Blockbusters are defined by economic studio function and extreme visual style

Evidence

Block-busters, the work of communications scholar Charles Acland suggests, may be defined as much by this economic function for studios as by their actual aesthetics. Yet the dynamism and intensity of blockbusters’ visuality, the general emphasis on action sequences that defy physics, the always-evolving sound engineering, and the downplaying of dialogue so as to facilitate international popularity establish a baseline, as it were, of extreme televisual style to which streaming services also respond. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 237