Not Half Bad
My only complaint is that it’s nowhere near long enough. Only a small fraction of Spielberg’s films are included. Why didn’t Krishna Shenoi go for it? Did she run out of time? Money?
My only complaint is that it’s nowhere near long enough. Only a small fraction of Spielberg’s films are included. Why didn’t Krishna Shenoi go for it? Did she run out of time? Money?
She probably read one of the many Lincoln takedowns on HE, came to her senses, realized Spielberg was a worthless hack and abandoned the project in favor of an animated tribute to David O. Russell.
From the creator’s comments on YouTube:
“I’d love to add more films, but it just takes so much time! “Minority Report,” “A.I.,” and “Catch Me If You Can,” were supposed to be in there too, btw, but eventually, there’s only so much one person can animate.”
Man, that’s a lot of work right there. Artistic and well done, though. Spielberg has so many huge moments that it would take years to animate them all.
Too bad that one of them had to be Hook, the one film of his of the last 23 years that has not stood the test of time.
Hook would have worked if he had made it a serious drama with Williams about mid-life and fatherhood with the Peter Pan story in there only in a symbolic sense. The early 90s was a weird time when filmmakers awkwardly mixed adult subject matter into “heartwarming” family films. It’s hard to imagine a film like Radio Flyer being made today.
“Too bad that one of them had to be Hook, the one film of his of the last 23 years that has not stood the test of time.”
It’s hard for a movie to stand the test of time when everyone thought it sucked at the time it was released. I’ve always considered it Spielberg’s most abysmal failure.
I thought that was really well done….very cool video! An interesting question: What would all of those films be like without John Williams’ music? I find that so many of the most memorable moments for me in Spielberg’s films, some of which appear in the video, are inextricably linked to Williams’ scores: the woman in Jaws, the first sight of the dinosaur, E.T. flying.
@Kit Spielberg without Williams would be like Lean without Jarre. A score of the kind Williams writes is indeed as important as the cinematography. There’s so many mediocre to bad movies that I’m glad to have seen for the music alone.
“Too bad that one of them had to be Hook, the one film of his of the last 23 years that has not stood the test of time.”
Kind of hate to be that guy that copies/pastes and refutes with a few key exceptions, but I gotta be that guy (esp. since you weirdly included a specific year number, so as to feign definitiveness). I’m pretty sure nobody’s really sitting around dissecting The Lost World, Amistad, The Terminal, Indy IV, or Tintin right now (and if for some reason they still are, they soon won’t be).
Other than that, though, yeah — he’s been on a pretty solid roll.
This should be fun:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/vanity-fair-pulled-jessica-chastain-criticism-while-she-chased-best-actress-oscar/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Krishna Shenoi is a he, not a she: http://krishnabalashenoi.wordpress.com/about/
Shenoi has a nice tribute to Spielberg on Roger Ebert’s website – an effective slap in the face to Wells and all of his BS about Spielberg: http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2013/03/steven-spielberg—animated-tribute-2012.html
Wholly successful in making you want more, i.e., via a nice commission for an extended clip to be shown at the next SS lifetime achievement ceremony.
Side note; one iconic clip that is to me what the Sonny Corleonne phantom punch is to Jeffrey: the brontosaurus gains no additional height by going to its hind legs. It’s BS.