X-Men:First Class director Matthew Vaughn recently talked with the LA Times and had some interesting things to say about the recent run of superhero movies Hollywood is turning out.
"It's been mined to death and in some cases the quality control is not what it's supposed to be. People are just going to get bored of it."
On why he chose to direct X-Men:First Class...
"I've always wanted to do a big-budget superhero film and I think we've kind of crossed the Rubicon with superhero films. I think [the opportunity to do one], it's only going to be there two or three more times."
"Then," he added,
"the genre is going to be dead for a while because the audience has just been pummeled too much."
"It is a crowded room. It's too crowded."
On the subject of not directing X=Men 3...
"As it happens, I could have made something a hundred times better than the film that was eventually made," Vaughn told the Daily Telegraph. "It sounds arrogant, but I could have done something with far more emotion and heart."
Hawksblueyes: I hope he's wrong about this but he more than likely is not. Hollywood has always seemed to run in cycles.