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Entertainment Apps
Entertainment apps range from the silly to the sublime. For a list of our favorites, check out AppCraver's Editor Picks of the Best Entertainment Apps for iPhone and iPad, or read on for today's news and reviews of entertainment applications for iOS devices.
MultiQuiz allows you to Create your Own Quizzes
MultiQuiz, an app from french iPhone developer Eric Degrage is a trivia app with the unique ability to have users create their own Quizzes. To do so, you first login to the developer website, and then create your quiz by entering each question along with three possible answers.
Freshwater Aquarium. Feed the Fish in your iPhone
Freshwater Aquarium is a cute app that replicates an aquarium with fish on your iPhone. Like Koi Pond, its not likely that you will use Freshwater Aquarium a lot, but at $0.99 its cute enough to marginally justify the cost of entry.
Crazy Pumpkin Offers Mix and Match Halloween
The folks at ezone, makers of iPhone apps such as Crazy Lighter and Crazy Disco, are constantly adding to their line-up of "crazy" apps. The newest is Crazy Pumpkpin — a mix and match jack-o-lantern game just in time for Halloween.
iChalky is Dancing His Way into Our Hearts
Remember that scene in the Wizard of Oz when the scarecrow first comes off his pole and learns to walk. If you could control that gangly dance on your iPhone, you would have iChalky.
Chalky is a stick figure that is much more complex than he appears.
Sex and the City Organizes Your Closet
The über-successful Sex and the City franchise just came out with an iPhone app. After the hit TV series and last summer's success movie, Warner Bros. released the free Sex and the City: Carrie's Closet app, which offers different links related to the series as well as a photo cataloging tool for the user's closet.
i.TV - The Future of the TV Guide
i.TV is a new TV and movie guide that just hit the app store yesterday. This app offers a vast amount of TV listings and movie theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada, providing show descriptions, previews and trailers, celebrity bios, as well as the option to write a review and share information and opinions about shows or movies.
007 Quantum of Solace - The Dedicated Movie App
Earlier today, I stumbled on the new 007 app, a designated app for the Movie "Quantum of Solace". I think this is a trend to watch -- the 007 app (update: now removed from the App Store) is free, and provides a variety of content to go, including video blogs of the director of photography and other contributors to the movie.
Endless Walls - View, Share and Save Wallpaper
Okay, so Endless Walls from Motacore, LLC won't blow your socks off, but it does fill the basic need for wallpaper if that's your thing! The application provides an continuous stream of more than 7000 wallpapers (according to the company) that users can view, share and save.
Escape Pod - Making a Getaway Just Got Easier
Escape Pod by one-man British iPhone app developer Dardan Software allows you to get off the hook in pretty much any awkward phone situation. The app offers 29 pre-recorded sounds as well as the ability to record new sounds and add them to the library. Sounds like "Smoke Alarm", "ER Background" or "Train Station Chatter" can be played at the desired volume during an uncomfortable or annoying conversation.
Apple Remote 1.1 - Now, with Genius
The Apple Remote app has always been one of our favorite all around apps. As of last week, it has been upgraded to version 1.1, and now fully supports the new "Genius Mode" of iTunes 8. We can now give it the perfect 10/10 rating.
The Tag Show Offers Fun Way to Search for Images
This debut app from Dove Valley Apps works as a fun search tool for pictures from public image feeds like Flickr and Picasa (Google Images is supposed to be added soon). The navigation of this free app is basic and easy - you enter a tag and a slide show of the images found appears on the screen.
iPhunny Jokes is Pretty Funny
iPhunny Jokes is a very simple app that showcases some of the latest material from Conan O Brian, Letterman and Leno. I would say that 8 out of 10 of the jokes are funny enough that you will want to forward them on to your friends, and the app makes that extremely easy to do, by integrating with you contact list.
Flipbook is Fun for all Skill Levels
Flipbook is a fun app that is much more sophisticated than it lets on. For an iPhone app with such a low price, Flipbook contains an incredible level of features -- color and brush size controls, layers and onion-skinning, undo, the ability to load pics from and save images to your photo library. These are robust tools.
iLaugh, You Laugh, We All Laugh
Why is six afraid of seven? Because 7,8,9! (Cue hysterical laughter.) This might be an extreme example, but now you really can "cue the laughtrack" when telling jokes that are more "roll your eyes" than "rolling on the floor."
iLaugh Sound Machine is the most amusing 99 cents I've spent on an iPhone app so far.
Koi Pond: Find Zen Bliss With Relaxing Pool of Virtual Fish
The intrepid Blimp Pilots development shop just released Koi Pond 2.0 with a variety of new features. The 1.0 version was great; the 2.0 version adds a variety of improvements to the Zen experience that is Koi Pond - movable lily pads, 3D sound, the ability to feed your fish (try shaking the phone), and finger nibbling (hold your finger still in the water and see what happens).


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Jul 30, 2013|
We discuss Salk's attempt at a 25 for 25 list, and come to the realization that Mike Mutnansky wasn't wrong, whittling down a list to just 25 players is tough!
Transcript - will not be 100% accurate
So Michael you are making me think about my -- and some people -- governments do on your for your list. Textures there's where's Matt Light young Allen Logan Mankins all guys who could conceivably mean they're all guys who who deserve to be in the conversation that. None good enough for me in order to crack my top 25 there's only 25 names on here. So before it easy and I learned this the other day spouting off that mutt. And saying why you left some guys out happy how could you possibly left some of these guys out and then you actually do the exercise and it is significantly harder than you would think. And I think I see we can talking about Curtis Martin last week to -- -- was only three it was really only three years. So can he be on the air that was only three years and a lot of his greatness really took place elsewhere you might convince me on Randy Moss for the same reason. At that time he was here was not as long as it seems like in my head saying with Curtis Martin. Of I wanna take somebody off even though I I have an eighteen I probably should drop him. If there's a guy -- take off I think it probably animosity to convince me there because of that same -- just wasn't your. All take him off and I have a new number 25. Of all those names I think Adam Vinatieri probably next. As pseudo don't make him number 1 -- military 25. Who loses -- love. You like my list that analogy though then okay free of the list yeah now that it is a better now than it was -- better. It needs to be. It it it needs some serious investigation some serious. -- had it right he was on that he was on the way there. He's spent two hours on it before gave up just flat out Gailey got tired. They said we need this day. And he just didn't wanna work mattered anymore switched dot. But it probably needs. Pro Football Hall of -- treatment get in that room and argue. Normal here's the list one more time they take up on the board I'll read it very quickly to 125. Brady Pedro Manny Ramirez three. Bork mealy pierce. Ortiz edges Ortiz pierce -- -- Bruschi. Chara. Schilling. Pedroia Troy Brown Bergeron Ty Law. Kevin Garnett Roger Clemens. Wes Welker Tim Thomas Drew Bledsoe Rodney Harrison Nomar mobile on lawyer Malloy Adam Vinatieri. That's my list that's my top 2.5 six or 777979837. Some from you guys market run -- primark. -- -- -- Amato you agree -- on the car and Malcolm Thomas is way too low and way way way too why Thomas at one. And now he should be in the top ten. You'd be in the top ten who is what you have a couple of. Two residents to own residence. Still the cup and a year and he's playing late Ken Dryden. And it's tender I don't -- that I'm he would be in the top ten million guaranteed. Watched game six in game seven of that cup final yet he would do as good as any goaltender that ever lived -- We got to take somebody out of the top ten in order to put him in there I mean you can take Brady Pedro do you take either those guys out of the top ten out. Manny out like a thousand OP yes every -- was here. Yeah right you're right now I don't know Don Hewitt I tell you learn -- it's gonna put him ahead of the -- really. I'm a big -- go com. Lie and no you're not. You're not gonna take a gap -- you -- more money -- I know that but they were so good for so long in and healing you know long -- they both they both ways to cops didn't end any any. Anyway -- have played. Equipment and you. Pretty long time though on the I was. Discounting -- played for two or three he did play for ten years at fifty goals in fifty games brought them to soak up. That that's even -- tremendous absolutely that season was tremendous and you know what they went to the cup final artwork on. They mark you have to go tell you have to go -- cam is out of the top ten. If you wanna do that you go tell cam that he's out of the top ten that's on you you're gonna argue that particular case I don't know how many rules. You're allowing here for your list here if we don't whatever rules you want art did you make the case that even though camp didn't win lose a player. Can't believe president presence as not an executive now does not count for them when I'm trying not to count that kind of thing -- west. Because it's about that about the players then I got to start -- in Belichick are gonna start adding -- coaches now but these unique. Yeah big situations where. He played was a great player. And is down not up present executive I understand the arguments I'm not -- lot that are still competing I would not rule out for those texting in. Think that -- anything goes to thank him I say don't consider anything that I am not that that doesn't work from -- change your mind like this okay mom -- I'm now -- on -- come up. -- that I've -- -- and I think that -- -- as somebody once Bill -- to be in the -- though it is the last 25 years only starting in 1988. -- from their mikes in the car I'm Mike. I I don't like. I don't know -- -- make this lit in the -- you decrease the fact that Matt Light protecting Tom Brady yeah. The entire time I do not as important on the opera line. On all -- the time went by Gartner. Did you read the blind side might think did anyone besides ignorant about I never heard of Michael Lewis I don't worry 'cause stereo. I even know his wife -- tab for sore. Mark on the -- relaxing. I'll take a big deep breath in my head and no I didn't think he's another name that that probably deserves consideration our listeners hardly you know really is are we got to take a bunch of people got two people offer that you mentioned you mentioned. Light them you mentioned wolf for Mike and -- have a couple -- and I have -- I mean there in his name -- to. They're tech is not on the list and strike could be your man Wakefield. Mattingly and kind of forming. I like mark saw it. I don't know Michael's right I'm on are you convinced me and happen if you tell me are gonna take two guys off. If you want Matt Light indoor Bruce Armstrong and here we taken off. Well I -- Are okay -- you want Matt Light on he's taken off -- in your take Nomar off. No I couldn't clear that we didn't know mark I know an embarrassing. Are you put them out. And I think you wanna take Rodney Harrison off for those guys. I would I would probably. To -- -- -- -- man was so good won one Super Bowl helped me get to another thank you all like 090 man. Through -- he's at. The. Blind