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Now James Mangold Bashes Easter Eggs, Calls Fans Who Watch Post-Credits Scenes "Dogs Waiting for Milk Bones"

Published Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:15:41 -0600

Logan director James Mangold has taken to Twitter to double down on his controversial statements about post-credits scenes and movies, as well as to broaden his attack to include another fan-favorite component of superhero flicks: easter eggs.

Bleeding Cool reported earlier this week on Mangold's profanity-laden comments at an Audi-sponsored WGA event.

The idea of making a movie that would fucking embarrass me, that's part of the anesthetizing of this country or the world. That's further confirming what they already know and tying in with other fucking products and selling them the next movie while you're making this movie, and kind of all that shit that I find really fucking embarrassing. Like, that audiences are actually asking for scenes in end credits when those scenes were first developed for movies that suck, so they put something extra at the end to pick up the scores when the movie couldn't end right on its own fucking feet.

Now we've actually gotten audiences addicted to a fucking bonus in the credits. It's fucking embarrassing. It means you couldn't land your fucking movie is what it means.

Even if you got 100,000 Twitter addicts who are gambling on what fucking scene is going to happen after the fucking credits it's still cheating. It's just cheating, but there's all sorts of bad habits like that that fucking horrify me, man, that have become de rigueur in the way we make movies and I think the fear of being one of them that did that end then everyone's patting me on the back and I feel like shit inside because I know I cheated, is probably the greatest thing that scares the shit out of me.

Not satisfied with that, Mangold took to Twitter this morning to post:

2/ and at the same time, I feel like the omnipresent expectation of them cheapens the integrity of a theatrical experience as the movie doesn't stick its ending but rather dribbles to an end with a series of pleasing vignettes/ads for the thing they will sell you next year…

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

These scenes promote a slightly false sense of fully realized "universe" as if everyone behind scenes knows exactly what's next in a saga, when the truth is a bit less charted despite what many tell a sycophantic press that makes $ on the "universes" & the gossip mill they create

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

One more thing. The argument that these scs. make people watch end credits is just lame. If you have to offer shiny objects to keep people watching the names of the crew, then they are not showing an ounce of respect for the crew. Just waiting like dogs for milk bones.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

Mangold also took questions from his Twitter followers, revealing his thoughts on the post-credits scene in his own movie, The Wolverine:

I directed it, I enjoyed directing it, but ultimately, i feel like I was selling burgers. It didn't "set up" DOFP, it promoted it.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

And he's apparently not a very big fan of sequels either:

My pushback is against them becoming the new norm. It's really that simple. As someone who moves between tentpole films & regular original dramas & smaller genre films I would hate to have to watch the end credit bonus scenes to LADYBIRD, CALL ME BY OUR NAME, or THE APARTMENT.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

Yeah but i miss Tentpoles that didn't reek of sequels. ALIEN was self contained brilliance. As was JAWS, CEOTTK, BLADE RUNNER etc.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) February 4, 2018

He also said he wasn't pleased with the inclusion of a Deadpool short in theatrical airings of Logan: