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Post by janntosh on Aug 15, 2020 16:02:52 GMT
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Post by kolchak92 on Aug 15, 2020 16:09:18 GMT
Well it proved to be a miscalculation but hindsight is 20/20 as they say. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs were all fairly successful and well-liked movies, so there was no reason at the time to think he couldn't attain the status of someone like Spielberg at some point.
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Post by Jason143 on Aug 15, 2020 16:10:09 GMT
One trick Pony
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Post by ck100 on Aug 15, 2020 18:15:17 GMT
Even if he just did The Sixth Sense and never made another movie, I'd still say he wouldn't be worth such a claim.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 15, 2020 18:45:25 GMT
Hahaha, that 2002 and their wild predictions.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Aug 15, 2020 19:56:11 GMT
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Post by shannondegroot on Aug 15, 2020 20:04:45 GMT
I'd say they're neck and neck ..
ET
Raiders
Jaws
Duel
Close Encounters
6th Sense
Unbreakable
Signs
Village
Visit
Speilberg only got lucky to make a couple Indy sequels that mostly get by on the star and theme song.
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Post by avocadojoe on Aug 15, 2020 20:59:16 GMT
I'd say they're neck and neck .. ET Raiders Jaws Duel Close Encounters 6th Sense Unbreakable Signs Village Visit Speilberg only got lucky to make a couple Indy sequels that mostly get by on the star and theme song. The only Shamalamadingdong movie I've even heard of was 6th Sense and i think that was just a gimmick that took off. |
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Post by shannondegroot on Aug 15, 2020 21:02:05 GMT
I'd say they're neck and neck .. ET Raiders Jaws Duel Close Encounters 6th Sense Unbreakable Signs Village Visit Speilberg only got lucky to make a couple Indy sequels that mostly get by on the star and theme song. The only Shamalamadingdong movie I've even heard of was 6th Sense and i think that was just a gimmick that took off. Not even his best. His best are Signs, Unbreakble and Village.
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Post by avocadojoe on Aug 15, 2020 21:03:31 GMT
The only Shamalamadingdong movie I've even heard of was 6th Sense and i think that was just a gimmick that took off. Not even his best. His best are Signs, Unbreakble and Village. It sounds as if you prefer him to Spielberg. |
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Post by shannondegroot on Aug 15, 2020 21:20:26 GMT
Not even his best. His best are Signs, Unbreakble and Village. It sounds as if you prefer him to Spielberg. I think he's trying more to stick to doing what people like him for in the first place where Speilberg went off and made a lot of boring / ok historical movies and dramas. Though M Night did make a few big budget flop sci fi's he seems to be back to making the type of films he's known for.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 15, 2020 22:07:03 GMT
Ha ha, uppity Indian with your unpronounceable three syllable name! Take my fresh and original jokes, M Night Shamalamahostesschocalatecakeandcreamfillingdessert!
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 16, 2020 1:00:03 GMT
Global media was big on hyperbole. Around that time they said JK Rowling was the next Shakespeare. Digression trivia alert But it was an Indian filmmaker, Satyagit Ray, who had circulated an ET-like story in Hollywood before Spielberg. I would bet the alien botanist stuff in ET came from Ray. "In a series of fantastically quick, short steps over the lotus leaves, the Alien reaches the shore of the pond. He looks down at the grass, examines the blade and is off hopping into the bamboo grove. There the Alien sees a small plant. His eyes light up with a yellow light. He passes his hand over the plant, and flowers come out. A thin, soft high-pitched laugh shows the Alien is pleased. When the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was produced in 1982, Ray noted similarities in the movie to his own earlier script. Ray discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature, with further details revealed by his biographer Andrew Robinson (in The Inner Eye, 1989). Ray claimed that Steven Spielberg's film "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." When the issue was raised by the press, Spielberg denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."[3] Star Weekend Magazine disputes Spielberg's claim, pointing out that he had graduated from high school in 1965 and began his career as a director in Hollywood in 1969.[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alien_(unproduced_film) |
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Post by avocadojoe on Aug 16, 2020 1:07:07 GMT
It sounds as if you prefer him to Spielberg. I think he's trying more to stick to doing what people like him for in the first place where Speilberg went off and made a lot of boring / ok historical movies and dramas. Though M Night did make a few big budget flop sci fi's he seems to be back to making the type of films he's known for. I agree that Spielberg was much better when he was younger. He directed the early series Colombo episode, "Murder by the Book" and the most famous episode of the anthology series, Night Gallery, "Eyes" with Joan Crawford, both of which are highly entertaining. "Duel" was good and so was "The Sugarland Express". I think "Jaws" is Spielberg's greatest achievement. |
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