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Tarentino Thinks Marvel Actors are NOT Movie Stars, Shang Chi's Response Confirms His Point

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0:00 I mean Nicholas Cage is a movie star well I don't know about that if you go you're going to watch a Nicholas Cage there are a lot of middle ladies that get their panties wet over him though [Music] so did you guys hear about Quentin Tarantino saying that Marvel oh yeah the stars of Marvel movies are not movie stars yeah what are they oh like well he's basically he's basically in like um you know the reason why people go to these movies is they want to see Captain America yeah like they don't want to see it's not because they're there for it's like Ben Affleck it's like yeah right they're not there to see um Hemsworth they're there to see Thor oh yeah oh I'm there to see Henry Cavill as Superman or are you I'm there what

0:52 about Robert Patterson that's a stupid perspective I'm I'm thinking I'm down for Robert Downey Jr.'s as Tony Stark you know what I mean I like Robert Downey Jr no I think what happened is people go to see Iron Man and then they go oh that's cool that Robert Downey yeah did that I think that's how I feel oh okay I can see that I think it's it's not what they go for but they leave with a cool souvenir so I kind of agree with what he's saying like because I'm watching Batman regardless of who's playing exactly because it's Batman or Joker or whoever the ████ or watch anybody but then why would I guess I'll call them a movie star yeah but some of the actors are movie stars though yeah pre-marvel right yeah yeah well like Chris Hemsworth is definitely doing a lot of ████ outside what other movie of Chris Hemsworth are you a big fan of I

1:42 actually uh uh enjoyed the recent army ones that he did extraction extractions yeah I thought those are dope it was like fun Downey Jr is like a movie star before he played well not exactly like so he kind of had a falling out with the industry because he had a drug problem and then he was seen as maybe box office poison for a while and then he went blackface too it was an opportunity Iron Man was an opportunity for him right so then when he got Iron Man nobody gave a ████ until the movie came out and everyone loved it so then she only got paid half a million dollars for Iron Man wow and then he and then he was able to negotiate a ████ sick deal which is why you know West Terence Howard in that same movie got like 10 million or something like that wow in the first one for being uh the not war machine yet but yeah bro but I think it does make sense like whoever brings the most to the table it ends up

2:34 being that project so Marvel they're so ████ huge I think it feels like it overshadows anything but um I think in uh what movie was that where oh for Django um I think Will Smith auditioned right and then when he auditioned to play Django uh Will Smith is like this is gonna be a Will Smith movie and Tarantino's like no it's going to be a Tarantino movie so it ended up being we have to go with Jamie Foxx yeah so I just think like two people said oh hell no what happened so I think whatever is like at the table whoever brings the most will end up becoming the main thing he's gonna call it Wild Wild West I know him and a cowboy outfit's already boxed off his nightmares but no so like to further kind of what territory was saying you know um Chris Hemsworth with it was a movie called Men In Black International that movie bombed that was terrible right but but and you

3:26 know there's so many outlying factors for why that happens but the idea that he's saying is like if Tom Cruise is in a movie everyone's going to see that ████ movie right is that does that sound unfair I mean Nicholas Cage is a movie star well I don't know about that if you go you're going to watch a Nicolas Cage there are a lot of middle-aged ladies that get their panties wet over him though but it scales down right because like the Nicholas Cage is not you know the biggest draw as you know right yeah ████ ████ Lord over there was a ████ eating grid no but um so Hemsworth Hemsworth is not like you just put his name on the Marquee yeah you can get a certain amount of guaranteed DVD sales or whatever but you're not going to get like these guaranteed box office like a Tom Cruise yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like there's they were in the comics of the

4:17 conversation they're talking about how there's only like three movie stars now like where like you put their name on and they're it's gold Denzel yeah are those three considered then like a-listers and like Chris Hemsworth is like a b-lister or is that how that works I don't know how that works probably another one huh Tom Hanks is out there I think they said well I think they were just talking I don't know they named everybody was talking about Crews they're talking about like blockbuster hits the Blockbuster guys yeah I don't know if they mentioned Denzel but he's definitely Tom Cruise is probably the guy though what about Margot Robbie yeah she's probably one of them yeah but that that Brad Pitt maybe the new Harley Quinn movie didn't do as well so ████ like that happens and then it kind of Sully's like your resume huh yeah it makes it less of a dunk because all these Studio execs want is to like better their odds so like they put you in the movie instead of somebody else

