Posts Tagged ‘Steven Spielberg’

Schindler’s List

February 11, 2010 - 12:58 pm No Comments

See this film to supplement, not his knowledge of history for entertainment. In Europe, on the brink of Nazi domination. Hitler s plans to exterminate Jews in Europe led to the depths to which humanity could sink.

Oscar Schindler, the Nazi businessman, powerfully played by Liam Neeson arrives in occupied Poland. In the city of Krakow, the Jews until now have existed for centuries in their own home, granted by King Kasimerge. The Nazi occupation begins s choke hold as Jews were led to a steady decline in the size and quality of accommodation.

Ben Kingsley is at his best, as the mouthpiece of the Jews, whose own life is often compromised by their selfless sacrifices, helping Schindler, reluctantly at first, to protect vulnerable Jews.Schindler, Nazi Party member , intended to grab their share of the business opportunities offered by war. There is a slow transformation of his own loyalty to the Nazi party as witnesses of atrocities committed against his Jewish workers.

The spark of humanity that we see in the plot soon becomes an overwhelming conviction to save the lives of Jewish workers who have shown their loyalty in enamel pot and, ultimately, the arms manufacturing becomes immense fortune company.His into bankruptcy as the commander of the camp, played by Ralph Fiennes, illustrates the depravity of the Nazi regime when Schindler slowly gained the concessions for the gas chambers. You pay in hard earned money to save the life of the Jews in Schindler s List.

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Munich

February 9, 2010 - 12:41 am No Comments

You should really stop there … Spielberg is the suffering of Lucas Jackson syndrome in those days. Symptoms include a misplaced sense of self-importance and an inability to recognize a bad script when they see …

This film has a great cast! This film has a great premis based on a real horrible event! This film has lots of money behind it.

If a lesser known director had this film I could have been really big, rather than wandering aimlessly in the kind of real and exhausted after 3 hours, as if not even Eric Bana can not be bothered to follow. A true event that really likes to hear his own voice, but so powerful in the industry that no one will tell Shut up! This may be the point, the film is after all about never-ending retribution, but I think after the first 2 hours we had to that point.

I’m afraid it was a case of avian influenza and King Kong all over again (when is the little boy robot / monkey is going to die ….)

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War Of The Worlds

January 2, 2010 - 12:08 pm No Comments

War Of The Worlds I had read much about this movie on a trip to the U.S. in February, and in the British press since. I saw the scene of 747 accidents in Universal City, Los Angeles and looked impressive.

My expectation was high. I went last night with my daughter on opening night.

It’s a good film with amazing special effects, but somehow left me feeling short changed. We now come to expect much from ‘blockbuster movies’, and this fell short. The best films in terms of “hitting the ground” is Terminator (1 in its time), and from, 2.

They took my breath away. WOTW The best part is the bit in the basement, where “The Eye” is the search for survivors ….

Many humans are dead - do not take your kids (if you do, you are too cruel).

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War Of The Worlds

November 28, 2009 - 12:05 am No Comments

Truly horrible. The book is one of my favorites and so well written that every sentence is a joy.

Spielberg has taken a lot of elements of the book, completely lost the point and then filmed. The list of bad things in the movie are very stressful. Like a popcorn movie I guess right, but it should never War Of The Worlds have called the War of the Worlds.

If nothing else the fact that Spielberg couldnt get the army to hit wide all the way if he tells you everything you need to know. You just had to have that scene at the end where the army starts bringing down the Martians. Team America said that all ‘USA - f * ck yeah! “Tragic.

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A.I. - Artificial Intelligence

October 31, 2009 - 10:56 pm No Comments

A.I. %%2%%n%%2%%- Artificial Intelligence AI comes under one of those movies you either love or hate and I will explain in a moment. For me I liked this movie with good characters and good acting.

The script is very well together and Spielberg does (as always) a good job of telling the story. John Williams provides the score and as expected corresponds to their usual level.

Although the film is perhaps half an hour time does lose its way and will keep prey. Now the end is why I say the film may be a hit or miss with you.

