Bored at work? Perfect time to publish some gems of celluloid delight. Summer '09 was pretty fantastic for a lot of reasons. For one, I went to LA trick (more on that later) where I was blessed to intern at Double Feature Films (Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Erin Brokovich)for a couple months. Also (for markedly less selfish one), it was the biggest summer at the box office since '07. Now, it's no surprise that accounting for inflation movies seem to get bigger and bigger w/ little increasing quality, but wow 4.17 billion? Mass amounts of bucks.
Another thing that causes pause for me is when i think about the quality of said films. '07's top money earners were Shrek 3, Pirates 3, and Spiderman 3. I saw them. Wasn't too impressed (maybe a bit for Pirates). Now let's compare. '08 had The Dark Knight (would it be the same w/o the Joker), Ironman (good plain fun and charisma), and Indiana Jones (don't care). '09 Transformers 2 (groan), Harry Potter 10 (I don't care), and Up (beast). I'll let you surmise what you will.
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