― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
jaws fucking rules ally. jpark3's pretty great, the best of the bunch no doubt. poltergeist was pretty great. band of brothers was incredible. into the west was rousing fun.
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Jaws does NOT fucking rule!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
UNIFIED WORKS suck anyway
ie his refusal to end his recent movies unyuckily is the price he is prepared to pay for the chance to shoot [x] idea
i don't buy this really, but i wd admire SS lots if i discovered this is where he's secretly at
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, begone intentionality! i think most movies are compendia of bits with lots of redundancies put in to keep front office happy. it's always been like that(?). spielberg is a total enigma as a man -- i have read a biography of him and know NOTHING about him.
but cutting through or ignoring the 'greatest generation' blah i've been impressed by the action scenes in the saving private ryan/band of brothers projects.
as with albums, ignore the rubbish bits.
― N_RQ, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
My hyperbole is totally correct, watch JP again and wait for it...that final shot of the freaking T-Rex. Claymation dinosaur, why you ruin shot all the time? I would've liked Jurassic Park better if there was no dinosaurs, but instead Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider.
Anyway I am still interested in finding out how Spielberg classics like Catch Me If You Can or The Terminal or The Lost World explore more disturbing, dark, and adult themes than Bamboozled and are more complex than The Big Lebowski! I'll give Morbius Soderberg.
XPOST ARGH STOP IT WITH THOSE MORPHED ANIMALS
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Does this make him classic, or just Darryl Zanuck reborn?
I stick with my B+ assessement. He has good chops, and a consistent record. I like him OK, but nothing he makes excites me much.
― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
aimless -- steve is hurt, but he will try to improve his record for next semester.
― N_RQ, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
what's your point here exactly? that people in film school like him because he's successful? wtf does that have to do with anything
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
>how about you discuss the "disturbing adult themes" in, say, Catch Me If You Can?<
No, not a classic. Quite a decent Missing/Inadequate Dad Complex meditation (major Spielberg motif), tho, with both Leo and Walken putting in unusually deep performances before returning to check-cashing roles.
The Terminal: America as Last Best Melting Pot AND Dubya's Fortress ("America is closed").
JP2 was the last of his I skipped.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I think Walken's performance in Catch Me If You Can is completely immemorable, as immemorable as he gets, at least. Also, I'm not sure how I understand in what way Savion Glover's character in Bamboozled is any more of a "2-D sketch" than Leonardo DiCaprio's character here (note: this does not imply that DiCaprio's character IS a "2-D sketch"). And yes, the 25th Hour beats the crap out of both of these movies, and anything Spielberg's done in, oh, 10 or 15 years. I was keeping off the sucka punches on the "Spielberg more provocative than Lee" comment but if you wanna kick yourself in a metaphorical discussion-genitals go ahead!
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Not quite. Film schoolies love him because he is the archetypal film school product. Speilberg sat through all the same classes, learned all the same rigamarole as them and then he went out and became the Nu Robot Overlord of films. It sprinkles fairy dust (read: imagined money & power) over the whole film school experience.
― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Never said that. But Lee can't really fake provocation regularly anymore. Cine-hipsters turn to City of God, Y Tu Mama Tambien etc for that pose now.
Yeah, Walken's much more memorable sleepwalking through gangster and vampire roles, or SNL. Hey, he recites lines off the expected beats!
I was quite moved by the ending of The Terminal and chilled by A.I.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
By the same token Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't make $250 million as an actor by being chopped liver, either. Although it is rather hard to pin down exactly what his talent was. Your point being?
― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― 3, Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
and it STILL looked fake
― 3, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― 6, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
lol, not that stupid response, this:
on Spielberg's birthday thinking about one of his hardest-ever shots pic.twitter.com/mG7FiZQCB3— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) December 18, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:02 (nine months ago) link
brb, double checking to make sure I didn't accidentally follow that first poster
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:35 (nine months ago) link
Isn't that a variation on his famous shot in Jaws?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:45 (nine months ago) link
It is, but there's a lot more going on in terms of movement, framing, etc. Especially when the camera pulls back behind the *other* camera.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:54 (nine months ago) link
I'd never seen "Bridge of Spies" before, but I think I really love Spielberg in this sort of ... I guess almost post-modern mode. The movie has the rhythm and vibe of a classic '40s film - much of it I could imagine Academy aspect ratio and black and white - yet is filled with virtuoso Spielberg shots and modern FX and other more contemporary trademarks. He's been in this mode for a bunch of movies in a row, since "War Horse" more or less, with his weaker recent stuff (The BFG, Ready Player One) the conspicuous exceptions/deviations.
I think I mentioned on the relative thread that I bet Spielberg could have made a compelling version of "Killers of the Flower Moon."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 January 2024 01:45 (eight months ago) link