Pop quiz hot shot. What's your favorite summer movie? Remember it because we're gonna need your help in finding the best summer movie of all time.

Hello everyone and welcome to a school. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is the movie podcast where we're trying to find the best 100 films ever made and in season two.

We are exploring different genres, corners and categories of movies kind of lumping them together and looking to see which film kind of just pops out from all the rest and we thought since it's the dead of summer we should be exploring summer blockbusters.

Big stars, big budget and most importantly, breaking rights because if you can make a giant summer blockbuster you got it made. I'm talking about franchise. I'm talking about a cinematic universe. I'm talking about theme park rides. This is ultimately the apex of what movie making is about because here.

Is the moment where you can write a blank check or just surf on this wave of success for the rest of your career. Wow and that is why historically critics do not take blockbuster movies seriously. However, that does not necessarily have to be the case because here on this show in school we've already covered three blockbuster movies because they were part of the A of F I list we already did jaws we already did Raiders of Lost Ark we already did Star Wars.

Because it doesn't have to be the case that a blockbuster can't be good right or does it just feel like that this summer when we have the night fast and furious movie and the upteenth Marvel movie and like.

Oh, I don't even know what else is coming out that just makes me want to die well, no, but Amy you one of the things I thought about recently was somebody talks about in the alien episodes where we kind of found that films that are not based on IP right are very rare.

You know, whether it's a book TV show original ideas are few and far between and right now in the blockbuster landscape it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller because even if you were based on original IP in the beginning.

This is now a sequel of a sequel of a sequel or reboot or a prequel like very few original ideas are coming through and becoming these giant blockbusters like we had back in the day we talked about it jaws now that was also based on IP Peter bench these book but big blockbuster not a franchise became a franchise star wars original idea became this big film Raiders and original idea became this big thing but now it's so few and far between and I really want to kind of talk about.

How that makes you feel is their room for films that don't have a history or track record to actually succeed.

Yeah, I want to talk about how do we make the blockbuster good again because those three films that you just mentioned they're amazing and if you want to hear us talk about them in more depth we're actually going to take those episodes out from behind our archive pay well and put them back out because I want to talk about Raiders non stop honestly I could talk about the movie all day.

But I want to figure out how like this click of people because we're talking about a little group of friends basically we're talking about George Lucas and his buddy Steven Spielberg and they're like what's up man let's make movies we're talking about how they change the direction of Hollywood.

And who's picking up their mantle and making original stuff like them now like how do we get good blockbusters back in theaters and how does something that feels like such a trope you know that summer belongs to the biggest and dumbest.

How can I mix that up because the truth is this idea of a summer blockbuster it's not that old like yes we give jobs credit for launching the summer blockbuster when we say that we really really mean it.

Just comes out in 1975 to know how many summer blockbusters came out in 1974 zero right zero zero none of the films in the top 10 of 1974 came out in the summer year before there was one it was a James Bond movie.

But no like historically people put their movies out in December it was like huge Christmas time it's like the whole movie calendar all the money makers only revolved around the holidays.

But Star Wars comes out stuff starts to change pretty quick by 1977 you have five summer movies in the top 10 by 1978 you have six summer movies in the top 10 and that's still how it is today right now half of our biggest movies of all time come out in the summer so they launched a really.

Really impactful thing but it's not as engraved and so does I think it is it's just as long as our lifetime so it feels like forever.

Yeah absolutely but that's what I grew up with I grew up waiting for memorial day because moral day meant that the big movies were coming out and.

Fourth of July weekend all these big holiday weekends meant that you had a big big film i'm also going to talk about this other part of the summer blockbuster that doesn't get spoken about that much it's also another movie there was a huge hit.

Also on the a file list the sixth sense that came out in August and August became this time where people would sneak in like a potential summer blockbuster hey are you tired from summer blockbuster here's an original idea that might get you on board and we've

got super bad comes in in August and just boom blows up and it was used to be this like little secret area where you've been just movie doubt and they get you it's like the last kill at the end of screen we get you one more time and you get right on board I remember that was like a secret

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