We are less than a month away from seeing
Zack Snyder’s Justice League a film I never thought was possible. Seriously, last year at this time this felt like a pipe dream. Or, at the very least, like something we would see in ten years as some half-assed assembly cut, ala
Alien 3 or Richard Donner’s
Superman II. Instead, we’re getting a fully realized, four-hour film with completed special FX, an all-new score, and more footage than was previously intended.
And here’s the crazy part: of the two trailers we’ve seen thus far, the film has already bested that atrocious 2017 version by an enormous margin. How, you ask? Here’s 10 examples demonstrating how
looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
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The bus is a carnival of humiliation. The driver won’t stop, so Peter Parker has to run alongside, banging on the window, begging to be let in. When he boards, the other kids laugh and jeer and snarl. Nobody ignores Peter Parker. Only one person on the bus, future love interest Mary Jane Watson, looks at him with anything resembling humanity. Everyone else is a baying ghoul, a slavering hyena. Other than Mary Jane, everyone on that bus, the driver included, sees Peter Parker as prey.
Mark Cousins’ Women Make Film provided some much-needed solace when it aired this autumn on Turner Classic Movies. The 14-hour documentary series traced the overlooked.