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Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 3:18:03 PM

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All summer long it seems I was treated to trailers for movies based on comic books. Now that school's back in, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are making a movie together.

Am I missing something? Is the summer just for 'fluff'? Don't people go to the movies 12 months a year?

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 3:20:50 PM

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I think its because summer time is when many school kids go to the movies, so they keep them cutesy.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 3:23:04 PM

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Yes. Thats why they talk about summer blockbusters, and why they come out around the winter holidays.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 3:59:32 PM

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cammile is quite right!

Summer movies and Holiday films are aimed at the family/ under 24 demographic. The other films that get released generally are more serious. Especially those that the studios trot out in time for Oscar consideration.

This is why I try to support a lot of indie film. At least they don't get into these marketing ploys quite as much as the blockbusters do.... (They usually just try to stay out of the way, so they don't get crushed by a slew of them being released on the same weekend.)

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 4:03:13 PM

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There is also the factor of timing it near enough to the Academy Awards. The freshest it is the more likely it will get more attention.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 4:24:11 PM

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Humm...very interesting.

So what season is the well-written horror movie done in?

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 4:32:32 PM

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I don't go to the movies much, but rather wait until they are out on video for a while, when I can pick up a disc for a couple of quid. But what I do see of movie trailers, I find boring, unless it is an epic like the Ridley Scott type films, films set in times gone by, my favourite. I like films where there is attention to costuming as well as the plot and the acting. Films set in modern times, the usual cop films leave me cold, anything modern day I find the same as is modern day. I like fantasy and historical based films, sword and sorcery etc, like Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, 300, Beowulf etc

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 5:37:09 PM

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I have trouble getting into anything sci-fi, fantasy or set in the past; dunno why. My fav is the sexual drama; a little danger, a lot of sex, lol.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 7:01:41 PM

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Horror movies usually come out in the fall and winter, playing to people's fears of the cold and dark.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 7:32:50 PM

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Yeah, horror films usually do best in the fall... cashing in on the whole "Halloween" season, usually between the start of Sept. and the end of Nov.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/11/2008 8:30:59 PM

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Well, the Christmas season tends to be when they dump the crap that nobody with an IQ over 50 would voluntarily watch without an epic load of hallucinogenics, advertise it like it was the Second Coming, and people go anyway... Aside from that, I really donno.

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RE: Is There A Season to Movies? - 9/12/2008 5:02:07 AM

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