View Full Version : Steve Spieldberg's movies are overrated
bogan_blue
25 Nov 2003, 13:07
Apart from the Indy Jones Movies (which were mainly George Lucas' work anyway) and Minority Report. (Oh and Back to the Future)
Here's some of my worst Stevie Wonder tripe list
ET (Rubbish, dead set boring and vastly overrated)
Battries Not Included (Sheesh, i turned this off after 10 minutes, IT'S CRAP)
Schindler's List (This was a Documentry not a movie and didn't deserve to win all the Oscar's it won, it just kept dragging on till the bitter end)
And so on etc.
Problem is, he makes movies with such sentimental rubbish that you feel like your watching a disney flick.
This guy is not a patch on James Cameron (Terminator, Titantic), GL (Star Wars, American Graffiti), Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiatior) or Martin Scorose (Taxi Driver)
Frankly I don't rate SS much at all really.
i wouldn't rate lucas over Spielberg. american graffiti and star wars were good but the guy couldn't make a movie to save his life these days.
Originally posted by bogan_blue
and Minority Report.
file that one in your tripe list too thanks...
Noddy Holder
25 Nov 2003, 15:10
Peter Weir IMO is the best director.
The Truman Show
Fearless
Green Card
Dead Poets Society
The Mosquito Coast
Witness
The Year of Living Dangerously
Gallipoli
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Cars That Ate Paris
Quite an impressive list
Magpira
25 Nov 2003, 16:15
I like Spielberg's vision in a few of his films. Saving Private Ryan has to be his ultimate masterpiece to date.
The interesting thing about Spielberg's films is that he never has any nudity or sex scenes, never one in all the films he has made.
Other films of his I rate are:
Duel
Schindler's List
Empire Of The Sun
The Colour Purple
Jaws
Catch Me If You Can
Portmagpies
25 Nov 2003, 18:50
It's impossible to categorically state one director as THE best. Weir is a great director, that cannot be denied, but his influence on world cinema pales in comparison to his contemporaries, such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and David Lynch to name a few.
too true
Even as a kid I didn't get involved in ET...maybe 'cause it was on TV. The old fifties movie where the kid is looking out the window and the thing lands in a neaby dune was the obvious better inspiration.
Raiders, Empire of the Sun and Jurassic Park .... and there are some great great scenes in Color Purple and Ralph Fiennes in a cliched Schindlers ...that's it.
Sometimes I cringe when a favorite book is said to be going to get the Speildberg treatment.
Jars458
26 Nov 2003, 09:04
Originally posted by Magpira
The Colour Purple
A truly brilliant film.
Originally posted by Jars458
A truly brilliant film. haven't seen this for years but still remember the suspense when she's shaving him. A little slip... Shows that like Hitchcock (the superior director to Speilberg BTW) you can get suspense with so little.:eek:
lenny&carl
27 Nov 2003, 01:37
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
Apparently spelling famous people's names correctly is over-rated as well.