Film is dead! Long live film! and so on...
Ahhh... it's that time of year again -- summer movie season. In case anyone isn't paying attention, there are several distinct seasons of movies throughout the year. Of course there are always exceptions, but in general from the start of May through mid-August is the summer season. This is when you see the big action movies that kids who are out of school for the summer can spend time going to over and over. September is where bad movies go to die -- never get excited about anything coming out in September. Never. Go see something if you want, but if you don't get your hopes up you just might be pleasantly suprised (see exceptions comment above). October-December are when the "big" oscar movies come out, the ones that are expected to be profitable in their own right, along with courting a little gold statue.
January-February is awards season - this is when the smaller oscar-bait movies start seeing a wider release (see, to be eligible for an Oscar a movie has to premier in New York City and L.A. by December 31, so a lot of smaller films will play one theater for 1 day in each city, and ride the coattails of (hopefully) positive buzz from all the critics who saw their movie to a wider release. This is also a play to keep their movies fresher in the minds of voters when those little ballots come out.)
March/April is another pseudo-wasteland. About the best you can hope for here is a good sundance festival movie to pop up (a la Black Snake Moan).
In the meantime, you can busy yourself with May sweeps on tv (heroes, lost) and netflix gems like Alpha Dog. I'm not saying Justin Timberlake is the greatest actor since, I dunno, some really incredible actor, but I will say that the guy doesn't suck. Dick in a Box, and his SNL appearances in general, are funny funny stuff, and he's made good choices and turned in non-self-embarrassing performances in two smallish movies in a reasonable attempt to build some acting credibility and not try to pull a Glitter-like explosion into film. He's doing good, and people need to give him a chance.
Oh, yeah, and Spiderman 3 didn't suck. Long live Bruce Campbell!
January-February is awards season - this is when the smaller oscar-bait movies start seeing a wider release (see, to be eligible for an Oscar a movie has to premier in New York City and L.A. by December 31, so a lot of smaller films will play one theater for 1 day in each city, and ride the coattails of (hopefully) positive buzz from all the critics who saw their movie to a wider release. This is also a play to keep their movies fresher in the minds of voters when those little ballots come out.)
March/April is another pseudo-wasteland. About the best you can hope for here is a good sundance festival movie to pop up (a la Black Snake Moan).
In the meantime, you can busy yourself with May sweeps on tv (heroes, lost) and netflix gems like Alpha Dog. I'm not saying Justin Timberlake is the greatest actor since, I dunno, some really incredible actor, but I will say that the guy doesn't suck. Dick in a Box, and his SNL appearances in general, are funny funny stuff, and he's made good choices and turned in non-self-embarrassing performances in two smallish movies in a reasonable attempt to build some acting credibility and not try to pull a Glitter-like explosion into film. He's doing good, and people need to give him a chance.
Oh, yeah, and Spiderman 3 didn't suck. Long live Bruce Campbell!
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