Charlize Theron slams fluff obsessed film fans
Charlize Theron has hit out at film fans, claiming modern audiences are obsessed with “fluff’.
The actress is bitter her most recent movie The Valley of Elah underperformed at the box office and is frustrated she can’t find more roles playing strong women, like in 2005’s North Country, and Monster - which won her a Best Actress Oscar in 2004.
Theron says, “I asked Michael Seitzman, who wrote North Country, ‘Why don’t you write these kind of stories more; these roles for women?’ He said, ‘There isn’t the demand for it.’ It’s not necessarily Hollywood’s fault. People don’t go to see these movies. I think it’s a bigger problem. We’ve become completely fluff obsessed.”
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May 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I am sorry that after staying home all day with kids and up several times a night I want to see a cheesy movie like Made of Honor once in awhile. I should be beaten for not wanting to see something that will depress me.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I agree with Erin. I think that “fluff” is a nice escape from the sad things that assault us everyday on the news. Yes, I understand that it is important to be informed etc, but movies are supposed to be an enjoyable escape. Frankly, many of these heavy movies are not that great anyway… Monster was not that great, glad she won an award, but very depressing flick.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Seriously, what’s wrong with being “fluff obsessed”? To my way of thinking, we have more than enough serious, depressing etc stuff going on around us in real life. When I watch a movie, I want to escape. Pardon me, but I don’t think that can qualify as a “serious social problem”.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
If Charlize had the kind of jobs some of her fans have she wouldn’t be so sanctimonious and pretentious. She didn’t complain about those fluff movies she was doing just a few years ago. I remember having the life sucked out of me by her bad films.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Charlize is so full of herself.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Maybe Charlize’s movies don’t do well not because of the topic, but maybe because of her being in them? I get she won the Oscar and all but I think people were just impressed she “uglied” herself down for the role and showed up to the Oscars looking like an Oompa Loompa dripped in diamonds. I don’t think there’s anything extraordinary about her as an actress. Get over yourself.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:15 am
I’m sorry but Valley of Elah sucked that’s why it didn’t do well. It was boring and I know it was based a true story but that movie just did not play out well at all. It was slow, boring and lacked [interesting] dialogue.
Also a lot of her movies in the beginning were fluff, what was that November movie? Maybe she’s a good actress but the movies I’v seen her in, I didn’t like. They all just lacked something.
The reason people like fluff is because we have to deal with the brutal reality of life on a daily basis. Why can’t we just escape every now and again?
Besides I miss those fluff movies from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Even then the dramas they filmed were still done in a way that you didn’t feel like the world was some terrible, horrible place.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I hardly call sitting on the computer all day talking shit about celebs ‘dealing with reality’.