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August 19, 2005
Blockbuster fatigue: Spielberg explains
Steven Spielberg explains epic-fatigue toTom Shone of the Guardian: "Times have changed... It's like when the first 747 landed at Los Angeles international airport: everybody thought flying through the sky was the most greatest marvel they had ever seen - floating through the air, seemingly in slow motion. Today we never even look at 747s. They're a dime a dozen, and it's that way with the blockbuster. If there was one blockbuster every 3 years, it meant a lot more than when you have a blockbuster every 3 weeks. It's the job of each of these studios to market these movies as the must-see movie of the year, so they go after blockbuster status by creating a grand illusion. Sometimes they've got a real engine behind that grand illusion, meaning the movie is damned good and the audience will say they got their money's worth. Other times the audience comes on the promise of seeing something they've never ever seen before and it becomes just another sci-fi action yarn, and they feel disappointed."
Posted by pride at August 19, 2005 02:59 PM
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