side and the blind side to -- in my Telemar Michael Lewis -- back here and there is this ever heard of would you please stop oh. Ever read his book on raising kids is really funny. I mean his laugh out loud funny. It's him and is his wife is the MTV -- -- for foreign and it is it is laugh out loud funny really really has not in the car I'm Matt. I got -- knows what's gonna. But but tweet that -- a little bit more -- what you wanna do. How can you possibly and haven't Curt Schilling at eleven just outside of the and I haven't Welker all in the twenties. Welker had because -- 'cause I get some way to -- because lesser power here than Welker difference -- the author. Think think for the most productive -- and has a history at wide out Brian and Curt Schilling had one great year about -- mediocre years. Because he help the -- he was one of the major tractors in the Red Sox winning two championships is one of them being over four. Which is to my money from my money the most meaningful championship of all time and Wes Welker was not a wideout. Walker was in -- I'll keep it might I -- He covered under the answer is -- you know what I got to do though unfortunately. I -- so many points for the drop it and I got a good. I detract so many points for Welker drop in the in the Super Bowl they could have another championship to be happy about that particular -- I've known for his hands you're talking about hands you keep talking about the reception here this. The average. Average all the average of you got it. Don't watch what you are who gave the wide receiver really what -- retriever and I like them or not no -- about. Career while -- here Curt Schilling -- it is clear. Our -- -- bloody sock yeah. Army and you gotta put Curt Schilling in the nobody but you need your actor in the 71. On the game how is your back there are no more. -- or act like. You -- final -- he wasn't the case of this happened almost pay a question party was he was very good pitcher for the this is to tab at the Sorin references salt you're complete liberal do -- there something liberal. Of lamenting to have Abbott the Sorin mastery is I don't know if there is I don't know what it is. She was on MTV is that if she did MTV news with Kurt loader. You hear it first -- there's something political about that that I don't understand please gloomy and rob Bradford has billing -- hands he's gonna stop buying a couple of minutes and dropped back to your calls -- -- -- -- -- Well I know I -- saying that I wanted to get on that I should be included are now live to the record I'm Taylor Twellman. Without him they have done not that it. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- I wasn't going -- with the he -- including. But not it -- MLS athletes. Don't screw yourself standing for -- -- -- and are way off. I hired as last call Geithner. Congratulations all Cuban -- ought to all the you're an idiot. Catching on Michael the rage. Is that it's the rage right now everybody wants to follow -- do a top 25 athletes civil Abbas an athlete to the last 25 years. I thought Chad Finn. Jumping in on the Boston Globe in the it was touching all the bases blog yes and unfortunately. He's somebody that he didn't include Teddy Bruschi yes it is also -- -- -- outburst you know Bruschi. -- -- -- -- Amazing you -- -- I do have no -- mine very good I do not have Adam Vinatieri on -- not on the list didn't make my list I started looking through -- diet he didn't make my list I thought he would but. There's a lot of competition on this as a young -- and make it I'm sure Adam Vinatieri. -- Taylor -- still don't really know who we are -- -- I'm -- as the placement and so I will tell you and I think -- settles believes he has -- placement topped the list. Is top 25 athletes of the last 25 years in Boston to starting in 1988 I took only their performances. From 1988 on. I gave some special I gave weight to. And I may have forgotten some people sure I did but I gave I tried to give added weight to championships. I tried to give added weight to incredible seasons. MVP type awards that type of stuff. And I tried to give added weight to guys who played longer sell -- -- to give some way to longevity. Let us get this who we talked about this before. Most 1988 to the president yes. So do you include. A performance they're great performance in January or February of 1980. I went from the day I went from ten day. Today being July 30 I went I went from -- I went from 25 years ago today. So birds 8788 season for instance wouldn't count that's only is 8889 season as housing right now Richard -- whatever I don't really know the rules -- made them up as I went along absolutely that's the role I mean I'm as I went around 8788 -- I have to awesome because it was 26 years ago. Here's what I got from it best when partners like everybody I think it was Mittal is the number one and two seem pretty obvious it's hard to argue. -- Brady and Pedro right I mean if you could find somebody else you think belongs in the top two I'd be surprised her. I don't think so not if you're starting in 1988 I mean I think that -- the majority of what -- did. Was a lot earlier than that so don't remember that didn't win any championships after that great player but I'm not an obvious one of the greatest of all time and not giving I'm not giving as much weight to that parts there's violence got Brady -- -- -- -- And I think it's that number three where you'll start to disagree and -- man. I'm putting men -- Mears number three. Everything he did -- best player on the team at the time with help. Knowing that you were serious enough player on the yes he was it not yes and -- player on the team yeah he was when we -- in 2004 in 2007 bowl that he was their best player two thousands I think he was. David Ortiz and I I think that what or I think Ortiz and got a -- art and Curt Schilling great players Pedro Martinez. Marquette number go up Pedro because Pedro was that you're not just about 2004. By 2004 I think Manny was better than Pedro earlier than Matt. I Pedro was much better than -- in 99 for a 2000 like nearly 99. Peter many no but what Pedro did in those years. Was better than what Manny had ever done I mean -- is it's not just about where they were at once -- day in time lives are more Manny Ramirez I have number three Robert Gallery rest of the list goes Bork. Nearly four and five assists for. Many thought my nanny. -- -- and we think -- discoveries recently. It hidden weaknesses. His pinky -- -- unbelievable. Did I hear you know Larry -- top spot now known -- in the top five government to yes -- -- the next the next 613 and would go to David Ortiz six Paul Pierce seven. -- a Bruschi nine -- ten. It it -- it's not bird's entire career to what he did after 1980. I understand that it was so he's in the top ten for God's sakes. It has a lot of really good players who were after him but not the top five for what he did after 1988. As Greg Jennings. And writers. -- -- gotta give respect. Is -- that Larry learns that that's all I have not it's just think he's it's and it's 88 on where's Michael Irvin could -- -- -- Michael learned is from 1988. On great player and had very good seasons after that. But Paul Pierce won a championship during that time and went to another final. LaBroque. Today. Eleven through fifteen was Schilling Pedroia Troy Brown the Patrice Bergeron Ty Law. Here Roger Clemens just about to get to him. 1613 when he would be Kevin Garnett Roger Clemens at seventy yeah for what he did during that time a couple of bad years near the end it. Certainly. Really. A couple of bad years. -- got fat and overweight can't stand Roger Clemens he's not gonna make into my top ten sorry I got Roger number seventeen followed by Randy Moss Wes Welker. Tim Thomas -- when he. And then the final five. Would be Bledsoe Harrison Nomar -- on normal. And maybe -- registered to -- -- autism every 26 number three. Who earlier how to mobilize it and just it was a bunch Vinatieri is anonymous and he's right there that many at three -- -- -- Reggie Reggie Lewis could probably be on the list Mikhail although again you -- just the end of his career. Green well. On an MVP quality season during that time partisan make the layoffs and back doesn't make the last Jonathan palpable on -- left off my list discourages it wasn't that it was that it's a heartless but I don't leave them off of what your problem -- -- agreement then yeah. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- In order to put them -- to me giving. Is 818 through 25 again about Randy Moss. Would you take him off for any of those guys. I might really like. He had eight a record setting season. Not a out of the dark skin okay. He had a record setting season in New England one great year right is that fair to say. They're ready -- -- one unbelievable. Year with the date yet but I'm accounting for some of that stuff I mean I I'm I'm I'm telling you in my criteria. Our our is that I'm giving credit for incredible diseases like that so we had one right okay so it was 07. 0809. And that shot -- we out of town. It in the beginning of the 2000 -- and so we have three full seasons. One album was unbelievable right what -- was underrated 2008. Mac -- -- quarterback and and you medium you helped make him look like a professional quarterback. And a 2009 where you know heavily -- -- of the party -- it. I would probably pick up an elaborate. -- -- I -- -- -- I get honest I understand a lot of your argument but I think that what he did for them in 2007. Just the way he elevated the entirety of that offense a song credit was great. Then -- a -- that I did I and I'm given some special consideration that is -- -- -- -- -- categories that aren't I thought I understand your argument that are -- don't entirely disagree get. After that I had Wes Welker Tim Thomas the only Tim Thomas off the list. You talk about a guy winds of as -- helps you when the chance I mean come on you can take Tim Thomas off the twenty where I think mr. Thomas off. Now I know you're gonna disagree the next one Drew Bledsoe could you know picky belongs. -- leave them you leave Cuba on him for what he did for -- carrier for a long period of time got the team to a Super Bowl. Out Rodney Harrison wins two Super Bowls and I think the safeties and underrated as well. Well okay. I might consider taking -- -- it would mean he's -- that the spiritual leader one of the spiritual -- -- -- team are heard a couple of years Teddy -- he was one of them until -- was not a knock on him. And then -- can get. At one spiritually and -- a few we need just 14. Go to -- our spiritual leaders -- let's go to our spiritual leader of slick spiritually or 53 guys in there and it can all be spiritual leaders together. You can share you can share of spiritual leadership -- not gonna take Nomar fullest right now you're not gonna take mole off the -- no no he did -- Malloy awful yet. I think the reasons people might is because of what happened at the variant allele was. But lawyer was he really great player long before -- elderly or even got here to avoid another big time leader in that and now locker room. He was one of the main factors in them getting to the to the ninety Richard and our law well. I Taiwan fifteen okay now and there's somebody attacks in what about birth right up Bergeron a fourteen. -- -- lawyer probably brought you on Patrick lawyer often take running here and bring you just hate safeties auto club safeties. Seems like he hates you know Harrison stated all Harrison statements are lawyers gone kind. And so as a randomized an -- took 32 people off yet some -- extra room got Vinatieri Karen and I want that Allen picked up -- to. I mean look I givers I I certainly respected meeting Vinatieri belongs there instead of moss or or even or even lawyer but. I think lawyers role in getting them to that first Super Bowls -- so good. It was so good as a young player. -- a ton of calls on this and a 44 little audio calls coming up here it's all in all I think you got to find a way to drop Wes Welker and that's what did your opinion the war. Well that is mean. -- WEEI.

