|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 11:32:49 GMT
Always - 89' (A soppy, manipulative, sentimental bore)
Hook - 91' (Over hyyped cast, over-acted, over-done, yuck sentiment and childish)
Schindler's List - 93' (Bland, flat and full of its own self-importance)
War Of The Worlds - 05' (Forced pathos and routine by the numbers direction, even for Spielberg)
The Post - 17' (Watch All The President's Men - 76' instead)
Haven't seen The Terminal or Tin Tin, but from the look of it, The Terminal could perhaps replace one of the above.
|
|
|
|
Post by miike80 on Jan 26, 2020 11:55:38 GMT
The Terminal
1941
Always
Saving private Ryan(other than the first and the last 20 mins)
Crystal Skull
|
|
|
|
Post by llanwydd on Jan 26, 2020 12:54:17 GMT
Always - 89' (A soppy, manipulative, sentimental bore)
Hook - 91' (Over hyyped cast, over-acted, over-done, sentimental and childish)
Schindler's List - 93' (Bland, flat and full of its own self-importance)
War Of The Worlds - 05' (Forced pathos and routine by the numbers direction, even for Spielberg)
The Post - 17' (Watch All The President's Men - 76' instead)
Haven't seen The Terminal or Tin Tin, but from the look of it, The Terminal could perhaps replace one of the above.
Are you serious? There is a reason why Hook is sentimental and childish. It's a children's movie. And I don't get what you mean by "self-importance" but if you thought Schindler's List was bland and flat, you must have seen a rare version of it.
|
|
|
|
Post by theravenking on Jan 26, 2020 14:01:19 GMT
Always
Hook
War Of The Worlds
The Terminal
Crystal Skull
|
|
|
|
Post by theravenking on Jan 26, 2020 14:06:54 GMT
Always - 89' (A soppy, manipulative, sentimental bore)
Hook - 91' (Over hyyped cast, over-acted, over-done, sentimental and childish)
Schindler's List - 93' (Bland, flat and full of its own self-importance)
War Of The Worlds - 05' (Forced pathos and routine by the numbers direction, even for Spielberg)
The Post - 17' (Watch All The President's Men - 76' instead)
Haven't seen The Terminal or Tin Tin, but from the look of it, The Terminal could perhaps replace one of the above.
Are you serious? There is a reason why Hook is sentimental and childish. It's a children's movie. And I don't get what you mean by "self-importance" but if you thought Schindler's List was bland and flat, you must have seen a rare version of it. Nobel Prize winning author Imre Kertész who had survived the Holocaust hated Schindler’s List. His main objection to it was that Spielberg had turned humanity’s greatest defeat into a triumph of the human spirit.
|
|
|
|
Post by politicidal on Jan 26, 2020 14:33:00 GMT
The Terminal - Not nearly as funny or heartwarming as it tries to trick you into believing. Feels like an Airport movie reimagined as a romcom instead of a disaster movie; which I wish he did instead. 3/10
The Post - Very slow paced. Streep isn’t bad but everything is boring. 4/10.
War Horse - Aka Seabiscuit’s List. Forget about the trailer. Beautifully shot but depressing and episodic. 4/10.
Bridge of Spies - I was so excited for this. There’s elements I liked but I just gradually lost interest. 5/10.
Munich - The flashbacks to the hostage crisis are the best moments in the movie. 5/10.
|
|
|
|
Post by vegalyra on Jan 26, 2020 14:50:18 GMT
Out of the ones I’ve seen:
Lincoln. This is a textbook case of how you do not make a historical film.
Warhorse. See above.
I was interested In the post and bridge of spies but so far haven’t seen them.
I’m one of the few that loves 1941.
|
|
|
|
Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 26, 2020 15:21:03 GMT
Ready Player One
War Horse
The Post
Hook
War of the Worlds
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:25:29 GMT
Always - 89' (A soppy, manipulative, sentimental bore)
Hook - 91' (Over hyyped cast, over-acted, over-done, sentimental and childish)
Schindler's List - 93' (Bland, flat and full of its own self-importance)
War Of The Worlds - 05' (Forced pathos and routine by the numbers direction, even for Spielberg)
The Post - 17' (Watch All The President's Men - 76' instead)
Haven't seen The Terminal or Tin Tin, but from the look of it, The Terminal could perhaps replace one of the above.
Are you serious? There is a reason why Hook is sentimental and childish. It's a children's movie. And I don't get what you mean by "self-importance" but if you thought Schindler's List was bland and flat, you must have seen a rare version of it. Yup! I have never been more serious. The sentimentality and childishness of Hook, wasn't presented in a manner that I connected with. It was phony!
As for Schindler's List, I saw the same version as everyone else, and it is a BORE. Why is it anything but?
|
|
|
|
Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 26, 2020 15:28:51 GMT
Crystal Skull
Lost World
1941
The Terminal
Hook
Interesting enough, with the exception of Hook whose main problem was the direction and cinematography, most of these were well directed.
They just sucked as movies.
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:31:42 GMT
The Terminal 1941 Always Saving private Ryan(other than the first and the last 20 mins) Crystal Skull I love 1941, always have. I can understand why people don't like it though. It completely and utterly impressed me when I saw it for the first time when I was kid on first release and then I convinced my sister to come and see it and she loved it too. Zany and silly pandemonium, but this was war time anyway, so I guess that parallels the actual wars insanity and lunacy. The film looked great then and still does now.
