I suppose it depends on how much you like Spielberg. And lens flare.
My coworker was excited about seeing it and said to me, "It's supposed to be very much like a Speilberg movie." I was all, "That's supposed to make me want to go?"
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
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Sue - Jun 10, 2011 2:48:18 pm PDT #14733 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Gris - Jun 10, 2011 2:59:43 pm PDT #14734 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Owen Gleiberman loved it, and I agree with him more often than not, so I'm looking forward to it. If Lisa Schwarzbaum had reviewed it I'd be much more wary.
Edit: Damn! Never mind, it was Schwarzbaum. Consider me wary.
Amy - Jun 10, 2011 3:00:18 pm PDT #14735 of 30000
Because books.
Aw. I love a lot of love for Close Encounters and Raiders and Jaws. I think Schindler's List is an excellent movie, too, even if I don't particularly want to see it again.
And I love Jurassic Park with an unholy love.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2011 3:29:16 pm PDT #14736 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I'm a Spielberg fan. And a J.J. Abrams fan. And a Kyle Chandler fan.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2011 3:36:33 pm PDT #14737 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jurassic Park is a really good movie, and I don't generally lke Speilberg. And the book is really good, and I don't generally like Michael Crichton. I have watched and read multiple times, and it is weird.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 10, 2011 6:18:47 pm PDT #14738 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Having seen the majority of JAWS (again - I seem to always catch this movie in bits and pieces) recently, I have to say that is one hell of a great movie.
And also that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).
Kathy A - Jun 10, 2011 6:42:40 pm PDT #14739 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love Jaws. Such a great film, and it really holds up well.
One of my favorite scenes in that film is one that isn't mentioned much, right after Sheriff Brody's kid is almost killed by the shark in the inlet when the shark takes off the sailor's leg instead. They're in the hospital, and Brody is getting the mayor to sign the voucher paying Quint to go after the shark. At first, the sleazeball, er, mayor, is muttering excuses under his breath and you think "what an asshole," but then he looks at Brody and says, "My kid was on that beach, too," and he's almost redeemed in those few words even before he shakily signs the voucher.
Jesse - Jun 10, 2011 6:47:27 pm PDT #14740 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies.
That one.
Laga - Jun 10, 2011 7:27:11 pm PDT #14741 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).
I had to look it up.
I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies
Oh yes. Me three.
Strega - Jun 10, 2011 7:54:01 pm PDT #14742 of 30000
I absolutely love Raiders and Jaws. I really like a few other things he did. After Jurassic Park I gave up on Spielberg.
I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."
So the idea of watching Abrams do a Spielberg pastiche is like the death of a thousand cuts. I think the only way they could make it less appealing to me is if Sorkin wrote it.