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Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
Yes, my shitty taste which holds that Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, John Cassavetes, Woody Allen, Kenji Mizoguchi, Werner Herzog, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Robert Bresson, Francis Ford Coppola, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Coen Brothers, Vittorio de Sica, John Ford, Krzystof Kieslowski, James Cameron, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Sergio Leone, Terrence Malick, Orson Welles, and many others were and/or are great directors is SOOOOO shitty.
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D'awww no Paul Thomas Anderson? :"(
 
Talon- said:
On a side note, what the hell was that random booty shot doing there?
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Yeah, I noticed this too. So this movie is ET + explosions + DAT ASS.

It could be interesting, but I find the whole premise to be a bit hackneyed and hockey. An alien comes to small town Americana while a boy on the cusp of puberty deals with this history-changing moment with his friends and the girl he likes.
 
white dynamite said:
To those who think that the truck crushed into the train was just a way to get the plot rolling and holds no other value, maybe the crash was set up and the crash wasn't an accident. This is just speculation though, as is your interpretation of the scene. That being said, this movie trailer has me hyped! Day 1, baby!

Oh and the creature in the train is
cloverfield.
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It obviously wasn't an accident, as you can see the truck swerving onto the tracks and driving down them at full speed straight at the train. Either the creature on the train manipulated the truck to do that or someone was intentionally trying to derail the train.
 
Hokuten said:
With all this Spielberg-chat, where do most people stand on The Terminal?

I remember it being a pretty good movie within its admittedly small scope.
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I really enjoyed it personally, not a great film, but definitely enjoyable.

Great trailer by the way, hopefully it turns out good.
 
white dynamite said:
To those who think that the truck crushed into the train was just a way to get the plot rolling and holds no other value, maybe the crash was set up and the crash wasn't an accident. This is just speculation though, as is your interpretation of the scene. That being said, this movie trailer has me hyped! Day 1, baby!

Oh and the creature in the train is
cloverfield.
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Speaking of this, is Slusho in any of the promo material?
 
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
"and many others"

Wasn't necessarily excluding any particular director, just couldn't list them all.
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Just thought it was weird, since TWBB is your favorite film of the past decade.....right? /glare
 
Kraftwerk said:
Just thought it was weird, since TWBB is your favorite film of the past decade.....right? /glare
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PTA wasn't film school enough to make his pretentious "Look how smart I am" post.
 
Spire said:
It obviously wasn't an accident, as you can see the truck swerving onto the tracks and driving down them at full speed straight at the train. Either the creature on the train manipulated the truck to do that or someone was intentionally trying to derail the train.
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That has been my feeling, ever since the initial teaser.

That poster's amazing btw.
 
I feel like the official plot synopsis would interest a lot of people in here. I think it might have already been posted here, an if not it was certainly in the other topic, but anyway:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
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There's definitely something to the train crash.
 
Spire said:
PTA wasn't film school enough to make his pretentious "Look how smart I am" post.
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Ah, pretentious, one of the most overused pejoratives in the world of art. The post was not about making myself look smart just for the sake of it; it was to point out that my saying Spielberg is not a good director does not change the fact that I give many, many excellent directors their due. It was a response to being told that I had shit taste and still serves as a response to his subsequent comment that I know nothing about art.

And yes, PTA is an excellent director, though I think Magnolia is a bit overrated. I'd actually probably put Sydney, Punch-Drunk Love, and Boogie Nights as his best.

Edit: And yes, I am an actor, but I am also a voracious consumer of film and poetry and hope to do some good things in writing as well.

Double Edit: Spielberg Top 3 (granted, I'm missing a few) is Jaws, Close Encounters, and Raiders; he was best toward the beginning.

Triple Edit: And also, I'm not particularly "film school" in most of what I write; I could go on for a while about why most film theorists (at least the ones that I've read) are kinda shit, actually.
 
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
Ah, pretentious, one of the most overused pejoratives in the world of art. The post was not about making myself look smart just for the sake of it; it was to point out that my saying Spielberg is not a good director does not change the fact that I give many, many excellent directors their due. It was a response to being told that I had shit taste and still serves as a response to his subsequent comment that I know nothing about art.

And yes, PTA is an excellent director, though I think Magnolia is a bit overrated. I'd actually probably put Sydney, Punch-Drunk Love, and Boogie Nights as his best.

Edit: And yes, I am an actor, but I am also a voracious consumer of film and poetry and hope to do some good things in writing as well.

Double Edit: Spielberg Top 3 (granted, I'm missing a few) is Jaws, Close Encounters, and Raiders; he was best toward the beginning.
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I recognized everyone on your list, I self identify as a film nerd but your post made me want to punch you in the face. Whether you intended it or not, it reeked of "Derp, I saw The Seventh Seal once so I know better than you."
 
I would be confident saying that E.T is #1, but I can't order Spielberg films. I like them all too much. Perhaps Minority Report might be pretty low on the list though.

Hokuten said:
With all this Spielberg-chat, where do most people stand on The Terminal?

