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Jodie Foster: Big Budget Superhero Movies Are Ruining The Future of Hollywood
Posted on 12/30/17 at 11:52 am
Posted on 12/30/17 at 11:52 am
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Big budget films are ruining the future of Hollywood, Jodie Foster has said as she hit out at big budget studios by comparing them to fracking.
The double Oscar-winning actress has launched a stinging critique on production houses whose top priority is to lure in as big an audience as possible, regardless of the quality of the film.
“Going to the movies has become like a theme park,” she told Radio Times magazine. “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.
“It’s ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world. I don’t want to make $200 million movies about superheroes.”
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Posted on 12/30/17 at 11:54 am to Bench McElroy
Preach Jodie 
Posted on 12/30/17 at 11:57 am to Bench McElroy
Troof.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 11:57 am to Bench McElroy
Comparing movies to fracking 
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:00 pm to Bench McElroy
Sweet veiled political agenda, Jodie.
Superhero movies are awesome, EAD.
Superhero movies are awesome, EAD.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:03 pm to Bench McElroy
She's absolutely right too.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:04 pm to Bench McElroy
Why not both?
The biggest issue is the cost to go to the movies plus the fact that less-blockbuster oriented films don’t receive enough marketing.
We also put too much emphasis on box office numbers. I get that a film is supposed to make money but we too often judge a film by its ability to break records.
Admit that many stories and characters apply to niche audiences and that making a good film as a work of art might only make a little bit of money.
The biggest issue is the cost to go to the movies plus the fact that less-blockbuster oriented films don’t receive enough marketing.
We also put too much emphasis on box office numbers. I get that a film is supposed to make money but we too often judge a film by its ability to break records.
Admit that many stories and characters apply to niche audiences and that making a good film as a work of art might only make a little bit of money.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:05 pm to Bench McElroy
Who cares what she wants! Is anyone running out to see your latest movie Jodie? What was that exactly? If people were not going to see those horrible superhero movies and the studios were not making their money back, then they would stop making them.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:07 pm to JetsetNuggs
Just jealousy about the big money they are making. You can make a non big budget movie and release it straight to Netflix etc and almost everyone will watch your movie. But they don't do this because there is not much money in doing it this way
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:07 pm to Bench McElroy
I agree, but I think super hero movies are a symptom, not a disease. Superhero movies are a symptom of an uncreative, risk-averse hollywood banking on established franchises paired with corporate tie-ins and merchandising that will practically "sell themselves" due to already having an established fanbase. It is nearly synonymous to what happened to the music industry following the collapse of CD sales in the late 90's. They largely stopped seeking out new acts or trying to develop raw talent and instead focused on manufacturing "acts" (typically the children or relatives of established acts or part of related properties like Disney Channel) that sell products through formulaic "music" via horizontal and vertical integration of business models.
Basically, they have fully capitalized the remaining market by being risk averse and using their media advantages to tell the market what they want to see rather than reacting to market preferences. They're using established franchises and flooding us with that content to manipulate the market into supporting what they're selling by giving them fewer options.
Basically, they have fully capitalized the remaining market by being risk averse and using their media advantages to tell the market what they want to see rather than reacting to market preferences. They're using established franchises and flooding us with that content to manipulate the market into supporting what they're selling by giving them fewer options.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:11 pm to Bench McElroy
Studios have always made terrible content. It's not like all the movies of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s were great, people just only look at "best movies of the 60s" links or the AFI top 100 and assume that's what people flocked to at the time. James Bond has historically done well and they aren't exactly the thinking man's movies.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:33 pm to Bench McElroy
Meh.
I don't particularly need a giant movie screen to watch Chocolat.
Perhaps we've figured that out. Hollywood can still make movies for other mediums like Netflix, and the big special effects movies can be at the theater. I think those movies fit the idea of large audiences, perhaps comedies do as well, more than some serious drama piece.
I'm not losing sleep over it.
I don't particularly need a giant movie screen to watch Chocolat.
Perhaps we've figured that out. Hollywood can still make movies for other mediums like Netflix, and the big special effects movies can be at the theater. I think those movies fit the idea of large audiences, perhaps comedies do as well, more than some serious drama piece.
I'm not losing sleep over it.
This post was edited on 12/30/17 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:41 pm to Bench McElroy
I watched the episode of Black Mirror she directed. shite was lame
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:42 pm to Bench McElroy
Grown men continuously obsessing over superheroes is a sign of this country’s decline. It’s the same type of children who hero worship a total clown like Trump because he’s “alpha.”
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:44 pm to Bench McElroy
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Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses
Oh look, another elitist bitch.
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I don’t want to make $200 million movies about superheroes.
Great, go make art house movies then and subsequently piss and moan that you don't make the same pay as Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, or Pratt.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:45 pm to Bench McElroy
The problem is more about studios trying to make content that is worth high ticket prices and translates around the world. That means more Transformers, Fast and Furious, Star Wars, and Superman type efforts.
Jodie has an overly pretentious view of major movies. They have always been mostly mediocre. Escalating prices and the need to cross cultural boundaries means more visual spectacle and sound in modern movies.
But if she wants to make great independent movies or act in plays those art forms would welcome her.
Jodie has an overly pretentious view of major movies. They have always been mostly mediocre. Escalating prices and the need to cross cultural boundaries means more visual spectacle and sound in modern movies.
But if she wants to make great independent movies or act in plays those art forms would welcome her.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:48 pm to Bench McElroy
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Big budget films are ruining the future of Hollywood,
preach, jodie
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is like fracking - you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth.
jesus christ. kill yourself, jodie
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:49 pm to Bench McElroy
Ehh....I think it's a weak argument. Good movies are still being made, people just aren't showing up to watch them. That's not Marvel or DCs fault.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 12:56 pm to Bench McElroy
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Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses
Maybe they should make better content.
Some of the superhero movies have been awesome.
Nothing is stopping these studios from making risky movies also.
Posted on 12/30/17 at 1:05 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Ehh....I think it's a weak argument. Good movies are still being made, people just aren't showing up to watch them. That's not Marvel or DCs fault.
Bingo. She's saying this as The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, Down Sizing (apparently it's bad but it's still a "small" unique movie), The Disaster Artist, Three Billboards, and a bunch fo others are easily watchable in mid sized and above cities.
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