Except for X-men, none of those are "blockbusters" by any normal definition of the term. And X-men came out like 4 months ago. So it's no wonder that people think that Hollywood took a pass on this year's blockbuster season.
A movie that even those of us who don't care that much about movies and don't watch TV (read: me) can't escape hearing about.
I barely know what Edge of Tomorrow and Dawn of Planet of the Apes are, and only because I saw the previews for them during X-men. Other than that I heard Dawn got some bad reviews. I've heard of 21 Jump Street the TV show, and I'm guessing I missed the first movie and they're incrementing the number in a maddeningly inaccurate style a la Ocean's 12+ (where's 1-20 Jump Streets, god dammit???) I heard of How to Train Your Dragon, but I didn't realize they made a movie of it, and I never heard of Snowpiercer before this post.
That's the sum total of my incidental exposure to these so-called "blockbusters". I don't recall seeing any special slurpee cups with lids shaped to look like apes or dragons or edges or jumps or snowpiercers or whatever at 7-11.
Do you only pull your head out of the sand to get slurpees? And if you don't care about movies then why are you wasting your time whining about an article about them? This question is rhetorical.
I tried to come up with a way of defining "Blockbuster" based on gross revenue compared to median household income coupled with a percentage ROI so that, say, GODZILLA 1998 didn't qualify, but then I decided to get a life instead. So y'all figure it out.
I barely know what Edge of Tomorrow and Dawn of Planet of the Apes are, and only because I saw the previews for them during X-men. Other than that I heard Dawn got some bad reviews. I've heard of 21 Jump Street the TV show, and I'm guessing I missed the first movie and they're incrementing the number in a maddeningly inaccurate style a la Ocean's 12+ (where's 1-20 Jump Streets, god dammit???) I heard of How to Train Your Dragon, but I didn't realize they made a movie of it, and I never heard of Snowpiercer before this post.
That's the sum total of my incidental exposure to these so-called "blockbusters". I don't recall seeing any special slurpee cups with lids shaped to look like apes or dragons or edges or jumps or snowpiercers or whatever at 7-11.