When I was growing up, he was considered the king of nonchallenging crowdpleasing midwit popcorn cinema but now everyone sees him as the wise elder statesman.
>>221096942Because the people who considered him king of nonchallenging crowdpleasing midwit popcorn cinema turned out to be bigger midwits and discredited
>>221096942Are you blind? His nose and last name should clear things up
Ok, but Artificial Intelligence is one of the most depressing films ever made and Minority Report is probably one of the best films he's ever made.
last good thing he did was Minority Report
>>221096942Because back then crowdpleasing was the mainstream and challenging and upsetting movies were the anti establishment punk. Since the new normal is to piss off everyone crowdpleasing is now the cool rebel approach.
Because he is the old guard now.
Because everything got worse.
>>221096942They don't
>>221096979
Because the night belongs to lovers.
>>221096942He's objectively a great director and knows the language of cinema.
>>221096942Every crowd pleaser becomes the snob's darling with time. I guarantee you cinephiles in 60 or 70 years will be looking back at the MCU with rose tinted glasses. Just look at the status of the Universal Monster Movies or Godzilla to see what I mean.
>>221096942Speilberg is some sort of CIA type guy the opinions on him have always been astroturfed
>>221097132Such an underrated post.
>>221096942Do they?I'd say his most recent films have been pretty overlooked.
>>221096942If he had retired after Saving Private Ryan I would consider him a legend, but the forgettable slop he has made in the last 25+ years make me think that he's just a slightly more talented version of JJ Abrams.
>>221096942A lot of his films are novel concepts, like before JP nobody would've thought about a creature feature being non-malicous or evil monsters and instead a creation by a corporation purely as a real life entertainment enterprise
>>221097255Most of his movies are social programming
Idc this man has made some of my fav kino.For that i love him
"Spielberg bad" is one of the most midwit contrarian opinions imaginable. His list of great films is larger than some directors' whole filmographies.
>>221097279That's all movies dumbass, your Salo-tier disjointed 3 hour hippie technicolor visual vomit from the 70s that you sleep through just to larp as an intellectual to get the babes and tick off another watched on letterboxd are the most blatant social programming ever created
>>221097015>>221097030Minority Report is trash.
>>221097315American cinema travels but so does fast food lol
>>221097416k
>Steven Spielberg
>>221096942He's the only elderly filmmaker who hasn't fallen in love with AI yet.
>>221097416You'll get hate for that opinion, but it's true. Minority Report would be completely forgotten today if it didn't have Cruise and Spielberg's name on the poster.
Spielberg is very influential, we even have dime store Spielberg's like jj abrahams.that directors of the second half of the 20th century are becoming elder statesmen and influential.Like the safdie brothers want to be Scorsese so bad
>>221097015>>221097030>AI>Minority reportwtf I unironically thought that was Woody Allen at first.
War of the Worlds is kino
>>221097657Nah, it's total slop.
>>221097132Heh
>>221096942It’s time
Literal pedophile
Let the goys deal with the real world while he makes terrible movies.
went to see it today at 2pm and the next oldest person was mid 50s at best its boomers (me) and the movie sucks
>>221097315He has like 6 great films at most
>>221096942The crown jewel of Spielberg’s career is Schindler’s List. It’s seen as his ultimate “serious” movie and legitimized him to critics who dismissed him as a pop entertainment artist. It’s the lynchpin that holds his whole corpus together since it vindicated his Jewish background and proved his versatility. Afterwards Spielberg mostly did “serious” movies and political thrillers like Saving Private Ryan, Bridge of Spies, The Post, Munich, etc.
>>221096942He sparked my life long interest in reading history with SPR and BoB, then he gave me the Pacific. He made a lot of other good movies along the way.
>>221097315He is obviously a great director, but as an artist he’s weaker than his contemporaries like De Palma and Scorsese.
>>221098624That's more than most other directors. Mots only have one or two.
>>221097030it's actually his War of the Worlds remake which is an underrated kino
>>221096942The poor man's James Cameron
>>221098696Most directors don’t have a single great film at all. Even having 1 is an achievement. Do Spielberg protégés like JJ Abrams have a great film? No
>>221098716I thought it was okay, not great. the most I remember about it is the first time you see a tripod and other than that the girl screaming for two hours
>>221096942He's really good, even Armond White admits Spielberg is a master
>>221098772*was a master. He thinks he’s shit now
>>221096942He had a near-flawless 20 year run from Jaws to Munich.It's really rare to find a film maker that makes movies that are not only massively commercially successful, but also genuinely good at the same time.He's shit these days but you can't ignore the fact that he made so many outstanding films.
