Author Topic: Steven Spielberg Wii exclusive (Read 36640 times)

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #25 on:** May 15, 2007, 03:03:36 PM »

Planet of the Apes is also brilliant.

I don't think all Spielberg films are bad or all his endings bad. Though, he does like to tie almost every movie up with a nice neat bow...and a pretty happy ending.

Kairon · « **Reply #26 on:** May 15, 2007, 04:29:38 PM »

*shrug* That just marks him as distinctly American.

Maverick · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2007, 12:06:47 PM »

The only problems I've had with Spielberg endings are for A.I. (the usual reason), and War Of The Worlds... well with WOTW it was more I hated the last third of the movie. If someone would have told me to walk out once they get to that stupid house I would have been much happier.

And like Ian, I would have ended Minority Report about half an hour earlier, but I still thought it was a good movie.

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #28 on:** May 18, 2007, 02:42:46 AM »

I will defend War of the Worlds to some degree. Spielberg was taking the ending from the book. And really didn't have much to work with except for the virus explaination for ending the war.

What I do think was pretty bad was Spielberg deciding to keep the son alive after his brave decision and sacrifice to fight the Aliens in the battle.

Spielberg I don't care about happy endings. When you build up an emotional moment and ask the audience to shed a tear for a character sacrificing themselves for the better good...KEEP THEM DEAD!!!

I was on a rollarcoaster of emotions from that movie, and basically just awe struck by what Spielberg accomplished, but then when I saw the son still alive I snapped out of it and just felt it was corny and unbelievable...I walked out slightly disappointed and robbed even though the movie blew me away.

Kairon · « **Reply #29 on:** May 18, 2007, 05:56:32 AM »

Yeah. I was disgusted that he lived. I wanted that kid dead and staying dead.

Maverick · « **Reply #30 on:** May 20, 2007, 11:17:24 AM »

Agreed on the son.

Was War Of The Worlds the last Cruise movie before the great "Tom Cruise Backlash"? I can't remember exactly when everyone told me to start hating him.

Ceric · « **Reply #31 on:** May 20, 2007, 01:32:10 PM »

I haven't watched the new movie War of the Worlds but I encourage anyone and everyone to go and download the original book. It really is good. I read it in preparation to the movie but I never saw it ironically enough. Though it is a sort of a slow read and I would enjoy a movie that was placed in that time because the heart of the book would not work with how fast todays modern communication is.

vudu · « **Reply #32 on:** May 21, 2007, 09:04:13 AM »

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Was War Of The Worlds the last Cruise movie before the great "Tom Cruise Backlash"? I can't remember exactly when everyone told me to start hating him.

Collateral was probably the last movie before Tom Cruise went completely crazy. War of the Worlds and Mission Impossible III both came out after the couch-jumping.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #33 on:** May 21, 2007, 10:05:28 AM »

I hated Spielberg's War of the Worlds, and not just for the ending. It was the last in a string of events that convinced me that Spielberg is just like George Lucas in that he is only any good when technological limits are placed on him to force him to be creative cinematographically.

Maverick · « **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2007, 12:33:34 PM »

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Originally posted by: Maverick
Was War Of The Worlds the last Cruise movie before the great "Tom Cruise Backlash"? I can't remember exactly when everyone told me to start hating him.
Collateral was probably the last movie before Tom Cruise went completely crazy. War of the Worlds and Mission Impossible III both came out after the couch-jumping.

Ah, thanks. All I remember is "Cruise is a crazy couch jumper! He's a Scientologist! He locks Katie Holmes to the water cooler at night!". No matter how crazy he is, I still enjoy his movies (most of them). Mission Impossible III was my favorite MI, and I think deserved a lot more praise than it seemed to get. It had it's fair share of problems, for sure, but I thought it was pretty good overall.

Requiem · « **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2007, 01:03:56 PM »

Haha, I hate Tom Cruise.

I did enjoy Collateral however, but that's about it. Well Top Gun I suppose.......

