Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)

[jye4ever]

 

[abake]

JAWS created summer blockbusters

SW created merchandising toys

PT created you raped my childhood

Actually, I think it was The Godfather that created the blockbuster phenomenon.
Read it in some book about movies from the 70's.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Actually, I think it was The Godfather that created the blockbuster phenomenon.
Read it in some book about movies from the 70's.

I thought The Graduate created the blockbuster phenomenon?

 

[YankeesFanboy]

I hate citing it, but according to Wikipedia.

Before Jaws set box office records in the summer of 1975, successful films, such as Quo Vadis, The Ten Commandments, Gone With the Wind, and Ben-Hur, were called blockbusters based purely on the amount of money earned at the box office. Jaws is regarded as the first film of New Hollywood's "blockbuster era" with its current meaning, implying a film genre.[5] It also consolidated the "summer blockbuster" trend, through which major film studios and distributors planned their entire annual marketing strategy around a big release by July 4.[6]

Jaws exceeded $100,000,000 in ticket sales and for a time this was the point at which a film could be designated a blockbuster in North America.[7] However earlier films such as Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Sound of Music (1965) easily passed this threshold.[8]

After the success of Jaws, many Hollywood producers attempted to create similar "event films" with wide commercial appeal. Film companies began green lighting increasingly high budgeted films and relying extensively on massive advertising blitzes leading up to their theatrical release.

Although the term "blockbuster" was originally defined by audience response, after a while the term came to mean a high-budget production aimed at mass markets, with associated merchandising, on which the financial fortunes of film studio or distributor depended. It was defined by its production budget and marketing effort rather than its success and popularity, and was essentially a tag which a film's marketing gave itself. In this way it became possible to refer to films such as Hollywood's Godzilla (1998) or Last Action Hero as both a blockbuster and a box-office disaster.[9]

 

[YoNoSe]

JAWS created summer blockbusters

SW created merchandising toys

PT created you raped my childhood

You can blame GL for the PT but some sad, sad nerd is responsible for "raped my childhood." That dude should have a statue created in his honor. With a built-in urinal.

 

[YoNoSe]

That finale sequence in TPM never gets old though; it's like Barnum & Bailey's stopped in & posed for photos on the steps of the Naboo town centre before going to the next mutant midget convention.

For some reason this made me imagine Tom Cruise as young Anakin.

 

[OSCORP]

 

[Xenoburger_]

I hate you.

 

[jye4ever]

Me neither.

 

[Lejuan]

Not all of us read this forum from a basement. I've got kids around.

 

[YoNoSe]

Going out like a chump, eh Oscorp? Classy.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Not all of us read this forum from a basement. I've got kids around.

That's why I keep my kids in the locked in the basement

 

[CriterionCollector]

Back to Star Wars. Can't wait to see Luke Skywalker in a light saber duel 30 years later.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

We now resume your regularly scheduled thread. Thread cleaned.

 

[YoNoSe]

We now resume your regularly scheduled thread. Thread cleaned.

Well done.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Despite all the T and A, the enduring image will be that infected foot. It looked like mung bean sprouts or something.

 

[jye4ever]

I'm afraid to now drink my water and think of that foot.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Every time you've got an itch on the bottom of your foot, you'll think about it. As will I.

 

[YoNoSe]

Congrats, and RIP, Oscorp. Your legacy is an infected foot.

George Lucas wins this battle.

 

[Xenoburger_]

Disappointed in lack of boobies.