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Blockbuster movies rake in the cash
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
5/10/2007 7:50 PM |
This is the summer for blockbuster movies, one that may very well go down in the history books, at least for a few years. I read that Spiderman 3 cost $248 million to produce, which certainly puts it in the far upper levels of the most expensive movies ever made, and maybe even into first place.
I have not seen the movie yet, but will once the throngs thin out somewhat. The several reviews I’ve read have ranked it in quality as falling somewhere between the first and second screen outings of the web-slinger, with the second edition considered by the critics I read, to be the best of the lot. Coming up soon are the latest installments of Pirates of the Caribbean and the Bruce Willis series of Die Hard movies, both of which are hoping to clean up at the box office.
It’s odd about these blockbuster movies. I watch them, I enjoy them, but then I quickly forget them. I could tell you little of the plot of either Spiderman 1 or Spiderman 2, although I saw and enjoyed both. It’s much the same with the Star Wars movies – and the Batman movies. I can tell you the general plan of the movies, but if you want to get specific about plots and characters and story lines, I would quite quickly be in over my head, make that WELL over my head. It may be because I pretty much gave up on fiction in my reading back when I was still a teenager, and perhaps my lack of enthusiasm for the genre spills over into movies, too.
I used to enjoy the novels of Jules Verne, as many young boys still do, and I also liked Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, all of whom set high marks for fiction. But somewhere along the way, I just lost interest in fiction when I started reading non-fiction and learning various facts that I thought would do me well in life.
Now, as a much older guy, I’m not too sure that reading all that non-fiction ever actually did me much good, although it did expand my knowledge of the world we live in, by a considerable degree. However, at the same time, I don’t really feel that I’ve missed much by abandoning all the classic fiction I never quite got around to reading.
Anyway, after this summer of blockbuster movies has set whatever records may be set, and after all the hoopla and hype has died down to just a dull glimmer, perhaps this will be the year I see a movie memorable enough to actually make me remember it for a few years. With a typical movie outing for two costing $20-$30 these days, that would be nice! |
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