Actress Jennifer Aniston is the latest Hollywood star to deplore the role of “big Marvel movies” in filmmaking, as she relayed in a Variety interview this week.
Lamenting the changing landscape of cinema, Friends star Aniston revealed her personal longing for a Meg Ryan-era comeback:
“You’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it’s big Marvel movies. Or things that I’m not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen,” said Aniston.
Striking a sentimental note, the actress added:
“I think we would so love to have the era of Meg Ryan come back. I just think it would be nice to go into a movie theatre, sit cosy. I think we should have a resurgence. Let’s get the Terms of Endearment back out there. You know, Heaven Can Wait, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Goodbye Girl.”
The celebrity’s opinion of Marvel films was bound to generate a social media backlash, and surely enough, netizens were split in their response.
Some Twitter fans reproached the actress and believed there was little truth in her statement:
Other Twitter fans tended to side with Aniston:
Jennifer Aniston’s dig at the Marvel Cinematic Universe followed Martin Scorsese comparing the MCU franchise to a “theme park”, as he suggested the billion-dollar studio had ruined cinema.
The Gangs Of New York director, 74, told Empire:
“I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. 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. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”