Celebrated filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/quentin-tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> is facing criticism for candid comments he made about actors in Marvel movies not being legitimate stars.
The “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Kill Bill</a>” director made the remarks while speaking with Tom Segura for his podcast “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCx67cnQQf8">2 Bears 1 Cave</a>.”
“I don’t love them,” Tarantino said of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel">Marvel</a> films. “No, I don’t. I don’t hate them. But I don’t love them. I mean, look, I used to collect Marvel comics like crazy when I was a kid.”
“There’s an aspect that if these movies were coming out when I was in my twenties, I would totally be f***king happy and totally love them. [But] they wouldn’t be the only movies being made, they would be those movies amongst other movies. I’m almost 60 so I’m not quite as excited about them,” he continued.
Tarantino repeated a common criticism of the films, claiming they are overhyped and repetitive, plus leave less room for more creative projects.
“My only ax to grind is they’re the only things that seem to be made,” the 59-year-old director said. “And they’re the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them … So it’s just the fact that they are the entire representation of this era of movies right now. There’s not really much room for anything else. That’s my problem. It’s a problem of representation.”
Next, he took a dig at the actors in Marvel movies, saying they weren’t actually who people were coming to see. Tarantino claimed moviegoers only cared about superheroes on screen no matter who was playing them.
“Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” he asserted. “But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Thor is the star. I’m not the first person to say that. I think that’s been said a zillion times, but it’s these franchise characters that become a star.”
Finally, the &#8220;Reservoir Dogs&#8221; director pined for movie star roles of the past.
&#8220;Back in 2005, if an actor stars in a movie that does as good as the Marvel movies do, then that guy’s an absolute star,” he explained.
“It means people dig him or her and they like them and want to see them in stuff. Sandra Bullock is in &#8216;Speed&#8217; and everyone thought she’s amazing in it. Everyone fell in love with her … They were excited by Sandra Bullock and wanted to see her in something else. That’s not the case now. We want to see that guy playing Wolverine or whatever.”
Tarantino’s observations did not amuse several followers.
Deadpool creator Robert Liefeld retweeted a story about Tarantino’s comments, <a href="https://twitter.com/robertliefeld/status/1595099498413318149">calling it</a> “the hottest of hot takes.”
In a later tweet, he shared, “As a writer/creator it’s my passion as well as my job to create compelling characters and worlds that draw the audience in and connect with them. Same thing that drives Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, so many others. I’m in the character business.”
Marvel actor Simu Liu, who starred in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” also made his opinion known on <a href="https://twitter.com/SimuLiu/status/1595125075040403456">Twitter</a>. He claimed that signing onto a Marvel project was his only chance to make it in Hollywood. 
“If the only gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would never have had the opportunity to lead a $400 million plus movie. I am in awe of their filmmaking genius. They are transcendent auteurs,” he wrote of Tarantino.  
“But they don’t get to point their nose at me or anyone. No movie studio is or ever will be perfect. But I’m proud to work with one that has made sustained efforts to improve diversity onscreen by creating heroes that empower and inspire people of all communities everywhere. I loved the &#8216;Golden Age&#8217; too.. but it was white as hell.”

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