Revisiting Match Cut Directors Consensus - Steven Spielberg

[Raiders]

There's more humanity and grace in every freakin' frame of Spielberg's film than there is in all two-and-a-half hours of Emmerich's clunking monstrosity. No scene in cinema is as stomach-curdling to me as the one where we have a mass of humanity being destroyed but hey, thank God the fucking dog survived!

I'm not getting into this again over the ending and yada-yada-yada because I'm exhausted from the umpteen times it has been done before, but honestly, "succeeding on what it wants to do" isn't a defense when what the film wants to do is exterminate humanity as loud and mind-numbingly as possible. I expect something more than "good natured stupidity" from a film that puts so much at stake.

[Dead & Messed Up]

..."succeeding on what it wants to do" isn't a defense when what the film wants to do is exterminate humanity as loud and mind-numbingly as possible.

Why not?

[Raiders]

Why not?

Well, OK, it is a defense, but not one that I care to accept. Succeeding at being awful is no better than failing at your ambition in my mind, though we would of course disagree about WotW's failings.

[Qrazy]

Alright, this week I'll try to watch Always and Amistad.

[transmogrifier]

Alright, this week I'll try to watch Always and Amistad.

Whatever for?

[Qrazy]

Whatever for?

To complete the filmography.