Busting the Block - Reaction Shots Discussion Topic
Added 2018-02-23 19:12:27 +0000 UTCThis month, sort of in line with our B-Movie discussion, we're going to discuss Blockbusters!
I will be out of town when the Oscars go up, so we will have to discuss that in April.
We're going to cover the history of Blockbusters, Jaws, Star Wars, etc. And their evolution into today!
We'll probably talk a lot about Marvel movies.
We mentioned Blockbusters in our B-Movie discussion, but I thought they were worth discussing in their own right. These are the biggest budget, biggest grossing, buzziest-at-the-office/school/patreon-funded-web-media-outfit and we're going to discuss the art and science behind them.
What's your favorite Blockbuster?
Why do I keep capitalizing Blockbuster?
What's wrong with Blockbusters?
What's right with Blockbusters?
Was Jaws the first Blockbuster?
How did the idea behind Blockbusters change the cinematic landscape forever, both in the business and the art of filmmaking?
What counts as a Blockbuster? If something is low budget but blows up huge, is it a Blockbuster?
Is Blockbuster a genre, a business term, a critique?
Can something be called a Blockbuster before it comes out, or can it only be applied after we've seen it's box office gross?
What are some of the biggest Blockbuster flops of all time?
Do the sensationalist films of the 50s-- think Cinerama, widescreen, technicolor, casts of thousands, Odorama, Duo-Vision, 3D-- count as Blockbusters, or were Blockbusters born in 1975?
In the 50s film needed to get crazy to distract from TV, how is that different from/similar to today?