However, it takes a dramatic turn and going in a direction not expected. It works, but some may think this was a step too far. In general, a good solid movie and worth a try.

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The Terminal

September 27, 2009 - 2:49 pm No Comments

The Terminal Me and my girlfriend watched this movie on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I think this is possibly the best time of the week to see it, your brain is a bit fried and so a film that has little or focus on understanding fair need.Tom what Hanks is the same as always, full of personality and credible, a very good actor. Catherine Zeta Jones is also herself, wooden, awkward, lacking in talent for acting. Despite his weak character does not distract from the film so much, is very sentimental and makes you feel for the character, sometimes you want to jump in the movie and strangle some of the “local”.

The plot is completely unbelievable if. Some of the characters played by members of the authorities at the airport really let the film. He is a Russian-speaking person in an airport where no one understands, however, absolutely no one thinks of getting a translator in New York!

The part of the story really let down for me the opposite of a decent movie watch able.

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War Of The Worlds

August 22, 2009 - 11:46 am No Comments

War Of The Worlds First we had the ridiculous “Indpendance Day ‘, which are expected to believe that aliens, millions and millions of years before we’re running a Windows based computer system 95 (How, if Jeff Goldblum was able to infiltrate your system computer with a laptop). I did not even Microsoft are exported to other galaxies. And now, another fool foreign film that insults our intelligence.

Okay, it’s science fiction, but it must be so full of holes? First, the tripod machines are supposed to have been planted in the earth before man evolved.

Why? We’re supposed to believe that these foreigners are psychic? They have been pretty stupid if evolution had not occurred.

Anyway, this would mean that the boats were buried here over 2 million years. Assuming that store a few modern combat aircraft up with the idea of using them in the future.

Two million years later would be completely obsolete. Are we supposed to belive that the higher the advanced race not followed the procedure of 2.3 million years.

Sure have developed much more advanced vessels with different propulsion systems, weapons, etc in the intervening years. Would not that have attacked us with this art, rather than resorting to digging a fleet of obsolete weapons from 2.3 million years?

No idea where they found all these old wrinkled aliens who recalled how the handle. If arriving on their planet by the need to come here first? And if they were smart enough to predict the evolution of the human race why do not you know that our germs could be lethal for them?

“They have no where biologists come from? So they came here for food, supposedly? What did they eat on your planet?

Does the alien hierarchy say ‘OK, the chapters are going to run out of food in a couple of million years, but do not worry. We’ll pop out and eat some humans, once they have managed to evolve themselves from the amoeba.

Taste much better than the dust of space ‘can not understand why nobody was surprised last. After all, HG Wells wrote the book in 1894 and I thought everyone knew the infamous panic “Orson Wells” in the dissemination of the streets’ radio, 1938.

And the original film was made in 1953 ……. Some people need to get out more.

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The Color Purple

August 5, 2009 - 7:58 am No Comments

The Steven Spielberg adaptation of Alice Walker masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut as Celia, a sharecropper’s daughter living in rural Georgia. The film begins in 1909 when Celia is a girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with the son of his father. Feo and love, separated from her children and her sister, Celia the only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover), who treats her little better than a slave.

His life changes The Color Purple always when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shugo (Margaret Avery), into the house. The Color Purple was also the film debut of Oprah Winfrey, who plays the beautiful Celia sister, Sofia. The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg, Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.

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The Terminal

July 14, 2009 - 10:41 pm No Comments

The terminal does not bother me with a movie one way or another, but I knew that my wife wanted to see for what has been added to my list.Tom-Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the two main characters and a bit of Hanks s most so.Hank plays a character who has just returned from the U.S. a flight from your country that has become a zone of civil war and a country not recognized by the U.S.. The Terminal Hank s is given by the orders of deputy chief to stay in the airport and not the film unwinds leave.Later as the head comes to the promotion and Hanks has become a serious problem that wants to get rid of, but def go Hank s . This film was not as big as my wife thought, and although he never took the remote so it was just as entertaining as we wanted. Ultimately a film ladies.

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