I'm glad The Sugarland Express got some support down in that all-important #12-15 range in a number of categories.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
what women got top billing in Spielberg films? Goldie Hawn, Dee Wallace, Holly Hunter?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, top billing? Sally Field? Kate Capshaw? Laura Dern?
It's a good question, though I would contend that Karen Allen in "Raiders" is one of the formative Hollywood strong woman roles.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
I mean first. Although Hawn is arguably the only one who is the star of the film.
formative? in a retro film? after Hollywood had kinda fucking died?
surely Ebert musta wrote about Bette Davis once in a while?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Whoopi Goldberg
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
right
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
I meant formative in that for a huge segment of the post-Spielberg generation of movies lovers, for whom "Raiders" is especially iconic, she stands tall as the perfect foil for one of the greatest action heroes. Though she (and the film) are of the retro template, the movie itself was, of course, contemporary, and strong female leads in action films are (and always have been) few and far between, making Allen's role particularly effective in its impact.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
ah, "action films" again
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've read that line, and to a degree you're right, but her strength gets exactly one scene to show itself: the bar scene. The rest of the movie Spielberg punishes her for it.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
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I do like the ending, though, where they are both tied together and clearly both scared shitless.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Steven Spielberg has found his next directing project: an adaptation of American Sniper, the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, which is set up at Warner Bros.
Bradley Cooper is attached to star and has been developing the project as a producer.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
gross
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
normally i'd say ugh yuck get it away, but i actually kind of trust spielberg at this point in his career to do something interesting with that.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
with Bradley Cooper? that guy is such a worthless sack of shit
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard for me to imagine how it could be good, but i guess i should trust spielby
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
^^ xp
― Chris S, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
ZDT pt. 2 - get ready, internet.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
i look fwd to glenn greenwald's 2,300 word 'i haven't seen it, but' review.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
is Spielberg hate ilx'S MOST BORING MANIA? even w/ ethan gone?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
im closer to a spielberg apologist than hater. but chris kyle... ugh
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
ilx seems fairly pro-spielberg these days
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
basically everyone just said that they dont like the idea but they trust spielberg dude
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
is consistently misreading other posters ilx'S MOST BORING MANIA?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
gimme a hug
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I love Spielberg but given the material I'm not sure he's going to pull off what I'd like.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 2 May 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
Spielberg should make a movie out of "Where Men Win Glory," the Pat Tillman book, instead.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 May 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
the Chris Kyle book has lots of opportunities for both first-20 minutes of SPR action and maudlin homefront stuffthere's no real narrative hook to it, though - he doesn't overcome anything, we don't even win the war; he was a very good shot who killed a lot of people and was apparently good at being a SEAL for his entire career.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Well he was shot and killed at a gun range. I
― Gukbe, Friday, 3 May 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
So you know he overcame "life"
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Kyle and a companion, Chad Littlefield, were shot and killed at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range in Erath County, Texas[16] by 25-year-old fellow veteran Eddie Ray Routh, whom Kyle and Littlefield had purportedly taken to the gun range in an effort to help him with his post traumatic stress disorder.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/It_Seemed_Like_a_Good_Idea_at_the_Time.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
weird. I hadn't made the connection that the victim was the one who had written the book.
― sheer tip (how's life), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Clint will do it, so I hope you're happy that a guy who hasn't made a good film in a decade or so has taken over.
http://twitchfilm.com/2013/08/breaking-eastwood-to-replace-spielberg-on-american-sniper.html
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I'm ecstatic.
wtf, quit thrashing around for ilx villains to hate
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
what a disaster for snipers
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
changeling is underrated imho - weird cross between mildred pierce and texas chainsaw massacre - quite unlike anything else in clint's filmog, quite unlike most american movies made these days
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
wow this is gonna be awful
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
i mean, when was the last time spielberg actually made a film that was surprising or off-the-wall in any way - eastwood takes more chances, still, for gd or bad (fwiw gran torino was an abomination, but in a weird way it was much more engaged w/ the 21st century than anything spielberg has given us since...)
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
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Agreed. Changeling is an oddly enjoyable hysterical-woman melodrama.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:01 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark
munichwar of the worlds
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
when was the last time clint eastwood made a film that wasn't total shit
1976?
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
will reluctantly concede wotw (as a kind of wonky post 9/11 panic attack w/ only minorly troubling survivalist/dianetical undercurrents), but munich seemed to me to be as much a part of his self-consciously 'majestic-mythic' representation of the past - second world war/holocaust/slavery etc - as anything more forward-looking. but you know what it's like when you're not a fan, you're not looking for the gd in their work...
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
but gran torino IS a forward-looking movie? a story about the good ol' days of racism and classic cars??
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
munich seemed to me to be as much a part of his self-consciously 'majestic-mythic' representation of the past
Did you SEE the movie?
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
gran torino does try - in the worst most hamfisted way possible - to grapple w/issues of race and white rage and old age etc etc - when was the last time spielberg made a film recognisably set in 'the present'?
i did indeed see munich, thanks.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
And you still think it was a "'majestic-mythic' representation of the past?" I'm not about to tell anyone how to interpret movies, but if I had to produce a list of 100 things that Munich was, that'd be #101.
when was the last time spielberg made a film recognisably set in 'the present'
WOTW
― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
i meant w/out the flying saucers or aliens or whatever! you know american families (his best 'area of interest') really looked at in the here-and-now of today w/out the crutch of fantasy, or a recourse to the past (which i really do think tends towards the mythic, precisely because his mise-en-scene is so accomplished) - what's he got to lose??
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link