>As a Jewish director, Spielberg used the imagery of empty piles of clothing and ash as a deliberate reference to the Holocaust. This creates a haunting, grounded visual that evokes real-world historical atrocities.The heat ray instantly destroys cars and buildings but vaporizes people while their clothes remain intact. Why did Spielberg insist on ruining suspension of disbelief?
Style over substance. Aka it's slop.
>>217413616idk but this shot was kinohttps://youtu.be/bzznZzddI1I?si=O5WHME3F0aVT346A&t=28
>still no period accurate adaptationthe book was so good why do directors and studios hate it, I guess because it's hard to make an excuse for a nigger straight out of the Congo dragging his knuckles to be a main character in Edwardian turn of the century Britain
>>217413710>Hollywood: bridge collapses because vastly technologically superior ayylmaos are trying to exterminate all human life from Earth>IRL: bridge collapses because a pajeet bumped into it with a boat
>>217413710Would have been better without the random explosion desu.
>>217413897wrong>Hollywood: bridge collapses because everything has to explode around the protagonist with plot armor to create fake tension
>ruins your movie
>>217413616>muh holocaust
>>217413616This is the movie that made me realise how far Hollywood filmmaking standards have dropped. I watched it last year for the first time since I saw it back in the cinema in 2005 and was completely gobsmacked by how well-made it was compared to current movies. I had dismissed it back in 2005 thinking moviemaking would only get better.
>>217417842I rewatched Independence Day last year for the first time in a while and had a similar experience. Especially jarring since it was considered such a bad movie, but seeing a movie with competent editing, lighting, scoring, and effects was refreshing
>>217416159>Ruins your movieWrong kid
>>217413726>An excuse...Since when have they needed one of those?
>>217413616Honestly, the Heatray blowing burned clothing everywhere is probably realistic. If it's something like a Maser (which it would be), it would be absorbed by the water in people's bodies so quickly that everything else (that's not metal) would barely be affected by the time that it flashed into superheated steam and blew the person to pieces.
>>217413616>Muh Holocaust At the time all the critics said it was a metaphor for the debris from the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11.I guess all Art really is a Rorschach test for pseuds, huh?
This movie is really bizarre, because it's like a 50/50 mix of absolute kino and complete shit, with nothing in between. I literally cannot think of another movie like that.
