Good movies,,, well there are a few.......

[Grumpycat]

I watched "The Glass Onion" last week (netflix, I think) - it was good. Lots of big names

I was disappointed.

Was very disappointed at Daniel Craig's "southern" accent, it was awful.

 

[scaredychicken]

True

 

[Ainsley Gilbert]

I've watched Falling for Christmas. Brought me some Christmas mood again.

 

[/pine]

Curious...anyone else think Steven Spielberg is over rated...or at least gets more recognition than other directors that are as good or even better??
(yes he made some good, entertaining movies but...)
IMO he is no Hitchcock or Tarantino etc...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I think Spielberg is about as good as they come, in terms of movies that are entertaining and satisfying to watch. I have seen probably most of his films, and there isn't a clinker in the bunch.

 

[MossRoad]

Crickets.

 

[MossRoad]

I think Spielberg is about as good as they come, in terms of movies that are entertaining and satisfying to watch. I have seen probably most of his films, and there isn't a clinker in the bunch.

He gives the people what they want, that's for sure.

List of highest-grossing film directors - Wikipedia

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I found this story amusing regarding Hitchcock and Spielberg...

From here:

Why Alfred Hitchcock refused to meet Steven Spielberg

"I look at him and feel like such a *****”.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

Spielberg tried to organise a meetup of the two cinematic greats, he was never able to, as explained in the audiobook Tales of Hollywood by Stephen Schochet. In the audiobook, Schochet outlines how Hitchcock was once “upset by an uninvited young man hovering around the movie set” of his last film Family Plot released in 1976. According to reports, the director behind Psycho, The Birdsand many other 20th century classics called to have the trespasser removed, not knowing the man was in fact Steven Spielberg hoping to meet his idol.

This was merely the first time Spielberg tried to meet Hitchcock however, with the director of Jaws,Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan being repeatedly turned down for a meeting. The reason for such a passionate refusal to meet Steven Spielberg was only revealed once American actor Bruce Dern released his autobiography in 2007, where the actor revealed that he tried to convince Hitchcock to meet the Jaws director.

“I said, ‘You’re his idol. He just [wants] to sit at your feet for five minutes and chat with you’,” Bruce Dern writes, though Hitchcock continued to refuse, stating, “Isn’t that the boy who made the fish movie?… I could never sit down and talk to him… because I look at him and feel like such a *****”.

Confused and bewildered by such a response, Dern asked Hitchcock to elaborate, “I said, ‘Why do you feel Spielberg makes you a *****?’ Hitch said, ‘Because I’m the voice of the Jaws ride [at Universal Studios]. They paid me a million dollars. And I took it and I did it. I’m such a *****. I can’t sit down and talk to the boy who did the fish movie… I couldn’t even touch his hand”.

Though Steven Spielberg would have, of course, been enamoured by Alfred Hitchcock, it seems that this was too much for the latter to bear, even if the reasons for such are truly bizarre.

 

[IH3444]

Schindler's List - Wikipedia

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[/pine]

IMO...the popularity (and box office gross etc.) of a movie says more about the type of people watching than the greatness of the film...IMO what determines how good a movie is is based on how often a film is watched after the first time...some folks are known to watch a particular movie whenever it is aired etc. regardless of how many times it's been watched...
...Even mediocre film makers can make very successful movies when they start with a wildly popular story...(AKA novel etc...)
Although I didn't mention them when I cited Hitchcock and Tarantino...When it comes to contemporary directors...I think the Cohen brothers have made some of the best movies I have ever seen...old or new...!

 

[IH3444]

OOOOOH, I don't know or remember, maybe about 2-3 hundred times....

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Wikipedia

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