US.

 

[3N16MA]

Action movies in general are silly.

But im glad we can have a big budget action film in 2016 that doesn't have Marvel or DC in the opening credits.

We get those every year.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Well yeah, superheroes are inherently silly. They're fantasy stories about people in costumes beating up bad guys.

 

[ElTorro]

Well, there's Workhardman, Stayupearlygirl, Nofunallowedboy and Angela Merkel for starters.

 

[True Savior]

He's probably just being nice.

 

[Cuburt]

That dog outrunning an explosion by ducking into a doorway is magical. Literally magical.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Marvel films are silly. Statement checks out.

 

[zma1013]

I dunno, what is a regular average joe? Does a military ace aviator attack jet pilot meet the requirements of a regular average joe?

 

[ExVicis]

How?

"I don’t like people in capes. I find it silly when someone dons a superhero suit and flies. I don’t understand it."

This is not a weird, out-of-bounds sentiment for people to have.

Oh he's not wrong, don't mistake what I'm saying. He's certainly not incorrect, it's ridiculous. They even go out of their way to say that in Avenger's 2.

But when you have your most well-known movie's turning point being when they

Spoiler

give the mother-ship a computer virus cooked up that morning

I'm not sure you're in the person who should be laying down the judgements on silliness in cinema. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

 

[Reptars Revenge]

How'd you fuck up Godzilla so bad? Is being German an excuse for that too?

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Well... yeah. Superheroes are pretty damn silly.

That's what I love about 'em, though.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

The equivalent of Zack Snyder saying Werner Herzog films are trash

 

[Penguin]

I mean comics/capes are inherently a silly notion doesn't mean can't have fun with them.

 

[El Topo]

How'd you fuck up Godzilla so bad? Is being German an excuse for that too?

Godzilla isn't really an icon in Germany either. I wouldn't be surprised if he had no attachment to the property and simply didn't get the appeal.

 

[Savitar]

Once he blows up some monuments in his movie he'll feel a bit better.

 

[The Lone Courier]

Well he's not wrong.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

This quote was precious

“The spaceship, the mothership, is coming down to Earth and it’s even bigger than the old one,” says Emmerich, 60, speaking rapidly and exuberantly in an accent that shows little sign of the 25-odd years he’s been living and working in the USA. “So imagine a big object like this that has its own gravity and then what it does, it comes over Asia, sucks up Asia and then when it lands, it dumps Asia on Europe!”

Pretty sure something very similar happened in Man of Steel.

Emmerich is trying to distinguish his type of film making from the MCU by not having protags wear capes but the contrivances and 'everything is getting destroyed' is identical. He's not 'copying' them considering his pedigree started long before a 21st century Marvel Film was even on the drawing board but if the only difference between Resurgence and the next Avengers film is whether or not the flying man in underwear who saves the day at the end is a drunk a biplane or The Vision, then he's not on very solid ground when trying to elbow out his own 'less silly' space in the very crowded cinematic arena of Global Crisis Brinksmanship. It's the same, Roland. Own it. Audiences love that shit.

 

[ExVicis]

I dunno, what is a regular average joe?

A disgraced, drunken crop duster maybe who talks about being anally probed to everyone.

 

[gutter_trash]

Roland Emmerich movies are trash

-one unlikely hero emerging rising to the top.
-One sniveling evil politician corrupt guy who is self serving for his own survival.
-comedy reliefs
-kids!!!!

you can always easily point out the corrupt politician character in each Emmerich movie early during the 1st viewing. Cookie cutter predictable