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Jodie Foster slams superhero movies as cinematic equivalent of fracking
Daily Mail ^ | 12/31/17 | Ross Mcdonagh

Posted on 12/31/2017 11:03:49 AM PST by Simon Green

Superheroes may have met their greatest adversary — Jodie Foster.

The 55-year-old has claimed Comic book movies are ruining cinema.

In an interview with Radio Times Magazine, the actor and director slammed the likes of Marvel and DC production as the cinematic equivalent of fracking.

'Going to the movies has become like a theme park,' she said.

'Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking — you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth.'

She continued: 'It’s ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world.

The two-time Oscar winner, who directed the likes of Nell, The Beaver, The Brave One and Money Monster, insisted she didn't want to make '$200m movies about superheroes.'

However, she would consider a superhero protagonist if they had 'really complex psychology'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; fracking; jodiefoster; movies; superheroes
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To: EEGator

She directs one every night. Move it a little to the left.


41 posted on 12/31/2017 11:23:25 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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To: Simon Green

She’s probably just jealous that they didn’t ask her to portray a lesbian superhero in any of the films.


42 posted on 12/31/2017 11:23:43 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Simon Green

Who cares what this bull dyke says


43 posted on 12/31/2017 11:23:52 AM PST by Angels27
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To: SoFloFreeper

“She is an artist with integrity.”

ROFL! The words ‘artist’ and ‘integrity’, especially of Jodie Foster or any actor, don’t belong in the same sentence together.


44 posted on 12/31/2017 11:24:04 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’d rather have superhero movies than lecture-y movies starring Matt Damon, Leonardo de Caprio, etc.


45 posted on 12/31/2017 11:24:42 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles. DUH!)
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To: Tallguy

You make a valid point.


46 posted on 12/31/2017 11:24:52 AM PST by EEGator
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To: moehoward

My apologies.


47 posted on 12/31/2017 11:25:28 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Simon Green
Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses

Exhibit "A"


48 posted on 12/31/2017 11:26:16 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Simon Green
to appeal to the masses

spoken like a good elitist

49 posted on 12/31/2017 11:26:21 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Rome2000

Are they basing it off of the Edmund Morris biographies?


50 posted on 12/31/2017 11:26:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Simon Green

‘Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking — you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth.’

Huh? Marvel is wrecking the Earth?


51 posted on 12/31/2017 11:26:50 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Simon Green

Can you fathom the mush brained snowflake that would subordinate their intellect to that of jodie foster?


52 posted on 12/31/2017 11:26:55 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: Simon Green

Make a movie that doesn’t present the middle aged white man appear like a buffoon, predator, or pretty much responsible for every ill in the history of man...and we can talk.


53 posted on 12/31/2017 11:27:10 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Simon Green

I know she’s on the left, but she’s smart, and right, IMO, on this. I like to go to intelligent movies that’s why I saw the Churchill flick twice over Christmas because it was so darn refreshing to see something good being made. And I’m very excited to see the Entebbe movie that will be coming out in March. It’s also why I haven’t seen many films since 1993. Hollywood is crap, IMO. It’s so formulaic, cliched, trite, and overdone. I wish I had the talent and money to make movies. There are some I would like to see made.


54 posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:13 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Reno89519

Jodie Foster is a good actress, IMO. She usually played tough, decent women characters. However, as with a lot of these people, she goes shooting her mouth off, seemingly against everything that makes our country great (masculine men, fracking, etc.).

Celebrities . . . what DON’T they know??? *grin*


55 posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:15 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles. DUH!)
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To: lee martell

I’d forgotten about her/him/it. Sounds like she’s need to get her name back out there.


56 posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:43 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: EEGator
Jodi Foster has an over rated opinion that she matters.......


57 posted on 12/31/2017 11:29:32 AM PST by caww
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To: Kickass Conservative
Says the Woman who starred in Elysium with Matt Damon.

Did she have to speak her lines really slowly, so that Matt Dumbon could comprehend what she said? Can Matt even read and write?

58 posted on 12/31/2017 11:29:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles. DUH!)
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To: Vermont Lt

The Darkest Hour was about a middle-aged white man who wasn’t a buffoon.


59 posted on 12/31/2017 11:29:46 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: dfwgator

Most cinema “art” was pretty much in the crapper before the spate of so-called superhero flicks were made. It’s not necessarily art, it is relatively low-level entertainment, much of it low comedy, or badly told horror shows, nearly pornographic, and with an unusual amount of gratuitous violence which is actually pretty pointless as it applies to carrying the narrative, such as it may be. Or the gratuitous violence is just another form of pornography.

Jody Foster has been on the wrong side of a good many of these gratuitous violence scenes.


60 posted on 12/31/2017 11:30:18 AM PST by alloysteel (Sometimes I have to tell myself, it just isn't worth the jail time.)
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