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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.
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@guspasho: How about you define blockbuster for us so that we're all on the same page.
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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.
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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.
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@guspasho: So your definition of 'blockbuster' is just a description of how narcissistic you are.
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Seems to me this summer has been pretty good for quality movies ... minus all the micheal bay, of course.
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Godzilla was pretty good, as was Purge 2
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Blockbuster is typically defined as a movie that breaks $100M isn't it?
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Woah, people liked How to Train Your Dragon 2? I heard it was a sappy piece of shit.
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I thought the Ice Age movies were really good. Better than Toy Story, IMO. For what that's worth.
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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.
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Okay but besides Snowpiercer none of the movies you listed were on par or as exceptional as guardians.

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