Deja vu

04/07/2007 by Lee.

Despite what the weather is telling us, summer is upon us. For the film industry summer is a time for big releases and the big blockbusters, a time to show the public how America single handedly won the second world war, led the crusades and invented air. Normally, the summer blockbuster movie is at least a new film, even if it uses a tried and tested formula, but this summer that has all changed. In years gone by, we all poked fun at Rocky for constantly re-running essentially the same film, just changing the number at the end, yet this year Hollywood has surpassed itself. Let’s take a quick look at what is currently faring well at the box office in the U.K.

Shrek the third (3rd Shrek film)

Fantastic Four: Rise of the silver surfer (second time around)

Oceans Thirteen (3rd in the series)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds end (3rd again)

Hostel Part II (at least this is only the second)

It doesn’t end there. Coming soon is Die Hard 4.0, a 4th rehash of the same film, Indiana Jones is in production yet again along with more to come from the Shrek team and Pirates of the Caribbean.

At least Harry Potter is an evolving story, even if it is a little far fetched, do you know any ginger kids with 2 mates? I accept that to appeal to a mass market there is a limited number of formulae availble to Hollywod but please give us new film titles. Without this, I may stop watching films altogether.

Anyway, there’s a re-run of Top Gear on tonight along with I’m a celebrity builder on holdiay from hell get me out of here that I’m especially looking forward to.

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