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I think part of the theory is that those blockbusters are already successful enough without getting awards recnition.
Trouble is Troy most of the films you mentioned are not good popcorn flicks. The Hangover movies are just repeating the teen blueprint from such 80s movies as Animal House and Brachor Party, films which weren't that good to begin with but at least served a purpose at the time. It is not a genre which ages well and these films are just sexist and unfunny.
F&F is just a dated 70s/80s style action film, which comes across as "can you top this cinema" with no sense of character or narrative. And with the exception of the fact they have made money, tell me why world needs six of the damn things?
Star Trek is the one I would stick up for as JJA did a good job with the first one and as of yet it has not out stayed its welcome.
I think you don't know the definition of Popcorn Flick.
1. popcorn movie
a summer action flick, not monumental, a good waste of time
Van Helsing was such a popcorn movie.
2. Popcorn Movie
A movie is garanteed to be, "eh". One that is sure not to win any awards. One only goes to see it as a excuse to eat popcorn and other junk food with friends. Sometimes with the intention of insulting it afterword.
Also, a movie that is overly advertised in theatre previews that you get the taste memory of popcorn in your mouth when you see the commercial on t.v.
And as far as them repeating movies before them that's what hollywood does I mean hell all the movies in the conversation Star Trek, Hangover, FF. Their all sequels of themselves so they're already repeated even if you don't take into account the movies they use as a template.
If you want a good movie go watch the upper budget Indie movies, but don't expect anyone else to have seen them and don't expect them to get many awards.
Awards go to high budget movies that aren't popcorn flicks. Sometimes a lucky popcorn flick gets one sometimes a very lucky Indie film does but thats rare.
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