>>221098737It says a lot that JJ Abrams was basically the heir to Spielberg and Lucas and never made anything of note compared to them at all. The Star Wars sequel trilogy is forgotten and disliked, Super 8 was a bad imitation of Spielberg, etc. The Old Guard wasn’t able to pass on their on their filmmaking expertise to the next generation.
>>221098696More than most definitely, but compared to the greats that’s nothing.
>>221096942It is a contrarian stance cinephiles now adopt now that he is in the downswing of his career.I have been saying A.I. is a masterpiece since the beginning though. It feels good when everyone else catches up to you.
>>221099169seriously how did no one like that movie on release, it's kubrickian kino
>>221099104>but compared to the greatsWho are these greats? Name names.
A.I. is great Because Spielberg made it. Kubrick's version would have been bad, like most of his other films.
>>221097248No that’s going to far, without speilberg their would be no JJ Abrams since he would have nothing to constantly rip off and misunderstand as a story teller. Speilberg is just a devote kike with a solid eye for cinematography, I think a lot of the problems today most come from him being old and everyone who came up after him is mostly shit
>>221099169
>>221098716Wrong, they both suck.
>>221099534Pitiful bait, try harder next time, Champ.
>>221096942I think people realize he is getting close to death and want to be nice to him
>>221096942Rest in peace Heather O'Rourke
>>221097471>get asked about something in a lengthy interview and answer>some faggot: spielberg SLAMS whatever thingie in new press release>some mongoloid: omg spielberg is obsessed with thingie>some actual fucking subhuman: I'm going to save this tweet
>>221098685scorsese is the biggest hack in new hollywood
>>221096942It's the opposite. Hacks like JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Gen Xers loved his retarded faux-wonder juvenile slop. It's young millennials and Zoomers that realize his ouvre is intellectual counterfeit. Just like his faggot ass baseball caps.
>>221099507NTA but Bergman is one who immediately came to mind that made a lot of movies and a lot of great ones. I suppose Spielberg deserves credit for his longevity and durability and being prolific and thus having many more tries at making great films (and yes I agree he made several great ones) but he does not make movies that interest me like Lynch did, and I'd take the Straight Story over all of Spielberg's wholesome films, even ET
>>221101551I'm not attacking Spielberg either, I greatly admired him for championing Lynch and supporting Kubrick, and I think he made several great films. I'd just take Bergman over him as someone with a similar career output.
>>221097657>>221098716One of the worst movies I have had the misfortune of watching. Just awful.
>>221096979based
>>221096942>>221096979You do know that midwit means someone of above average, but not genius level, intelligence, right?
>>221096942When you look from the sky level its amazing what he accomplished. At the time we are judging each movie on its own.When you realize while he may be a corny Jew who made popcorn movies this same man made 3 of the top 10 saddest movies ever. IMO you don't have to believe in The Holocaust to be sad at Schindler's List, AI: Artificial Intelligence is the best portrayal of the Pinocchio story and has the most brutal and unreal scenes of hurt and rejection and self destruction ever put on cinema, nobody can even stand to watch it twice. Munich is so disturbing and IMO it doesn't really whitewash Israelis it highlights how horrible the Mossad has to be to feel as if it got justice. Its very dark and disturbing. Hook is another messed up kids movie. Also he has a insanely broad filmography, Empire Of The Sun is the most beautiful movie its within the top of all time in the 80s. It has no adventure, action, Jews crying and it still rules. He has the best slavery movies in The Color Purple and Amistad, greatest war movie, and also his dramas in the early 2000s were chefs kiss unbelievably tasteful and well done. Then for the hell of it do one of the top two Abraham Lincoln movies of all time.Even if you have JDS you have to admit he is the greatest single director overall and may never be topped. He was so fucking good that he actually made antisemitism go down to nearly 0 for like at least a decade maybe from 1984 to 2004.
think people realize how lost hollywood is without him controlling it, the 90s and 80s were defined by his and his proteges blockbusters
>>221102034He's extremely capable and talented but the problem is that he's catering to an american audience primarly which means he has to dumb it down to an extent and make it shmaltzy.I wish we got a Spielberg that never went for blockbusters and had a career in making movies like Munich primarily.
>>221098590You looking in a mirror?
>>221098624This isn't the slam dunk you think it is. Most directors are complete shit. Whichever 6 you think are masterpieces absolutely mog 95 percent of movies.
Its funny how no one remembers he directed Amistad
>>221096942It leaked ladshttps://ok.ru/video/15255164226302Spoiler: 2/10
>>221099507John Carpenter
>>221099507KubrickLynchFincherCorn bros
>>221096942when did you grow up? i grew up in the nineties and kikeberg has always been known to be great.
>>221096942Charlton Heston said Speilberg has one of the largest gun collections in Hollywood, but he never talks about them or is seen shooting.
