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Topic: Steven Spielberg
Posted By: marktheshark
Subject: Steven Spielberg
Date Posted: September 05 2005 at 18:19
Hollywood's most powerful, popular and conventional filmaker certainly has managed to push all the right buttons in his films. He may not be the most arty or audascious of filmakers, but he sure knows how to entertain with hardly a bomb in the lot.

I go with Schindler's List with Close Encounters a close 2nd. My favorite sci-fi film right behind 2001.



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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 06 2005 at 16:24
I don`t like the guy to me he`s a talentless overgrown kid...

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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 07:05
WHERES DUEL

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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 07:55

Originally posted by PROGMAN PROGMAN wrote:

WHERES DUEL

thats what..



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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 07:55

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

I don`t like the guy to me he`s a talentless overgrown kid...

go home



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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 07:58


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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 08:02


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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 08:08

Originally posted by PROGMAN PROGMAN wrote:

WHERES DUEL

this is for you



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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 08:10
Empire Of The Sun and Schindler's List...

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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 08:15

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Empire Of The Sun and Schindler's List...

and this is for you



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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 08:21
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

I don`t like the guy to me he`s a talentless overgrown kid...

go home



I am at home
 

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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 09:09
Originally posted by PROGMAN PROGMAN wrote:

WHERES DUEL

I didn't count his TV movies, just his theatrical releases.


Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 10:27
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by PROGMAN PROGMAN wrote:

WHERES DUEL

this is for you

Cheers



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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 11:17

I liked some of these as a kid... I think there happend same thing with these as I noticed with Star Trek. I watched them too much back then and got bored... Now i'm more interested in art movies, and I don't watch movies very often.

I voted for "The Last Crusade", as I remember watching it in movies with my dad.  "Schindler's List" was also OK, but I prefer Polanski's holocaust filmatisation more.



Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 11:30
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Empire Of The Sun and Schindler's List...

and this is for you



Uh,Jitu....I think I know the covers...
 

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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 17:21
Schindler's List and Empire of the Sun - IMO his recent films have not been up to the standard that we had come to expect of him. I think he peaked with Schindler's List.

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 07 2005 at 17:43
Schindler's List, by a country mile...

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Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: September 08 2005 at 03:16
He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 03:36
Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


True, true
 

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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 03:41

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


True, true
 

not true

critics are overrated



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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 03:47
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


True, true
 

not true

critics are overrated



His style is the esence of Hollywood crap
 

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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 03:51
Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


True, true
 

not true

critics are overrated



His style is the esence of Hollywood crap
 

MAYBE THAT IS TRUE THEN,

BUT I LIKE 'INDIANA JONES TRILOGY'.

AFTER ALL IT IS FORMULA THAT I LIKE;



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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 03:56
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.


True, true
 

not true

critics are overrated



His style is the esence of Hollywood crap
 

MAYBE THAT IS TRUE THEN,

BUT I LIKE 'INDIANA JONES TRILOGY'.

AFTER ALL IT IS FORMULA THAT I LIKE;



All his films look the same - I mean climax, dramatism etc. I think that Spilberg couldn`t now direct a film with a budget less than 100 000 000$ Indiana has it`s moments but nothing compares to the trully great master Quentin Tranatino
 

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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 04:01

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 04:07
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

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Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 04:53
Schindler's List - one of the best movies I have ever seen...

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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 16:26

Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

He has made some good entertaining movies but i still feel he is the most overrated director in the history of cinema.

Exactly what I was going to post.



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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 16:29
Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

I see we have more in common then just the fondness for prog metal, winking and beeing polish



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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 16:37
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

I see we have more in common then just the fondness for prog metal, winking and beeing polish

what is 'molvania'?

 



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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 16:43
Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

I see we have more in common then just the fondness for prog metal, winking and beeing polish

what is 'molvania'?

 

http://www.molvania.com - www.molvania.com

try to find stuff about the progressive master Zladko ZLAD! Vladcik and his techno-ballad, Electronic-Supersonic... His new single, The Anti-pope is worse then Electronic but still a masterpiece of progressive music



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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 18:04
These days I would agree that Steven is overated. But comparing him to Quentin is a bit difficult. They're almost a generation apart. Back in the 70s I would say he was nothing short of brilliant. In '75 he took a stupid farfetched pulp novel and made suspense masterpiece out of it. He even had a broken down fake looking mechanical shark to deal with. Still he managed to pull it off. The part when Roy Scheider is on the beach and Steven changes the camera angle whenever a beach comber passes by was pure genious. Plus all the other little tricks he puts in like the reflection on Scheider's glasses of the books he's flipping through, the shooting stars in the sky when they're out at sea.

His next film, Close Encounters just blew me away. This one came out the same year the first Star Wars installment came out and I thought this was the better of the 2. Star Wars was all fun and dandy, but this one was far more intelligent and thought-provoking. Plus he wrote this one as well as directed.

Then in the 80s he starts going Disney with ET and the Indiana Jones flicks. Fun movies but pretty sappy. He's been pretty much off and on since then.


Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 03:29
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

there is no comparison;

tarantino is the number one



that`s one thing we both agree on. Peace
 

I see we have more in common then just the fondness for prog metal, winking and beeing polish



Yeah, two prog winking Tarantino fans.
 

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Posted By: Prodigal
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 12:36
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is my favorite movie by him.

I also love the other two Indy films.



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