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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: King Moonracer

Agreed. She is cute.


121 posted on 12/31/2017 1:04:25 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: EEGator
Yes


122 posted on 12/31/2017 1:06:46 PM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Simon Green
What has she made that's family friendly? Seriously, I'm asking. Saw Silence of the Lambs and The Accused. Even when she was a kid she was in a movie where she killed someone (I think it was an accident, but then they covered it up or something)

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.

123 posted on 12/31/2017 1:08:17 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Sirius Lee
These movies about grown men running around in their pajamas and capes reek of faggotry.


124 posted on 12/31/2017 1:08:36 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: morphing libertarian
I love Greta movies!


125 posted on 12/31/2017 1:09:23 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SoFloFreeper
the real reason Hollywood hated him is because he made “The Passion of the Christ”...

...and it was a hit, and those people had turned down buying pieces of the movie when Gibson was looking for financing.

126 posted on 12/31/2017 1:09:49 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Tanniker Smith
What has she made that's family friendly?

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).

127 posted on 12/31/2017 1:13:26 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Rome2000

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.

128 posted on 12/31/2017 1:16:56 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


129 posted on 12/31/2017 1:21:35 PM PST by Celerity
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To: caww

Is it in China?


130 posted on 12/31/2017 1:24:59 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: King Moonracer

Charlatan?


131 posted on 12/31/2017 1:27:01 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Simon Green

They are ruining comic books too. These plots are far more contrived, simplified, and the character development one-dimensional.


132 posted on 12/31/2017 1:28:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Pollster1

Because it hit his 50 page speech notes. He’s a fan of talking. That said, he was supremely accomplished.


133 posted on 12/31/2017 1:29:22 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

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.


134 posted on 12/31/2017 1:29:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Simon Green

>>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.


135 posted on 12/31/2017 1:30:57 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


136 posted on 12/31/2017 1:31:26 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Da Coyote

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


137 posted on 12/31/2017 1:38:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Simon Green

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of Jodie’s movies. Am I missing anything?


138 posted on 12/31/2017 1:50:33 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Captain Peter Blood

>>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).


139 posted on 12/31/2017 1:51:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: gundog

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?


140 posted on 12/31/2017 1:54:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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