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...Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last director to manage that tremendous feat was Steven Spielberg in Catch Me if You Can. I guess Walken felt he owed his True Romance director something...
Shigeru Miyamoto = Steven Spielberg Shogun of Nintendo King of directors...
...Like Spielberg, Miyamoto presents a popular image of the boy who never grew up. His games, he says, are made entirely to please his inner child. He finds inspiration in unlikely places, like his garden (which gave us Pikmin, the tale of a spaceman who has to grow and harvest brightly colored flower people; Pikmin 2 is in the works). Miyamoto lives modestly in Kyoto with his wife and two kids (who don't play video games). He bicycles to work, is fond of Mickey Mouse ties and keeps a banjo by his desk...
...When Spielberg made Raiders, he proved that a blockbuster could be smart at the same time that it was thrilling, and Lucas proved the same when he made Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. But you’re also right to blame them for the brainless excesses of today’s summer scene—not just as the fathers of the form, but on the basis of their own conduct since that time. Lucas’ pointless return to the Star Wars franchise hasn’t done much to dignify the season. Nor has Spielberg?...
...Once in a blue moon, a writer will become something of a household name, but this usually requires them to either simultaneously dabble in direction or actually write themselves into their screenplays. Granted, writers are not particularly a most glamorous, lovable bunch, but Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg did not achieve superstar status with their chiseled jawbones...