I remember it being a pretty good movie within its admittedly small scope.
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The first couple of scenes were absolutely fantastic (the depiction of the airport was brilliant, and Hank's reaction to the news was very emotional), but for some reason I always get distracted and never get to finish the movie. I need to get around to seeing it, I hear it's great.
 
Spire said:
I recognized everyone on your list, I self identify as a film nerd but your post made me want to punch you in the face. Whether you intended it or not, it reeked of "Derp, I saw The Seventh Seal once so I know better than you."
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How did it reek of that? He said that I had shit taste, I posted a bunch of directors I admired in the hopes that it would dispel such a notion. I wasn't claiming that any of them were obscure or that my having seen them made me better; in fact, just the opposite, as I stuck with well-known directors quite purposefully. If you want to imbue things into the post that aren't there, that's your prerogative, but don't accuse me of being pretentious or faux intellectual when there's nothing of that in my post. When I argue, I argue with gusto; anything else makes no sense, to me.

Edit: He's the one who insulted me first, I would also like to point out; why nobody has jumped on him when he's been the far more demeaning and disagreeable of the two of us is beyond me. I didn't insult anybody's parents. Heck, I didn't even indicate that it made a person DUMB or a poor critic of art to praise Spielberg. I said that I thought that Spielberg was a poor director. If you read my arguments and don't agree or don't think they're founded in the objective reality of the film, go ahead and disagree; don't try to make false generalizations about my knowledge or thoughts about art just because you're butthurt that somebody called the emperor naked.
 
that list seems pulled straight from a film school syllabus. where's the personal touch? where is your idiosyncratic admiration for a director that other people are largely indifferent to? i mean, it's like, i can tell you that i like orson welles, but it tells you so little about my particular film tastes. particularly when you like ALL the classics which as i say seem pulled from a "good directors" list.
 
big ander said:
I feel like the official plot synopsis would interest a lot of people in here. I think it might have already been posted here, an if not it was certainly in the other topic, but anyway:

There's definitely something to the train crash.
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Yeah I can't remember which trailer it was but you can see the truck turn deliberately into the path of the train
 
wetwired said:
Yeah I can't remember which trailer it was but you can see the truck turn deliberately into the path of the train
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It's in this one. In fact the only shots of the truck are of it making a u-turn onto the tracks and driving straight towards the train. The shot of the train coming straight towards the camera is from the underside of the truck as it speeds towards the train.
 
beelzebozo said:
that list seems pulled straight from a film school syllabus. where's the personal touch? where is your idiosyncratic admiration for a director that other people are largely indifferent to? i mean, it's like, i can tell you that i like orson welles, but it tells you so little about my particular film tastes. particularly when you like ALL the classics which as i say seem pulled from a "good directors" list.
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I was largely going for directors that pretty much anybody could agree with as a means of pointing out that there's really nothing wrong with my taste, rather evidently. Is a list really going to give you a sense for my personal relationships to those films, though? Plenty of people like a lot of random directors, but without explication, it doesn't necessarily tell you anything about a person's tastes. Still, Woody Allen and Werner Herzog and especially James Cameron are not necessarily film school choices, so I fail to see how the list is lacking in personality completely.

My random admirations tend to be more for individual films that for directors' overall filmographies: "Forbidden Planet," "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things," "Speed Racer," "You, the Living," "Trainspotting," "Shoot the Piano Player," "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset," and so on. I generally dig old B science fiction movies, westerns, and noirs, and I love to veg out with a good stupid comedy sometimes (such as Zoolander and Wayne's World, which I know you are a big fan of).

I don't actually think all of the classics are good, as well, which I think is also a valuable tool for getting to know a person. Film-GAF has long been pestering me over the fact that I think Hitchcock and Godard are overrated, which I think speaks to something of me (though I could defend such on less personal grounds, as well).

I guess I just feel like I'm stuck in a corner, here. If I say that Spielberg's not a very good director, I get called a snob with poor taste. If I list a bunch of directors I admire and demonstrate that I very clearly don't have poor taste (though I do hate discussions of "taste" when it comes to the subject of criticism), I get called a snob again and accused of waving some sort of film dick around when I'm just responding to an insult that somebody lobbed at me! I go into threads and express admiration for Spider-Man 2, the first two Terminator movies, Alien and Aliens, Batman Begins, Speed Racer, and a hell of a lot of other Hollywood blockbusters while simultaneously shutting down a number of "artsy" directors who I haven't seen produce anything of real value (such as Lars von Trier), yet people still think I'm some pretentious asshole when, in fact, that is simply not the case. I think I'm a good film critic, but that's not the same thing at all.
 
brianjones said:
snowman takes himself so seriously
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Not at all (there's probably fewer than 3 really serious photos of me on Facebook), but I do have a penchant for monologuing sometimes, especially when you get me riled up. I do respond forcefully when I think that people are knocking me, though, such as being told I have shit taste or that somebody wants to punch me in the face. If I can take 5 minutes and respond, why not?
 
