Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Jaws is not Spielberg's fault. Nor is Star Wars and Lucas. On paper, both should have failed miserably because of the corny story lines and ridiculous low budget SFX.

No-one involved in those movie could have forseen what was going to happen. They blew up beyond belief because they filled a void.

Accept it or not, there's millions of people who go to the movies for a cheap popcorn escape from their daily 24/7 grind.

The fact that they were released in the heat of the summer was not planned either. Just a happy coincedence.

The massive success of the super hyped "Summer Blockbusters" since, has not impeded amazing higher brow cinema in the least. We talk about those types of movies all the time here.

1975
Jaws: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon.

1976
Rocky: Taxi Driver, The Man who Fell to Earth

1977
Star Wars: Eraserhead, The Kentucky Fried Movie

And on and on and on.......

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.