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.
!!!
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?
"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?
Before Jaws, Hollywood didn't realize they could make BIG PILES OF MONEY by releasing big event movies during the summer. They really didn't have anything in the pipeline for 1976.
Interesting.
I don't know 1976, but you can probably guess what the one from 1977 was.
Heh, see, that's the thing. I don't know how many of the big, popular movies were
summer
movies, you know? And some of the summer blockbusters of yore may not have been actual good movies and so aren't talked about as much.