5:07 because maybe it better is the odds it's a success Matt Damon Matt Damon hey dude definitely I bought a zoo that movie was a box office smash well when he was doing born like he was like the number one guy he was in everything and then he did that Mars movie he that was a huge movie that was a sick ass movie Scott movie I was ████ great but so then um so I don't know that everyone really heard him because um that was the interview with Tom Segura right that was the interview with Thompson Curry I was listening to that one and then um so simulu Shane Chi star came out and says 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 think that's kind of his point yeah like I think what what Tarantino was saying he was saying that like right now the only thing that's being made are Marvel superhero movies or just not even Marvel but like just superhero moves in general and like I

5:58 think everyone even as like moviegoers like I love the Marvel series I love all that stuff I nerd out over it but after a while you're like can I see something else bro like I want to watch other movies that are not dealing with a comic book character you know like whatever happened to just a regular action movie you don't really see much of those anymore I mean people are getting butt hurt about the word movie star yeah because they're like hey I am a movie star I was in a movie and I'm a star yeah and I'm we made 400 million but that's kind of the point right it's like well yeah but you wouldn't have gotten to be headlining a movie worth more million if you weren't playing a Marvel character yeah it infuses so much ████ money I don't know that he was even I don't know that he was aware of the full context or whatever but that to me he just made Tarantino's Point he'd be clapping back a lot at people maybe that's one of those things where TMZ just caught him somewhere and they're like what do you think about Tarantino saying you never know he tweeted it but still yeah okay

6:50 oh ████ but I remember like from that interview that that headline from Tarantino saying the only thing they're making right now is Marvel movies and it's like a well he's talking about real budgets right yeah like yeah because do a Tarantino movie he can do whatever the ████ he wants he gets hundreds of millions of dollars to budget it out but if you want to make some movie and it's not a Marvel movie yeah good luck but then don't you think like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino if they're talking about films as a whole in the business like Motion Pictures in me yeah exactly like those ████ they know what they're talking about like they've seen it all like to a certain degree I could really understand whatever frustration they have is rooted in a lot of ████ that we don't hear on the day like they're probably the ones talking to big studios and financiers and hearing back like no we're focusing more on this right now and they're trying to make movies that change ████ Cinema and they can't because whatever is out of the you know they're

7:41 like oh we just lost them because they want to finance superhero movies exactly and they make so much money so like as a business as a as a exec of a studio why wouldn't you go all in on Marvel like why wouldn't you they make too much money Robert Downey Jr made a movie called the judge just after um end game right or I think it was I think no this is not after end game this is after Avengers Infinity War Infinity War thank you and this movie made you know it had a budget of 50 million dollars it made worldwide 84 million not very good right like you you don't want to spend that much on a budget and then have that little of an upswing sounds good I know of people but that's not they've spent money on on they're looking for home runs they're looking for homeless especially with the Robert Downey yeah exactly so that's the point

8:31 right he wasn't Iron Man if this movie was called Iron Man colon semicolon the judge this movie would have made it as a judge 400 million dollars there's no Iron Man because this this stuff is our mythology like people want to watch like Superman and yes Henry cavill's greatest Superman but people would watch it if it was ████ right anime Superman yeah it's kind of like even athletes and teams right like if you have like a LeBron doesn't matter what team he goes to you're gonna follow him legit like like athlete star or whatever versus someone that's just been on the Lakers for the past 10 years you're like he's just part of the Lakers or whatever you know yeah yeah let me ask you guys this Mel Gibson is a superstar but were you watching for Jesus or were you watching for Mel Gibson

9:21 I don't think he was in the movie he wasn't in the movie he just directed it are you watching first directorial so I don't think I don't think all right we're done that's it I don't even think you watched it [Music]

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