Movie: Disclosure Day (6-12-26)

[VinylGuy]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

3. Jurassic Park
2. Minority Report
1. Jaws

please stop, mods cmon you have to do something

[VinylGuy]

I wish Steve would use a different DP. I haven’t liked the look of his movies for years.

Insane take

To each, their own. I don’t like the soft focus, lens flare, and desaturated color palette. It worked well for A.I. as it lended itself to its fairy tale motifs and, to an extent, Minority Report because of its dreamlike / vision of the future quality. Not so much everything since.

Desaturated color palette? West Side Story? The Fabelmans?

I think a lot of his (I'm gonna say "his" but I'm referring to the Spielberg/Kaminsky collaboration) go-tos are misread and flattened into this idea of "how Spielberg movies look" when they're actually extremely varied, and often designed around themes and narratives instead of just aesthetic quirks. Munich is drained and harsh because it's morally exhausted, War of the Worlds is claustrophobic and metallic because it's about shock and disorientation, Lincoln is practically candlelit oil painting realism. West Side Story is bold, colorful, classical... I don't know how anyone could call it desaturated or dreary. I think it's one of the most beautiful looking movies of the last decade.

Also the idea that it worked for AI and Minority Report but not since kind of assumes Spielberg stopped making films about memory, trauma, history and perception which is basically all he's made since

You're right that we're talking preference here so I can't tell you you're wrong but my take is that in the current cinematic landscape where the majority of major releases are framed and lit like TV commercials, they're one of the last major director-DP partnerships that still treats cinematography an extension of artistry and thematic exploration rather than just a pragmatic tool to let the audience see what the characters are saying and doing. I hope they keep making movies together forever!

fuck yeah

[epilogue]

Okay, so I watched the trailer now. Twice. Coupe of thoughts...

8. Also, both time I watched the trailer it got all pixelated and low-fi. Is that the movie? Or just the tech on which I'm watching it?

Slow wifi/data

[epilogue]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

3. Jurassic Park
2. Minority Report
1. Jaws

please stop, mods cmon you have to do something

Yes, mods, please censor jokes! We can't have people having any fun!

[Jorge]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Do people love Hook? I think rhat one's pretty bad. And since we're talking about visuals, kinda ugly

[Farmer John]

I love Hook for childhood nostalgic reasons, but I wouldn't say it's "good", no.

[Jorge]

Okay, so I watched the trailer now. Twice. Coupe of thoughts...

8. Also, both time I watched the trailer it got all pixelated and low-fi. Is that the movie? Or just the tech on which I'm watching it?

Slow wifi/data

There's a thing that happens with YouTube video compression where, unless you're watching on the 1080p setting it starts to look blurry when there are a lot of small elements on screen. Because there are only so many pixels to go around, it loses fidelity. It happens a lot when there's like confetti flying around, everything becomes kinda blurry because the encoder prioritizes larger shapes and motion vectors, and fine, high-frequency detail gets smoothed away. I think that might happen at one point in this trailer

[VinylGuy]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

3. Jurassic Park
2. Minority Report
1. Jaws

please stop, mods cmon you have to do something

Yes, mods, please censor jokes! We can't have people having any fun!

who are you Dave Chappelle?

[E.H. Ruddock]

[epilogue]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Do people love Hook? I think rhat one's pretty bad. And since we're talking about visuals, kinda ugly

Hook rules!

[epilogue]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

3. Jurassic Park
2. Minority Report
1. Jaws

please stop, mods cmon you have to do something

Yes, mods, please censor jokes! We can't have people having any fun!

who are you Dave Chappelle?

Duh

[Ms Harmless]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Do people love Hook? I think rhat one's pretty bad. And since we're talking about visuals, kinda ugly

Hook rules!

I'm with epilogue, I won't tolerate Hook slander

[epilogue]

He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Do people love Hook? I think rhat one's pretty bad. And since we're talking about visuals, kinda ugly

Hook rules!

I'm with epilogue, I won't tolerate Hook slander

[Ensign9]

We can agree to disagree about late stage Spielberg but I will give him immense credit for not wasting his career and insulting the audience like Cameron is doing with Avatar.

[Jorge]

You are like an AI trained by AV Club comments sections I swear

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I hearted The Fabelmans

[Ensign9]

You are like an AI trained by AV Club comments sections I swear

I just got out of Fire & Ash and am FIRED UP.

[Jorge]

You are like an AI trained by AV Club comments sections I swear

I just got out of Fire & Ash and am FIRED UP.

That's how I felt when I walked out of it a couple days ago, but fired up with a love of cinema (I liked it a LOT)

[Ensign9]

You are like an AI trained by AV Club comments sections I swear

I just got out of Fire & Ash and am FIRED UP.

That's how I felt when I walked out of it a couple days ago, but fired up with a love of cinema (I liked it a LOT)

I would definitely like to hear an earnest defense of it in the Avatar thread.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I hope you can calm down and get some good sleep tonight, ensign.