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- noun Plural form of
schlockbuster .
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Examples
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The schlockbusters sell because they are prime examples of this sort of pandering.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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Actually, because spectacle is a key ingredient, we love the schlockbusters all the more if they can achieve spectacular incompetence.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Actually, because spectacle is a key ingredient, we love the schlockbusters all the more if they can achieve spectacular incompetence.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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The schlockbusters sell because they are prime examples of this sort of pandering.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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He understands what movies are about, and that it ain't about making bloated bullshit SFX schlockbusters like, Christ knows, most Hollywood dross these days.
ESCAPE FROM HELL! Hal Duncan 2006
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The preposterous of the "stylized violence" (whatever that means) of those bummer schlockbusters made passersby in Harford, CT fully expect that the hit-and-run victim sprawled before them could get up, dust himself off and go about his day.
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Asian people flock to schlockbusters and will laugh at every silly joke.
Adam Riff™ 2009
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Ravi Somaiya on why schlockbusters are so dire, despite the millions that are spent on them guardian. co.uk at 00.01 BST on Friday 3 July 2009.
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