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Review: We went for lunch during SXSW, since our appartment was near. I had the savory seitan, which is just awesome! The jalopeno cornbread on the side isn't really that hot, but just good with this plate! My friends went a couple of more times, this place is highly recommendable!
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Movie News
Fascinating Video Of Steven Spielberg Watching The Announcement Of The 1976 Academy Award Nominations!
Beaks here...
The year was 1976. There were no Oscar blogs, maybe a handful of "awards gurus", and, as a result, genuine mystery surrounding what films would get nominated for the Academy Awards. For twenty-nine-year-old Steven Spielberg, there was considerable hope and maybe a touch of arrogance: after all, he'd just made what was then the biggest box hit of all time in JAWS. What's more, the film was a huge critical success. So when he brags at the beginning of the below video that he's expecting eleven nominations, I'm not entirely sure he's joking.
Here's how things turned out (thanks to Keith Calder for the link)...
I can't tell if he's surprised or pissed that NASHVILLE got nominated. He does seem okay with losing his richly-deserved Best Director nomination to Federico Fellini for AMARCORD.
This was the beginning of Spielberg's odd relationship with the Academy Awards. He would get his first directing nod a couple of years later for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, and would bounce back from the much-reviled 1941 with a nomination for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. The Oscar was Spielberg's to lose in 1983; unfortunately, the Academy went for the well-intentioned GANDHI (directed by John Hammond himself, Sir Richard Attenborough) over E.T.
And yet the biggest snub was yet to come. In 1986, THE COLOR PURPLE received eleven nominations, only to be shut out across the board (OUT OF AFRICA won in a weak Picture field that also included KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, PRIZZI'S HONOR and, the best of the bunch, WITNESS). At that point, Spielberg seemed destined to be the Hitchcock of his generation: a massively popular storyteller whose films are deemed too frivolous for the prestigious Academy Awards. The tepid reaction to his excellent EMPIRE OF THE SUN in 1988 all but confirmed this.
And while everything changed with SCHINDLER'S LIST in 1993, the Academy wasn't quite finished fucking with Spielberg. Though SAVING PRIVATE RYAN entered the '98-'99 awards derby as the prohibitive favorite for Best Picture, Harvey Weinstein's ferocious campaigning on behalf of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE led to one of the biggest Oscar night stunners in film history - which was even more surprising after Spielberg won his second Best Director trophy earlier in the evening.
The saga continues tomorrow, with Spielberg's two 2011 offerings, WAR HORSE and THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, expected to go home empty handed. But most expect he'll be right back in the running next year with LINCOLN. Perhaps, for old time's sake, he'll summon his two goofball friends from the above video (I've been trying and failing to identify those guys for the last hour*), and let someone document his elation/disappointment as the nominations come in.
*Thanks to the talkbackers for identifying the man in the JAWS t-shirt as the late, great Joe Spinell.
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Feb. 25, 2012, 6:19 p.m. CST
He should shave his beard
by JackSlater4
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:21 p.m. CST
Finally I get to see this!
by TinDrummer
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:22 p.m. CST
Saw this awhile ago. Isn't one of the dudes Chichi from godfather
by ndally
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:23 p.m. CST
The two friends
by vadakinX
One of them...can't remember his name, but wasn't the the loanshark in Rocky?
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:24 p.m. CST
Like i said This has been on YouTube for ages.
by ndally
Then again im a huge Spielberg fan and search the interwebs for this shit
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:25 p.m. CST
by Hardrock28
It's Joe Spinell...he played Tony in Rocky too.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:25 p.m. CST
Yeah, saw this on the Joe Spinnell doc on the MANIAC DVD
by Messiahman
Most of this was included on the terrific Spinnel documentary that can still be found on the DVD of MANIAC. Indeed, that's the marvelous character actor Spinnell himself wearing the JAWS t-shirt and listed as one of the "Friends of Spielberg."
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:25 p.m. CST
Great candid video, fuck Nashville
by fingerlickingood
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:26 p.m. CST
The guy with the Jaws shirt on is Joe Spinell
by Sodomy_Joe_Shitpants
Who starred in 1980's "Maniac" among other things.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:26 p.m. CST
catchtheman: re: previous talkback
by Duckenheimer
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:26 p.m. CST
What I meant to say was a reply...
by Duckenheimer
: Because everyone respects folk who anonymously scream at folk about them and their sons with barrages of fat and mongoloid insults.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:30 p.m. CST
That's Spinell?
by mrbeaks
Never seen this before! So much for that reunion. RIP.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:30 p.m. CST
The Academy Awards are all politics anyway
by Majin Fu
Spielberg should be very proud of his filmography (as I'm sure he is). Any true cinephile will tell you the Oscars just DON'T MATTER to anyone but all those clowns taking part in the most epic circle-jerk of the year, which is exactly what the Oscars have always been for Hollywood. If a film is good and the people praise it, you did your job right regardless of what that screwy "academy" thinks!
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
So young!
by wcolbert
Obvious statement, I know, but I grew up on the slightly older Spielberg (I was 9 years old- the target audience - when JP came out), so it is pretty cool to see him when he was barely any older than I am. It's also kind of depressing. I'm in school, working on a degree...by my age this man had already made JAWS. Fuck. Well, we can't all be WINNERS. ;)
All downhill after "Jaws". Pure sentimentality after that, unimaginable storytelling and lack of heart his trademark after that. I never feel involved in a Spielberg movie. I never care about the characters.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:43 p.m. CST
Fisher Stevens may be the greatest actor ever..
by paul burnett
..not only does he play the murdering clingy director in Columbo, but he makes this short about the same director getting fucked over. Is this some kind of prequel to that episode, setting up his murderous intent?? Bravo sir, bravo
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:45 p.m. CST
Beaten out for Director by real artists
by Geronimo Jackson
Spielberg has made some good films, 2 great ones, but he's outclassed by this lot.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:51 p.m. CST
Barry Lyndon - best cinematography ever!
by Rtobert
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:54 p.m. CST
Terrence Malick
by rahtard
Was screwed more than Spielberg that year, and every year.
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:57 p.m. CST
The Beard has one iconic movie left in him.
by john
The guy is one the top 5 directors who ever lived. In no particular order - Scorsesi Kubrick Spielberg Hitchcock Kurosawa
Feb. 25, 2012, 6:58 p.m. CST
As one TB mentioned above: Oscars are all politics
by D o o d
The nominations alone should tell you that. It's posibly the most boring and stilted ceremony ever!
Feb. 25, 2012, 7 p.m. CST
Joe Spinell was spectacularly over-the-top as Count Zarth Arn in "Star Crash".
by Jet Jaguar
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:02 p.m. CST
Coffee = Coke
by Partyslammer
I was in Da Godfaddah! Who directed Jahhs, da shawk?!?
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
The beard before the beard was a cocky one, apparently.
by Tank Williams
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:09 p.m. CST
Saw this on the Manic DVD too...
by Jay
As someone mentioned, it was shown in the Spinell Doc that was on it. Worth checking out BTW.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:14 p.m. CST
Fucking Chariots of Fire
by Mugato5150
beat Raiders. Bullshit.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:15 p.m. CST
Tintin should be up there INSTEAD of War Horse
by performingmonkey
War Horse is depressing bullshit from a man who, up until Indy IV, hadn't had a bad run of films at all, not since the questionable Lost World. Tintin was easily the superior movie of the two. Not that it deserved a Best Picture nom but at least it's a fun adventure movie that, who woulda thunk it, doesn't depress me, guilt trip me out or push some kind of fucking agenda on me. Pure escapist fun. This is why Curse of the Black Pearl was the best popcorn movie in years when that arrived. Yet Hollywood still seems intent on being heavy-handed at every turn and stopping the fun. Btw, everyone knows Spielberg made Schindler's List cause he was sick of the Academy snubs. That was one movie they could never EVER have snubbed.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:15 p.m. CST
Other guy is Frank Pesce. He was the guy Axel Foley tried to sell cigarettes to. :)
by Farrokh
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:21 p.m. CST
Is that Spielberg or Duchovny?
by Frisco
Same voice, wow. Anyway, great video--gotta love the entourage.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:35 p.m. CST
Cocky like a young Mr. Wells
by DementedCaver
Spielberg has done oh so much better then Orson...at least he didn't make the mistake on stepping on the toes of an older dude with many more connections. Perhaps he was snubbed just because he was jewish.....just saying. It was still old school yet.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:37 p.m. CST
Actually Pesce and Spinell were originally cast as the two fishermen who get pulled off the pier.
by Mitch
If memory serves, this clip is from one of the Maniac DVD documentaries.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:38 p.m. CST
SS and Federico Fellini were friends way before the Jaws movie
by KilliK
FF had invited him for dinner in his home after SS made the Duel movie.that's why he doesnt care that he lost his nomination to Fellini.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
holy shit those two guys at the end, they almost seem like a parody of hollywood suits from the 70s
by awepittance
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
Oh come on now,SS is way overrated.He doesnt belong
by KilliK
at all in the same class of artists like Hitchcock,Fellini,Kubrick,Truffaut,Kurosawa and so on. He is talented,he has great technical skills,he is extraordinary in the entertainment cinema but as drama goes,he is simply not adept.Schindler's List is his only true artistic masterpiece and that's that.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:50 p.m. CST
by lv_426
This is why many people hate hearing about Hollywood people bitching and moaning, "boo-hoo, I didn't get an Oscar this year, whaaahhhh!!!!!" Seriously. I. Am. Not. Fucking. Around. Here. Folks!!!!!! Not only do these spoiled brats* get to make their living making over budgeted films, earning millions of dollars a year at the very least, they get to bitch and moan about it with their stupid Academy Awards ceremony every damn year. At this point I don't know what is worse, the depressingly retarded farce that are our Presidential Elections every four years, or the annual Oscar buzz, celebrity gossip, and Hollywood politics (which is basically Harvey Weinstein playing the part of Al Capone and rigging the game every fucking time). Let's not forget all the fashion envy of the red carpet, where the majority of the stars' dresses and tuxedos cost more to rent for a single night than the average salary of most middle class working people. About the only person I can single out of this ridiculous trend is Peter Jackson, who showed up to the 2004 Academy Awards in a tux with shorts and his trademarked disheveled hair. He deserves a fucking medal for doing that, in addition to making The Lord of the Rings trilogy, not some gold dildo of a statue shaped like the T1000 when it pooped itself through that hole in the elevator that Arnold made with his shotgun in Terminator 2. *Please bear in mind that this rant is not directed at Spielberg specifically, as this video posted in the article seems to be him joking a bit about it as he has always seemed to have a good sense of humor and comes off as a somewhat humble guy for all his money and power... of course, we can't say that about most of Hollywood can we? FACT!!!!!!!!!!
