Is Spielberg losing his touch?
If I just randomly watched this movie without knowing it was Spielberg I would have never guessed he was the director.The directing and way it was filmed just felt out of his style.Does anyone else feel that way?
shareNot at all this is actually clasic Spielberg. Think back to a movie like Hook and this is right in line with that style only better.
shareUnfortunately, Hook is Spielberg's worst film (yes, worse than 1941, Always, The Lost World and KOTCS).
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I'm aware Hook received poor reviews from critics and is his lowest rated on RT but that doesn't make it his worst movie as it was very well received by audiences and has survived and is remembered fondly where films like Always have been essentially forgotten and trust me when I say 1941 and Always are both worse than Hook.
shareAgreed. Everyone in my age group fondly remembers "Hook"; especially Williams and Julia's performance. Critical-flop or not, it definitely carved out its place among the 90s Disney classics.
share"Very well received by audiences" ? I don't know if that is true, but even if it was, how would that be a sign of quality?
shareIt can be a sign of quality, absolutely. Just because certain really bad movies are able to generate a large audience, that does not mean that all good movies bomb and all bad movies are well received by audiences. That's a very destructive image of cinema. Overall, good movies do well with audiences and bad movies make the biggest bombs. Not that a good movie can't bomb because of other factors, or a bad movie can't be a massive succes (name your own examples). But this silly oversimplification that good=no audience is utterly destructive for film in general. Critics are wrong pretty much as much as audiences - we often call those movies cult-classics. Movies where the critics were blind to its virtues while the public embraced it (either immediately or years after the fact)
share...trust me when I say 1941 and Always are both worse than Hook.
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I can understand why some viewers don't like 1941, but it is one of my favorite Spielberg films. I think Always and Hook are his worst films and I don't even like Schindler's list or Jurassic Park that much. I found his late 80's, early 90's era his least memorable for me.
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Hook was flat out terrible.
shareAll those are great except Hook. I would count 1941 as one of my favorite films of his. Who the *beep* has anything bad to say about Always?
shareYup, I've long argued that Hook is Spielberg's worst film. It's just so damn uninteresting. 1941 I feel is a close second. Always was just too old-fashioned to really catch hold, even back in 1989.
As for The Lost World and Indy 4, well, I can watch them, although Indy is a struggle.
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I watched BFG and was enthralled all the way through. At the end when I saw Spielberg's name I said to myself "That explains why it was good."
Hook is a tremendous movie too as is AI and Tintin. The only movie of his that I would NEVER watch again is Jaws. I'm 6 years younger than Steven and have grown up catching most of his movies as they came out. He rarely makes a dud.