James Gunn discusses “lazy” superhero movies in comment that hopefully won’t come back to bite him

It’s tough to argue with that at least, but Gunn went on to say that “there’s a lot of biff, pow, bam stuff happening in movies” where there’s no “rhyme or reason to what’s happening” in the third act. “I don’t care about the characters,” he added, “And they’ve gotten too generic.” That seems like a perfect opportunity to unfairly criticize some of his movies, but… The Suicide Squad and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 had solid third acts. There was character development while they were fighting the starfish monster, and the end of Guardians was all a payoff to Rocket’s arc. Damn it, it actually seems like he knows what he’s talking about!

(By the way, despite hyping it up and all that, Gunn didn’t really have anything to do with The Flash.)

Gunn’s suggestion for fixing all of this is to try “very different genres” within the “superhero movie” umbrella. “I like very serious superhero movies,” he said, “and I like very comedic superhero movies. I like ones that are a murder mystery but it’s with superheroes. I like to see these different types of stories, as opposed to seeing the same story told over and over again.” He’s right, superhero movies are better when they branch out to other genres, but also where are these superhero murder mysteries he’s talking about? We’d like to see more of those.