I may have, or possibly a Ted Turner cable station...it's one of those things I've seen so much I quit seeing it, if that makes any sense.Like I couldn't tell you when the first time was.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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Here you go, Sean. A rave review for the new Die Hard.
I saw that this morning, Hec, and I meant to come in and post about it! I'm really excited to see it now.
A rave review by someone who seems to believe that blockbuster summer movies are an early 90s innovation, and that evil hackers are a new development in movie villainy.
Odd.
OMG, Strega is not even kidding about that.
an invigorating return to the style of blockbuster that dominated summers back in the early 1990s. In those days, when the blockbuster was new, there was an excitement about it as a popular new form.
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Related: I watched some of Catch and Release last night (partly because I am an idiot and was trying to get my mind off my fiance being gone...by watching a movie about a woman whose fiance dies) and Tim Olyphant is the kind of greasy-yet-sexy that Colin Farrell never mastered.
Glad to see the good review of LFoDH. Yeah, the reviewer sounds like he's about 25 years old, making ridiculous assertions about how long the summer blockbuster has been around, and other silly statements like that.
But I'm excited.
How long has the summer blockbuster been around?
Consensus is Jaws.
"Jaws" is, by most accounts, the first summer blockbuster. It was released in 1975.
That's the oldest movie that came to my mind, too. Thanks.
The thing is, however, did that trend continue yearly? Like, what was the big summer blockbuster of 1976?