Two things to note:
1) I strongly believe that movies, especially comic book superhero movies, should also be trilogies, no more. Star Wars, Matrix, X-Men (hopefully they will not make the rumored 4th), Indian Jones, Rambo Bourne Identity, and Back to the Future have all followed this. Movies like the original Superman, original Batman, Halloween, Poltergeist, Friday the Thirteenth, Saw (they will beet this into the ground), Rocky, Karate Kid (the forgettable, "Next Karate Kid") made one or more too many films. Spider-Man should stop at three. They have exhausted all the villains and the storyline. Period. Move on.
2) With that mentioned, how can Tobey Maguire say he want to make more "serious" movies that get people to think. Okay, he was in CIder House Rules, a very serious and well done movie about abortion. Thats it. Let's look at some of his other "serious" roles that have really gotten the world to think about important issues.
- Revenge of the Red Barron ( The Red Baron returns in a toy plane to kill the former World War I ace that shot him down.)
- SFW (An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines., also featuring Stephen Dorff, a joke of a human being).
- Empire Records (The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain, and his scenes were actually cut from the movie, yet he is still credited in the movie)
- Joyride ( To a dumpy motel in an out-of-the-way little town, a mysterious woman, calling herself only Ms. Smith, comes to stay)
- The Ice Storm ( 1973, suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink, etc., find their lives out of control.)
- Pleasantville ( Two teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.)
- Ride with the devil ( Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Women and Blacks know their place, costarring Skeet Ulrich during the time there was a rumor he had committed suicide and was gay)
- Wonder Boys (An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in., actually a good movie quite witty and funny but because of Michael Douglas)
- Don's Plum (A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives; might be his auto-biography)
- Cats and Dogs (A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, which their human owners are blissfully unaware of. Does the voice of Jeff Goldblum's dog. At first I thought this was a fake movie but he actually made it in 2001)
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