Steven Spielberg - classic or dud

BttF is a sneaky incest-spiced kids' movie that profanes Chuck Berry

Die Hard script >>>> BttF.

Actually, I just watched the latter again this past week with the kids, and for the first time it almost lost me. Just the shitty lighting, and the dumb jokes, and all the dated in a bad way stuff. In the end I and it still rallied, and the kids liked it, but no way would I ever put Zemeckis>>>Spielberg. Zemeckis is much more of a cold stylist. I never get the feeling he has much passion or reverence for the medium. Or for people.

shitty lighting?????

philistines, all of you.

Backlot sitcom lighting. Everything brighter than everything else.

BttF is bad. He made good movies when he thought he was a kid. Then he didn't.

^ strike that and pretend i was high. was talking about spielberg and meant WotW. exit, stage embarrassed...

can't think of any Spielberg movie I like more than Roger Rabbit. Jaws maybe.

clearly BttF would've been better if shot in black and white with a lot of poetic wide-angle shots of empty lots

BttF is a sneaky incest-spiced kids' movie that profanes Chuck Berry

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 20, 2015 3:27 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you say that like it's a bad thing!

ppl sticking w/ stuff they loved when they were 12

BttF is a sneaky incest-spiced kids' movie that profanes Chuck Berry

helluva first line for a positive review

Chuck Berry has profaned himself enough.

WOTW is, aside from the Raiders series, Spielberg's absolute best action/thriller/"horror", and I'm including Jaws, which I love. None of his other movies have anywhere near the sustained tension/terror of that one. (Schindler possibly excluded.)

I will stan for pretty much any Spielberg as much as anyone, but movies like Munich are playing an entirely different game, and doing it a lot better.

it's amazing how those two movies he released in one year

Jeez, I forgot he pulled a JP/Schindler with those two.

ppl sticking w/ stuff they loved when they were 12

Says the wheeler and wuzzle fan.

Zemeckis may well be a cold stylist. His best movie is the ice cold Death Becomes Her.

The quotes upthread: you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

weird to say "cold stylist" when "used cars" and "back to the future" are so funny (and the style of the former is pretty loose). i think bob gale is an important factor.

Recently saw Roger Rabbit for the first time in ages and it was a drag.

yr a drag

People Thanked Most Often In Oscar Speeches:

Steven Spielberg (thanked 42 times)
Harvey Weinstein (thanked 34 times)
James Cameron (thanked 28 times)
George Lucas (thanked 23 times)
Peter Jackson (thanked 22 times)
God (thanked 19 times)

god's done some terrible things but he's no peter jackson

God is neither as fat nor as wrathful as Harvey Weinstein

xpost Seriously, I was so excited to see it again. But it was so clearly constructed around its insane practical effects that everything that wasn't animate was practically, well, inanimate.

I used to like Romancing the Stone, maybe I should watch that again. At the very least it's a movie where everyone is clearly having fun (or at least cocaine) and not just some exercise in tech R&D, which is what hurts a lot of his movies. And he's even worse with endings than (more recent) Spielberg.

yeah but Kathleen Turner

the coke movie is The Jewel of the Nile, which also boasts a Billy Ocean theme song with the leads in white suits as the Temptations.

shit i better watch War Of The Worlds i guess as it gets a ton of ILX luv.

Keeping in mind that I have very idiosyncratic tastes in this stuff.

WotW is great until Tim Robbins turns up.

Otm

Thanks, Alfred, for getting When The Going Gets Tough stuck in my head.

Spielberg will be directing Jennifer Lawrence in an adaptation of Lynsey Addario’s widely acclaimed memoir, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War.

Addario tells the story of becoming a photojournalist after being inspired by a Sebastião Salgado exhibition, before getting her big break documenting life as a woman under the Taliban – a story that gained global significance following 9/11. She subsequently reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Congo and Libya; she was kidnapped in the latter country by Gaddafi’s army, her driver was killed, and she was threatened with murder and rape. After her kidnap ordeal, she returned to her husband, started a family, and took a step back from the frontline.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/03/steven-spielberg-jennifer-lawrence-war-photographer-lynsey-addario-its-what-i-do

they keep casting jennifer lawrence as woman at least a decade older... i guess she's box-office.

"it's what i do" sounds like mcdonald's next advertising slogan

Hanks U2-spyplane thriller due by year-end

with Bono playing lovable sidekick.

http://youtu.be/oW4aZCcvuqg

http://youtube/oW4aZCcvuqg

I give up. Spielberg BP advert.

"it's what i do" = http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BuiL-Lz8S0g/T0JfzsGHm2I/AAAAAAAAB1U/_PEi0NG2Pn4/s1600/7.png

ew

Steven Spielberg is set to direct Ready Player One, the highly anticipated project based on the popular sci-fi book by Ernest Cline that takes place in a virtual world. What a coup for Warner Bros, which will bring it to the screen along with Village Roadshow. This is expected to be Spielberg’s next movie after The BFG.

Ready Player One also marks the director’s return to Warner Bros after a 14-year absence. The last picture he directed there was A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001, which the grandmaster Stanley Kubrick had developed there. Before that, it was Empire Of The Sun (1987) and the critically acclaimed The Color Purple (1985). He also produced Gremlins and Goonies in the mid-1980s for the studio. “We are thrilled to welcome Steven back to Warner Bros,” said Greg Silverman, the studio’s President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production. “We had an historic series of collaborations in the 1980s and 1990s and have wanted to bring him back for years.”

Spielberg and his films are actually mentioned in the 2011 book. “I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors, “says the main character Wade Watts at one point as he’s studying the interests of digital utopia creator James Donovan Halliday. “Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And of course Kevin Smith.” There are also references to the Indiana Jones franchise, which Spielberg directed, and E.T. in the wide ranging cultural touchpoints of Ready Player One.

ew? is he gonna wuin your widdle bewoved geek book?

or is that from EW?

you're an odd man

the ew was for the material btw

sorry. that's a major ambiguity in showbiz posts.

I have read the widdle geek book though, and it's even worse than you can imagine (well possibly not but it is really bad)

ok. Jaws the novel is crap too.

“Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And of course Kevin Smith.”

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