The actress gets candid about her superhero film flopping: "It's not nice to be a part of something that's ripped to shreds, but I can't say that I don't understand."

“It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee,” she added. “Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to fucking want to see those.”

  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    5346·
    8 months ago

    My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart

    Wow that’s funny because my feeling has always been exactly the opposite. It’s why quippy, vapid bullshit like the Avengers and star wars is so popular.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 months ago

        I love art but sometimes art is bullshit I can watch once and that’s ok. Other times art is shit like avatar that I’ll watch over and over as comfort tv for life because it’s good enough to be worth it. And then other times I’ll gladly spend 4 hours watching the first 2 hours of a 3 hour video on twilight because it’s very artistically dense and my wife and I need to keep discussing the bits of it. Not everything I watch can be the latter, some of the stuff will need to be the former.

    • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      261·
      8 months ago

      Bruh sometimes you need to feed the caveman part of your brain. Smart people know that. The unga bunga spectacle is why you go.

    • ShepherdPie
      171·
      8 months ago

      I think there’s different audiences. You’re referring to a general, mainstream audience, while I think she’s referring to an audience that would be interested in an artsy film going into it.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        I have room in my heart for both Paul Thomas Anderson films and Infinity War.

        Just because I like a good wine and cheese party doesn’t mean I can’t also appreciate a day at the amusement park.

      • EssentialCoffeeEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think anyone believes Madame Web was supposed to be an artsy film.

        • ShepherdPie
          3·
          8 months ago

          I honestly haven’t seen it but I think the point still stands that there can be different types of audiences with different tastes. It seems like she’s afraid everything is going to go the route of Star Wars and Marvel.