Sunday 9 August 2020

What was the best summer ever for big-budget film?

What was the best summer ever for big-budget film?

Planet-killing asteroids! Alien invasions! Sneaky dinosaurs! These were the existential threats that 45 years of summer blockbusters had pre-programmed us to expect. Instead, something rather more insidious wiped 2020’s May-to-August movie slate clean, depriving audiences of their usual buffet of unmissable communal spectacles and/or over-marketed idiotainment. Starved of popcorn entertainment, it seems natural to look back hungrily. So what were the most explosive movie summers of the past?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/08/blockbuster-battle-royale-what-was-the-best-summer-ever-for-big-budget-film?source=Snapzu

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