Has anyone here seen The Fabelmans? I really hated that movie. It was nifty when it started and it was 50s nostalgia and how these kooky kids make movies, like the house running out of toilet paper when they make a mummy movie. Then idk Seth Rogen cucks his dad and nobody really seems to care much either way. It leads to a divorce but a super amicable one. Spielberg analogue gets bullied at school but its like one dude leaves a bagel in his locker. Whenever something bad happens, Spielbergs dad buys him film equipment thats really expensive that nobody else wouldve had. Spielberg films his high schools senior skip day, and the jock is like “you made me look too good i can NEVER live up to that. You better not put this in a movie looks at camera and winks”
For a day or two after watching the movie I tried thinking about how this scene is about the discrepancy between movies and real life blah blah but then i realized wait its just Spielberg giving himself backhanded compliments.
The movie ends with Spielberg going to a movie studio and meeting David Lynch playing John Ford whose only advice is to put the horizon on either the top or the bottom part of the frame. He walks away and the camera adjusts to meet that advice. This ending feels incredibly tacked on and couldve easily felt more natural with a ten second reshoots scene of Young Spielberg fretting about shot composition.
Idk watching the movie will make you way less impressed with Spielberg. Yeah if i had a 1946 birth year headstart, tons of neighborhood kids willing to act/crew in my movie and a rich Dad who works for IBM who constantly kept buying me film equipment, maybe I coulda been Spielberg too. Most people couldve been.
Everyone here shits on Ready Player One for all of the obvious reasons but another thing that sucked about the movie was how obvious it was that the old dead game dev guy with a god complex was meant to be an author avatar for Spielberg no different from how the incel nerd main character was an author avatar for the author of the book, the whole movie was basically the two of them jerking each other off with background bazinga
Has anyone here seen The Fabelmans? I really hated that movie. It was nifty when it started and it was 50s nostalgia and how these kooky kids make movies, like the house running out of toilet paper when they make a mummy movie. Then idk Seth Rogen cucks his dad and nobody really seems to care much either way. It leads to a divorce but a super amicable one. Spielberg analogue gets bullied at school but its like one dude leaves a bagel in his locker. Whenever something bad happens, Spielbergs dad buys him film equipment thats really expensive that nobody else wouldve had. Spielberg films his high schools senior skip day, and the jock is like “you made me look too good i can NEVER live up to that. You better not put this in a movie looks at camera and winks” For a day or two after watching the movie I tried thinking about how this scene is about the discrepancy between movies and real life blah blah but then i realized wait its just Spielberg giving himself backhanded compliments. The movie ends with Spielberg going to a movie studio and meeting David Lynch playing John Ford whose only advice is to put the horizon on either the top or the bottom part of the frame. He walks away and the camera adjusts to meet that advice. This ending feels incredibly tacked on and couldve easily felt more natural with a ten second reshoots scene of Young Spielberg fretting about shot composition.
Idk watching the movie will make you way less impressed with Spielberg. Yeah if i had a 1946 birth year headstart, tons of neighborhood kids willing to act/crew in my movie and a rich Dad who works for IBM who constantly kept buying me film equipment, maybe I coulda been Spielberg too. Most people couldve been.
Good post just wanted to add one thing
Everyone here shits on Ready Player One for all of the obvious reasons but another thing that sucked about the movie was how obvious it was that the old dead game dev guy with a god complex was meant to be an author avatar for Spielberg no different from how the incel nerd main character was an author avatar for the author of the book, the whole movie was basically the two of them jerking each other off with background bazinga