Posted on 06/29/2024 2:55:20 PM PDT by Twotone
What will be the blockbuster movies of Summer 2024? Entertainment Weekly published a list at the beginning of May, which was helpful provided you eliminate mere summer releases (I Saw the TV Glow, Babes, Firebrand, Inside Out 2, The Watchers, Janet Planet, Despicable Me 4, The Instigators, Kinds of Kindness, Fly Me to the Moon, It Ends With Us, The Bikeriders, Blink Twice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) and everything being released on streaming (Atlas, Hit Man, Ultraman: Rising, Trigger Warning, The Union, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The Instigators, Jackpot, Appollo 13: Survival).
Which leaves a much smaller group of big budget action films and spectacles (almost totally free of MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe] content, it must be noted) aiming to entice us into theatres and make the top of Variety's box office charts: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die, Kevin Costner's two-part western Horizon, MaXXXine, Transformers: High Moon, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus and The Crow. A lot of remakes, reboots and sequels, very few original ideas, and every one of them arriving with big production and marketing budgets that need to be made back.
I can only speak for myself, but who cares? Every summer arrives with at least a half dozen hopeful blockbusters grasping for our dollars, like beggars in designer clothes. And I'm old enough to remember before films presented themselves with such audacity; a time when movie studios assumed that we preferred to spend our summers on vacation, at the cottage or the beach, when the weeks before and after Christmas were when you booked big budget productions in every movie palace and neighbourhood theatre that would show them.
It was a long time ago, and it all ended with a movie about a fish.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
YES!
Mark Steyn didn’t write this article. Rick McGinnis did.
Whatever it is they better be quiet, feature gay sex scenes, warn about global warming, and have no white people.
The scariest part was the shock when that head appears from the boat window underwater.
I read the book. We had moved from Vancouver, Washington to 20 acres on the sude of Mt. Adams so there was no TV at our house in the Summer of 1975
LOL! Bad idea to go against Spielberg when it comes to chocolate. M&Ms turned down his request to feature E.T. eating them - and he used Reeces Pieces instead - exploding their sales overnight.
They produce nothing I care to see. Further they don’t like people like me and often make crap to shove their beliefs in my face.
When I saw Jaws in the theater, at the part where Chief Brody is chumming the water and the shark appears, I instinctively jerked my hand back and smacked the lady sitting next to me!
I think she was so startled by that scene that she didn’t even notice I hit her!
Summer of 75 was great...just great!
Actually, Rick McGinnis, who writes the movie reviews for Steyn on Line. But yes, FAIL!
“Bad Boys Ride or Die” was excellent. “Twisters” looks good.
My friend, actor and director Nick Searcy, says his son-in-law wrote a great script called “Thelma” which is coming out-—a “Beekeeper” with a 93 year old woman wanting to get the people who scammed her out of money. Says its funny and touching. The lead is played by . . . a 93 year old woman! It also features Richard Roundtree (Shaft) in his final role before death.
The book said Mrs. Brody was giving a highway hummer???
Oh, yeah.
It was the first time I had it confirmed that girls did stuff like that. I thought the guys was pulling my leg.
They weren’t.
I was such an innocent.
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