I’m as tall as Pat and Grim and tell people to shut up in chain cinemas. Everyone behaves properly at the spicy members club even after a few Manhattans
Jaws rocks, 5/5 movie. Love showing it in my film class, it's a crowd pleaser for sure. It is a Happy Meal toy compared to Apocalypse Now.
Coppola's four-film run in the 1970's is maybe the best of any director ever. Spielberg's best is probably either A.I. or Schindler's List but they are below those.
I need to watch Megalopolis again. It really shows how much we lost by Coppola's career derailment after One from the Heart.
just out of curiosity, what are Francis Ford Coppola's best films? I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I genuinely did not know that a lot of people think Francis Ford Coppola is a better filmmaker than Steven Spielberg. in fairness though, I was big into movies when I was a kid and up to like college age but I have fallen off following anything to do with this stuff in the last few decades
The Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation are generally considered his masterpieces. There are a lot of One from the Heart fans and people appreciate his version of Dracula but that is what is usually at the top.
The Godfather I and II are the best mainstream American films ever made. They are the gold standard for anyone trying to make an epic drama. War films still live in the shadow of Apocalypse Now; Saving Private Ryan may have all the technical details, but the story is not nearly as interesting. I have not seen The Conversation in years, but there is a fanbase that says it is his best of all.
Spielberg is a technical master and has created some of the most iconic images in film history, but I don't think he's a true sicko like FCC. And I am on the record as saying you need to be a true sicko in order to be the best.
to follow up on this, I think it's disrespectful to compare any Spielberg production with the absolute mess on basically every single levl that Megalopolis was, and I at least thought Megalopolis was interesting
I don't think The Conversation is his best, but it is excellent and (in the grand scheme of people talking about films) underrated.
Part of the frustration with Spielberg is that his worst films are almost always self-inflicted. With Coppola you can point to how he needed money and had to do certain films, but Spielberg was at the top of his powers when he did stuff like The Terminal and Ready Player One.
Been watching The Godfather’s for the first time actually. Great stuff obviously and Deniro as young Vito is excellent, I wasn’t aware that was a thing.
thank you. I've only seen The Conversation once, and I've never seen One From The Heart. I do love Bram Stoker's Dracula though, and obviously I have watched Godfather I & II dozens of times at least. I'm not gonna argue that it is one of the greatest films of all time or one of his best, but I also absolutely love The Outsiders and watched it on VHS with my cousins over and over and over again when we were younger. is there anything even approaching a consensus on which version of Apocalypse Now is the best...? I watched the original version a few times as a teenager, and I remember a few years ago wanting to go back and really watch it again, but I got bogged down in researching which cut is superior and learning about all of the different versions and changes and never actually went back and watched any of them for me personally, Spielberg has a handful of films that I would argue are contenders for greatest of all time, but trying to be more objective, Jaws is the one that I would put up as a/the perfect film