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:52 p.m. CST
I apologize to creepythinman for stealing his TB writing style
by lv_426
It just had to be done in this case.
Feb. 25, 2012, 7:54 p.m. CST
Is he saying "commercial BLACK-lash" or "commericial BACK-lash" ?
by Ali Kerim Bey
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:06 p.m. CST
Commercial Backlash - Spielberg is 100% right, sad that this bullshit still happens today
by Mr. Moe
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:09 p.m. CST
Jesus what an awesome list of contenders.
by blackmantis
Was there any film nominated this year that was half as good as any five of those films?
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:13 p.m. CST
Poor Steven Spielberg.
by seabiscuits
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:16 p.m. CST
Not an actor's director
by The Discarded Gentleman
It is interesting to note that the majority of Spielberg's wins for Academy Awards are in the technical categories. He has had 9 nominations for actors over the years, with 0 wins. On the flip side, Woody Allen has had 15 nominations for actors, with 6 wins (and I'm guessing almost no technical awards). Since actors make up the majority of the voting body, it shouldn't come as a surprise that he is not celebrated by that body, whereas Woody Allen (and in my opinion, deservedly so) is celebrated for a great majority of his films. Additionally, I'm not saying that Spielberg is a bad director. He just doesn't belong on a list of top 5 directors ever. (And did anyone else find it ironic and satisfying that tittytwister misspelled Scorsese?)
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:39 p.m. CST
That was Willie Cicci in the back?
by Tacom
The family had a lot of buffers!
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:40 p.m. CST
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:40 p.m. CST
Star Trek news
by MrLongbaugh
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:40 p.m. CST
How bout some exclusive PROMETHEUS coverage? 8)
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 25, 2012, 8:54 p.m. CST
Color Purple is not a good movie. Nor was E.T. JAWS is awesome and should have won though. Raiders & CEOTTK are awesome too.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Schindler's List? Over rated and kinda boring. Same with Saving Private Ryan. It's just because they're about the Holocaust or WWII that people feel forced to say they're great. Same with The Color Purple. Just because it's about a serious and awful subject matter people feel obligated to say it's great lest they be accused of being racist... Or an anti Semite... Or whatever. I'm none of those things yet I reserve the right to say these films really suck. So does the Spielberg film with that annoying brat whom I could never identify with or feel for in it... Empire of the Sun. I include WAR HORSE with the above titles as well. It was an absolutely terrible film but with a serious subject matter. Tintin was so bad I couldn't finish it... It was like a PS3 cut scene and the sad part is that not only did the animation blow, I really was looking forward to a Spielberg animated film but there was zero emotional involvement with any of the characters. But I don't include TINTIN in the above list because it's not trying to sell it's self based on a serious subject. But when he's on... Man. He's one of my favorite directors of all time. JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Only the first one, NONE of the other crap fests.), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and yes, I think A.I. is a fucking beautiful film as well... And I quite enjoyed MUNICH. Those are more recent examples that it is still possible for Spielberg to rock. But VERY recent examples are horrendous - TINTIN & WAR HORSE, the excruciating 4th Indiana Jones movie, the excruciating and pointless "everyone but Tom Cruise and his kin die" War of the Worlds remake... And I'm a sucker for John Williams because he's one of my favorite composers so I'm always double excited to see Spielberg and Williams in action... Was very very let down with WAR HORSE. I really thought they'd rock it.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:02 p.m. CST
I wonder if Sylvester Stallone and Speilberg are closer friends than we know
by kabookieslap
As here Joe Spinelle is Spielberg's good friend and he was also Stallone's close friend. I think they were best friends as well.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:05 p.m. CST
Spielberg is this generation's Hitchcock
by mr_bellamy
One day, after he's long gone, people will finally come around on him and realize that he wasn't just a soulless machine cranking out hits, but someone with real cinema in his blood. Only in the last few years have there been serious critical studies on Spielberg's work, but they're only going to keep coming. Mark my words. <p><p> Also, in Quint's interview with him last summer, Spielberg said he felt that Nashville was the greatest picture Robert Altman ever made, so I think that's excitement in his voice.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:11 p.m. CST
It's not about his films being too "frivolous"
by Rupee88
You are fucking clueless...it's about him not kissing enough ass in Hollywood and playing their games. Also being too successful and people being jealous. I'm sure he does play a lot of the games but not enough to get win the awards more. But fuck the awards and those petty voting motherfuckers. He has billions of dollars and makes good movies..that's all that counts.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:13 p.m. CST
Thank you! That was fun to watch.
by gotilk
Must have been a blast to be him right about then. Or to be around him. I bet some of the hangers-on were hilariously annoying though. Not the guys in this clip, but just in general. Has anyone else seen the Snopes article about the Spielberg *Sneaking in to Universal studios and squatting in an office* story? http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/spielberg.asp They claim the story is false. I remember as a little kid reading about Spielberg doing this and thinking it was amazing. It inspired me into places and into opportunities to meet famous people that I would have never imagined possible. I find it hilarious that I was inspired by a possibly false story to do (comparatively minor) somewhat similar things. One of my favorites was basically relying on an air of confidence and *belonging right where I was* getting me backstage to meet Bowie in the 80s. I used these same techniques to acquire the keys to a local historical landmark, and turn it into my after-school coolest-ever hangout. I get the feeling that Snopes may be relying a little too much on testimony from people who actually might have been left in the dark by Spielberg himself in order to protect them. Read the article, you be the judge. But I like my Spielberg myths right where they are. Actually, all of those things could be true. He could have snuck (sneaked?) off the tour. He could have also been allowed on the lot due to his father for one day. AND he could have taken over an abandoned office right under their noses while he was working for free. None of them really negates the others, not really. It just casts doubt. It casts doubt on a story I desperately want to be true, so I could be biased. lol
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:14 p.m. CST
Wyman's Essay
by The Discarded Gentleman
For a great dissection of why Spielberg isn't that good (or creative) a filmmaker, read this essay: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2012/01/steven_spielberg_s_complete_movies_i_ve_seen_every_one_and_i_almost_wish_i_hadn_t.html And no, not THAT Bill Wyman.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:14 p.m. CST
Oscars are just about popularity of nominees, etc
by Rupee88
Did you see that shit World Trade Center movie got nominated for Best Picture? It is less than 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.. And Crash and Million Dollar Baby WON the fucking Academy Award for best picture and they are both shit films. I'm disgusted with the awards and not even going to watch this year..they mean nothing to me.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:17 p.m. CST
by gotilk
Finally someone who agrees with me on A.I. Very underrated.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:18 p.m. CST
by Rupee88
Dude how can you say that E.T. is "not a good movie"? That is one of Speilberg's best. I saw it as a 15 y/o and blew my fucking mind at the time. Sure every bit of it doesn't hold up but have to give it credit. It is one of the most popular movies in history too...adjust box office for inflation and I think it's in the Top 5.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:20 p.m. CST
by gotilk
Isn't it amazing how widely opinions vary on the films of Spielberg? See, I loved Munich. Agree with you on Saving Private Ryan and disagree with you about E.T. (although I did love it). But the one that gets hate that I just don't get, is Empire of the Sun. We're all divided. But I bet we all agree the man makes some great films.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:20 p.m. CST
Must be drunk or high or dying or somethin'
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
I actually agree with Creepy for once. Usually I want to seek him out and kick him in the balls, but he actually said something I agree with. Hmmm. I mean, HMMMM!! FACT!!! Ah, well, he's still a jackass.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:20 p.m. CST
AI - Agree on being underrated
by The Discarded Gentleman
I always loved it, and thought it underrated, too, but I do wish those last 15-20 minutes were more Kubrickian and less Speildbergian.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:28 p.m. CST
I know who the other friend in the very cheap tux is!
by Ed
The other guy is none other than Frank Pesce who was recently in Tower Heist as the Rikers Prison Guard who let out Eddie Murphy's character (aka Slide). Pesce actually starred with Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop 1&2. The other guy in the Jaws shirt is Joe Spinell famous as Rocky's loan shark boss which BTW also featured Pesce as a spectator (uncredited Rocky 2). Found this trivia online as well... * Steven Spielberg originally wanted Joe Spinell and Frank Pesce to be the two guys on the dock fishing for the shark at night (Pesce as the guy who falls in the water and Spinell shouting to him). Unfortunately, Pesce couldn't make it to Martha's Vineyard. Evil Ed.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:28 p.m. CST
obviously awards were really important to him... kinda lame.
by Mennen
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:30 p.m. CST
I tried to watch TinTin the other night.
by CatVutt
I kept falling asleep. It's not bad or anything I guess, but man...it's just not very engaging at all.
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:32 p.m. CST
Shakespeare In Love" One of the most forgettable Best Oscar pic wins since "Ordinary People
by Orionsangels
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:34 p.m. CST
Joe Spinell passed on January 13th 1989 and sadly never got to see his friend Steven win best director.
by Orionsangels
Great actor!
Feb. 25, 2012, 9:40 p.m. CST
Riseof - HA!! You remembered,
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
Yeah, lay it on me. She's actually 33 weeks pregnant with our third son, but have at it with that. I'll show her whatever you post. The nastier, the better (funnier). Her boobs have grown nicely and she's still skinny everywhere except her belly. I'm truly not worthy...