Treefingers said:
Absolutely, of course. Snowman did state his reasons pretty clearly though:
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But this:
C) Steven Spielberg is not a great director. He has a good eye but no real sense for art as a cohesive whole. He fills his movies with schmaltz and cliches and tells instead of shows. His earlier stuff was a little better about this, but after his first few movies, he indulged it instead of improving.
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...is not true by the majority of folk out there that made Spielberg the number one director. He's telling an old stereotype of Spielberg based on a handful of movies. The list of films made by Spielberg have been more diverse than any director he mentioned on his love list. He simply doesn't like Spielberg. This is merely a blanket statement with no foundation.

In short, it still makes him (& others that dislike Spielberg's style) appear to be a hater rather than someone with insight. The reason is no different than someone railing against Scorsese. The thing that gets me more than anything is the idea that Spielberg's endings are somehow rosier than the other 99% of movies that have endings favorable to the protagionist.

I personally think Spielberg shows more than tells. That's bow you explain the travesty of Crystal Skull & Lost World. Spielberg imo was far more concerned with the show than he was on the explanation...until more recently when his stories and his direction have been amazingly in synch.
 
Hokuten said:
With all this Spielberg-chat, where do most people stand on The Terminal?

I remember it being a pretty good movie within its admittedly small scope.
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Completely forgettable. It's not as bad as people made it out to be but I forget that movie even existed from time to time.
 
You see, now this thread has taken a turn for the worst and we're all tumbling down a waterfall unaware of the shallow water below.
 
mr. puppy said:
The thing I can't stand about JJ Abrams is that when he can't advance a plot, he doesn't attempt to do anything interesting writing-wise, he just makes up some stupid coincidence. Its just fucking lazy. It happens all over Star Trek....worst of all is Kirk randomly falling into an ice cave where he meets old Spock. WTF are even the odds of that.

How does this movie start? Kids filming a movie just happens to be at the exact spot of where an alien escapes, and their camera falls at just the perfect angle to capture it escaping, setting them up to be the protagonists or whatever after a truck randomly spins out of control and gets hit by train at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Guy is such a shitty writer.
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I agree also sorry if this has been mentioned but I don't think a train hitting a truck head on would cause such a derail. Seems hackneyed and an pandering to people who grew up with E.T.
 
Days like these... said:
I agree also sorry if this has been mentioned but I don't think a train hitting a truck head on would cause such a derail. Seems hackneyed and an pandering to people who grew up with E.T.
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I got to look at the full trailer again and although a truck can easily cause a derail, the big explosion was a secondary event. It seems even clearer in the extended trailer.

Unless shown otherwise (Any Gif-masters out there?) I'm going to stick to this until I am sorely disappointed by the actual movie... which I doubt.

I'm still not seeing the ET angle beyond kids being in it.
 
Days like these... said:
I agree also sorry if this has been mentioned but I don't think a train hitting a truck head on would cause such a derail. Seems hackneyed and an pandering to people who grew up with E.T.
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Haha
 
Saw this yesterday and i just had to say how fucking impressed i was at the trailer.

The music, the look, everything. JJ completely nailed the spielbergian look, here's hoping it has a soul.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
I'm in general agreement with you on Spielberg, but this is the one that really makes you stick out as a kindred soul.

Then again, I'm the one who hates The Goonies, so I think a lack of burning nostalgia for the 80s kind of hampers any love I could have for these types of movies.

Everytime I see "skrull" I can't help but think of that movie Krull. Now there's crappy 80s nostalgia tiems that I will actually admit to digging.
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Goonies is amazing. I didn't see it until the late 90s. And I've seen it probably 4 times since and I still thought it was good. Not a profound piece of art though. Just an adventure movie.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
I'm in general agreement with you on Spielberg, but this is the one that really makes you stick out as a kindred soul.

Then again, I'm the one who hates The Goonies, so I think a lack of burning nostalgia for the 80s kind of hampers any love I could have for these types of movies.
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Same. I honestly watched relatively few movies growing up (strange that I would get so into them later), so a lot of the 80's and early 90's standards - Jurassic Park, Star Wars, E.T., etc. - I have little to no nostalgia for.
 
It all looks fantastic. Very nice choice of colors and lighting in many scenes, feels dark yet bright at the same time.

Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
Same. I honestly watched relatively few movies growing up (strange that I would get so into them later), so a lot of the 80's and early 90's standards - Jurassic Park, Star Wars, E.T., etc. - I have little to no nostalgia for.
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You don't need to have watched them when they came out to have nostalgia for them.

But oh well, you get nostalgia with time. You never know, you may get it later.
 
Willy105 said:
It all looks fantastic. Very nice choice of colors and lighting in many scenes, feels dark yet bright at the same time.



You don't need to have watched them when they came out to have nostalgia for them.

But oh well, you get nostalgia with time. You never know, you may get it later.
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There ARE certain things that I do have nostalgia for, some good (90's Nicktoons and Pete and Pete, for example), some VERY bad (Power Rangers). It's a tricky beast.
 
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^ underated and underused actor right here.
 
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