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and other Marvel actors also skewering the “Departed” director over his remarks. Scorsese’s critique sparked a backlash from the superhero sphere’s rabid fanbase, with “Iron Man” Robert Downey Jr. “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.” Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star in “The Irishman.” Netflix/Everett Colleection “I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” lamented the Italian-American auteur, who was doing media rounds for his gangster epic “The Irishman” at the time. He was referring to Scorsese’s 2019 interview with Empire, in which the 78-year-old Hollywood icon said that he tried to watch Marvel movies but they weren’t his cup of tea.
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“He’s creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn’t getting as much attention as he wanted for it.”
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“I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel - and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie,” Gunn, 55, told pod host Josh Horowitz. James Gunn is the latest director to address Martin Scorsese’s divisive 2019 Marvel-bashing incident, claiming that the “Goodfellas” director was simply attempting to garner attention for “The Irishman.” The “Guardians of the Galaxy” director dropped the criticism while promoting his upcoming film “The Suicide Squad” on MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. Lady Gaga reveals why Tony Bennett ‘dislikes’ Martin Scorsese movies Jonah Hill to team up with Martin Scorsese again for Grateful Dead biopic