How powerfull is Steven Spielberg? - Page 2

A Mr. Bourne respectfully disagrees with you.

To which I must humbly reply:

Maaaaaaaaaaaaatt Daaaaaaaaaamoooon!

What? You didn't like The Movie of the Decade!(TM)?

Seriously, though-- Burton's Batman was the prototypical summer movie of the '90s, all hype and no substance. It was the first movie with a nuclear marketing campaign, one with a half-life so intense that it lasted all the way through Batman & Robin. When that turkey came out, fans revisited the earlier movies in the series to find out what went wrong, only to discover that the series had never been great to begin with.

I wasn't really speaking of critics, mainly the average common man (as opposed to super human film critics) that felt BATMAN was a good flick. I admit to having an incurable disease of seeing that movie through 12 year old eyes but I think it was the sequels that started giving people cause to rip apart the original.

Ah c'mon, he's got like 5 or 6 movies in various stages of development. I'm sure they'll mostly blow but there is one with Thomas Jane that sounds off beat. Plus, he was Sonny Forelli in "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" which easily puts him ahead of puppet Damon or Burns.

Is one of them an informercial for the Whizzinator(TM)?

He shouldn't do time for hitting Heidi Fliess, he should do time for going out with her in the first place.

As soon as I saw a cocksucker say Sin City was more entertaining that any of Spielbergs films since Raiders, my eyes began bleeding and I stopped reading this thread. First my brain imploded when I saw the person's name was Sin City, and he had one post. I became convinced it is Rodriguez, and then said bleedage occured.

remeber that great Millus interview on IGN he said that Stevens own personal favoroite is 1941 which says alot

the fact that Empire of The Sun currently has a 7.5 on IMDB is very reassuring

say what you will about Gremlins but watch the Goonies than a Spy Kids movie and you will realize where the greatness lies

WoTW I think wont be the great Steven movie of the year that will be Vengence or whatever the final title is

You know E.T.'s glow-brite finger thing? Spielberg can do that...for real.

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I dunno...there seems to be some merit to the idea that the more soppy and melodramatic moments in LOTR, along with some of the dodgier second unit stuff, was her doing. Hers or Boyens'. But it's hard to say, since as far as I can tell she's been with PJ since he started making movies.

Missed every single one of 'em. (So did everybody else.) Haven't liked a single one of his films since The 'Burbs and Joe Versus The Volcano.

What is an Afflek? Is that a Doctor Who villain?

Trust me, in twenty years' time Damon will be remembered as a puppet character in Team America.

That is true about Damon and TEAM AMERICA. It's not a big deal now but he better do what he can to make sure that movie doesn't get an infinite rotation on Comedy Central in a few years, Susan Sarandon should look into that as well.

Another sign of Spielberg's power, he's actaully able to close the ads for HIGH TENSION around here.

Oh yeah. I foresee at least two generations of seventh graders yelling "Maaaaaattt Daaaaaaamon!" at each other during lunch period. It's gonna be pervasive the way Blazing Saddles and Monty Python were in the '70s and '80s.

"Close"? Like censor? Clarify, please!

Not censor, just hit the X and have it go away at a higher percentage than it does for me. I mean the guy losing his head was cool the first 3 times but the awe of it diminshes after round 87.

Is Carla Gugino in Goonies? No? Then I rest my case.

I miss Lucy Deakins, though.

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I dunno 'bout "most powerful"... but LotR collectively earned about a billion dollars worldwide, which is more than you can say for anything Spielberg's directed in a good long time. I have no doubt that Spielberg could probably buy Jackson and the whole of New Zealand if he so chose, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make.

Oh, please. I grew up in the '80s; I have seen or heard of every project you mention. To wit:

Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom -- Utter shit, inferior in every way to the original. The beginning of the weird "daddy complex" that's hijacked just about every movie he's done since.

Amazing Stories -- Total shit. See my post above.

The Color Purple, only won a couple of awards -- Watered down, sentimentalized adaptation of the Alice Walker novel.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- More of the "daddy complex." Connery descends into self-parody, and the Jeopardy sketch on SNL is embryonically formed in Will Ferrell's imagination.

Always -- Spirit-free remake of A Guy Named Joe. Stars Brad Johnson, The Amazing Human Log.

Jurassic Park -- Cynical, kid-friendly fare. Should have been the Jaws/Alien of its era.

Poltergeist -- A vastly underrated movie, but it falls under the pre-E.T./Drank the Kool-Aid era Spielberg.

Gremlins -- Really not all that great. The sequel's better.

The Goonies -- Even as a thirteen-year-old, failed to see the point.

Back to the Future (all 3) -- Would've liked to have seen Zemeckis and Gale's original, R-rated treatment.

Young Sherlock Holmes -- Shit.

The Money Pit -- Shit pit.

An American Tail -- Candy-ass Maus rip-off. Spielberg owes Art Spiegelman royalties.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- A fine film.

The Land Before Time -- Landfill.

Always -- See above.

Joe Versus the Volcano -- Great movie, but little understood.

Arachnophobia -- Well, the Northern Californian scenery is lovely.

Cape Fear (with Nolte & DeNiro) -- Crummy remake of a good thriller, the beginning of Scorsese's decline into post-GoodFellas irrelevance.

Animaniacs (started the boom of anmiation, before that it was mostly japanese imports or rip offs ala transformers, voltron, ThunderCats et al... exception of the Smurfs) -- Actually, Tiny Toons came first. Both are overrated and their fanbase is terrifying. The Simpsons did more for animation than either Toons or Animaniacs, or for that matter, Family Dog. (See? I told you I grew up with this shit!)

