A Steven Spielberg Poll (1994-2018)

Did it pass the Turing test?

Prep work, Alfred. I got internet dickhole finals tomorrow.

And you're still boning up on Spielberg Bashing 101? Better pull an all-nighter.

For students who get a 70 or below, I got a velociraptor waiting.

A.I. is one of the handful of movies I will defend to the death (precisely because of the ways it seems to get away from its director?) but that I cannot stomach sitting down to watch again.

(I guess it's also the kind of work where "intention" doesn't seem to matter...)

tbf, I haven't seen most of these, so I won't vote.

I will say that the D-Day landing scene of Saving Private Ryan was some of the most brilliant filmmaking I've ever seen. Spielberg also indulged in some scenes that were so thickly sentimental and schmaltzy that they nearly ruined the movie for me.

Have you seen a lot of WW2 films from the '40s and the '50s? Many of them are more "sentimental."

Yes. That is so. But the existence of worse doesn't elevate what is bad.

D Day scene in '..Ryan' must surely be one of the most influential sequences of all time. I wish i could vote for that by itself.

Only saw WOTW recently and the effects looked dated as all hell.

the D-Day scene is really something else. unlike a lot of battle scenes which are gory and thrilling and not especially a tough watch, this one is extremely tough viewing. definitely pioneered the use of the "editing out every other frame" technique to create a more jarring sense of reality, and it made sense with the industrial terror of that kind of battle. actually a very good signifier of Gladiator being shit is when Ridley Scott used that same technique in that film's battle scenes, just trying to make the film and its boring story more dynamic and deciding to use a technique that simply didn't belong or make sense.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh right, this one.

Well, it ain't Ready Player One, in any case.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow!

I think the top 3 are otm (tho I'd flip 1 & 2)

Given the twaddle written about Spielberg on this board, that top three astonishes me.

a loud minority perhaps (or they don't vote)

Don’t see how a better version of what Lincoln is could exist, it is a heist movie where the heist is the 13th Amendment, and I love a good heist.

Yes. I saw it again three months ago and every time I cringed at an indelicacy I wonder who else could have commissioned this script and these performances -- how the fuck else could this have been made?

I approve of Minority Report's swan dive from 25 votes to 2.

And the top 4 is the right 4, regardless of order.

Who on earth would vote for the BFG?

2 votes for crystal skull = you dont wanna base much on these results, ppl are fuckin with you

The opening scene of Crystal Skull is really good.

the fridge

youre talking about the fridge

https://gottalovethemmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/img_2342.jpg

a.i. is on hulu rn btw

i tried rewatching it last night and... it's a great movie but also one of the most emotionally traumatic things i've ever seen

Still as fine a set of poll results as this board ever produced.

Comic I respect: Ugh, BernieBros.
Me: Sure, whatever.

Comic I respect: AI is the 14th best Spielberg movie.
Me: Who the fuck do you think you are?

— 🎃 Jake-o'-lantern 🎃 (@FilmBart) October 22, 2018

God the results on this one are so much better than the first time.