Matthew Vaughn Thinks People Are Going To Get Bored With Superhero Movies!

Matthew Vaughn Thinks People Are Going To Get Bored With Superhero Movies!

X-Men:First Class director Matthew Vaughn tells us that he thinks Superhero movies are running out of time.

By Hawksblueyes - Aug 06, 2010 11:08 AM EST
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Source: Hero Complex



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.

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Urban8er
Urban8er - 8/6/2010, 11:49 AM
NEVER!!!
Konel110693
Konel110693 - 8/6/2010, 12:00 PM
i agree with this statement many movies are being made and with time the general audience will get bored and i agree that he well in fact anybody could have made a better movie than that crap movie
RoscoeFolgers
RoscoeFolgers - 8/6/2010, 12:09 PM
Christ, this guy's an asshat. Kick-Ass blew and so will First Class.
NJdevil12
NJdevil12 - 8/6/2010, 12:18 PM
@Roscoe, how did Kick-Ass blow???, and i dont know, i think as long as the movies are of good quality then maybe the audience won't get TOO tired of them any time soon.
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/6/2010, 12:25 PM
not comic book fans.
as long as they more like the likes of iron man,watchmen,x-men 2,the dark knight,spider-man 2,kick ass,300 & sin city.
& less like x-men origins wolverine,x-men 3 & daredevil.
i be in all the way.
NJdevil12
NJdevil12 - 8/6/2010, 12:31 PM
@ deadpool i completely agree except for Daredevil, i actually liked that one lol. Switch that out for Elektra or Ghost Rider :D lol
astromerc
astromerc - 8/6/2010, 12:31 PM
As long as the movie are quality I don't believe Super Hero movies will ever die. Put out more movies like the Dark Knight and no movies like Wolverine or X-men. That is that.
Shaman
Shaman - 8/6/2010, 12:33 PM
NJdevil12 & astromerc- BINGO!

People don't get tired of quality films regardless if they are CBMs. The same could be said of slasher films, chick flicks, slapstick comedies etc. Make it good, and it will always get asses in the seats!
AlReg
AlReg - 8/6/2010, 12:34 PM
I think he's right and comic book fans alone would not be enough to keep the industry alive it needs more people then comic book fans.
StephenJ
StephenJ - 8/6/2010, 12:35 PM
I highly doubt this will happen. There are some many different super hero characters that have yet to be done. A list, B list, AND C LIST. So many stories! Trailers and actors sell movies. As long as the trailers keep coming out nice and giving the same results with the finished project this genre will be just fine
Shaman
Shaman - 8/6/2010, 12:39 PM
True that, Grif! The people should learn the difference between a CBM and a superhero film. Hell, some superhero films aren't even CBMs!!!

And as for his thoughts on X3, that would mean that he could have done 1000 better than Gavin Hood!!! Now's the time to prove it!
ManThing
ManThing - 8/6/2010, 12:44 PM
RoscoeFolgers
RoscoeFolgers - 8/6/2010, 12:45 PM
Kick-Ass blew because it was
A) It was based on a comic that blew.
B) Every character besides Nicolas Cage was terrible.
C) Hit-Girl was irritating.
D) I've never wanted to strangle a character more than Red Mist.
E) Clark Duke is in it. No movie ever gains anything from involving Clark Duke.
F) Most of all, the story has absolutely no point but to show blood. No emotional core, no point to the story, Nothing.

Kick-Ass is nothing more than a movie stoners throw on when they want something to listen to while they're packing their bongs.
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 8/6/2010, 12:45 PM
At least he agrees that he would have done better with X3.
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 8/6/2010, 12:46 PM
grif: Very good point.
ManThing
ManThing - 8/6/2010, 12:48 PM
@ Matthew Vaughn:

Betty
Betty - 8/6/2010, 12:48 PM
He's right y'all.
ManThing
ManThing - 8/6/2010, 12:49 PM
@ Televizion: Your X3 comment made my eyes sting very very badly. Reading that was like being maced.
Shaman
Shaman - 8/6/2010, 12:51 PM
ToughGrappler- The reboots and half-assed scripts really do kill it for the audience. But as i said, the same goes for any genre. After a while, if all comedies get "Will Ferrelised", the whole comedy genre will loose popularity till a great film that breaks the mold comes in. There are many great ways to make amazing superhero films but the studios don't see that. All they see is what's hip at the moment. WB completely failed to see why Nolan's batfilms were so great. They just went "hey look at those numbers!!! Lets turn every other hero into a Nolan dark gritty street film!". Look at what Fox wants to do! Turn Fantastic Four, the most lighthearted superhero franchise ever created, into a dark nolanesque reboot! The movie industry is run by retards and i refuse to blame the eventual downfall of superhero films on the genre itself.
GLFanboy
GLFanboy - 8/6/2010, 12:52 PM
This just in: Women are going to get tired of Romantic Comedies.
Not friggin likely. There's no basis for his opinion. I mean really? What evidence is there? Box office reciepts? Nope those are good. Public interest. That looks pretty good too. It's an assumption based on nothing solid.
Flops are flops and good movies are good movies. Summer blockbusters will never get old and as long as CBM's are done well they will always be box office gold. The public will always need escapism and CBM's provide that in the best possible fashion.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/6/2010, 12:54 PM
Wrong. People are bored of shitty Fox adaptations, not the quality movies that studios like Marvel and Warner Bros make! However, I'm sure he's right that he could have made a much better X-Men 3. That wouldnt have been hard though, lol! :D
ManThing
ManThing - 8/6/2010, 12:56 PM
@ Betty: He's not right, doood. What he said is fricking stupid, and he's saying it because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

There is a WEALTH of fresh material just waiting to get converted into CBM goodness.
Stuff hollywood asshats couldn't possibly come up with on their own.

