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Battleship, directed by Peter Berg, is a very entertaining movie, unlike most smash-and-bang films of today. In fact, I liked it better than The Avengers. (Blasphemy!)
More than half of Americans said that they would be afraid of a race of extraterrestrials invading Planet Earth, according to a recent CNN poll.
At the end of 2011, many media analysts were predicting the demise of movie theaters, but the reality is this: the movie theater exhibition business really doesn't look to be in that much trouble.
The blockbuster problem in The Avengers is the writers' desire to turn a nuclear weapon into a golden bullet that can save the day -- even if this bomb is more likely to ruin it.
Families taking children to summer blockbuster after intergalactic war thriller would do well to end the evening with a conversation about the sacrifices incumbent in such fantastically bright explosions.
The way Joss Whedon and company present their female superheros merits acknowledgment primarily because of what they don't do. In short, they don't draw one damn bit of attention to it.
So you want to make a movie -- a hit movie, no less -- in the 2010s, one that truly captures the zeitgeist of pop culture in the Tens? Here are ten Tens trends that all should consider when making a new movie:
With sequels, explosive superhero adventures and eye-popping animated flicks taking over theaters this summer, it might be hard to decide what films are worth your family's time.
Joe Jonas teams up with Pepsi's "Live For Now" global campaign to help inspire fans around the world to live in the moment. Check out the following interview with Joe on how it will work.
Like the thematic all-star game it is, everybody in The Avengers is jockeying for a position and gets a little bit of shine. But for me, the sole stealer of scenes in the film was Cobie Smulders.
This morning, I was given orders to "write something about The Avengers." Here's the problem: I have nothing left to say about The Avengers because everything that could possibly be said about The Avengers has been said. Most people like The Avengers. Some people didn't like The Avengers. Alas, that's the way our planet works.
I just loved "The Avengers." I had never before seen the Black Widow...or Captain America...or Thor...and I had only seen part of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
There are so many ways a grand conglomeration of super heroes could turn into a car wreck (case in point: The Fantastic Four), that we should be grateful when a film manages just to clear that bar
For devoted followers of Joss Whedon's TV shows, the success of "The Avengers" is all the more sweet. Everyone who's ever championed Whedon's work probably spent half this weekend saying: "See? I told you he was a frakkin' genius!"
The Avengers may not overtake Avatar as the highest grossing movie, but it seems poised to give it a run for the money. What's the formula of a blockbuster?
The Avengers shatters the last barrier separating the printed page and the celluloid image, fully wresting the superhero genre away from the medium that birthed it.
