Steven Spielberg

jitu wrote: Wolf Spider wrote: geezer wrote: He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema. True, true   not true critics are overrated

His style is the esence of Hollywood crap
 

jitu wrote: Wolf Spider wrote: jitu wrote: Wolf Spider wrote: geezer wrote: He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema. True, true   not true critics are overrated His style is the esence of Hollywood crap   MAYBE THAT IS TRUE THEN, BUT I LIKE 'INDIANA JONES TRILOGY'. AFTER ALL IT IS FORMULA THAT I LIKE;

All his films look the same - I mean climax, dramatism etc. I think that Spilberg couldn`t now direct a film with a budget less than 100 000 000$ Indiana has it`s moments but nothing compares to the trully great master Quentin Tranatino
 

jitu wrote: there is no comparison; tarantino is the number one

that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

geezer wrote: He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.

Exactly what I was going to post.

Ed_The_Dead wrote: Wolf Spider wrote: jitu wrote: there is no comparison; tarantino is the number one that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace   I see we have more in common then just the fondness for prog metal, winking and beeing polish

what is 'molvania'?

 

These days I would agree that Steven is overated. But comparing him to Quentin is a bit difficult. They're almost a generation apart. Back in the 70s I would say he was nothing short of brilliant. In '75 he took a stupid farfetched pulp novel and made suspense masterpiece out of it. He even had a broken down fake looking mechanical shark to deal with. Still he managed to pull it off. The part when Roy Scheider is on the beach and Steven changes the camera angle whenever a beach comber passes by was pure genious. Plus all the other little tricks he puts in like the reflection on Scheider's glasses of the books he's flipping through, the shooting stars in the sky when they're out at sea.

His next film, Close Encounters just blew me away. This one came out the same year the first Star Wars installment came out and I thought this was the better of the 2. Star Wars was all fun and dandy, but this one was far more intelligent and thought-provoking. Plus he wrote this one as well as directed.

Then in the 80s he starts going Disney with ET and the Indiana Jones flicks. Fun movies but pretty sappy. He's been pretty much off and on since then.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is my favorite movie by him.

I also love the other two Indy films.

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