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:02 p.m. CST
by justmyluck
Obviously, no love of awards being espoused from The Beard. Ironically, Kubrick received three major nominations for BARRY LYNDON, while being *FAME-AVERSE*.
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:09 p.m. CST
I still can't believe...
by Chris Moody
...that THE HURT LOCKER took Best Picture in 2009. That was a very forgettable film...and probably should have come in as the 5th or 6th best picture of the year.
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:24 p.m. CST
Saving Private Ryan, screwed by Shakespeare In Love
by D.Vader
Oy I still can't believe that happened...
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:26 p.m. CST
by gotilk
I defended The Hurt Locker back then. But you're right... ultimately it was forgettable. I didn't see it at the time that way. But I watched it again recently and was left wondering what the hell I was thinking.
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:30 p.m. CST
Clearly this is a reenactment, right?
by D.Vader
Holy lord, this is funny in one of those 1970's fake SNL documentaries sort of way.
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:33 p.m. CST
"Everybody loves a winner... but nobody love a *WINNER*."
by D.Vader
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:39 p.m. CST
This is why Snopes is full of shit. Spielberg confirms it himself
by kabookieslap
in this interview with John Favreau. Both he and Brian Grazer squatted. Spielberg at Universal only because he needed a bathroom, and Grazer at The WB because he needed the area code as the WB lot had it's own area code. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R3Bi08uisos
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:46 p.m. CST
by iwontwin
That film is exceptional....you penis breath
Feb. 25, 2012, 10:49 p.m. CST
=...that THE HURT LOCKER took Best Picture in 2009. =
by KilliK
it took that oscar for the exact reason that the Artist will take the same oscar over Hugo.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:03 p.m. CST
by wcolbert
I don't know, I was 9 when I read that novel and had no trouble understanding it! Read it the summer of, then saw the movie. Yeah, I was one of *those* kids :P But I do agree that the book was certainly superior. However, I feel Spielberg did the best job anyone could have done with a 2 hour time constraint, the budget they had, and the fact that CGI technology was in its infancy - in fact, they had to develop the first fully CG creatures (that is, convincing ones - the stain glass knight and the water effects in the abyss were not quite there), just to get the movie done. Thank GOD they didnt use stop-motion like they originally intended.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:04 p.m. CST
properlydiscard, Wyman's Essay
by lv_426
After reading that, I am half-convinced that this Bill Wyman is just and alias for Crispen Glover, who wrote a piece that also really bashed the hell out of Spielberg. http://thecrispincorner.com/essay.html
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:05 p.m. CST
A.I.- criminally underrated
by D.Vader
If David was played by Harrison Ford, it'd be a certifiable damned cult classic by now.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:14 p.m. CST
I just meant that *Spielberg* had kids foremost in mind with JP
by wcolbert
Crichton was writing for adults, I'll give you that. Even so, i enjoyed the book as a kid. Spielberg, on the other hand, knew full well that kids love dinosaurs, and he directed it from that standpoint. It never sat right with me that Hammond lives and Tim and Lex switch ages and a few key scenes never made it in...but still a wonderful movie for a kid or adult. Remember how you felt when you first watched it? I don't know about you, maybe you hated it even in 1993...but I think a lot of people loved it when it came out, had never seen anything like it...and then got jaded over the years.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:26 p.m. CST
Jurassic Park is one of those cases where I love that both the book and film are good
by lv_426
yet are also different enough from each other so as not to render one kind of irrelevant. It would have been fun to see what James Cameron would have done with Jurassic Park though. Supposedly he also bid on the rights for it back in the early 1990's. I imagine Cameron might have still went for a PG-13, but that a lot more of the geeky science stuff in the book would have made its way into the film. Also, can you imagine how different the park and the staff would have been like? Not that I am saying I'd rather have his version than Spielberg's JP, just that it would be interesting to be able to compare them both if we had a magical Delorean or phone booth that allowed us to hop into alternate universes or something.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:33 p.m. CST
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:35 p.m. CST
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
Too funny. She's still laughing after I explained everything. Thanks, dude. I wish some of the more depraved talk-backers were in on the joke. Thanks again, and let me know if you're ever in SoCal...
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:45 p.m. CST
what about the rasberries?
by crazybubba
Do they ever discuss the razzies at this site? Love those awards. 11 noms for Adam sandler ha ha.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:48 p.m. CST
Spielberg is f'ing great...don't see why people bash him so much
by Rupee88
He should have a lifetime pass from only Jaws or Close Encounters or ET or Radiers...put all those together and he gets a pass for many lifetimes. And he has directed some good or great films since then as well. Sure he's older and not at the top of his game now but no one is the same way they were when they were young and hungry and brilliant.
Feb. 25, 2012, 11:58 p.m. CST
True, CG isn't *necessary* for a good movie, but I think it was necessary for the time
by wcolbert
The world had never seen a realistic dinosaur in a movie before. The best we'd seen up to that point had been what, the Valley of Gwanji? Which, for stop motion, was great, but at some point, people DO want to be able to sit in the theater and go "Oh...so THAT's what a real dinosaur looks like when it's not in my imagination!" I'm not sure how you can say the likes of Sir Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck (RIP), B.D. Wong, Sam Jackson, and Sam Neill are bad actors... agree to disagree, I guess. Hey, you are welcome to your opinion, as we all are, so meh. That movie shaped the childhoods of a great many dinosaur loving kids, and propelled many of the new generation of paleontologists and geneticists to do what they do. I'm now a Geology/Paleo major. In no small part because of the profound effect Crichton's book, Spielberg's movie, and of course the published work of Jack Horner (who I've since worked under on a dig in Montana) and Bob Bakker and Paul Sereno (who I've had the pleasure of talking to- all great guys and endlessly inspiring). Of course, I was infatuated with this stuff long before JP came out, but it added fuel to the fire! Love it or hate it, Jurassic Park shaped the face of cinema for generations to come.
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:02 a.m. CST
JAWS is one of those cases where the movie blows the book outta the water. Literally.
by Cheif Brody
There are so, so many problems with Benchley's JAWS that the film smartly excluded...and vastly surpassed in so many ways. <p> Spielberg estimated, at the time, that there were 27 scenes in the JAWS script that were NOT in the book...and they axed 2 obnoxious subplots...Hooper having an affair with Brody's wife...and The Mob pressuring Mayor Vaghn to keep the beaches open at whatever cost. Seems Benchley saw how well Mario Puzo was doing with The Godfather, that he felt some mobsters might spice up his novel about a 25 ft killer Great White Shark eating defenseless swimmers. The adulterous affair was obviously slid in to add some sex into the story. Both completely unnecessary. <p> The BEST changes to a book ever: <p> Hooper surviving. In the book he bought it for his daliance with Ellen Brody, I suppose. Wise to let him live after he carried the comic relief in most of the film. <p> Quint's TWO stellar monologes. (Town Hall opener. Indianapolis story). <p> The TOWNSPEOPLE!! My God. Benchley barely paints a picture of Amity's inhabitants. JAWS, the movie, makes you feel like you know all of those 'paint happy bastards' by name. <p> The shark exploding at the end...instead of simply running out of steam and sinking like a pussy as it approaches Brody. <p> Smile, you sonofabitch! <p>
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:03 a.m. CST
The director of Drive had the same reaction this year when he saw that War Horse was nominated for best picture
by Mel
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:04 a.m. CST
rupee88, we bash him because he's capable of amazing things...but he likes to cater to morons
by Mel
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:05 a.m. CST
JAWS was good...but what made it GREAT was Williams' score
by wcolbert
What would Jaws have been without the score? A big fake shark that was broken for much of the movie, and stock footage of great whites swimming. John Williams' score added a much needed energy to the tension and drama in the film, and ended up defining it. Who DOESN'T know the Jaws theme?
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:16 a.m. CST
"Caters to morons"?
by wcolbert
So Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T., Jurassic Park, Raiders... those movies were catering to who exactly? Do those movies require a dazzling level of intellect to enjoy or understand? No. He doesn't cater to morons. He caters to specific demographics with each movie. With E.T., it was kids. With Schindler's List, it was obviously adults. With Raiders, it was a broader audience. You know, as much as people here like to throw pejoratives his way, people still hear the name "Spielberg" and many, many people go "Oh, Spielberg is making it? I can trust that it'll be good then!" The man is no slouch. He doesn't always break the mould, but he rarely misses the bar. His movies shaped HOW many millions of childhoods and people STILL think they have any room to berate him? Really?
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:20 a.m. CST
HAH! Thank you RiseofthePhantomCreeps!
by D.Vader
Nice to be included with you and Choppah and AsimovLives, even if I disagree with the latter more often than I agree with him nowadays =).
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:28 a.m. CST
wcolbert, you haven't seen much of JAWS, have you?
by D.Vader
If you had, you'd know that the "stock footage of great whites swimming" probably accounts for less than 5% of the movie. There are only three shots of stock footage I can think of in the entire movie. And they are: 1. A shark approaching the camera with a yellow rope in its mouth 2. A shark attacking a shark cage 3. A shark swimming away into the darkness That's about it. Just saying, there's more to JAWS than that. I know you're trying to build up John Williams' contribution, which was fantastic, but we don't need to embellish to do it. His work was enough.
For Jaws, Raiders, E.T. and Empire, the 'Berg will always be the great one in my book. Now, if he could just stop making movies with weird, washed-out cinematography.
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:42 a.m. CST
properlydiscard - The last 20 minutes WERE Stanleys....
by john
As were the first forty-five minutes and Teddy. The flesh fair and many of the darker elements were Speilbergs addition....
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:49 a.m. CST
wcolbert, Spielberg shaped childhoods, and George Lucas raped childhoods
by lv_426
maybe that should be a bumper sticker?
Feb. 26, 2012, 12:55 a.m. CST
by wonderboy2402
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:01 a.m. CST
He was a cocky fucker eh?
by Logan_1973
That is a fascinating watch indeed. A piece of JAWS history!
