Steven Spielberg - classic or dud

... then again, it's not plagarizing if I wrote it the first time around ... right?

Did I mention that Shattered Glass is the most stomach-churning thriller ever?

the Hayden Christensen thing? who are you plagiarizing now, Peter Travers?

I think rewriting from your own blog or ILX posting is not plagiarizing, it's "cannibalizing."

More like it's impossible for me to re-watch the film before I have to turn in the review, but I have no illusions it will be one of my better reviews.

the Hayden Christensen thing? who are you plagiarizing now, Peter Travers?

No, seriously, that movie is all sorts of squirmy uncomfortable.

Hasn't Cruising got new footage? like the legendary fisting sequence?

Does it? If so, it's still supposedly sumbliminal, and probably wouldn't have much bearing on what I'd write about.

btw Aaron Sorkin may be writing a Chicago 7 movie for S.S. to direct, certainly an event I've long thought should be a film, but only those two now likely have the pull to get made.

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/07/12/spielberg-may-direct-sorkins-script-about-68-democratic-conven/

Who'd be a good Abbie Hoffman? is Robert Downey too old?

OK, not "may be," he IS (at least for someone to direct)

"No, seriously, that movie is all sorts of squirmy uncomfortable."

I liked it. The more recent film that guy did with Chris Cooper and Mr. Witherspoon about the spy thing was really good too (is he still Mr. Witherspoon or did they get divorced?

they're divorced, and, yeah, it's decent. No one will notice how good Chris Cooper was come award time. All the film lacked was a fisting sequence.

how about JUDGE Hoffman? Richard Dreyfuss?

it was kind of hilarious how they waited until the last possible moment of the On The Lot finale for Spielberg to finally appear onscreen. I almost thought he wasn't gonna be there at all, like some light-filled doorway would just open up and the winner would walk off-camera to "meet Mr. Spielberg."

Who'd be a good Abbie Hoffman?

Sam Rockwell?

I think rewriting from your own blog or ILX posting is not plagiarizing, it's "cannibalizing."

I managed to write about Cruising without recycling more than a couple phrases from before.

i dont know why we're talking about it here, but shattered glass is excellent. breach is interesting but not as good.

It came up because the Spielberg blogger plagarized.

Which, for some reason, struck me as hilarious and scandalous.

The Terminal has a lot of commercial signage in it because it is set in an AIRPORT TERMINAL, Cosmo Vitelli.

I pre-ordered BOOM BLOX last night.

Terminal isn't bad, despite the ending.

boom blox looks fun.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/19/steven-spielberg-to-produce-martin-luther-king-biopic/

DreamWorks has acquired the rights to make a feature film based on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

“In trying to tackle such an ambitious project, the question we had to ask ourselves is, ‘Why now?’ ” DreamWorks CEO and co-chairman Stacey Snider told Variety . “The answer lies in MLK’s own words: ‘All progress is precarious.’ With every step forward, new obstacles emerge and we must never forget that his life and his teachings continue to challenge us every day to stand up to hatred and inequality.”

I could write about the history of MLK, but if you don’t already know this story, than you should probably be educating yourself instead of reading a film blog. I’ll be very interested to see who is hired to write and direct this biopic. It would be very easy to create an on the nose and preachy film about King. Personally, I would like to see the story that isn’t in the history books, a more personal take on King’s life story.

Who should direct? Nothing has been decided yet, but it has been a life long dream of Steven Spielberg to make a film based on King. Spielberg will produce with Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones.

Discuss: Who would you like to see write/direct an MLK movie?

I've never thought much of most Spielberg movies that aren't in the action-adventure genre. And from what I've read The Color Purple and Amistad were both awful, so is there reason to fear Spielberg tackling directorial duties here? I think It'll be hard for anybody to make this movie and not have it get dragged into being the most didactic, ready-to-kill-two-hours-of-class type of film.

This is going to suck.

maybe they can give MLK a cocky son played by shia leboeuf

too bad he doesn't make "rad" shit like Star Trek.

do not want

maybe they can give MLK a cocky son played by shia leboeuf

Oh c'mon, you'd enjoy seeing a Will Smith-starring MLK biopic that opens over the 4th of July weekend, wouldn't you?

I have never enjoyed a Will Smith movie ever so no

"too bad he doesn't make "rad" shit like Star Trek."

Even if he made the greatest movies in the world, he still shouldn't be making this movie.

And from what I've read

Alex's posts?

None of Spielberg's three masterpieces as a director are action-adventure.

yeah Jaws is a horror movie

and always is a romance

Cunga, you do know that DreamWorks /= A Steven Spielberg Film, right?

and Hook is a travesty.

would live to see jj abrams' take on this tho

Amistad isn't awful, actually: perfectly respectable middlebrow Oscar-style drama.

"Cunga, you do know that DreamWorks /= A Steven Spielberg Film, right?"

Uh he's producing the thing and it was his LIFE long dream to do so. So yeah it's kinda his film no matter what hack they get to helm this.

Judd Apatow's MLK

Perfectly respectable middlebrow Oscar-style dramas are awful, but hey to each their own.

yeah after the Hours I wanted to stab my eyes out

Some are less awful.

Compared to the fifteen minutes of Million Dollar Baby I watched, Amistad seems positively brilliant, it's true.

lolz

k guyz can we just agree to all hate every film ever and move on?

the hours book was so bad, can't believe people actually watched the movie

Virginia Woolf's real nose is so bad, I can't believe Nicole Kidman actually went through the trouble of wearing a fake one.

actually last i heard baz luhrman had signed on to do the MLK pic

AVPVMLK

None of Spielberg's three masterpieces as a director are action-adventure.

"I've never thought much of most Spielberg movies that aren't in the action-adventure genre."

Judd Apatow's MLK

Tim Meadows is...

it was his LIFE long dream to do so

u heard of PR