Summer Blockbuster: Difference between revisions

The modern summer blockbuster began primarily with three movies: ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]],'' ''[[Star Wars]],'' and ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (the [[Trope Maker]], [[Trope Namer|Namer]], and [[Trope Codifier|Codifier]], respectively) and continued on from there, opening up space for films that previously would have been considered too risky or expensive to make: the first ''[[Terminator]]'' movie, ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to The Future]],'' ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]],'' and so on. Because the good ones do, in fact, yield [[Money, Dear Boy|Big Bucks]], people continue to make them today.

Summer blockbusters are often at odds with critics because as a general rule they emphasize flash over substance. In fact, many critics have an extreme bias against movies of the type for [[Bias Steamroller|generally no reason other than their existence.]] Consider ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' (not the animated one, oddly) which actually received more positive reviews than negative reviews -- a fact often ignored by those who insisted that poor critical reception against the sequel was due to an anti-''[[Transformers]]'' bias on the part of critics.