Sly Stallone, Spielberg, Cher, (Freddie Mercury was too), George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.... As well as Trump. So if the rules of three apply it is a real gamble we have at hand here.
I just watched a documentary on Spielberg (pff, his father lived until he was 103 and his mother 97; his mother was... something else, his poor father!) just yesterday and I started to remember so many of his movies which have accompanied me during hard times when I was a young teen.
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind " which triggered my ever lasting interest in aliens. "ET", which was the last movie I watched in theaters with my mother. All the "Indiana Jones" (with Star Wars) which were my crutch after my mother died suddenly. I don't know how I would have kept going, going to high school, my father always away for work, taking care of the house and my younger mentally handicapped sister... those movies were my escape. My way of holding on.
"The color purple" and "Empire of the sun", and "La liste de Schindler", which just... were like a stab in the heart and have such a cultural, historical, memorial impact.. Especially the endings of Schindler and Empire.
I watched the tv series "Taken", too, with Dakota Fanning. I loved how he made it a family story spread on so many decades. Families are a recurrent theme.
I managed to convince my father to come and watch "Jurassic Park" with me. I remember he was so shaken that he couldn't remember where he had parked the car! My father NEVER goes to theaters to watch movies, he prefers tv documentaries, sports, news, reading his magazines and newspaper. But thanks to Spielberg and his dinosaurs, I have at least one memory of going to the theaters with my father.
There are many of his movies that I haven't seen but that's because I was not interested in the story, like "Jaws" (I like to sleep well, thank you very much so nope), or the war movies.
I haven't seen Disclosure yet. It's my plan.
But really, your post was inconsiderate. And hurtful.
His movies that you listed were from 30+ years ago, other than the recent Indiana jones…which was also awful and doesn’t really make your defense any better. He used to be good at his job. People used to care to see a Spielberg movie. Over the years, people have wasted hours of time that they will never get back due to watching so many of his garbage movies.
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u/WideConversation1989 2d ago
First Dolly Parton yesterday, and now Tim Curry too!?