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His work is curiously unaffecting in its heavyhandedness


Schindlers List excepted of course, he makes films with all the rush and hot air as if producing cars or bottles of milk. Milking audience s since the FIFTIES, he infantilised cinema with Jaws. Thankfully, 4 years later, a worthy tale of the unknown , Ridley Scott's Alien, came along. I can't for a second imagine Speilberg being capable of making a film of Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump's lightness of touch in being truly affecting.

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Milking audience s since the FIFTIES

Already you've destroyed your own credibility. Spielberg has not been directing films since the 50's -- not unless you count the stuff he shot on 8mm film when he was a boy growing up in the 50's (I suspect you looked up his filmography on IMDB and then blindly assumed his career began in the 50's because that stuff is included on there as well).

No, Spielberg's career began in the late 60's, when he wrote and directed the short film Amblin' and then was hired by Universal to direct a Night Gallery episode starring Joan Crawford.

And far from "milking audiences", he has entertained audiences worldwide with feature films full of suspense and excitement, beginning with Duel... which I have a feeling you have not seen.

I'm not even going to reply to the rest of your post. It's full of blind assertions, and interpretations of Spielberg that don't make any sense.

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Yes I did look up his career on IMDB and it says fifties so , yes, I am counting his 'career' to have started then no matter how old he was.

Tell me what he does better than Zemeckis.



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Picnic10: Tell me what he does better than Zemeckis.
Pretty much everything. Zemeckis is a very good director, but ultimately a poor man's Spielberg.

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