Zachary Levi Criticizes Hollywood for Making Too Much “Garbage”

[kylor]

Zachary Levi Criticizes Hollywood for Making Too Much “Garbage”

The 'Shazam: Fury of the Gods' star shared some thoughts about the current quality of movies.

Just days after the Shazam: Fury of the Gods star made headlines for his comments about “dumb” actors’ strike rules (“taken out of context”) and a few weeks after calling movie critics “insanely unkind” in their Shazam! sequel reviews and a few months after seemingly knocking Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for reportedly not wanting Levi’s DC character in Black Adam (dude, you were better off), now Levi is tackling the quality of Hollywood films.

Speaking at Fan Expo Chicago on Saturday and reported by Entertainment Weekly, the 42-year-old actor took a shot at studio filmmaking.

“I personally feel like the amount of content that comes out of Hollywood that is garbage — they don’t care enough to actually make it great for you guys,” Levi said, reportedly to enthusiastic applause. “They don’t. How many times do you watch a trailer and go, ‘Oh my God, this looks so cool!’ Then you go to the movie and it’s like, ‘This was what I get?’ They know that once you’ve already bought the ticket and you’re in the seat, they’ve got your money. And the only way for us to change any of it is to not go to the garbage. We have to actively not choose the garbage. It’ll help. It’ll help a lot.”

On the SAG-AFTRA strike, Levi was at Manchester Comic-Con in July and told the audience, “I’m not allowed to talk about … this is so dumb. I’m not allowed to talk about any of my previous work. I’m not allowed to talk about movies that I may be a superhero in. I’m not allowed to talk about TV shows that I may have been a nerd who worked at a Best Buy…” After the comments went viral, Levi clarified, “It’s come to my attention that an offhand remark I made in jest last weekend is being taken out of context,” Levi said in a statement Friday. “So let me be very clear. I fully support my union, the WGA, and the strike … But we also cannot forget our fans during this strike. Fans that spend their money and energy traveling far distances to talk with us about our work that means so much to them, we should be able to engage.”

The Shazam! sequel controversy was more tangled, with Levi seemingly calling out Johnson after a Wrap report said the Black Adam star blocked Justice Society characters from appearing in Fury of the Gods and likewise shot down the possibility of a Levi cameo in his movie. He then later clarified, “I may or may not have, you know, reposted something in my Stories about a story that I had nothing to do with that [The Wrap] had reported on, and then I got flack about it because people were saying ‘Oh, what are you doing? You’re trying to blame this guy because your movie’s not doing well. Like, you’re trying to blame us,’” Levi said in an Instagram Live on Thursday. “Listen, I haven’t blamed anybody. There’s not one single person that I have blamed for anything about the way that our movie has performed.”

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[Batman1980]

[mwynn]

And that's a wrap for him.

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[BudBaxter]

He's not wrong, & it's a refreshing bit of honesty from a Hollywood star, but people in glass houses & all that...

I had no idea that the strike meant they couldn't talk about previous stuff they'd done though. Seems like a weird clause, but I guess it's all 'promotion', even if the product has been out there for years.

[Prog5000]

But he starred in "garbage" himself.

[spanky87]

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[SteelbookCat]

Shazam 2 was one of the worst Superhero movies.

[frankrizzo13]

Boo hoo, he can't talk about his work, I bet he can still charge an arm and a leg for autographs at the cons though.

Shazam isn't any better than Barbie, and that just made a billion so the "garbage" won't be stopping anytime soon.

[murphywmm]

I agree. American Underdog was a terrible movie.

[d2cheer]

Originally Posted by Prog5000

But he starred in "garbage" himself.

No one recognizes when they are part of the problem.

No one...

[bonerjams2003]

[BluRayTim]

Zachary Levi sounds like a big mouthed, foolish, hypocritical, sh*t talking ungrateful sc*mb*g to me.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by SteelbookCat

Shazam 2 was one of the worst Superhero movies.

No it wasn’t!

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by murphywmm

I agree. American Underdog was a terrible movie.

I enjoyed that one too.

[wonderer99]

What with this and Zeglers comments I'm fast thinking these people don't want their jobs.

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by BluRayTim

Zachary Levi sounds like a big mouthed, foolish, hypocritical, sh*t talking ungrateful sc*mb*g to me.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

[Hedrox]

This guy could've been a much bigger movie star if he kept his mouth shut.

[HorrorBlu]

I am currently watching the new season of Project Greenlight. They've greenlit this movie, yet throughout the whole first half of the season they keep saying "this script is terrible" & "this script needs work" & "we need to fix this script". Then they make the movie anyway for $3.5 million, sit down to watch it, and all the producers and executives who greenlit this movie are like "whoa, this is terrible."

[Doc Samson]

Originally Posted by SteelbookCat

Shazam 2 was one of the worst Superhero movies.

I'm always surprised at the negative responses to Shazam 2. I thought it was a perfectly decent superhero flick.

[stvn1974]

If Levi was any less selfaware of the crap he says he would be Quentin Tarantino.