Jodie Foster Says the Superhero Movie Phase Has "Lasted a Little Too Long" and "Hopefully People Get Sick of It"
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the current state of the superhero film genre because the movies aren’t performing as well as they used to at the box office. I think we all saw this coming, especially when Marvel started to put their focus on quantity of quality and they tell the same story over and over again.
During a recent interview with Elle magazine Jodie Foster shared her thoughts on superhero movies and she says that it’s a phase that has lasted “a little too long.” She explained:
“It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases. Hopefully people will be sick of it soon. The good ones — like ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Matrix’ — I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
I’ve got some good news for Foster… people are getting sick. of it! That’s why they aren’t showing up at the theaters in droves to watch them anymore. But, Marvel Studios and DC Studios starting to implement changes to get people excited about these comic book movies again, we just don’t know yet if these changes are going to work.
Foster went on to share that Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of her favorite movies and the kind of movie that did change her life. She said:
“The Daniels. They made my favorite movie perhaps of all time, Everything Everywhere All at Once. That’s the film that I will return to over and over again whenever I feel depressed or sad.
“I first saw it with one of my sons, and we held hands and pinched each other and cried for 45 minutes afterward. And then I saw it with my other son a week later, and it just opened a portal of connection and understanding and hope. He started telling me everything from his high school that he’d never told me, and we were walking in the rain crying and opening up. And I was like, ‘This is what film can do.'”
Yeah, we need more movies like that.