Oh no comic books are FAR FAR from being mined to death. In fact they are just now hitting the real hey day. This is still just the beginning.

Nope I call bullshit.
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 8/6/2010, 12:56 PM
That wasn't an arrogant comment, its just the truth.
ManThing
ManThing - 8/6/2010, 12:56 PM
@ JoshW: Well said
SHAZAM171
SHAZAM171 - 8/6/2010, 1:07 PM
Never going to get tired of our Superhero movies.... NEVER!!!!!!!!! I'll tell you what's played out.. HIP HOP!!!! Time for a new type of cool music. Hip Hop is dying, I can tell... I can't wait for it to be dead too. BooHahahahahahahaha!!!! >: )~
skidz
skidz - 8/6/2010, 1:09 PM
I don't think they're going to get old. They've been made since Richard Donner's SUPERMAN! It could be right to say that they'll come and go in popular cycles with wide audiences, but I don't think they'll ever die out. If they were going to, the death nell probably would've started with the wide release of BATMAN AND ROBIN! As long as people see them as good STORIES and good MOVIES, they're going to stick around. Just take a look at the Dark Knight! THE HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE EVER MADE!!! AND IT'S BASED ON BATMAN!!!
AlternateNo4
AlternateNo4 - 8/6/2010, 1:10 PM
everybody's comments seem to be correct, but we need to take this as a warning, not as gospel.

YES, the genre IS just hitting its stride, BUT it is in a very dangerous position now because a couple of catwomans and elektras WILL turn people off of seeing good CBMs too. in fact, as excited as i am about these solo movies and even the occasional crossover, i'm really not feeling the whole Avengers or Justice League concept. Those team movies will be a dream come true for US, but if they blow it and turn them into empty, silly fluff, full of one-liners and wisecracks and macho bicep comparisons, the general public will get turned off the genre in an instant.
jazzman
jazzman - 8/6/2010, 1:15 PM
@JoshW

your so right JoshW
AlternateNo4
AlternateNo4 - 8/6/2010, 1:18 PM
and please, this is not a DC vs. Marvel thing, ok? At ALL. I'm confident Thor and Cap (and GL) are doing it right. But i'm thinking Avengers is going to continue down the IM2 road of poor character development, choppy storytelling, and destruction-heavy mini-battles between the heroes themselves like IM vs. Rhodey — "Hulk smash puny hammer-man!" ... "I say thee nay, green Ymir-spawn!" — bleah.
jjmeylar
jjmeylar - 8/6/2010, 1:19 PM
@Televizion: That was an odd comment. Were you breast fed by a radioactive woman as a baby?
NJdevil12
NJdevil12 - 8/6/2010, 1:20 PM
AMEN Shaman, Just because TDK was a dark movie doesnt mean that it'll work for every superhero. It worked for Batman cause he IS a dark character. If they could figure out what exactly makes every hero tick then they wouldnt be trying to make the Fantastic 4 into a dark gritty movie. It'd work for characters like Punisher, Ghost Rider, and Daredevil because thats how they're supposed to be.
HugeCapfan
HugeCapfan - 8/6/2010, 1:21 PM
Lethal weapon, Robocop, the cop-buddy/super cop movies; Rambo, Commando, Diehard, Indiana Jones, superpeople/action movies; When Harry met Sally, Date movies; Date movie, Epic movie, Scary movie, Satire/comedy of movies; Gay movies, Native American movies, Westerns, teen sex comedies ... after awhile the general audience get bored and tired of the genre, and Superhero movies will eventually lose their appeal.
Soon, someone would make a movie like Unforgiven or American Pie that rewrites the genre, but won't explode with dozens or so similar movies.
I predict after the Avengers, the SH movies will fizzle and a few years later, an appealing and fun SH movie would pop up. Just enjoy the SH movies until then.
Orphix
Orphix - 8/6/2010, 1:22 PM
Wow - not usually a big fan of Vaughan but he definitely said something pretty intelligent here.

I am afraid the superhero genre is over satuated massively at the moment and it years are numbered. It's no use comparing it to other genres like westerns or science fiction or crime or whatever because those films do not dominate the market at the same level.

Average audience members are gonna switch off if studios keep doing reboots and sequels with the same characters.

Vaughan is talking about superhero flicks here and not all CBMs. If I was gonna pick my fave CBM then I would probably say Road to Perdition - but not many people even know that was inspired my a graphic novel.

What we need (as Vaughan says) is quality and not quantity. Surely we all wanna see that?

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