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In Reply to: Totally agree with you Rico...Spielberg is much maligned here on this board and to me... posted by TWB on May 16, 2006 at 11:46:53:
Frankly, Spielberg deserves his criticism. He has been unable to make a movie without resorting to cheap sentimentalism or effects to carry a story. "Schindler's List" was the closest thing I have seen to an exception. Every other Spielberg movie (and I have stopped going to his movies altogether in disgust) he has actors mainly reacting to special effects. Acting in a Spielberg movie means being able to have your jaw go slack in fear or amazement to a green screen.Schindler's List had two amazing performances: Fienes and Davidtz. I was horrified that Fienes didn't win an Oscar for his performance.
However, no matter how event driven the movie was, Spielberg couldn't resist going Hollywood at the end when Schindler breaks down and cries. The only surprise is that Spielberg was able to resist all the schmaltz until the end.
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Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
Anyone with the talent to make Jaws, Close Encounters of the third kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark really has no excuse for the Jurassic Park trilogy, ET, War of the Worlds (gag) or the multitude of other shallow and manipulative peices of dreck that has poured out of him. If he had no talent at least he would have an excuse.
Oh but I have. That's a movie of the week. I acknowledge that Spielberg is a geek who knows how to direct action sequences for the most part. It is the story/acting he has trouble with and so he goes for the shortcuts.
Well, I don't know if you believe in a God, but if you do, then I guess God went Hollywood too when he (or she) gave humans the ability to cry and feel, and express emotion. Or what that be Hollywood went God, since God was likely around before Hollywood. And I never knew Hollywood was so religious.
***The only surprise is that Spielberg was able to resist all the schmaltz until the end.
Good point. Maybe he should have made Schindler do the pavian walk, a-la SPR, in the opening scenes?
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