Directors that no longer consistently make good movies.
Brian De Palma
Tim Burton
Darren Aronofsky
Jean-Luc Godard
Francis Ford Coppola
Steven Soderbergh
Oliver Stone
Spielberg.
shareI think he's capable of doing one, but the quality of his films have dropped.
shareI think he's just surrounded by worshippers and ass-kissers. Nobody is giving him honest input when he does things that are old-fashioned or not trendy anymore.
Ready Player One for example, spent a long long time to make expositions about the game. While people nowadays already understand the concepts presented there. The movie took too long to explain anything, maybe because Spielberg himself is not very familiar with videogaming so he thought people might not understand. Honestly, it feels like I'm watching TRON in 1982.
He's just so out of touch with how young people percieve technology and storytelling. His techniques are old, his style is old, and he doesn't innovate anymore. The BFG looks like it was made in 1994 proudly flexing CGI and special effects that everyone and their grandmother can make in their potato PC. Kids watched Pixar movies since they were babies, The BFG is so boring to them. It offers nothing new.
Ready Player One was just okay. I was really disappointed with the effects. Especially how it takes place in the future, no videogame should look that bad.
BFG was mediocre. There was a time Spielberg made fun kids movies.
Ikr. After all the overly long expositions the actual videogame is underwhelming. It only shows how Spielberg's vision of futuristic videogame is basically stuck in the 80s or 90s at best. He probably would be blown away if he sees PS3 graphics.
shareI think the problem with Spielberg is more of a political one. I'm serious.
Most of old Spielberg movies had a clear political view. With a few exceptions (like Schindler's List), that view was subtle, nothing like the Our Holy Wokeness Pushed Down Your Throat in modern movies. But subtle or not, it's still there.
It's the traditional east-coast liberal view. You can find the same view in Roddenberry, in early Lucas movies, or in Coppola ones. Again, the political view is often subtle and doesn't replace good storytelling, but complements it. The same could be said about other great directors, like John Ford or Hitchcock.
Last Spielberg's movies, however, they seem to lack a voice. There isn't a clear point of view anymore. This classic liberal view has become taboo in our times, and I don't see Spielberg comfortable with the new Wokeness Diversity-Ackbar that replaced it. I think Spielberg's movies are suffering of him not having a clear view.
Some creators need to find a voice before they reach their creative peak. Spielberg found his voice very quickly back in the 80s, but he seems to have lost it, he doesn't know what he wants to say through his movies anymore...