Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Cosmic Closet (A) on November 06, 2008 at 12:40:20

In Reply to: RE: Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull--after The Iron Shit..I did it again-- posted by patrickU on November 06, 2008 at 07:46:31

Amen to both Spielberg and Lucas.

Spielberg has fared the better of the two. While he too is re-hashing his franchise, he at least had a day when he had some edge to him (with Jaws) before the sugar-plum fairies took over his brain and everything became so cutesy (even in Jurassic Park) that it could make you scream to see the waste.
"JP" could have been one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but for Spielberg, Jeff Goldblum's would-be hip nonsense, and the inevitable freaking kid scenes.
I have seen "Schindler's List" and "Private Ryan". Both films drown under his style ultimately, "List" being better simply because of the power of the subject. My opinion.


Lucas seems to live a life equally torn between the enormity of maintaining the marketing of "Star Wars" and being the curator of Industrial Light and Magic.

Should he choose to direct a real film, more power to him; it might get him out of the doldrums and away from the techno-stuff for a while.
However, it must also be said, should he decide to go the literary route, that while he can afford the best hired help on the planet, none of them can make him a remotely good film director.

The one film that shows freshness and life from him is "American Grafitti." Back then, he had not yet created the monster that took over his life, and he directed as if he actually still could speak to actors. It ain't art, but it has far more humanity than anything he has touched in decades.

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