I forgot about Crystal Skull. I prefer it War Of The Worlds though. Biggest mistake was casting Shia LaBeouf.
Always, was interminable and I usually have to pass the first 20mins of Private Ryan, it makes me motion sick watching it, but the rest of it I actually don't mind at all. The finale is great.
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:34:19 GMT
Crystal Skull Lost World 1941 The Terminal Hook Interesting enough, with the exception of Hook whose main problem was the direction and cinematography, most of these were well directed. They just sucked as movies. Lost World isn't that great, but I still get plenty of fun value out of it. Spielberg is one of my favorite directors, but once the 90's hit and he changed his style to make more austere self-important dramas, he became hit and miss for me.
|
|
|
|
Post by llanwydd on Jan 26, 2020 15:40:59 GMT
The Terminal 1941 Always Saving private Ryan(other than the first and the last 20 mins) Crystal Skull I love 1941, always have. I can understand why people don't like it though. It completely and utterly impressed me when I saw it for the first time when I was kid on first release and then I convinced my sister to come and see it and she loved it too. Zany and silly pandemonium, but this was war time anyway, so I guess that parallels the actual wars insanity and lunacy. The film looked great then and still does now.
I forgot about Crystal Skull. I prefer it War Of The Worlds though. Biggest mistake was casting Shia LaBeouf.
Always, was interminable and I usually have to pass the first 20mins of Private Ryan, it makes me motion sick watching it, but the rest of it I actually don't mind at all. The finale is great.
I had a great uncle who landed on the beach at Normandy and for the rest of his life he would not talk about it. I would not have understood that entirely from seeing The Longest Day, possibly my favorite war movie, but I got it when I saw Saving Private Ryan. "War is hell" is an understatement. That too, I suppose, is an understatement.
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:49:05 GMT
Are you serious? There is a reason why Hook is sentimental and childish. It's a children's movie. And I don't get what you mean by "self-importance" but if you thought Schindler's List was bland and flat, you must have seen a rare version of it. Nobel Prize winning author Imre Kertész who had survived the Holocaust hated Schindler’s List. His main objection to it was that Spielberg had turned humanity’s greatest defeat into a triumph of the human spirit. The biggest issue for me with SL, is that I feel Spielberg played it too safe. Of course it is excellently directed and presented, the performances are very good, but overall, it just wasn't speaking honestly to me. If it was supposed to be a triumph of the human spirit, why did I find it so flat and dreary, if it wanted to showcase man's inhumanity to man and what one guy did to rise above it the best he could with the existentially arbitrary circumstances presented before him, it needed a stronger dynamic. It failed at both turns. I think it is a tad misguided and wanted to be something it didn't actually turn out to be. Of course we are "supposed" to like due to its theme and virtuousness.
This was the year James Ivory's Remains Of The Day was competing as well for best picture. This exquisite and literate period piece covering the same era in England, moved me so much more. I even found Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence more interesting to watch than Schindler's List.
|
|
|
|
Post by msdemos on Jan 26, 2020 15:51:48 GMT
I remember somebody telling me what a drudge it was getting through Amistad (1997).....NOT that they said it was bad, just that they had trouble sitting through its more than two and a half-hour running time...  SAVE FERRIS
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:54:09 GMT
I remember somebody telling me what a drudge it was getting through Amistad (1997).....NOT that they said it was bad, just that they had trouble sitting through its more than two and a half-hour running time... SAVE FERRISI don't mind Amistad, but I can't readily watch it. I prefer it to Lincoln though, which again, I have to be in the mood for. I feel Munich would have been a deserved winner for picture at the 05' Oscars.
|
|
|
|
Post by onethreetwo on Jan 26, 2020 15:55:28 GMT
I love Hook. Oh well.
|
|
|
|
Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 26, 2020 15:58:30 GMT
That's cool! Tell us the ones you don't really like from Spielberg, if any.
|
|
|
|
Post by mslo79 on Jan 26, 2020 16:28:56 GMT
E.T. (1982) - 4/10
A.I. (2002) - 2/10
etc
if I had seen everything I would not be surprised if I could list some more. but given what I did see only the two above stand out in a negative way (even though I did like E.T. a long time ago (watched it June 2019 and it's pretty dull overall) and even A.I. until Feb 2015).
p.s. hell, there is not a single movie from Spielberg that's anything special for me at this point in time even though there used to be. but I still do mildly like a small amount of them. but overall, at this point in time, Spielberg is overrated.
|
|
|
|
Post by OrsonSwelles on Jan 26, 2020 16:40:09 GMT
Are you serious? There is a reason why Hook is sentimental and childish. It's a children's movie. And I don't get what you mean by "self-importance" but if you thought Schindler's List was bland and flat, you must have seen a rare version of it. Nobel Prize winning author Imre Kertész who had survived the Holocaust hated Schindler’s List. His main objection to it was that Spielberg had turned humanity’s greatest defeat into a triumph of the human spirit. Are you agreeing that it ultimately wasn't a triumph of the human spirit?
|
|
