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Steven Spielberg

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Director of Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Hook, discussed in context of how big-budget Hollywood has lost confidence in audiences' intelligence.

Mentions (14)
"After taking a tour bus to Universal Studios, a chance conversation with an executive led to Spielberg getting a three-day pass to the premises. On the fourth day, he walked up to the studio gates without a pass, and the security guard waved him in: 'I basically spent the next two months at Universa"
"Steven Spielberg got his start by showing up to Universal Studios uninvited."
One of the most enviable aspects of the older generations · u/umichleafy · ↑470 · 2025-12-16
"Jewish Americans are responsible for 70% of classic American cinema. However, Israel, a country that is 80% Jewish, has failed to produce even one classic movie. They even had to rely on Spielberg to make Munich. what gives?"
Why is Israel's cinematic output so weak? · u/The_FellaMH · ↑252 · 2024-12-16
"I'm reading the huge praise for the new Steven Spielberg adaptation of West Side Story, and you would have to pay me a few hundred dollars to make me sit through it."
Why are musicals so bad? · u/dalewood12 · ↑170 · 2021-12-04
"Think back to another ambitious special effects picture from Spielberg, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977). That was a movie about the 'idea' of visitors from outer space... I have the uneasy feeling that if Spielberg had made 'Close Encounters' today, we would have seen the aliens in the f"
"Spielberg walks past some family with the kids playing with dinosaur toys (okay this one hasn't happened since toddler get iPad) and is like 'damn they've probably seen Jurassic Park by now'?"
"it would have been no.1 on the Schindler's List of Worst Movies Ever and they would have pinned Spielberg as a self-hating Krakozhian."
The Tom Hanks airport movie is horrible · u/waffleman258 · ↑76 · 2025-12-16
"I've been reading a lot about WWII recently, and it's fascinating to me that there some Holocaust survivors are still alive today. I wanted to read some firsthand accounts, hoping to learn more about that time period (Steven Spielberg collected thousands of survivor interviews mostly available on YT"
Holocaust AMA cements my hatred of redditors · u/Negative-Net7551 · ↑62 · 2023-10-09
"About a decade in the industry and has worked with Scorsese, Speilberg, the Coens, Soderbergh, Coppola, Mann, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Jeff Nicholls, Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott multiple times, Jarmusch, Baumbach multiple times, and was Han Solo's son."
Adam Driver · u/nakifool · ↑55 · 2024-10-15
"There is genuinely something aesthetically wonderful about 80s blockbuster popcorn, Spielberg movies. Shit like The Goonies ,E.T. , Gremlins etc. The reason nostalgiabait like Stranger Things is so popular , is because people miss this stuff, most media just doesn't feel like this anymore."
My Most Reddit-Tier Take · u/DewiAustin · ↑46 · 2023-01-21
"Spielberg also had some great ones - Jaws, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc."
what are the greatest movie titles ever? · u/Blahblah4783 · ↑44 · 2022-10-01
"It's rumored that Todd Fields involvement turned into a close apprenticeship to Kubrick for the last years of his life- a position many other directors claim to have fulfilled (like goofy faced Spielberg)"
"The only reason I can imagine people actually liked this movie is because the money was spent to make it look like a Spielberg movie. It has all the camera tricks and hallmarks of a Douglas Slocombe mixed with Janus Kaminski type picture, but the scenes therein are truly moronic."
Finally saw Babylon. · u/TheBigIdiotSalamon · ↑40 · 2024-06-10
"they would have pinned Spielberg as a self-hating Krakozhian"
The Tom Hanks airport movie is horrible · u/waffleman258 · ↑76 · 2025-12-16
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