tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post2169178896546275078..comments2024-03-18T03:16:47.773-04:00Comments on Not Just Movies: Steven Spielberg: Empire of the SunJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-84148064952756334762023-12-30T06:18:06.222-05:002023-12-30T06:18:06.222-05:00Fundamentally, best-ball golf is a team sport in w...Fundamentally, <a href="https://www.todaypunch.com/best-ball-golf/" rel="nofollow">best-ball golf</a> is a team sport in which two or more players compete against other teams. The best ball allows teammates to play their ball during the round, in contrast to traditional golf, where each player completes the hole alone. Mr.Lee 9https://www.blogger.com/profile/10695288310143028651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-60419308763993889802020-06-21T06:50:52.412-04:002020-06-21T06:50:52.412-04:00I have always found it hard to meet the requiremen...I have always found it hard to meet the requirements of being a student. Ever since my years of high school, I really have no idea what professors are looking for to give good grades. After some google searching, I found this service <a href="http://HelpWriting.net" rel="nofollow">HelpWriting.net</a> who helped me write my research paper. The final result was amazing, and I highly recommend <a href="http://HelpWriting.net" rel="nofollow">HelpWriting.net</a> to anyone in the same mindset as me.Sevastiyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533183161291189497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-68209913978016230352018-04-03T09:46:02.407-04:002018-04-03T09:46:02.407-04:00"The boy is too young to realize the classism..."The boy is too young to realize the classism and racism in his words" - well, classism perhaps, but racism? Do you REALLY think that a privileged British child wouldn't have spoken the same way in Britain to a British servant? If you do, you're a fool. <br />This was classic British upper crust of a bygone era. If you're desperate to find racism in Empire of the Sun, you need to look at what the Japanese did. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-59974470607056270152017-05-02T01:02:00.535-04:002017-05-02T01:02:00.535-04:00I watch this movie whenever i can - it is A Master...I watch this movie whenever i can - it is A Masterpiece for sure. The music is haunting - the visuals superb. The scene where Jim salutes the pilots - both scenes - are as good as it gets in motion pictures. Christian Bales performance was simply amazing. Bravo!!mark lazarusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-77527628660010959692013-09-19T03:11:08.031-04:002013-09-19T03:11:08.031-04:00Why do none of you understand the end if the film?...Why do none of you understand the end if the film? It is Jim closing his eyes in the comfort and safety of his mother's arms as he had envisioned in the Norman Rockwell page he posted near his beds...parents tucking their son into bed. When he had given up at last after the P 51s bombed the runway he had helped to build, his eyes again filled with hope as Mrs. Victor pinned on the wall above his bed in the children's camp. His eyes shutting at the end of the film are peace. At last he can rest. He us truly tucked in again. This is a story of a boy who goes through hell with the hope of being his mother's boy again. That's all he learned to know was important in life. And indeed. That is what is what makes or break the kind of human being we become when we are grown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-23614332618798639992010-11-27T19:40:50.754-05:002010-11-27T19:40:50.754-05:00I think Beautiful Girls is an excellent continuati...I think Beautiful Girls is an excellent continuation, Anonymous, and I think it's amazing how both performances convey such an intense maturity that it's almost hard to call them child performances. But I just have to give the edge (barely) to Leon. What a shame that she never truly lived up to that promise professionally, as interesting and engaging a person as she is.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-65388690176847474292010-11-27T15:23:32.073-05:002010-11-27T15:23:32.073-05:00Your review adroitly undercuts the critics who dis...Your review adroitly undercuts the critics who dismiss EOTS as simply another childish "lost boy" film from the master. While I will continue to consider Jaws and ET (and maybe Close Encounters) his greatest work, I would have to admit that I find EOTS his most emotionally painful and certainly among his finest.<br /><br />One minor quibble. I think Natalie Portman was wonderful in Leon, but if you want to see her finest work, check out "Beautiful Girls".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-27025250746580101212010-10-25T15:40:11.897-04:002010-10-25T15:40:11.897-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-59623739552019829442010-10-23T18:39:22.701-04:002010-10-23T18:39:22.701-04:00I love just about everything, with A.I., Close Enc...I love just about everything, with <i>A.I.</i>, <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i>, <i>Munich/War of the Worlds</i> (one movie, to me) and this, of course, being my absolute favorites.