Movie director and writer James Gunn has shared his thoughts on the future of comic book and superhero films, calling them “really dumb” and “mostly boring for me right now.” Speaking to the Irish Times, Gunn said comic book and superhero films run the risk of fading in popularity if they don’t mix things up and try out new approaches.

“We know about the way cowboy films went, and the way war films went,” he said. “I don’t know, I think you don’t have to be a genius to put two and two together and see that there’s a cycle to those sorts of films, you know, and that the only hope for the future of the comic book and superhero films is to change them up. They’re really dumb. And they’re mostly boring for me right now.”

Gunn went on to say that he was a big fan of comic book and superhero movies at the beginning. He said he was blown away by the visual effects when he saw Superman as a kid. Later on, he was a big fan of Iron Man from Marvel, again, for the visual effects th…