Summer Movie Slump

Everybody wants to know about this summer's movie box office slump. I have the answer for you in no uncertain terms. I'm not going to go into a tirade about the artless films that come out in the summer, this is about business. When demand is high business is good. When demand is low and the market is flooded business is bad. Here's the problem: Bewitched, Bad News Bears, Dukes of Hazzard, War of the Worlds, Herbie...All of these movies are repackaged versions of TV shows or movies that weren't that fricken good in the first place. Nostalgia is one thing but paying ten bucks to see Billy Bob replace Walter Mathau? Come off that crap. War of the Worlds? That movie is fifty years old and the book is fifty years older than that. It's a story that everybody knows and has been repackaged so many times (Independence Day?) That intelligent people no longer give a shit. Not only that, but people were burned so badly last summer with the crap that was released no one wants to take a chance on this year's crap. I'm having a hard time remembering waht came out last summer that how good the stuff was. The only two movies I even remember last year were Garden State and Napolean Dynamite. And they weren't summer blockbusters. And then there's the problem of Comic Book Movies. The problem with comic book movies is CGI. See, we're now able to make any comic book movie we want because the special effects are able to handle it now. What we're not doing is waiting for the right script to come along. The Hulk, Spiderman, an Fantastic Four are all good examples. Batman Begins and X-Men are exceptions. Anyway, thats my take on it. Come out with something original and compelling and I go back to the theater, but I can watch Dukes of Hazzard on CMT.