schlockbuster

This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.

Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.

Oh Dear Dog Hal Duncan 2010

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.

Star Dreck Hal Duncan 2009

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.

Max Blumenthal: Obama, the Fallen Messiah 2009

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.

The Walls Of The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005

I'm not complaining that Kong wasn't some thrill-a-minute rollercoaster ride of a schlockbuster.

Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005

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.

Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005

I'm not complaining that Kong wasn't some thrill-a-minute rollercoaster ride of a schlockbuster.

King Kong... Hal Duncan 2005

For others, they're merely an excuse to go see schlockbuster matinees and pig out on massive quantities of Chinese buffet food.

Warren Ellis 2009

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.

War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009