Cut Scenes: The summer in genre film

Pardon me for subscribing to a very mild generalization but, if you’re a hardcore gamer, there’s a good chance you enjoy genre films. That is, you’ve got a taste for sci-fi, action, comic book or adventure flicks. It makes sense – in this transmedia, franchise-happy landscape, most gamers just tend to be avid consumers of entertainment, and TV/films are starting to borrow heavily from gaming and internet culture, so much so that it makes sense to cover it all on a site like gamertell. Plus, Comic-Con just ended, and everyone is abuzz over crossover games and movies, not to mention that kick-ass Watchmen trailer.

So this week, I’d like to take a peek at the non-interactive world and ponder just why this summer’s genre offerings are doing so well at the box office. The quick answer: Because most of them have been…