Post by marianne48 on Mar 12, 2017 1:36:05 GMT
No. I think some of his early TV work and films, such as Jaws, were very good, but his "Peter Pan" period (his inner child films) grew tiresome. Then he tried to grow up by tackling adult material such as D-Day (Saving Private Ryan) and the Holocaust (Schindler's List), but both of those films not only are derivative of earlier, better WWII films but come off as showy, self-consciously "cinematic," and ultimately exploitative of their subjects, so much so that I find them distasteful. Yes, the D-Day landing was extremely violent and traumatic, and the experiences of concentration camp prisoners at the hands of the Nazi brutes (and they were indeed evil, despite what another poster on this thread is attempting to claim), but Spielberg's ability to show this on film doesn't make him a great filmmaker; he was just lucky enough to have CGI on his side. I'll stick with any number of works about the Holocaust, such as the TV miniseries Holocaust from the 1970s, and The Story of GI Joe, made way back in 1945, if I want to be moved about these subjects, instead of pretending that Spielberg discovered them.