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:28 a.m. CST
he sounds like Woody Allen
by chien_sale
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:28 a.m. CST
That was a great year for films.
by Silv
We as the viewer are upset that Jaws is getting beaten out by "Barry Lyndon" and "Dog Day Afternoon." If only we could have such a problem in this day and age.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:35 a.m. CST
E.T. was not a good movie??? metal dominance is a fucking idiotic troll
by Billy_D_Williams
E.T. is a classic, and probably the best kids film ever made. And Schindler's List is no good? The ending is a cop out, but the film is firing on all cylinders up to that point.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:51 a.m. CST
E.T. is a great movie
by D.Vader
Jeebus. One of the all-time great classic metaphors for leaving childhood behind.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:59 a.m. CST
by batzilla
What was so fascinating?
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:04 a.m. CST
Spielberg's Masterpieces.
by notcher
JAWS, E.T., Close Encounters and Schindler's List. I like A.I. a Lot, but it's not one of his earlier works. Young Spielberg will always be my favorite director. I'd kill to see him make a young at heart film again. But by his ow admission, it'll probably never happen.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:06 a.m. CST
Notcher, what about Raiders?
by jrb
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:12 a.m. CST
I consider Spielberg's first seven years to have five masterpieces
by D.Vader
Close Encounters of the Third Kind- his movie about spirituality JAWS- his movie about terror Raiders of the Lost Ark- his movie about adventure E.T. - his movie about love
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:13 a.m. CST
Shakespeare in Love" was better than "Saving Private Ryan.
by notcher
Saving Private Ryan was undone by a VERY poor ending and a mixed bag of hollow soldier characters throughout the center of the film. It's opening scene is amazing and the battle at the end is great up until the coincidence of the guy Hanks let go ultimately killing Hanks and ultimately getting shot by Opem. And for all the assholes on this site that crucify Star Trek for it's coincidence of Kirk running into Spock on Delta Vega, you can't say the Saving Private Ryan coincidence is believable in any way. Plus the old man scene at the end is dreadful. Shakespeare in Love was the more solid film. However, Spielberg got the Oscar for Director which I agreed with. However again, Malick's "The Thin Red Line" was also the better WW2 and overall film that year as well. Malick got screwed that year as he does every year.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:15 a.m. CST
JRB, my bad...
by notcher
And "Raiders" of course. 5 Masterpieces in his career.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:16 a.m. CST
D. Vader, you said 5 but only named 4.
by notcher
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:18 a.m. CST
Thanks, kabookieslap.
by gotilk
Can't always rely on Snopes. A lot of the time, yes. But I think they make a habit of tagging things *false* in big bold strokes when they don't have all the facts, or when it's one person's word against another and they just pick a side. Hilarious.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:22 a.m. CST
In honor of choppah going over the deep end by having Tyler Perry the subject of Fudgepack Friday, I am bringing back Does She Swallow Sunday? to balance things out
by lv_426
This is sort of a two-fer-one Black History Month / Star Trek edition as well. Although, I am mixing black and white here as well as Trek to cover all bases both cultural and geektastic, sort of a cookies and cream edition with a cherry on top if you can dig it. I assume this is not a problem since in the utopian future imagined by Gene Roddenberry (who was a womanizer during his heyday if you weren't aware), racism probably doesn't exist. Ready folks? Here goes... Uhura -- Nichelle Nichols. That Green Orion chick from AbramsTrek -- played by the voluptuously delicious Rachel Nichols. Do they swallow, or do they spit? Discuss this if you are tired of pissing and moaning about the John Carter trailer. Unless you are Sulu, which in that case you're probably still more interested in whether or not Tyler Perry takes it in the rear shuttle bay.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:22 a.m. CST
Ooof, sorry. I meant Four.
by D.Vader
His first seven years produced more masterpieces than any other consecutive series in his career. The only wrench in that theory in 1941. Had that not existed, he'd have 4 masterpieces IN A ROW. Imagine that. As for his later works, I have an affinity for his Running Man Trilogy, Minority Report, A.I., and Catch Me if You Can. I also enjoy his post ALWAYS output- Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, and The Lost World.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:28 a.m. CST
@notcher Well said.FUCK SPR.
by KilliK
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:04 a.m. CST
Bullshit Shakespeare in Love was > Saving Private Ryan
by slder78
The only emotional resonance I got from Shakespeare in Love was a couple of giggles that only people with a fleeting knowledge of Shakespearean history could appreciate. I haven't had any reason to see it more than twice in my lifetime. If I come across it on TV I flip to the next channel without a second thought. If I come across Saving Private Ryan, I stop and watch it all the way. That, my dear talkbackers is my criteria for a good, if not great movie.
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:08 a.m. CST
And Judi Dench winning the Oscar for 2 minutes of screen time?
by slder78
Fuck you, but no. She deserves an Oscar, but not for that movie. That's ridiculous.
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:56 a.m. CST
Temple of Doom.
by john
My fave Spielberg movie. Jaws however, fucks Citizen Kane in the ass everynight for the best American movie ever made.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:11 a.m. CST
29 years old?!?!?!
by KGB3317
Son of a bitch, I'm 30 and my FIRST movie hasn't been made yet!
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:13 a.m. CST
and I liked Always
by KGB3317
the combinatation of Richard Dreyfus, John Goodman, fire-fighting, mountains, ghosts, and aviation was perfect, for me at least.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:14 a.m. CST
and Jurassic Park
by KGB3317
how can some of you hate on that film, and its director? Fantastic film-making. 'Nuff Said.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:34 a.m. CST
OH Myyyy
by gotilk
1. Swallow. 2. Also swallow.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:35 a.m. CST
by JamesT
How his friend George would get screwed by the academy the following year...
Feb. 26, 2012, 5:02 a.m. CST
Nothing's changed
by Wormie1
Spielberg's last comment was exactly right. The Oscars and other awards consider what paying most cinemagoers like to see as artistically inferior to little-seen niche movies. The only thing they deem lower than box-office success is the sci-fi/fantasy genre.
Feb. 26, 2012, 5:34 a.m. CST
The other guy in the spielberg video
by mark davies
Frank Pesce was the other guy in the video you might remember him from Beverly hills cop when he was negotiating the cigarette deal in the backof the truck from the beginning of the
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:09 a.m. CST
Speilberg not a great? *makes laughing sound*
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
And Shakespeare in Love is a better all round film than Saving Private Ryan. Still just about the best screenplay I ever read. Ryan had a GREAT opening, but the rest of the clichéd, turgid mess does not hold up to repeat viewings. AI is a good film that is great at times. Hayley Joel should have won an Oscar for his acting. One of the best child performances I can think off. Close Encounters is the best Speilberg film.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:11 a.m. CST
When Spielberg finally won for directing Schlinders List he said "is it wrong to say I really wanted this" during his acceptance speech
by ndally
So clearly it was important to him. I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting distinction amount your peers. He already was the most successful director in terms of box office in the history of Cinema. He just wanted to feel respected by hollywood for being more than a blockbuster summer tentpole director and he did that by earning the Oscar For Schlinders List and Saving Private Ryan. And A.I is severely underrated and I can't believe how many people dislike Munich. Munich is great. Mossad agents hunting down and killing asshole terrorists is a great story. Munich is brilliant.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:20 a.m. CST
Re: Spielberg At His Best/Worst
by ArmageddonProductions
Spielberg is an example of Hollywood at both its best and its worst: when he just chills the fuck out and makes a movie (JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, RAIDERS, JURASSIC PARK, E.T.), he usually knocks it out of the park. However, whenever he gets a severe case of "Oscar Ass" and tries to make one for the committee, he invariably comes up short. THE COLOR PURPLE, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, MUNICH and even SCHINDLER'S LIST just tried too goddamn hard. I think he resents the fact that his best work is making the world's tastiest popcorn movies ... but whenever he aims for more than that, his popcorn movie-sensibilities are magnified by an order of ten.</p><p> As for Beaks's insinuation that Spielberg had a spotless track record up until INDY IV, I gotta point out such misfires as HOOK, THE TERMINAL, AMISTAD, ALWAYS and the first and last five minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As for the INDIANA JONES movies, he really should have stopped after RAIDERS and either let Lucas fuck up his other profitable franchise all on his own or hire some puppet to do it for him.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:37 a.m. CST
God, if only Spielberg had gotten nominated - Just think of the success he could have had!
by Dr_PepperSpray
The poor schmuck.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:37 a.m. CST
=Mossad agents hunting down and killing asshole terrorists is a great story=
by KilliK
ironically,you missed the entire point of the film.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:38 a.m. CST
Munich is kinda cheesy.
by Dr_PepperSpray
Sorry, that sex scene had me rolling. Talk about over the top.
Feb. 26, 2012, 6:40 a.m. CST
Re: ndally
by ArmageddonProductions
This is an interesting debate. No, it definitely wasn't wrong for Spielberg to pursue (or even want) an Oscar. The problem, though, is that his best work was made for US, not the Academy -- I submit that, when he's making Oscar bait, he's not really making Spielberg movies. It was clear from DUEL (and amped up to eleven in JAWS) that his greatest strength has always been audience manipulation, to take them on a ninety-minute amusement park ride based purely on what he composed on the screen. Few directors can do that, even with today's runaway budgets and CGI overload. For that alone, his "popcorn movies" should have garnered much more respect from his alleged "peers" than they did.</p><p> Unfortunately, he was forced to change his tune when he decided he was actually gonna pursue that Oscar. I don't count any of his "Oscar bait" movies as his, except THE COLOR PURPLE, where he was obviously trying to marry his sensibilities to a serious subject. When that didn't work, he stripped them of his famous tone and while he got what he wanted, none of those films (except maybe SCHINDLER'S LIST, for subject matter alone) are as memorable as those confounded "popcorn movies" that put him on the map.</p><p> I liked MUNICH just fine, but he completely lost me at the end when (and I knew it was coming the minute the setting changed to New York City) the camera holds on the fucking World Trade Center. Spielberg never met a button he didn't like to push.
Feb. 26, 2012, 7:55 a.m. CST
Um, Beaks...TINTIN didnt even get nominated...
by Logan_1973
Feb. 26, 2012, 8:06 a.m. CST
BTW those two dudes remind me of Men On Film
by Logan_1973
Hated it!