Both are absolute pieces of shit that display a retarded kitten's understanding of science fiction. Your point?

Yes, it's fair to say that many of these movies push my nut. But not in the way you mean.

Cameron has become a Hughesian control freak. He forfeited Heaven with the misogynistic shitpile that was True Lies.

Even A.I. is better than the bland and undistinguished movies he made in the '90s.

Ah, BASEketball. Yasmine Bleeth before she destroyed her looks with cocaine. Jenny McCarthy, before she became the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. Good times.

2 or 3 years down the line who knows what will fly on basic cable. They've shown BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT many times on Comedy Central late at night but fully, well, uncut. If they can find a way to get PULP FICTION on broadcast cable (God only knows why) then TEAM AMERICA will be a breeze.

I think there should be like a Top 10 reasons why Steven Spielberg is so powerful.

The man has at least three masterpieces in his filmography which have pretty much cemented his status into movie history and he compounded that status by making smart business decisions which increased his power. You don't get to his position by being dumb.

I read in the encyclopedia that Steven Spielberg's urine can eat through titanium in seconds.

I got a chuckle out of this because it's fairly true. But this can be done for the casts of almost all the films of 1998. ARMAGEDDON, GODZILLA, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, and even the good movies of that year like THE NEGOTIATOR, RONIN, and ROUNDERS.

I'd do one for THE BIG HIT but I'm too tired to come up with a China Chow gangbang joke.

Steve Spielberg only lets Crispin Glover live to deomstrate the power of Mercy.
"I pardon you"

......sorry thats Mr Steve Spielberg.
Sorry...sorry....sorry.....

Does no one weep for the career of Maria Pitillo? (I mean, if she had gone on to have a career. That would be tragic and horrifying.)

Actually, most of the Negotiator cast seem to have made out pretty well, except for J.T. Walsh, for obvious and unfortunate reasons. Jackson, Giamatti, Spencer, and Rifkin have all enjoyed high-profile work since '98. Spacey was about to reach his American Beauty peak, but sadly achieved the Kevin Costner/"A benevolent warm light shines out of my anus unto you all" stage of his career just a couple of years later.

I actually laughed out loud to myself when i read this. I hardly ever laugh when im by myself. I think its only ever happened four times previously, and two of which were about Kevin Costner also

THE NEGOTIATOR cast comes off a bit better but both Spacey and sadly Jackson seem pretty lost at this point. I also thought David Morse would be doing more than BAIT and that Vigilante cabbie show. But I think J.T. Walsh is really the one that sticks it in and breaks it off.

Yeah, it happens like that sometimes. Start a thread about the influence THE GODFATHER has had on today's cinema and it'll end up being about whether "Mr. Belvedere" was better than "Perfect Strangers" by about post #60.

BTW, "Perfect Strangers" was better.

Small Wonder was better than both Mr Belvedere and Perfect Strangers.

Which is a complete shame because China Chow was the only good or refreshing thing from Kirk Wong's only attempt in Hollywood.

Steven Spielberg was the one who commanded Vin Diesel to punch God in the face, thus causing the universe to come into being. This event is captured on film, but this footage can never be shown to the public, for fear of mass rioting and holy wars on a massive scale.

If you were to write a sentence containing the names of both Spielberg and Diesel, and reversed the I and the E in both their last names, the entire universe would instantly implode, and there would only be God, Steven, and Vin once more. Steve would then tell Vin to punch God again, and thus all events would repeat forever.

I'll call your Small Wonder and up it with Madame's Place.

You ignorant son of a bitch.

There is no ignorance in believing "Belvedere" was just "Gimme A Break" with a fat white guy. Ueker was always good for a laugh or two.

Two words: Tracy Wells

Wells looked okay but she probably couldn't even get an audition to be one of the sisters on "Just the 10 of Us."

I don't think he's totally lost his touch. Though, his last GREAT film was Savin Private Ryan. Catch Me If You Can was decent...WOTW may be good...I'm not counting on an epic though. He still has the magic eye I think, but you can't expect every single one of his movies to be uber-great.

She was really good in Alias playing Sloan's wife.

OOOOOHHHHHHHH you nailed something there.

How powerful is Spielberg you ask?

I'm carrying his baby and have never met the man.

Later on I'll post my mailing address so everyone can send baby presents

Whether it's a boy or a girl I think I have an old E.T. plush doll laying around my folks' house somewhere. It could be a good way to break the ice the day you decide to tell your bundle of joy about papa.

Well, if the baby pops out sporting a beard or a fedora or a bullwhip then you'll know.

I'll tell you how powerful he is.

I once ran into a DP who has worked with SS (name withheld to protect the innocent), and we sat down to have lunch at Farmer's Market in LA. One of the few things he told is that when SS was getting the crew ready for ET, he promised everyone (below the line), that if the movie made more than $30 million, he would give them a nice bonus of $100K (remember this was the early 80s). As of 2005, everyone is still waiting for the promised $100k bonus. And most those waiting for the $100k still continue working with him.*

Now that's power!!


*Needless to say some of them got their pseudo-revenge at the DGA screening of AI by booing the fuck out of the movie.

How Powerful Is Spielberg? One Night, While Drunk On Cristal, Spielberg Mistook Bill Brasky For A Cocktail Weenie And Swallowed The Bastard Whole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steven Spielberg and an aluminum baseball bat have been responsible for every single manned space launch worldwide.