Spielberg helped to change it: what people praise in him now isn't what they praised in Bergman or Antonioni.
“The movie industry has changed a lot since the glory days of art films and film criticism.
Spielberg helped to change it: what people praise in him now isn’t what they praised in Bergman or Antonioni.”
I agree and I think that is one reason to disdain him.
He brought film down (one of the contributors). He was an efficient TV movie maker of cheesy horror thrillers.
Making B movies in to well crafted technically excellent products that use technical expedience as a substitute for art or creativity or even entertainment did us no favors.
Going back to my original opinion that he’s a hack, I will compare to the two you mentioned, Bergman or Antonioni. I might think Antonionis films are a bunch of garbage, but he wasn’t a hack.