Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote:He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

3. Jurassic Park
2. Minority Report
1. Jaws

Jorge wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:

Jorge wrote:

Ensign9 wrote: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!

Stickman wrote:

epilogue wrote: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

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote:He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Stickman wrote:

epilogue wrote: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 wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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 wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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?

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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!

Ms Harmless wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote: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

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

Ensign9 wrote:

Jorge wrote: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 wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:

Jorge wrote: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)