Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps it is sour grapes to argue with the pervasive sense of fun and abandon that characterizes Holmes and has been the hallmark of Spielberg's past work. To his credit, Spielberg has not asked to be taken seriously as an artist and he delivers entertainment and good will like no one since Frank Capra. But movies like Holmes scream nouveau riche. There is never room for understatement, never a scene or effect down-played. Everything must be the most expensive, the most elaborate. Spielberg has always been exhausting to watch, but never emotionally fulfilling. How can we care about...
...Doyle stories, for all the fawning appreciation of the author in the film's concluding credits, serve as no more than a dramatic exoskeleton inside which Spielberg can throw his expensive toys and his retro-vision of adolescents as idealistic voyagers in the harsh world of adult cynicism and nay-saying. This union does not work with an English accent or with a character that could never tell himself "If I just believe in myself it will all come true" and then bicycle over the moon...
...Spielberg will decide to make a movie that actually cares about its subject. Hopefully, that day will come before we get tired of his special effects. I, for one, am starting to get bored. . . quick, somebody blow up an Egyptian pyramid...
...Hollywood these days, writing the screenplays for three Spielberg films is probably the next best thing to being Spielberg himself. That makes 27-year-old Chris Columbus the hottest item since edible underwear in moviedom's town of renown...
Speaking of carnal knowledge, Columbus notes that teenagers are not "the sex-starved maniacs" that Hollywood makes them out to be. Columbus's Spielberg movies all feature youngsters, and he tries to sculpt them differently from the mainstream teenage flick--more "precocious," he says...