Feb. 26, 2012, 8:55 a.m. CST
The Oscars. Mean. Nothing.
by Clavius
The Oscars is a bullshit popularity contest and a massive political jerkoff. NOT an acknoledgement of artistic merit or integrity, and they've been that from day one. It still amazes me that anyone is still shocked when the better film fails to win over the popular one. One look only to Titanic as proof of this. That movie made a lot of people a lot of money so The Academy thanked it with the Best Picture Oscar. In every measurable sense, L.A.Confidential was a vastly superior film, but it sunk when it had the misfortune of being nominated against Titanic that year.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:18 a.m. CST
clavius: I love LA confidential but Titanic was the superior movie experience at Mann's Chinese.
by UltraTron
The entire theater erupted at the end shot where you visit the titanic grave underwater. It is the greatest eulogy movie of all time. That said- I believe LA Noir to be the best movie of last year. I always accidentally call it LA confidential. I can't yell at you for liking LA confidential more than Titanic. There's no question that Confidential is flawlessly executed. There's also no question that Titanic is a push the envelope epic of the highest order. Spielberg finally won the academy award by making a film about the Academy. That's how he had to do it.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:22 a.m. CST
Anyone that didn't like the first and last minutes of saving private Ryan needs to suck a wet turd out of a fresh cow corpse asshole.
by UltraTron
Mmmmm. Chew it mutherfucker.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
Re: ultratron
by ArmageddonProductions
The first and last five minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN were godawful. In fact, it felt like Spielberg was obligated to tack them on after a test screening in which World War II vets were having heart attacks while watching. The framing device was both unnecessary and mind-bogglingly cheesy, even considering that it came from the same director who milked fifteen minutes of unapologetic pathos from Scatman Crothers kicking a fucking tin can.</p><p> "Have I earned this?" No, Spielberg, not this time.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:35 a.m. CST
He's still overrated.
by Motoko Kusanagi
Great director. But sometimes with bland movies. Cf. Minority Report, Amistad, The Lost World and A.I.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:57 a.m. CST
Armageddon: dood.
by UltraTron
Like. Uh. Ya know that line that Tom Hanks says to Matt Damon at the end? Yeah. Like that ties in with the beginning and end scene and stuff. Yeah. So you can thank me later for increasing your awareness.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:59 a.m. CST
The terminal is terminal.
by UltraTron
That was my favorite quote from the review.
Feb. 26, 2012, 9:59 a.m. CST
The guy in the "tuxedo" shirt is Frank Pesce...
by ryderdvs
He was the Cigarette Buyer in Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:06 a.m. CST
It's never mentioned but Munich has
by UltraTron
one of the most graphic and realistic killings in film history. Done digitally by ILM. They had to match a digital naked woman to that chick and run blood liquid simulations and then comp those on to her body. The result is some pretty disturbing shit. To the guy who laughed during the sex scene. I can totally see that happening to release the tension and misery of that scene. I wish I could have laughed at that
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:07 a.m. CST
Just watched Driving Miss Daisy again...
by ryderdvs
Which won Best Picture of 1989 (same producers as Jaws - Richard Zanuck and David Brown), and the Academy failed to recognize it's director, Bruce Beresford. Also, Frank Darabont wasn't nominated for The Shawshank Redemption. James L. Brooks wasn't nominated for As Good As It Gets. Happens all the time.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:22 a.m. CST
Let me just say I thought "The Thin Red Line" was the best film that year.
by notcher
Shakespeare in Love or Saving Private Ryan? I liked Malick's film better than both.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:23 a.m. CST
by notcher
You are right on, happens all the time. "Driving Miss Daisy" winning Best Picture was BS! Much better movies that year than that one.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:36 a.m. CST
Little would he know, but later-on he'd find the Oscars for what they are;
by david starling
A complete bloody farce!! Chariots of Fire thrashed Raging Bull, but who remembers some shitty flick with Nigel Havers in it? Likewize, the Artist will take everything today, but how many people here have seen it, or are counting on seeing it? Thought so.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:52 a.m. CST
by phifty2
Coffee=Coke Tea=Heroin Ahh the 70's. Hey at least I can watch this and say my tv is like five times bigger than the guy who directed Jaws' tv.
Feb. 26, 2012, 10:53 a.m. CST
That some weird grammar in my last post, what with the Jaws', but I think it's correct.
by phifty2
Feb. 26, 2012, 11:49 a.m. CST
I knew Joe Spinell was buddies with Caroline Munro, but had no idea he was friends with Spielberg!
by The Reluctant Austinite
I got to talk to Caroline Munro about her friendship with Joe Spinell a couple of years ago. They were in three or four movies together almost back to back. If I had seen this clip before then, I would have asked her if she had any Spielberg stories that she had heard from Joe. Great clip!
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:19 p.m. CST
Spinnel is the "You wanna bust my chops, take it outside.." in TAXI DRIVER, right?
by BenBraddock
Still don't know what that means, but I love quoting it. Come to think of it, doesn't he deliver the "Take her to the zoo" line in ROCKY? Another favourite..
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:28 p.m. CST
Re: ultratron
by ArmageddonProductions
I'm completely aware of what Tom Hanks says to Matt Damon towards the end of the movie. So was 99.9 percent of the rest of the audience. That's why I felt it wasn't necessary to drive it home with the finesse of a sledgehammer cracking open a baby's skull by including a pure pathos-shilling framing device with a bunch of old veterans visiting a grave. The movie was completely pure and strong all on its own; it didn't need to pander in order to achieve what Spielberg was trying to accomplish. It would have been akin to having a framing device in APOCALYPSE NOW where an elderly version of Martin Sheen's character shows up at the Chief's grave, laid down some flowers with a shaky hand, whispered "I got back in the goddamn boat" and Fourth of July fireworks went off overhead while a marching band played the coda to "The End" and tears welled up in the elderly Sheen character's eyes.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:41 p.m. CST
SPR is one of my top five favorite movies.
by whatevillurks
It has some weakness(not a fan of Upham's sudden change after shooting steamboat willie, no black people, no other allies, etc.)but damnit beard, you win. Yes, its not perfect. But seeing WWII presented like that(and veterans gave it their approval)after decades of "too clean" movies(Longest Day, Sands of Iwo Jima, et al.)was fascinating.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:46 p.m. CST
Re: ... and ultratron (MUNICH)
by ArmageddonProductions
Again, 99.9 percent awesome film. In fact, for Spielberg, it was probably even more impressive than either SCHINDLER'S LIST (where the subject matter was pretty much impossible NOT to get a reaction from) or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, where the focus was more on making the most technically proficient and well-staged war movie ever than on the somewhat typical storyline -- it was just Spielberg and a camera, not many tricks, just telling a goddamn adult story (in this case, a thriller). But he can't resist reaching for those goddamn buttons, like the aforementioned sex scene or (at least, to me), that fucking end shot of the WTC. I guess it goes back to my original point, which was, Spielberg makes audience movies, always has, and while over-directing something to keep the audience on the edge of their seats with RAIDERS and/or JURASSIC PARK is not only warranted, but proven to be a big plus, it almost has the opposite effect when trying to direct something "serious" or "sublime".</p><p> However, if "they should've cut out the old dudes in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN" or "next time you steel yourself to shoot an R-rated sex scene, maybe watch some Zalman King first!" are the worst things you can pick out of somebody's cinematic work, they're still doing heads-and-shoulders above the next guy.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:51 p.m. CST
Re: whatevillurks
by ArmageddonProductions
Oh, without a doubt, save for my one major complaint, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was otherwise one of the best war movies ever made, and definitely the best World War II movie ever made. In fact, only Spielberg had the clout and the vision to make it, which only causes Lucas and his ongoing waste of resources to look worse.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:54 p.m. CST
Oh I forgot about Jurassic Park! I HATE that movie!
by MENTALDOMINANCE
It's a kiddie flick. I don't like kiddie flicks. But to whoever said it... You are totally correct. We all may disagree on what films rock or suck that Spielberg has made but we probably ALL have at least one film of his in our top 10. And to whoever keeps praising Saving Ryan's Privates and E.T. the Extra Testicle - Duh! Of couse veterans cried when seeing SPR. But that's because of what they brought to the film. It wouldn't have mattered WHAT the film is... You get a bunch of people together who all went through something traumatic and play up on the emotionalism and you are going to get that reaction. It's called overtly manipulating people. E.T. sucks because it's pointless and a kiddie flick. How come, if E.T. can fucking LEVITATE SHIT and FLY... How come he doesn't just use those powers in the beginning and avoid all the chaos? Cuz it's a terrible film that needed an "awe" moment.
Feb. 26, 2012, 1:56 p.m. CST
Don't get me wrong... I don't HATE Saving Private Ryan... I just think it's over rated and falls completely apart. Great beginning though.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:11 p.m. CST
I didn't know Spinell was friends with Steve
by Norm3
He never got a role in his movies.
Feb. 26, 2012, 2:54 p.m. CST
You would be pissed too...
by Rob Taylor
At the time SS was trying to and had accomplished something that had never been done in a film. You could tell he was pissed about not getting the special fx nod as much as the director one. Problem was he'd agreed to do that movie for a smallish fee... as he was unproven, his points were likely quite low too, so he wasn't going to make huge money from it. It seems to me from that the Director nod would have been the validation he wanted to say he was going the right way. It turned out well, I mean had he won Best Director would he have made the same movies he did? I rewatched Third Kind today and you could tell he put EVERYTHING into that movie, even down to the Jaws theme. He deserved that nomination. Where he goes wrong is when he chills out as one person says and puts out a 1941 or Empire Of The Sun.
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
Spielberg reminds me of Fox Mulder there..
by steverogers5
He's still got that young geeky outsider vibe going for him there.. (And even with his own conspiracy theory too..LOL!) Thanks for posting it though. That was quite entertaining. He was right though. Jaws got robbed. Certainly Robert Shaw should have been considered..
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:19 p.m. CST
Oopd..Now I see Frisco bet me to it!
by steverogers5
Although I'm glad I wasn't the only one to pick up on the Duchovnyness of the above clip!
