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Just when you thought superhero movies were taking it easy after Thanksgiving, Warner Bros.
December 4, 2014
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Just when you thought superhero movies were taking it easy after Thanksgiving, Warner Bros.
There's no terror like the terror that comes from being a little kid and seeing something that unexpectedly freaks you all the way out.
Well played, Warner Bros. Just when everyone thinks that Robert Downey Jr.'s potential return as Tony Stark is the biggest news of the week—well, if someone can return before they've actually left, considering he's still signed up for the next two Avengers movies—you go and drop the names, dates, and casting announcements for no less than ten movies on our laps during a conference call. Well …
“BAKYA crowd†is a term coined by the late and famous film director, Bert Avellana, to describe the reason for the box-office success of films. The sound of thousands of wooden clogs clickity-clacking on the marble lobbies of Dalisay or Life theaters meant the masa viewer came to see Tagalog films in droves in the ’50s.
When people watch a movie together their brain activity is, to a remarkable degree, synchronized. It's a slightly creepy thought. It's also a testament to the captivating power of cinema, says Uri Hasson, a psychologist at Princeton University.
You just bought a brand-new TV and now all your movies look overly smoothed out and artificial. WTF?
Comic book movies now regularly dominate the box office, but this wasn’t always the case. Many may forget now, but director Bryan Singer’s “X-Men,†released in 2000 and based on the wildly popular Marvel Comics property about a heroic band of super-powered mutants, helped pave the way for the phalanx of super-hero flicks which came after it.