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'.
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Agreed. She is cute.
Broadway has the same problem. No one will go to an original musical anymore (maybe Hamilton will change this) so they keep cranking out musicals based on movies that already have soundtracks to work from, hoping something will stick, or bringing back the classics for one more run.
Movies are doing the same -- films with built-in audiences and retreads, reboots, rehashed versions of things we can rent on demand, if we wanted.
...and it was a hit, and those people had turned down buying pieces of the movie when Gibson was looking for financing.
Made? Or been in?
She was in a couple of Disney movies - Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer?), and the one with the mother-daughter body swap device (remade with Lohan-JLC).
TR really was shot during a speech and finished it. Obama? I imagine he'd crawl back into his onesie if he had a hangnail that his manicurist couldn't fix. If we have to have someone who is way too far to the left, it might as well at least be a real man.
The company’s decision to make these movies isn’t based on what we, the American Public are looking for.
It is based on what the typical sub-80 IQ Chinaman is looking for in the theater.
Since China and the CCP have taken over hollywood by dangling their income-doubling yuan in front of the movie execs it hasn’t been about what we want.
Is it in China?
Charlatan?
They are ruining comic books too. These plots are far more contrived, simplified, and the character development one-dimensional.
Because it hit his 50 page speech notes. He’s a fan of talking. That said, he was supremely accomplished.
Now now, there was that highbrow role where she was tracking down a sadistic serial killer while playing head games with another sadistic serial killer.
The things of exploitation gore films of old became “big box office” in the 80s and 90s.
>>However, she would consider a superhero protagonist if they had ‘really complex psychology’.
Sounds like she’s butthurt that she hasn’t gotten asked to be in a Disney-Marvel-computer-graphic-comic like Robert Redford or Glenn Close.
I admit that I am a huge fan of that movie. At least it didn’t glorify nut jobs. Certainly not a family flick though.
Not all comic book based movies have superheroes or computer graphics:
Ghost World trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6AOc0ATnU
The Road To Perdition trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGEveEqpjYk
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of Jodie’s movies. Am I missing anything?
>>I grew up in the 1960’s and there was a huge variety of movies to go of every kind, some good, some bad, but compared to today much better in many ways.
Thousands of movies came out in the 1960s. Many of which you probably never saw the first time around (especially once you step outside of the big studios or even America), those are “new to you”. They are still watchable (maybe not by modern audiences who abhor black and white, things that aren’t shot with the short attention span of a music video, or spotlighting contemporary 52 gender anti-West values).
Everyone who has an iphone or DSLR camera thinks (s)he’s a photographer now but often that same equipment can be used to make a movie and none of them think of themselves as “filmmakers”. Why is that?
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