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:34 p.m. CST
I do hope the man come's through with Lincoln.
by whatevillurks
I'm tired of Neo-Confederates having control of Civil War discourse. Grant should be remembered like Eisenhower.
Feb. 26, 2012, 3:40 p.m. CST
Best Talkback read in years.
by gotilk
Good stuff.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:13 p.m. CST
by Bobo_Vision
I think Empire of the Sun is one of Spielberg's best films. It wasn't received as well as his others, but I think it will stand the test of time much greater than some of his bigger hits.
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:37 p.m. CST
Hey, it's Spielberg trashing...
by Jay
How first-year film school of you. Really, could some of you be anymore pathetic sounding? It's not even real critiques, just excuses of why you shouldn't like his work. I remember when contrarians at least had some interesting viewpoints. Now you're as cliche as it comes...
Feb. 26, 2012, 4:53 p.m. CST
gotilk snopes called B/S on two things that happened on the same night
by kabookieslap
I was recording the local news on the people waiting for the 12:05 am showing of Phantom Menace (Before we knew it was going to suck) and two things that are now for some stupid reason labeled urban legend happened and were reported on the news with actual at the location newscast coverage. One is the Chihuahua that looked like the Taco Bell Chihuahua that was star of the commercials at that time. A woman had her Chihuahua on his lap and was going through a McDonald;s drive through when she opened her door and fell out, and the dog was still inside. She just had her foot on the break and the car started rolling. The dog got up on it's hind legs and steered the car across a few lanes of traffic and into a Taco Bell Parking lot that was across the street. That was fact as they showed mcDonalds Security camera and interviewed the woman. But snopes said it is Urban Legend. Also the same day was when they were fighting the forest fire on the coast and one of those big dropping water planes had to get more water so it scooped up water from the ocean near by and accidentally scooped up a guy scuba diving. he was dropped with the water on the fire and firemen found his body. That happened on the same day and they had the news cameras there to interview the forest firefighters who found him. distinctly remember the long shot of the scuba gear on the ground and the body being zipped up in a body bag. But snopes has said for the longest time that they were full of crap. But ironically they happened on the same day and i have them on tape somewhere in storage.
Feb. 26, 2012, 5:09 p.m. CST
Amazing filmmaker - Top five Spielberg films ever!
by AllThosePowers
1. Raiders 2. Jaws 3. Close Encounters 4. Jurassic Park 5. Always
Feb. 26, 2012, 11:29 p.m. CST
by shalashaska
special effects dont fuckin count
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:22 a.m. CST
Always? Seriously?
by Motoko Kusanagi
You're citing ALWAYS as the fifth best movie Spielberg has EVER made? LOL.
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:28 a.m. CST
Saving Private Ryan wasn't very good...there, I said it
by JacksParasites
I'll say it again. Saving Private Ryan wasn't very good. It wasn't even the best WWII film of that year, an honor belonging to The Thin Red Line. And here's a list of other films that year, 1998, that were better than Saving Private Ryan: The Big Lebowski Out of Sight Run Lola Run Rushmore Rounders American History X The Truman Show Dark City Pi Pleasantville The Siege Following Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Feb. 27, 2012, 2:13 a.m. CST
by aceldama
Never knew Spielberg was such a gigantic, worthliess prick. Won't think of him the same again. Excuse me now, I'm off to send him brochures on euthanasia.
Feb. 27, 2012, 2:49 a.m. CST
Whoops Pt. 1
by aceldama
(This got long. Having to post in multiple parts, so that the damn word count doesn't screw up the post) Hit "post" sooner than I meant to. Wanted to add... I am sure that most people will disagree with me (even though I'm 100% right) and will think I am just looking for attention, etc., but this is legitimately how strongly I feel about the topic: It is articles like this that blow me away. How can ANYONE look at the movies listed here and have much positive to say about him? Seriously, it's a lot of worthless films under his name. For example, the following movies (in no particular order) are pathetic pieces of crap and people just can't seem to accept it (or more likely, they never saw them, and are just making their opinions on the delusions of someone else who never saw them, who made their opinion based on the delusions of a mentally retarded studio employee who liked the movie: Saving Private Ryan, E.T., Empire Of The Sun (anyone who likes this is an imbicle!), Schindlers List and War Horse. I haven't seen TinTin, so I can't judge it. As for Lincoln, how the hell can you have high hopes for it. The biggest flaw is what people seem to think is a plus: Daniel Day-Lewis. Go look at his career at IMDB. Back? OK, now how can someone who has had one (1) good film in his life (Gangs Of New York) get any praise? His failure rate is like 95%. But back to Spielberg. Since we're at IMDB already, let's look at his career. I'm only going to go through the producer and director credits, though and leaving out the cartoons (all Pinky & The Brain/Tiny Tunes/Animaniacs shows are great, as you all know). 17 production credits were good (out of 130. And admittedly, 6 of those were films that are guilty pleasures that really aren't good movies, but I like them. 2 others are TV series) and 4 movies he directed didn't suck hamster balls.
Feb. 27, 2012, 2:49 a.m. CST
Whoops Pt. 2
by aceldama
And yet these movies get praise?! (not a complete list): Land Of Iwo Jima, Flags Of Our Father, Munich, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Band Of Brothers, A.I., Fandango, True Grit, Amistad, The Lost Children of Berlin (OK, I only know one person who talks about this movie, but his love for it annoys me), Cape Fear (borderline of good/bad I admit), Always, War Of The Worlds (OK, it's mostly panned), Indiana Jones 2-4 and Minority Report. And then there is the list of admittedly bad or mediocre/forgettable movies he's been involved with: Cowboys & Aliens, any of the Transformers movies, pretty much every holocaust movie he has made (I am not doubting their significance. Just his handling of them is fucked up), Men In Blacks, Balto, 3 O'clock High, Innerspace, Jurrasic Parks 2 & 3 (surely 4 will make this list as well, and half of #1 sucks), Batteries Not Included, Harry & The Hendersons, Used Cars.... Last but not least, while I know he was only the Producer of the movie, how the hell do you screw up a movie for The Lovely Bones??? Really, people, it's OK to tell the truth: Spielberg isn't that special.
Feb. 27, 2012, 4:18 a.m. CST
That other not-the-Rolling-Stone Bill Wyman dude who wrote that article must be the Bill Wyman without any talent. He's a critic after all.
by Mr. Pricklepants
The real Bill Wyman should sue his ass.
Feb. 27, 2012, 5:52 a.m. CST
The guy in the jaws tee-shirt
by pr0g2west
Im sure somebody pointed this out already, but wasn't he in Rocky II?
Feb. 27, 2012, 6:27 a.m. CST
aceldama: Daniel Day-Lewis has made only one good movie? In what alternate universe is that?
by Mr. Pricklepants
You are either a gigantic troll or you don't know what you're talking about. Because Daniel Day-Lewis made lots of good movies. Here's one (you might have heard of it): THERE WILL BE BLOOD He won an Oscar for it, remember?
Feb. 27, 2012, 7:34 a.m. CST
motoko kusanag - Always is a outstanding. It's pointless crediting Speilberg for The Colour Purple, SPR, Schindler's List, becuase they are simply not all that great in their execution, I credit Speilberg for films he is brilliant at, not those he attempt
by AllThosePowers
Feb. 27, 2012, 7:35 a.m. CST
I don't credit speilberg for those he attempts to create masterpieces out of, because other directors offer far more profundity than he can mustre. Always was Audrey Hepburn's last major performance.
by AllThosePowers
Feb. 27, 2012, 7:37 a.m. CST
Daniel Day-Lewis - THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
by AllThosePowers
Feb. 27, 2012, 11:26 a.m. CST
He should be pissed, Jaws is fucking awesome.
by Randy
Feb. 27, 2012, 11:31 a.m. CST
Joe Spinelli
by coolhanddave
Was a pimp and apparently in the know during the 70s. He was pals with Coppola, Spielberg, and Stallone.
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:19 p.m. CST
acldama: Uhh.. Spielberg didn't even direct Letters from Iow Jima (Great movie) nor Flags of our Fathers (okay but not great movie).
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:22 p.m. CST
Also "benn involved with" means PRODUCED and all that means is he put the cash up for it. OTHER people made it.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Like how Tony and Ridley Scott have SCOTT FREE PRODUCTIONS. Just because something comes from the Scott Free production house doesn't mean Ridley or Tony had anything to do with it. It's just a production company they own. Same with any movie with Spielberg as producer.
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:23 p.m. CST
And The Lovely Bones sucked because Peter Jackson has NEVER MADE a decent movie and never will. Jackson directed it... Not Spielberg. Idiot.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 27, 2012, 12:25 p.m. CST
Do you even know the difference between a producer and a director?!?!
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Feb. 27, 2012, 1:09 p.m. CST
by Jaster Mareel
Yeah I'm sure there was a bit of piss in his vinegar, but he knows damn well that he made a B movie about a rubber fish eating naked girls.
Feb. 27, 2012, 2:13 p.m. CST
Anyone who thinks Spielberg is a bad director
by Keith
...is a fucking idiot.
Feb. 27, 2012, 3:20 p.m. CST
Those on here who say Spielberg sucks...
by Rhinosaur
...think Joss Whedon hung the fucking moon.
Feb. 27, 2012, 5:55 p.m. CST
Spielberg doesn't suck, but some of his most recent movies do.
by hank henshaw
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull being the worst offender. Still, that man gave us Close Enconters, Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, Raiders and the other 2 Indys, Jurassic Park (hell, even Lost World. I like dinosaurs, sue me), Color Purple, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, and produced a whole lot of cool flicks in the 80's.
Feb. 27, 2012, 11:39 p.m. CST
by Buck Turgidson
Anyone know who those two are?
Feb. 28, 2012, 4:31 a.m. CST
Buck...Review the update and the previous remarks...and you will know who Jaws shirt is, at least... and by the way everyone...Spinell is correct
by Longtime Lurker
Best Picture and Best Director most often should be the same production. "Who directed the film...the shark?" Classic. :)
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