Every summer brings the release of the summer blockbusters. This year we seen several movies with big hype. Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End, Spider-Man 3, and Transformers were three that had excessive hype and were warmly received that the box office. Personally, I did not think any of the films stood out as being spectacular. Spider-Man 3 was cheesy and over the top. Especially with the dance scenes. I think Director Sam Raimi was trying for "Spider-Man the Musical". It was poorly done overall. The movie did have some redeeming moments but really failed to deliver based on the hype surrounding it. Transformers was not much better. It was another movie that had considerable hype surrounding it. However, I honestly don't think anyone actually expected Transformers to be revolutionary. Overall, it was not a terrible movie. However, the Sector 7 part could have totally been left out as it really lowered the quality of the film. It certainly had some very cleaver writing at spots and intense special effects. However, like all showy summer blockbusters, it uses its special effects to carry it. Pirates 3 was probably the best out of the bunch with regard to overall quality. However, it was certainly a let down in many ways. Primarily because its was poorly marketed. I think most people went in expecting a lot out of the Pirate Lords. When, in actuality they just kinda sat and watched everything happen.
It seems like Summer Blockbusters are just a chance for production companies to display awesome special effects. However, sometimes a great plot and creative story along with these special effects wouldn't hurt. I would argue that movies like all great art are composed of a formula. When you take excellent writing, excellent acting, excellent editing, excellent directing, and excellent special effects and combine them together in one film you will get an excellent movie. It seems logical. However, with blockbusters, it seems like at least one of the prior mentioned categories is lost. Unfortunately it is usually writing, editing or both. I personally think with a little more effort, these blockbusters could be much better films.
~Decimatus
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i agree. every summer it seems like directors like michael bay want to have a competition to see who can blow up the most stuff and still manage a barely coherent movie. they do away with little things like storyline and attention to any detail that doesn't involve flames or explosions.
Haha, well what did you expect out of Pirates 3, a LotR-style Helm's Deep stand-off?
... actually, that would have been pretty cool, but I digress.
Yeah, a lot of blockbuster movies these days seem to try and cater to far too many audiences at once. They want the action crowd, the romance crowd, the drama crowd, the comedy crowd, and they end up trying to mash all those into a single screenplay to [usually] ill effect. I guess you can slap enough gloss on anything in order to make back your production budget. If Citizen Kane came out in theaters nowadays, it'd probably be a flop. And that says something very disappointing about the movie-going public.
Dear Darth,
No movies as of late seem to live up to the hype and always seem to leave you wishing they had done things differently...summer blockbusters are no exception
You're right, it seems that the summer movies are merely a way for the directors to show off the effects. Remember, you're not going to the movies to see a real movie, you're going for a 2 hour display of explosions.
I haven't actually been to the movies in a good while because I've had difficulty justifying it -- there seemingly has been few movies worth my time. There are obvious exceptions to the rule, but even that comes to only about a handful of movies per year.
Storylines are overrated anyway, right?
i cannot comment on transformers because i did not see it but i feel like pirates 3 was missing something (possibly more of a story or a clearer story)... i agree with you on spiderman 3 as well, it seemed really cheesy to me
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