Apparently the film Selma was unable to use text from Martin Luther King’s speeches in part because Steven Spielberg is squatting on the rights for a potential King biography. It sounds like the fault is really more with the King family than with Spielberg, but what the hey; any excuse is a good excuse to cast aspersions on America’s (and the world’s) crappiest filmmaker.
So, with that in mind, I thought I’d provide a round-up of my posts on Spielberg from here and there. In no particular order:
On the crappiness of Raiders of the Lost Ark
On the crappiness of The Tintin film.
On the crappiness of Minority Report.
On the crappiness of Lincoln and Amistad.
I think that’s it, more or less. I hate Schindler’s List probably more than any other film ever, but for that reason I’ve avoided revisiting it to write about it.
Funny how after reading most of those articles the subject of handling race is the lightning rod for much of your ire.
Not in the Minority Report one I don’t think…?
Luckily I said “most” since I didn’t read the Minority Report one :P