Definitions
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- noun US, slang A
schlocky blockbuster ; afilm that is tasteless and inferior but still very successful.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.
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This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.
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Put Trek and Abrams together and add in the meta-issues of Hollywood corporate cinema -- SFX schlockbuster superficiality combined with the attempt to suck every last scrap of narrative meat from the bones of a rotting franchise -- and I have better things to throw money at.
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Indeed, mainstream American culture is permeated by apocalyptic beliefs and the yearning for messianic deliverance; the success of the movie 2012 and the forthcoming schlockbuster Legacy are just two recent examples.
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In five years time I expect to see some crap Hollywood movie using the Singularity trope in a schlockbuster heroic adventure, but at the moment, I think, it would run up against a "not an instantly graspable trope" barrier.
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I'm not complaining that Kong wasn't some thrill-a-minute rollercoaster ride of a schlockbuster.
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In five years time I expect to see some crap Hollywood movie using the Singularity trope in a schlockbuster heroic adventure, but at the moment, I think, it would run up against a "not an instantly graspable trope" barrier.
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I'm not complaining that Kong wasn't some thrill-a-minute rollercoaster ride of a schlockbuster.
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For others, they're merely an excuse to go see schlockbuster matinees and pig out on massive quantities of Chinese buffet food.
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Part of it is I suspect a good generation of writers have grown up through a period of pulp reclaiming the mainstream if it ever really lost it in anything but name, with even someone in their late thirties like myself barely remembering a time when the dominant mode of Hollywood movies wasn’t the pulp spectacular, the shameless sensationalism of the SFX schlockbuster.
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