Well being as this will be the last Weekly Movie Thread for August I will count it as the end of Summer Blockbuster Season. Now I am aware that most Blockbusters should have been released by July and August usually has relatively few, but as I traditionally relate August to summer I usually let that go (also I usually see more in August such as when I will finally go see the new Fantastic Four). Blockbusters date all the way back to the summer of 1975 with the release of Jaws (well, modern blockbusters anyway). A Big budget, summer release that is enjoyed by audiences and by critics, Jaws has it all: iconic scenes, dialogue, and score, great characters and set pieces and many rows of teeth.

Since this time there have been many different iterations of the modern Blockbuster, from sharks to dinosaurs to aliens blowing up the White House and so much more. On the flip side of this not all summer movies are blockbusters. Sometimes people want to laugh or see a family movie. Indie flicks are released because they don’t have to compete for the blockbuster audience. In today’s day and age a lot of original content is dropped on streaming some of which definitely falls in the category of Blockbuster movies. At the end the intent is the same, get your eyes in front of a screen, get your ears near a speaker and hopefully entertain. And these days a lot of the Studios focus is on really big stuff, budgets, actors, special effects and so on. Everything has ballooned in cost, and studios have shifted towards making a lot of movies bigger and bigger as time goes on (somewhat ironically also making smaller movies at the same time, largely leaving streaming services to take up the middle ground). But the make-up and landscape of movie releases is not the focus today, no, today we ask one of the big questions as one of our most esteemed Brain’s asked many times “are you pondering what I’m pondering?”.

And today I wanted to look back over the summer movie season, blockbuster or otherwise. Look back and appreciate the pas 4ish months, or possibly even 5-6 months as blockbuster season seems to start earlier every year. So this weeks prompt is simple: As you look back what are your thoughts on this summer movie season? I have two. 1. Superman really lived up to the hype. It may not have lit the box office on fire, but it still performed respectively while it also gave me a Superman movie that fulfilled most of the things I wanted to see while also having a spectacular villain. 2. I thought I was going to skip The Naked Gun in theatres, but word of mouth turned it into a priority and it was really funny and worth it for me, like Superman I wish id had done better at the box office but either way I am grateful for the experience.