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To: discostu

There aren’t that many “Hollywood Holocaust” films. There was a rash of them in the 1990s post SL. Um, No one will remember Bay’s films in about thirty years but people will still be watching Close Encounters (which Ray Bradbury called the best SF film ever made).


89 posted on 03/01/2012 8:03:24 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Actually there are quite a lot of Hollywood Holocaust movies, even before SL. That mini-series spawned a bunch. And no one remembers most Spielberg movies. Yeah Close Encounters was great, that was back before Spielberg really got hooked on the cookie cutter. That was in the 80s when he totally went to hell. Somewhere in the 80s he realized that he could throw any crap up there and it would make tons of money. Hell even Hook, which even you agree is a piece of crap, made 300 million bucks. Once he figured out just how little originality and story he needed to make ridiculous cash it was all downhill. And that’s why while many of us fondly remember his great movies like Jaws and Encounters when you bring up stuff like Color Purple and Empire of the Sun and Always and Minority Report (which I actually like the first 135 minutes of) the general movie audience says “that was a Spielberg? I don’t even remember if I saw it”. He used to make great movies, he still has all the skills to make great movies, but he doesn’t make great movies anymore, now he very skillfully directs crap, very lucrative crap, but crap.


90 posted on 03/01/2012 8:16:41 AM PST by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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