yr a drag
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 February 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
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)
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
god's done some terrible things but he's no peter jackson
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
God is neither as fat nor as wrathful as Harvey Weinstein
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 February 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah but Kathleen Turner
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Keeping in mind that I have very idiosyncratic tastes in this stuff.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
WotW is great until Tim Robbins turns up.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 21 February 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
Otm
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 February 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, Alfred, for getting When The Going Gets Tough stuck in my head.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 February 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
they keep casting jennifer lawrence as woman at least a decade older... i guess she's box-office.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
"it's what i do" sounds like mcdonald's next advertising slogan
Hanks U2-spyplane thriller due by year-end
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
with Bono playing lovable sidekick.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/oW4aZCcvuqg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
http://youtube/oW4aZCcvuqg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
I give up. Spielberg BP advert.
"it's what i do" = http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BuiL-Lz8S0g/T0JfzsGHm2I/AAAAAAAAB1U/_PEi0NG2Pn4/s1600/7.png
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
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.
― Number None, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
ew? is he gonna wuin your widdle bewoved geek book?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
or is that from EW?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
you're an odd man
the ew was for the material btw
― Number None, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
sorry. that's a major ambiguity in showbiz posts.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Number None, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
ok. Jaws the novel is crap too.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
“Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And of course Kevin Smith.”
...
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
That sentence is indicative, yes
― Number None, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Lubitsch, Hawks, Sturges, McCarey, Capra. And of course Judd Apatow.
― Number None, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBDLCi9UwAARpKE.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Ex-ILG-mod Laura Hudson writes a wonder excoriation of the sequel to "Ready Player One," which will no doubt sell enough copies to get a cinematic adaption, God Forbid:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/07/armada_by_ernest_cline_follow_up_to_ready_player_one_reviewed.single.html
Armada often feels like it's being narrated by that one guy in your group of friends who never stops quoting the Simpsons, a tic that feels increasingly tiresome and off-putting in the face of the novel’s supposedly apocalyptic stakes. On more than one occasion, soldiers salute each other en route to world-ending battles by solemnly swearing that “the Force” will be with them, and one character flies to his supposedly tragic and moving death while screaming quotes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This is a book that ends with someone unironically quoting Yoda.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
https://41.media.tumblr.com/63a95879df23d5d1045375321e8448b4/tumblr_nxinqnt4pq1r5cyr0o1_1280.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, 8 November 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
RIP Vilmos Zsigmond
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v0fV15P7uQo/S8pIpdzirnI/AAAAAAAAHfk/Wx_B61uzi-8/s1600/ce3k+points.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
OK, put me down as a lifetime Spielberg hater, or to less harshly a Spielberg non-believer, but holy fuck on rewatching Jaws is quite awesomely directed! I will take the first 2 Indy films, Duel was alright, EOTS I appreciate from a Ballard fanboy POV, but everything else falls on the spectrum of *shrug*>ACTIVELY DESPISE to me. Like, as a pre-teen in the 80's I genuinely got into fistfights (not initiated by me) because I didn't like E.T. or Close Encounters. And suddenly on my whatever-number viewing of Jaws I am appreciating the composition and framing and suchansuch of a shortbread tin director? Maybe I should rewatch some of his later work to see if my newfound appreciation carries over. I recall Lincoln and eh Minority Report being not overly bad.
Not rewatching Bridge Of Spies though, that was bad.
Like, BAD bad.
About half as good as the Hateful Eight, which was pretty rubbish.
OK, this Jaws rush is wearing off now, fuck Spielberg.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
Jaws is amazing.
I watched War Horse at home the other night, and there was lots that I liked about it. Even the hokiest parts were done with restraint. ((Good restraint--not what Lester Bangs called "tasty licks and all that Traffic twaddle" restraint.) Thought the scene where the British and German soldier tended to the horse was excellent, ditto Niels Arestrup as the grandfather.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
War Horse is the only recent Spielberg I never watched. My Mother saw the stage version and was blown away, then hated the film version and warned me off it, and I generally do what she tells me. But that may just have been a comparison-based attitude, I can see the film being underwhelming after that mechanical puppet horse bisnes.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
it has one great scene of the horse running through the battlefield.
the Great Man's films are obv wasted on you of course
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
OK I won't bother rewatching then, I'll just wait until I get my perfect nuclear family set up then I might identify better. I don't dismiss your opinions (Amour Fou was great) but Spielberg just baffles me, I cannae see the craft in it and I don't get any emotional hit from his works.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Spielberg's families do not generally fit that model. One often wonders what the haters are seeing.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
One one might. Another one might question the level of animosity it should even been seemly to exhibit over middle of the road dripping such as Spielberg has produced in his latter worthy phase.
Catch me if you Can was rly good tho.
― broderik f (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
I'll just wait until I get my perfect nuclear family set up then I might identify better.
this is flat out wrong
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I think I'll start the big Spielberg rewatch, one a day, starting Monday (I'm going out drinking shortly, I cannot vouch for my opinions over the next coupla days, and I want to do this PROPER). Looking it up, I'll start with Duel (not seen in decades, I assume still competent), are Something Evil and Savage things I need to watch, or can I move on to Sugarland Express on Tuesday? (which btw I forgot about up there, but I know is AWESOME).
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Something Evil and Savage must be TV, like Night Gallery or Kojack or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Aye but so was Duel, and I ain't skipping that.
I am sure I have seen Catch Me If You Can, also The Terminal, I am struggling to remember a single scene from either tho, oh well I'll get to them sometime in a coupla weeks.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
No, I mean, Duel was a movie that he made for TV. But he also did a couple of episode for hire regular TV things.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
yeesh, if there's any director who isn't all about "the perfect nuclear family setup" it's spielberg -- "close encounters" is basically about a guy who abandons his family, "e.t." is about a lonely kid, the fathers in all of his films tend to be shitty and inattentive or non-existent.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
he used to be anyway, in the director commentary for CE, he said he wouldn't have made that movie today, due to his feelings about family. Which basically tells me everything I need to know about modern Spielberg
― Dominique, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link