Another Spielberg possibility: Robopocalypse

[Brundlefly 2,385]

[Matt C 452]

I honestly think age is getting to the Beard... it's affecting his choices for directors after he steps down.

 

Bay is going to make Robopocalypse another incoherent Transformers-style mess.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

6 minutes ago, Matt C said:

I honestly think age is getting to the Beard... it's affecting his choices for directors after he steps down.

 

Bay is going to make Robopocalypse another incoherent Transformers-style mess.

But he's going to make a lot a money

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'm not interested in a Spielberg RoboCop film.

[Thor 7,451]

On 7.3.2018 at 11:26 PM, Matt C said:

Michael Bay is lining up to take over -- on Spielberg's recommendation.

 

http://deadline.com/2018/03/michael-bay-robopocalypse-6-underground-directing-movies-1202315936/

 

God help us all.

 

Brilliant! Huge Bay fan, and I think he's the perfect director for this. Can't wait!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

[Brundlefly 2,385]

[publicist 4,643]

The project has now found the director it deserves.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

From The Producer Of George Lucas' Star Wars Prequels!

[A24 4,322]

2 hours ago, publicist said:

The project has now found the director it deserves.

 

Yep, but wouldn't have mind Spielberg doing it. With Bay, it means another unwatchable movie for me.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

It would more than likely be unwatchable either way.

[Matt C 452]

12 hours ago, Philippe Roaché said:

It would more than likely be unwatchable either way.

 

I would've liked to see a Transformers film directed by Spielberg. It would've had a killer Williams theme, if nothing else.

[A24 4,322]

What other unwatchable Spielberg movies are there? 

[crocodile 7,973]

Hook.

 

Karol

[A24 4,322]

 

So true!

[Thor 7,451]

HOOK is not unwatchable. Quite the contrary, it's one of his most underrated movies.

 

He doesn' really have any unwatchable movies, but I think 1941 is hard to sit through.

[publicist 4,643]

You're just an old brown noser.

[Richard Penna 3,664]

Thor just likes everything.

 

Except too much music.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

His modern films are unwatchable.

[Thor 7,451]

The use of the word 'unwatchable' in relation to Spielberg falls on its own unreasonability. Even in films with warts, there are always traces of a master in action. Whether THE BFG, INDY 4, 1941, HOOK, ALWAYS or other less appreciated works.

 

I think A TIMELESS CALL is the closest to 'unwatchable' in his canon, but here I can at least close my eyes and listen to Williams' Americana.

[A24 4,322]

Surely, Bridges Of Spies was watchable .... I haven't seen The Post but I'm guessing it's similarly to BOS.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Similar, and a bit better I thought.

[A24 4,322]

My 'problem' with Spielberg is that he's merely being a professional craftsman. I lean more to movies that are more artistic in nature. 

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

8 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

What other unwatchable Spielberg movies are there? 

1941

[Thor 7,451]

1 hour ago, Alexcremers said:

My 'problem' with Spielberg is that he's merely being a professional craftsman. I lean more to movies that are more artistic in nature. 

 

Reductionistic nonsense. Spielberg's films are about as artistic as they come, even if it's within a classical paradigm. A true auteur.

 

It's not accidental that he's frequently lauded by more 'arthouse' directors -- from Truffaut to Paul Thomas Anderson.

[Muad'Dib 1,800]

Depends on the film.

[A24 4,322]

26 minutes ago, Thor said:

 

Reductionistic nonsense. Spielberg's films are about as artistic as they come, even if it's within a classical paradigm. A true auteur.

 

It's not accidental that he's frequently lauded by more 'arthouse' directors -- from Truffaut to Paul Thomas Anderson.

 

BS! Spielberg is respected and lauded as a mainstream craftsman, someone who solely wants to serve and please the audience at large, and not as someone who makes arthouse movies. That PTA admires him is an invalid argument.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

Robopocallypse eh? Williams score please!!!

[Thor 7,451]

2 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

 

BS! Spielberg is respected and lauded as a mainstream craftsman, someone who solely wants to serve and please the audience at large, and not as someone who makes arthouse movies. That PTA admires him is an invalid argument.

 

Wow. That's an incredibly snobbish statement, Alex. You don't have to make arthouse movies to be an auteur or be a 'proper artist'. Many great directors are perfectly able to express their artistic trademarks (visually and thematically) within classical storytelling. In fact, that's how the whole 'auteur' theory was applied in the first place; not as a description of arthouse directors, but French arthouse directors and critics applying the term to Hollywood filmmakers with a pronounced voice.

[Nick1Ø66 4,687]

I'm pretty sure to be an auteur you have to wear a black turtleneck and beret.  It also helps to be spotted smoking outside at a French cafe reading Proust and looking bored.

