Take away Steven Spielberg's '98 Oscar! (Or don't!)

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From the moment that Saving Private Ryan was released in July of 1998, Steven Spielberg was the favorite to win that year’s Best Director Oscar. Read the full post.

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Gretchen is an idiot
Thu 12/25/08 2:50 AM

God forbid, anyone think this “Saving Private Ryan” is a bad movie. It has 15 good minutes at the bgeinning but then falls apart. It’s so stupid when people like Gretchen seems to think if you don’t think this movie – you don’t support the troops.

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Ian Sciacaluga
Mon 01/05/09 4:28 PM

There’s no doubt that Steven Spielberg is a masterful film technician but often his narrative powers are very inconsistent in his ‘serious’ films. The macguffin of bringiung back the last of the Ryans was at best, illogical and the opening and closing graveyard scenes of the film were well intentioned but extremly mawkish. Malick’s direction in the ‘Thin Red Line’, however, boasted a much deeper power. It was at times poetic and expressionistic and far more original. I don;t want to put down Steve Spielberg, because often critics forget his greatest powers lie in his deployment of actors and complex staging of scenes. But he’s terrific at popular etnetrainments. Malick is somehting of an artist. Both as necessary as the other in this most fantastic of mediums.

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