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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Jodie Foster, the dyke, whose most memorable role was getting gang banged on a pinball machine
I think Jodie Foster is fracked out of her freaking mind.
I agree with her to a point on this.
I don’t agree with Jodie’s lifestyle, but I deeply respect her. She is an artist with integrity.
I pray for her; and I happen to agree with her on this issue of film making.
This Marvel/Warner Bros. cranking out of superhero crap is really really getting old.
I enjoy super hero films to a point, but this is the bulk of what we have now. Disney making Star Wars into a product, Marvel becoming a giant soap opera of “heros”, etc. and Warner Bros. continually attempting to usurp the contest with Batman v Superman is just GARBAGE.
Give it a rest. Try telling a STORY.
And if some crazy person with a mistaken crush on her hadn’t tried to kill Reagan, would any even know who this homosexual was or pay her to be in movies or, since, direct them? Looking at the list of her movies, she is director of movies in the obscurity. Never heard of a single one of them. Her acting, only Contact comes to mind. Very slow, boring.
But I will say the comparison with fracking, though, is ridiculous.
Is she looking for work as a director?
It sounds that way.
The only thing missing from her remarks is how all this is due to Trump.
Oh, by the way, i do not agree with her on the fracking comparison—just on the idea that these super hero flicks are stupid.
Well then, Jodie, get some of those idiots in La La land to actually write something more interesting than the superhero stuff. Yup, they are boring, but when they’re drawing more of a crowd than the politically correct smelly Obamastuff oozing from the brainus (think about that for a second) of the marshmallow majors infesting your neck of the woods, guess the superheroes win, eh?
The industry makes what makes money. Do a couple blockbusters, then do an artsy piece.
Makes sense, because self-righteous elitists hate the masses.
I probably would agree of some of her assessments of the Comic Book films.
To me they are becoming tiresome and some of them just go on too long.
I feel the same way about Star Trek and Star Wars films, I am just burned out on most of them.
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.
Of course Jody at 55 is past her prime and maybe is a tad jealous she is not in demand to be in any of them.
How else to get the yutes into the theater? No offense, Jodie, your movies are just fine. But they aren’t going to excite the 11 to 25 demographic. That’s the future. Lose them and the habit of going out to the movies just dies.
Says the Woman who starred in Elysium with Matt Damon.
I think it dies regardless. Home streaming entertainment is the future. If I can avoid $22 tickets, $8 popcorn, and inner city retards chirping on their phone and at the screen, I'm in.
She could have said this by just writing “Movies today stink.” But noooo, she has to go all political about it.
I figured that was the death knell for her career.
I guess I figure there’s room for everything in the entertainment/movie business. There are superhero movies, romantic comedies, serious sci fi, serious dramas, etc.
In the history of TV, we have had family sitcoms, crime dramas such as police shows, variety shows, screwball comedies such as Gilligan’s Island.....
If Hollywood put more serious dramatic movies and TV shows out there, would as many watch, as watch the superhero type movies?
I bet it’s a balancing act, as far as the business end of the entertainment industry, and the “artistic” end of things.
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