[Thor 7,451]

16 minutes ago, Nick1066 said:

I'm pretty sure to be an auteur you have to wear a black turtleneck and beret.  It also helps to be spotted smoking outside at a French cafe reading Proust and looking bored.

 

Yes, I think that's what Alex has in mind.

[Nick1Ø66 4,687]

[Brundlefly 2,385]

5 hours ago, Thor said:

Reductionistic nonsense. Spielberg's films are about as artistic as they come, even if it's within a classical paradigm. A true auteur.

 

It's not accidental that he's frequently lauded by more 'arthouse' directors -- from Truffaut to Paul Thomas Anderson.

Thor's three rules that make no sense:

1. Soundtrack expansions are always superfluous (even The Lost World) and the OSTs are always the perfect representation of the score (even Air Force One).

2. Every director is an auteur (even Spielberg) and every movie is a masterpiece (even Prometheus).

3. Put a smiley behind any serious insult and it will become a harmless joke. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Wouldn't it get boring if everyone loved and hated the same things?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Drax and I rarely disagree.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

Yeah, then we would have nothing to fight about 

3 minutes ago, Denise Bryson said:

Wouldn't it get boring if everyone loved and hated the same things?

 

Hey @Philippe Roaché I'm not Jerry Drax, if that's what you're talking about.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I look forward to RoboCopalypse.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I thought this movie was Ready Player One until this thread got bumped.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

They're all the same.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

It's like poetry. So that they rhyme.

[Thor 7,451]

10 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

Thor's three rules that make no sense:

1. Soundtrack expansions are always superfluous (even The Lost World) and the OSTs are always the perfect representation of the score (even Air Force One).

2. Every director is an auteur (even Spielberg) and every movie is a masterpiece (even Prometheus).

3. Put a smiley behind any serious insult and it will become a harmless joke. 

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

13 hours ago, Nick1066 said:

I'm pretty sure to be an auteur you have to wear a black turtleneck and beret.  It also helps to be spotted smoking outside at a French cafe reading Proust and looking bored.

 

Does this mean JW is 50% an auteur?

 

10 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

Thor's three rules that make no sense:

1. Soundtrack expansions are always superfluous (even The Lost World) and the OSTs are always the perfect representation of the score (even Air Force One).

2. Every director is an auteur (even Spielberg) and every movie is a masterpiece (even Prometheus).

3. Put a smiley behind any serious insult and it will become a harmless joke. 

 

According to dictionary.com:

 

Quote

Auteur: a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.

 

[Brundlefly 2,385]

4 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

According to dictionary.com:

And this does not apply for Spielberg. He does not have a distinct enough style, just several stylistic traits that are by no means sufficient to be called the work of an auteur. Spielberg himself once complained about not having an own stamp, unlike everyone else. Right he is.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

He does that stupid dolly-in on people's gawking faces a lot.

[publicist 4,643]

2 minutes ago, Brundlefly said:

And this does not apply for Spielberg. He does not have a distinct enough style, just several stylistic traits that are by no means sufficient to be called the work of an auteur. Spielberg himself once complained about not having an own stamp, unlike everyone else. Right he is.

 

'Everyone else'? You mean apart from the 0.3% film directors who have? (e. g. von Trier and such)

[Brundlefly 2,385]

1 minute ago, publicist said:

'Everyone else'? You mean apart from the 0.3% film directors who have? (e. g. von Trier and such)

This was kinda like he expressed it in the interview.

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

Maybe Spielberg's not the best to judge whether his own style is "distinct".

[publicist 4,643]

It's easy to spot Spielberg's directorial trademarks - his fluidity even in a total lame-o bland movie like 'The Post' is remarkable and towers above the pictorial tendencies of workmanlike directors like Ridley Scott (probably held in the same regard today). It's just that he denies his true talents to churn out award-friendly cabbage no one needs.

 

Something like that Montezuma story done right...it never happens, instead we get The BFG and The Post.

[A24 4,322]

It's always about entertaining the masses, young and old (he was once compared to Disney) or (more recently) telling an 'important' story, and never about moviemaking simply for the sake of art. He did confess that Empire Of The Sun is the only movie he made without thinking about the audience. Could it be that this is precisely the reason why it's my favorite Spielberg? 

 

You be the judge!

[Thor 7,451]

51 minutes ago, Brundlefly said:

And this does not apply for Spielberg. He does not have a distinct enough style, just several stylistic traits that are by no means sufficient to be called the work of an auteur. Spielberg himself once complained about not having an own stamp, unlike everyone else. Right he is.

 

This is factually wrong, and -- in all bluntness -- just an embarassing display of ignorance. He's one of the most recognizable film auteurs currently living.