The exploits of blockbuster films

    Ever since the late 1970's anew genre of film has been around, the blockbuster.  A blockbuster is a film that attempts to  exploits as many movie goers as possible, and using as many cheap gimicks as possible.  Blockbusters are only made to produce as much money as possible in any way possible, are not a true form of artwork, and are devoid of all story telling means.  Examples of films that follow this trend are the star wars prequels, Jack and Jill, Avatar.

I think that the Star Wars prequels speak for themselves when I mention that they are pourly made films only created in order to captivate the undeveloped minds of small children who enjoy watching shiny objects for hours on end, and to sell alot (ALOT!) of merchandise.  I think every one lost with this one.

The film Jack and Jill was so bad (even the kids who liked the star wars prequels, were not impresed by this one) and it has rceived a 3% rating on rotten tomatoes (so its really rotten).  The sad truth is that by   getting others to watch this terrifying peice of "art", the people involved in the creation of this film still generated an immence amount of money through product placement.  I'd also like to point out that is pretty sad when the funniest thing in your movie is the fact that Alpachino is in it.

Avatar was not a terrible movie, it was great visualy, and it did advance the technology in filmaking (althougn in the wrong direction). The problem I have with Avatar that it is the top grossing movie of all time, but you could compare it to pochahontas and dances with wolves until your blue in the face (yes I sayed that... what are to do about huh).  All James Cameron did was take the same old cookie cutter setting, made it three hours long, then just hyped it up alot (ALOT!).

This shows us that there are alot (ALOT!) of films out there that are only made so its creators may stick there grimy little fingers into your wallet and take your cash.  This is not to say that there no more good movies out there that make good profit, this just ,eens that you should be a little cautious when trying to chose what film you want to watch because you could end up watching Star Wars episodes 7-9(this is real, George Lucas is planning on making a third trilogy [I alsi heard rumors that it has a time travel plot for more opportunities to tinker with original saga]) or maybe Indiana Jones 5 (This definetly happening I say in the news paper the other day [and its going to take pkace inside of a haunted castle]) ... someone should really put the lucas ranch out of its misery (in other words, you plant the bomb, while I retrieve the milenium falcon).