Posted on 07/09/2016 10:51:28 AM PDT by EveningStar
We're definitely Spielberg fans. So many iconic movies spanning his over 50 years of directing. So with the release of his latest movie, The BFG, we bring you Steven Spielberg's directing evolution. We're gonna need a bigger boat.
*****Also big oops. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is 1977 and Minority Report is 2002. We knew this from our research, but somehow in the edit we messed it up. Sorry!
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“Duel” was the ultimate liberal-pajama-boy flick.
Wicked, mean, and nasty tanker truck, no doubt driven by a murderous red neck, chases meek, mild-mannered, hen-pecked man across a vaguely threatening rural landscape.
A pajama-boy nightmare made into a movie.
Yes, “1941” was a monstrous dud. Although the John Williams score was absolutely fantastic. I lifted weights for years with that score as my soundtrack.
And what the Hell was “A.I”?
Actors, Director and probably the entire crew was coked up. A hi budget scatter brained farce with zero continuity. A couple of good laughs did make it through though.
Funniest line was the Japs trying to unsuccessfully fit a radio through the opening of the sub and saying, “We’ve got to figure out how to make these things smaller!”
Yup. Fantastic movie.
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The Sugarland Express
I’m glad I never denied myself the genuine pleasure of his films because I don’t agree with his politics. Personal favorites are Amistad, AI, and War of the Worlds. (The latter being the epitome of “Blockbuster.”)
Probably Spielberg cut off a tanker in traffic one day so the tanker driver gave him a little scare in return. “Duel” is Spielberg’s wish-fulfillment movie.
Bingo.
Thought it was a good movie.
Dang yes. Spielberg is a cinematic genius. Credit where credit is due. Can't stand his politics.
I thought the ending of Duel was kind of cool.
A.I. is a favorite of mine, too.
I’ll watch anything with Slim Pickens in it.
Early movies good but latest movie BFG bombed. $31,134,762 in 7days.
He also telegraphs what will happen as in Saving Private Ryan.
Personally he likes Castro and obama and any democrat/commie
Thanks, looks like reviews are above average.
Not very long before my father died, along with my older brother, we watched two movies together. One was Saving Private Ryan and the other was Schindler's List.
My dad served in the SPT during WWII but had made several beach landings under heavy enemy fire and had a close friend who BTW was Jewish and was at Normandy and my dad told my brother and me that the opening depiction in Saving Private Ryan along with the other battle depictions in that movie was as close as any Hollywood movie that he’d ever seen before had ever come to depicting what it was really like. At times it was a bit too close - it was very hard for him to watch.
Same for Schindler's List.
My dad was born in Norway - Kristiansand, he came to America as a very young child in the late 20’s but had family; his grandparents, several aunts, uncles and cousins who were living there under the Nazi occupation. His grandfather ran the local newspaper and wrote several anti-Nazi editorials and published anti-Nazi pamphlets and on at least one occasion, stood in the back yard of his house shooting his pistol at German planes as they flew over. This type of activity during the occupation would result in execution or being sent to a concentration camp.
The Gestapo was about to arrest him when his daughter got tipped off by one of the German officers she was “making nice with” and he went with the Norwegian Underground, the Milorg to live for a time up north in the mountains until things cooled off.
As to my great aunt – yes she “dated” several German officers during the occupation, seemed to be a “party girl”, a “loose woman” and also benefited from that – she’d bring home to the family things that were difficult to obtain and under rationing that she got as “gifts” from the German officers she knew such as extra sugar and gas rations.
After the war she was accused of being a Quisling, was briefly jailed but was never put to trial and was released. It turned out that she was an agent of the underground resistance and passed valuable information through them to the Allies.
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