As opposed to his movies such as ‘Shaun of the Dead’, a
zombie comedy.
Shaun of the Dead?
Adult drama, I guess, and adult comedy ("adult" not meaning what it's come to mean in phrases like "adult films").
He has a point, but it's strange coming from Simon Pegg who always seems to work some kind of zombie or alien connection into his comedies. Just when you thought a movie of his was about human emotions or aging or something which could be a little heavy or deep or depressing, out come the undead or the little green men, so he's not really the best representative of an alternative.
Of course, the comic book companies were only responding to a demand. Spielberg and Lucas created the summer blockbuster industry that film snobs have been complaining about for 30 years -- the big action movies that we're told, killed off the innovative adult dramas of the 1970s. Marvel and DC were just the folks who had a lot of stories that could be repackaged as big movie experiences.
Then again, those iconic or iconoclastic 70s film dramas weren't going to last. Sooner or later, with or without Spielberg and Lucas, that kind of serious cinema would have run its course. Probably, the action hero vogue would also have passed by now, if the comic book companies weren't always supplying Hollywood with material.