The director of 'Independence Day' says he watches Marvel movies to fall asleep on planes

Reiner Bajo / Lionsgate At the junket for his new war movie "Midway," director Roland Emmerich — the man behind "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" — told Insider that Marvel movies send him to sleep. "When I see Marvel movies, my eyes glaze over," he said in the interview in London, adding: "I watch them on the plane so I can fall asleep." Emmerich is among a growing number of established directors who have trashed the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Martin Scorsese first said that t...