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-18883607589156710402010-10-23T18:34:03.583-04:002010-10-23T18:34:03.583-04:00Fair enough Jake. Here's my own numerical ran...Fair enough Jake. Here's my own numerical rankings. I know I'm a list whore.<br /><br />1 Empire of the Sun<br />2 A. I. Artificial Intelligence<br />3 Schindler's List<br />4. E.T.<br />5. Amistad/Jaws<br /><br />LOL Ryan!!! Good show!!Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-91238385357577057942010-10-23T18:22:57.269-04:002010-10-23T18:22:57.269-04:00Ah, baseball stats, my forte. I've also scored...Ah, baseball stats, my forte. I've also scored the most holes in one, amiright? ... Fellas?<br /><br />But huge thanks to the both of you. It's so very kind of you.<br /><br />Sam: I think I'd still put Jaws and A.I. ahead of it, the former because it was simply the first great film I saw and it hasn't dated at all for me despite so many watches, the latter because it follows the impressive ideas here to an even darker and grander territory.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-69832300690915398062010-10-23T18:08:21.067-04:002010-10-23T18:08:21.067-04:00Not to mention OPS, OPS+, WAR, VORP... yes I'm...Not to mention OPS, OPS+, WAR, VORP... yes I'm a bit of a stat geek! <br /><br />And I always love finding admirers of this film - which there are a fair share of, to be sure, but the dissenters are a fairly vocal crowd as well. But Spielberg does seem to invite a certain kind of condescension, for reasons that baffle me, honestly.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-85295145046589570032010-10-23T17:14:58.091-04:002010-10-23T17:14:58.091-04:00"Oh my... Sam Juliano and I have, at last, fo..."Oh my... Sam Juliano and I have, at last, found something to agree on!"<br /><br />Ha Ryan! LOL!!! Ah, we've agreed a fair number of times to be sure, but our agreement here really has me happy, as this film has really had me in it's grasp for 23 years. It will be great to see it discussed further in Adam's Spielberg blogothon at ICEBOX MOVIES. We'll talk soon I'm sure my friend!<br /><br />Jake has really hit a home run, but I'm not surprised. He leads the league in homers, RBI's and batting average.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-84951827421960319632010-10-23T17:05:46.463-04:002010-10-23T17:05:46.463-04:00Oh my... Sam Juliano and I have, at last, found so...Oh my... Sam Juliano and I have, at last, found something to agree on! Not just that this is yet another great piece from our pal Jake, but the quality of the film in question.<br /><br />This is an absolute masterpiece - I hate when people decry it (or Spielberg in general, but that's a separate matter) for being sentimental; to me, it shows they a'int watching the damn movie. As in <i>A.I.</i> the so-called sentimentality is subversive here, masking - but not hiding - an extremely dark thematic undercurrent. You perfectly address that here. This is not a case where you can say the presentation of a particular narrative or thematic idea undercuts the darkness, because no matter how Spielberg presents it the facts of the story ARE dark, nightmarish even. And the sentimental Spielberg aesthetic, I would argue, makes it even more disturbing because it so clearly dramatizes - in visual terms - the way Jim sees the world. As the implications of his reality get darker and darker, as Jim essentially goes crazy, he regresses to an even more fantastic and infantile view of the world. The final shot, with Jim shutting his eyes - the eyes of a child that look like the eyes of an old man - never fails to devastate me.<br /><br />I always have trouble deciding which is the best of Spielebrg's child performances; I'm generally torn between Christian Bale in this, Haley Joel Osment in <i>A.I.</i>, and Dakota Fanning in <i>War of the Worlds</i>. <br /><br />Great piece. Great movie.Ryan Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054550377681273142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-37271983256845029972010-10-23T16:16:17.850-04:002010-10-23T16:16:17.850-04:00This is the best film of 1987.
This is Spielberg&...This is the best film of 1987.<br /><br />This is Spielberg's best film.<br /><br />This is indeed darker than SCHINDLER'S LIST in the sense you argue at the review's launch.<br /><br />The use of the choir hymn "Suo Gan" is extraordinarily emotional, especially when Bale (a la Alec Guiness in RIVER KWAI) salutes his oppressors.<br /><br />Even to this point, Bale has never given a greater performance.<br /><br />The dynamic leap you speak of (by Spielberg) has actually never been equaled.<br /><br />I escorted a class of 22 6th graders to see the film when it opened, and had them write film reviews, most of which were magnificent.<br /><br /><br />I pretty much cried in 1987 when the film was ignored for a Best Picture Oscar nomination by AMPAS, even after winning the National Board of Review award for Best Picture.<br /><br />This is Jake Cole at his very best.Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.com