Munich Dogs Spielberg
The Las Angeles Times' Oscar race web site TheEnvelope.com has a long article addressing the question of why Steve Spielberg's movie 'Munich' is not doing that well at the box office and in the movie awards business, e.g., Golden Globes, Oscar, etc.).
I would like to offer my own humble opinion. The movie is tanking because everything Spielberg has done since the last Jurassic park film is uninteresting and unwatchable. I know this is sacrilege maybe even anathema to those who are movie dweebs, but that's the truth, and I think unconsciously the movie-going public is beginning to notice it too. If you watch a Spielberg film the story is secondary to his preaching of a message or revision of history.
Let us revisit the recent past:
War of the Worlds—A remake! What an unoriginal and unnecessary idea.
Into the West—Guess we should have stayed in the East.
The Terminal—Help I'm trapped at the airport. Tom Hanks signals that he wants to end his career.
Catch Me If You Can—Huh? I'm sorry what was the question?
Taken—Aliens want to bred with us, but I'm not sure why.
Artificial Intelligence: AI—Young robot gets heart broken by evil white man—oops, sorry that was the plot for 'Into the West'—by evil human kind.
I think Spielberg has become separated from the audience. He needs to get back to 90 minute films with simple plots and lots and lots of special effects.
I would like to offer my own humble opinion. The movie is tanking because everything Spielberg has done since the last Jurassic park film is uninteresting and unwatchable. I know this is sacrilege maybe even anathema to those who are movie dweebs, but that's the truth, and I think unconsciously the movie-going public is beginning to notice it too. If you watch a Spielberg film the story is secondary to his preaching of a message or revision of history.
Let us revisit the recent past:
War of the Worlds—A remake! What an unoriginal and unnecessary idea.
Into the West—Guess we should have stayed in the East.
The Terminal—Help I'm trapped at the airport. Tom Hanks signals that he wants to end his career.
Catch Me If You Can—Huh? I'm sorry what was the question?
Taken—Aliens want to bred with us, but I'm not sure why.
Artificial Intelligence: AI—Young robot gets heart broken by evil white man—oops, sorry that was the plot for 'Into the West'—by evil human kind.
I think Spielberg has become separated from the audience. He needs to get back to 90 minute films with simple plots and lots and lots of special effects.
posted by Steve at 12:32 PM
2 Comments:
First part and last part of "Private Ryan" were very good; pity about the rest in the middle.
I was thinking of adding Private Ryan to my list of dogs, but as you said, the first 20 mintutes and last 20 minutes saved it from being a total snore.
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