When Spielberg had integrity

[Skykid]

Well, when the movie industry had integrity I guess. This is a really great 1982 interview for those with an interest. And just wait for it: Spielberg had a Gravitar cab in his home (10:15) and is seriously into it. Didn't know he was a videogame head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-SYk0JAuU&NR=1

[Drum]

Not only is Spielburg a videogame head, he's smart about it too. Has made statements about how cutscenes aren't necessarily the best way to explore narrative, and his first game (that he slapped his name onto) had none at all. I heard it was pretty good, but I never played Boom Blox.

[Jockel]

I never played Boom Blox.

You should try it if you can find it for cheap. At least if you find joy in experimenting with ingame (mass-) physics.

[Sumez]

# Steven Spielberg is apparently into video games and Transformers, which he got into playing with his kids. He once famously said, "I will accept video games as a story-telling medium when someone can honestly say, 'I cried at level 17.' He currently has a deal with EA to help develop games, one of them Boom Blox.

* Spielberg was one of the creative forces that developed the Gameworks mega-arcade chains.
* The Medal of Honor series essentially started when Spielberg decided to try making a video game version of Saving Private Ryan.
o He was also quoted on The Castle Of Cagliostro as having the best car chase scene in any film, ever.
* He is a HUGE fan of the original Ghost in the Shell manga. He's one of the influencing factors that a live action movie is being made.
* His wife Kate Capshaw said that her first experience with him had him asking if she wanted to play an arcade game he had in his office.

source: The beloved TVTropes


Also, wasn't The Dig originally based on a concept conceived by Spielberg?

[Skykid]

* His wife Kate Capshaw said that her first experience with him had him asking if she wanted to play an arcade game he had in his office.

All win.

[dan76]

Wasn't '82 the cut off point for Spielberg? What's he made since that you couldn't live without - Amistad??? Hook??? Schindler's List???

I heard he was addicted to Missile Command.

[Sumez]

Hook??? Schindler's List???

Yes!

[Moniker]

That reminds me - I've been meaning to watch Schindler's List again. For my money Amon Goeth is greatest screen villain of all time. Well, maybe tied with Anton Chigurh.

[ptoing]

With the slight difference that Göth actually lived.

[Skykid]

That reminds me - I've been meaning to watch Schindler's List again. For my money Amon Goeth is greatest screen villain of all time. Well, maybe tied with Anton Chigurh.

Yes, and a screen stealing performance, Ralph Fiennes best imo. Not an easy task when you're up against the likes of Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley, but he managed it.

On repeat viewings I don't think Schindler's List is a great film, but it comes close. It's very good, don't get me wrong, it's just an overall thing. I also thought Polanski's The Pianist was a better holocaust film in several aspects, to the directors credit.

[Moniker]

With the slight difference that Göth actually lived.

Anton Chigurh lives in us all....

[dan76]

On repeat viewings I don't think Schindler's List is a great film, but it comes close. It's very good, don't get me wrong, it's just an overall thing.

Seriously? Spielberg actually introduces sentimentality to the holocaust, just in case we don't get it. It's unforgivable, the guy is a putz.

Edit: OK, it's not that bad... I just hate his simplistic view of things.

[CMoon]

Jaws was his best film. It's all downhill from there.

[Estebang]

Schindler's List is an effective film only to the extent that James Cameron's Avatar is effective. Which is to say, it relies entirely on forced emotional manipulation of its audience.

[Skykid]

On repeat viewings I don't think Schindler's List is a great film, but it comes close. It's very good, don't get me wrong, it's just an overall thing.

Seriously? Spielberg actually introduces sentimentality to the holocaust, just in case we don't get it. It's unforgivable, the guy is a putz.

Edit: OK, it's not that bad... I just hate his simplistic view of things.

I don't disagree with you.

Jaws was his best film. It's all downhill from there.

And I definitely don't disagree with you.

[GaijinPunch]

On repeat viewings I don't think Schindler's List is a great film, but it comes close. It's very good, don't get me wrong, it's just an overall thing. I also thought Polanski's The Pianist was a better holocaust film in several aspects, to the directors credit.

Schindler's List is probably better if you want a documentary style, or "traditional" story of the holocaust. It was harder for me to watch of the two, but I'm pretty sure I saw it on an ecstacy comedown. The Pianist seems more like a dramatic story w/ the Holocaust in the background. I've not seen either in ages, the former, since college (hence my state) so it's hard for me to say. Pretty sure everyone quit taking your movie advice ages ago though.

[Sumez]

Schindler's List is an effective film only to the extent that James Cameron's Avatar is effective. Which is to say, it relies entirely on forced emotional manipulation of its audience.

Seriously? It's been years since I saw Schindler's List, but I don't remember it being awful at all, and what you describe is the recipe for disaster.

Also, Crusade is the best thing Spielberg ever touched.

[GaijinPunch]

Also, Crusade is the best thing Spielberg ever touched.

Original Indy FTW. Crusade was awesome though, yes.

[Skykid]

Also, Crusade is the best thing Spielberg ever touched.

What?!

Also, Crusade is the best thing Spielberg ever touched.

Crusade was awesome though, yes.

What?!

Crusade was 60% duff, easily the weakest of the trilogy.

[Drum]

Crusade was better than Temple. Scientifically speaking.

[louisg]

Crusade was better than Temple. Scientifically speaking.

That's not quite fair. Ninja III: The Domination was better than Temple.

[Skykid]

Crusade was better than Temple. Scientifically speaking.

Not in a million years.

[Moniker]

Crusade was better than Temple. Scientifically speaking.

Not in a million years.

Crusade was better simply for the omission of Kate Capshaw. Without her, Temple would've taken the prize. But yeah, Raiders is still the best.

[Skykid]

Temple destroys Crusade.
Destroys it.

Old conversation, save me repeating:

Indy is best remembered by people I'd wager, for high adventure. The first thing that always comes to mind when anyone thinks of Indiana Jones is a guy running away from massive boulders and avoiding traps, rather than the part where he's an archaeologist unravelling mysteries.
TOD is by far the most nutty of the three, but it's also the film with the most scale, an enormous event movie hearkening back to the early Sinbad adventures. In terms of adventure, it so eclipses Crusade it's a joke.
But while it's my number one purely because it's the most fun of the three (there is no four) I still love Raiders.

[nZero]

Temple destroys Crusade.
Destroys it.

Skykid chose... poorly.

[Aguraki]

there isn't a single scene I don't like in crusade.
on other hand,I love all 3 but u gotta agree kapshaw character is the jar jar bin of Indy trilogy.


Kali Maaaaaaaaa Kali Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Shakti d!!!!!!
though

[Skykid]

Kapshaw and Ford had far more on screen chemistry than Ford and Allen.

I really don't understand all the Crusade love. It's not rubbish by any stretch, but it's definitely the weakest. Takes ages to start moving and the son/dad antics wear decidedly thin. It has an odd pacing, and even though the death chalice scene rocks it's weirdly anti-climatic.

TOD is barnstorming fun from the minute it kicks off, yet manages to up the ante by the finale. Undiluted entertainment: no Nazis required.

[dan76]

I really don't understand all the Crusade love. It's not rubbish by any stretch, but it's definitely the weakest.

No, it really is rubbish! Don't doubt yourself.

Like you I just do not understand the love for this awful film. Raiders is almost the perfect "movie" of it's type, it's a huge drop in quality and he hasn't hit bottom yet. Wait for Indy 5.

[Moniker]

Kapshaw and Ford had far more on screen chemistry than Ford and Allen.

Good lord...

You're better than this, SK!

[Mortificator]

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