Summer
Mooooo-vie Season 2017
Having
a cow with how bad the movie summer have been? Sure, if you like
movies from comic books (Guardians
Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2)
or the Superhero genre (Wonder
Woman,
Spider-Man:
Homecoming),
or thought the CGI sequels (Cars
3,
Despicable
Me 3)
worked, than you are likely enjoying some of the releases. Yet,
there have been awful films that should have never been made (highly
unnecessary CHiPs
and Baywatch
revivals) and other sequels where the movie franchises are on auto
pilot, feel phoned-in and have zero energy.
You'll
see some smaller films become surprise hits, which is a plus for
moviegoers, but it is obvious that the many disappointments (the last
King Arthur film years ago was lame, so how much better could another
one be?) goes to show that too many people at too many parts of all
the studios and major production companies are more interested in
just getting your money than actually giving you a good time for it.
If you're not buying the tie-in toys or various products promoted
with the film (snack cakes, for instance), overseas box-office have
become the new Happy Meals for the bottom line, but that only goes so
far and just admits neglect of the U.S. audience.
So,
if you want to see a movie, just don't go see it if it happens to be
there. Try out a smaller film over a larger, bloated one. The
season still has releases worth looking forward to (Dunkirk
is an Oscar contender getting a rare summer-first release like
Braveheart
did) and we'll see how long the heartless automatic sequels can match
on.
It's
great to have home video better than ever, but seeing a great film on
a big screen is best of all and when we get glutted with lame duds
with more bells and whistles than the history of Barnum & Bailey,
studios foreign and domestic so us no favors. Pick and choose
wisely!
This
originally appeared on our homepage in the latter part of Summer 2017
to mid-September.
