Falling apples

[RobertScorpio]

There was once a time when I thought any movie Spielberg directed would be great...but, for me, that hasn't happened for a long time...Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Minority Report ect...its not that they are bad movies (Skull is) but they just are so..well..paint by numbers. He use to set the standard, but now his movies are..well...just okay...

Are there other directors in the action/scifi/fantasy realm who you use to say to yourself, this will be good, when their movies came out...but now? They're not so great as they were once before???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[acappellasaurus]

After the prequels debaucle, I would say that George Lucas as well.

From a TV standpoint, there was a time when Trek's Berman & Braga were good writers, but now, I wouldn't touch a series of theirs with a 10 foot pole.

The old guard, I think, is really in it's last stages, and the new up and comers (Abrams, Fuller, Del Toro, etc) are rising.

 

[RobertScorpio]

After the prequels debaucle, I would say that George Lucas as well.

From a TV standpoint, there was a time when Trek's Berman & Braga were good writers, but now, I wouldn't touch a series of theirs with a 10 foot pole.

The old guard, I think, is really in it's last stages, and the new up and comers (Abrams, Fuller, Del Toro, etc) are rising.

Braga--Berman--Moore...I guess Moore escapes the other two via Galactica (which I marginally like). I would like to see Galactic end and Moore do something more 'normal'. He's to good to be stuck in the scifi realm only...a cop show with the 'moore' twist on it might be good...But I agree with you about Braga. I think I read somewhere, not sure, that he is coming to 24...does anyone know if that is true???

Rob

 

[theenglish]

Shyamalan and Wheadon, as well as James Cameron and Martin Scorcese.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Shyamalan and Wheadon, as well as James Cameron and Martin Scorcese.

So you're saying all four of these directors are 'on the way down'? If so, I would wait and see how Cameron's next two movies do...

Rob

 

[theenglish]

Shyamalan and Wheadon, as well as James Cameron and Martin Scorcese.

So you're saying all four of these directors are 'on the way down'? If so, I would wait and see how Cameron's next two movies do...

Rob

Not necessarily on the way down, I'm responding to the question:

Are there other directors in the action/scifi/fantasy realm who you use to say to yourself, this will be good, when their movies came out...but now? They're not so great as they were once before???

Up until Titanic, I went to see anything Cameron ever did without a second thought. Has he made a film since Titanic? I can't even remember.

 

[Kirkman1987]

There was once a time when I thought any movie Spielberg directed would be great...but, for me, that hasn't happened for a long time...Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Minority Report ect...its not that they are bad movies (Skull is) but they just are so..well..paint by numbers. He use to set the standard, but now his movies are..well...just okay...

For me, it's just the change in tone that gets me. His newer films just don't have the same sense of adventure. His PC leanings have annoyed me as well. The replacement of guns in E.T. was bad enough, now Indy doesn't use guns either?

I was also bothered by the end of WotW, where Tom Cruise got his son back. that was just dumb. Compared to the balls Close Encounters displayed by not forcing a happy resoulution to Roy's family problems, it was embarrasing.


That said, speilberg will always be my favorite director. he's just made so many of my favorites not to be. I do like many of his new films as well, they just aren't "the old spielberg". The old spielberg died in 1993, after Jurrassic park, and the new speilberg began with the admittingly excellent schindler's list.