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Apparently Nicolas Winding Refn, Guillermo Del Toro and Chan-wook Park really love MGS
Over on the Metal Gear Solid 5 product page, a trio of acclaimed film directors are fawning all over Hideo Kojima. Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives), and Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) are heaping Homeric levels of praise on the Metal Gear creator’s oeuvre, but specifically his latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid 5. And you thought Kojima had a massive ego already. It’s great to hear outside voices praising videogames, but some of these statements are a little too hyperbolic to take seriously. Refn’s puffery compares Kojima’s output to that of some…