Maverick · « **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2007, 01:08:49 PM »

EVERYBODY loves Top Gun.

Kairon · « **Reply #37 on:** May 22, 2007, 01:49:15 PM »

Interview with a Vampire?

Requiem · « **Reply #38 on:** May 22, 2007, 02:01:07 PM »

Oh damn! I forgot he was in that movie. (He was by far the worst actor in it though)

Kairon · « **Reply #39 on:** May 22, 2007, 02:15:22 PM »

But Anne Rice took out a spread in a news paper to publicly praise him, and all this after she'd publicly expressed doubts!

wandering · « **Reply #40 on:** May 24, 2007, 05:58:21 PM »

A bit late, but....

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AI is a brilliant movie for the first half. In fact the "first ending" The Stanley Kubrick ending was brilliant. Emotional, powerful and easily made it one of the greatest Sci-Fi stories about artificial life ever created.

The first ending cannot be called "The Stanley Kubrick" ending. Jumping ahead thousands years, to a time when humanity had been replaced by (or perhaps, evolved into) robots - that's what Kubrick wanted. (See: this article)

...That's not to say I liked A.I.'s ending. I thought it was sappy. But, I think, in the right hands, a similar ending could have been beautiful, and powerful, and on par with the ending to 2001.

Kairon · « **Reply #41 on:** May 24, 2007, 06:13:46 PM »

Relevant to the current discussion is this quote:

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Ms. Maitland hated this, and was furious with Kubrick for insisting on it. ''It must have been a very strong visual thing for him,'' she says, ''because he wasn't usually stupid about story. He hired me because I knew about fairy stories, but would not listen when I told him, 'You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.' ''

I personally have no problem whatsoever with the ending. I actually like the sappy tragedy of the boy-robot achieving his quest the only way he knew how to: with pure, unspoiled, eery, unnatural, and almost super-human love.

To me it was always a story of "Can this robot really love?" Ultimately, that's all the robot can understand. A tragedy, and a strange victory.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #42 on:** February 06, 2008, 08:16:15 AM »

E.T. Phone BUMP!

Boom Blox screens are out http://flickr.com/photos/25792657@N00/sets/72157603864257919/

It looks a little deeper than originally thought.

Here's the first trailer
http://www.gamedaily.com/games/boom-blox/15/game-videos/boom-blox-exclusive-trailer/6907/7426/

Stogi · « **Reply #43 on:** February 06, 2008, 08:27:10 AM »

Looks pretty neat. I'm honestly a sucker for puzzle games; especially those that involving EXPLOSIONs!

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #44 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:49:00 AM »

This game is one of the few games that really has me excited this year. I am so much moving away from hardcore games to really fun non-gamer games and unique experiences that Boom Blox to me looks like the sleeper hit of the year. This game looks like the new Zack and Wiki. A under the radar game that is really going to be innovative and fun to play.

Kairon · « **Reply #45 on:** February 08, 2008, 04:27:14 AM »

Shyguy! We have those exact same screens at NWR too you know! T_T

Try checking the front page? Articles like screens and stuff like that aren't posted in talkback because they are simply big 'ol links to the screens section of our site!

ShyGuy · « **Reply #46 on:** February 08, 2008, 06:49:21 AM »

They weren't up when I posted the link, PLUS IM TRYING TO CLICK ON YOUR FRONTPAGE TO THEM NOW AND THE PAGE IS GIVING A RAILO FUSION ERROR THANKS TO THE NWR SEAL OF QUALITY

Kairon · « **Reply #47 on:** February 08, 2008, 07:16:45 AM »

LuigiHann · « **Reply #48 on:** February 08, 2008, 07:19:31 AM »

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Looks pretty neat. I'm honestly a sucker for puzzle games; especially those that involving EXPLOSIONs!

Have you tried Blast Miner?

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #49 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:15:24 AM »

"THANKS TO THE NWR SEAL OF QUALITY"

No one does it like they can.

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Author Topic: Steven Spielberg Wii exclusive (Read 36640 times)