Monday, January 30, 2012

New critical trend--judging Steven Spielberg (fairly or not) as passe.

http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/the_completist/2012/01/steven_spielberg_a_ranking_of_all_of_his_movies.html

Haven't seen WAR HORSE, but I'm willing to buck the prevailing tide and say that Steven Spielberg's work as hired-hand director on the Peter Jackson-produced motion-capture-animated THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN is as good as a lot of the Spielberg-in-his-prime entertainments.

A few assessments of random Spielberg films that I've seen:
CLASSICS-E.T., JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (77 version), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, SCHINDLER'S LIST
GOOD-TO-VERY GOOD: MUNICH (first two-thirds), WAR OF THE WORLDS, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, POLTERGEIST (apparently overseen by Spielberg although Tobe Hooper got directorial credit), THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, JURASSIC PARK, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
OVERBLOWN: 1941 (theatrical version), HOOK, THE COLOR PURPLE
UNEVEN: ALWAYS, AMISTAD, A.I., MINORITY REPORT
MUCH OVERRATED: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
FLAT-OUT LAZY: THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK.

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