films that make such large dives from gripping interest

Wicker Park
Identity
Dream Catcher…..

What about NEW ROSE HOTEL? …Seen it?

Full Metal Jacket

Adaptation.

New Rose Hotel passed me by.

I like adaptation and FMJ all the way through though.

Catch Me In The Can

Snatch Adams

Originally posted by lil' Markie:
Wicker Park
Identity
Dream Catcher…..

Identity was great. I just watched Frailty the other night and that was quite interesting.

Any family movie with a "happy" or "moral" ending…

Elf
Mean Girls

AI. Seriously, Spielberg could have ended the movie with the kid in the ocean and it would have been fine. But somehow aliens come and grant him his wish to see his mom one last time. The same mom who left him in the woods. wtf. Not to mention that the film was an homage to stanley kubrick, who never has "happy" endings in his movies.

oh yeah, my previous post gives away a lot of crucial plot points so if you haven't seen "AI" don't read it. thanks. :)

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
oh yeah, my previous post gives away a lot of crucial plot points

I tend to agree with you though. I thought that it could be the whole end sequence was a dream, until the aliens came. The equivocation would have made it much more interesting. Still I am not sure it really was a good movie and then really degenerated. Rather a bad movie that fizzled out.

most spielberg movies (if not all) have horrible endings, whether or not you like the rest of the movie

What movies has this Speilberg guy done?

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
most spielberg movies (if not all) have horrible endings, whether or not you like the rest of the movie

Originally posted by ratioci nation:
most spielberg movies (if not all) have horrible endings, whether or not you like the rest of the movie

the terminal

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
What movies has this Speilberg guy done?

Spielberg has made a bunch of obscure art films, most people havent heard of his films

# Untitled Steven Spielberg/Abraham Lincoln Project (2007) (announced)
# Indiana Jones 4 (2006) (announced)
# Vengeance (2006) (pre-production)
# War of the Worlds (2005) (filming)

# The Terminal (2004)
# Catch Me If You Can (2002)
# Minority Report (2002)
# Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
… aka A.I. Artificial Intelligence (USA: poster title)

# The Unfinished Journey (1999)
# Saving Private Ryan (1998)
# Amistad (1997)
# The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
# Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair (1996) (VG)
# Schindler's List (1993)
# Jurassic Park (1993)
… aka JP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
# Amazing Stories: Book One (1992) (V) (segment "The Mission")
# Hook (1991)
# The Visionary (1990) (V) (segment "Par for the Course")

# Always (1989)
# Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
# Empire of the Sun (1987)
# The Color Purple (1985)
# "Amazing Stories" (1985) TV Series (episode "Ghost Train") (episode "The Mission")
… aka Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (USA: complete title)
# "Strokes of Genius" (1984) (mini) TV Series (introductory segments) (uncredited)
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
# Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 2)
# Poltergeist (1982) (uncredited)
# E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
… aka E.T. (USA: short title)
… aka E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary (USA: longer version)
# Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
… aka Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (USA: video title)

# 1941 (1979)
# Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
… aka CE3K (USA: informal short title)
# Jaws (1975)
# The Sugarland Express (1974)
# Savage (1973/I) (TV)
… aka The Savage File (USA)
… aka Watch Dog
# Something Evil (1972) (TV)
# Duel (1971/I) (TV)
# "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" (1971) TV Series (episode "Eulogy for a Wide Receiver")
# Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV)
# "The Psychiatrist" (1971) TV Series (episode "Par for the Course") (episode "The Private World of Martin Dalton")
# "Night Gallery" (1970) TV Series (episode "Eyes") (episode "Make Me Laugh")
… aka Rod Serling's Night Gallery (USA)

# Night Gallery (1969) (TV) (segment "Eyes")
… aka Rod Serling's Wax Museum (USA)
# "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969) TV Series (episode "The Daredevil Gesture")
… aka Robert Young, Family Doctor
# Amblin' (1968)
# "The Name of the Game" (1968) TV Series (episode "L.A. 2017")
# Slipstream (1967) (unfinished)
# Firelight (1964)
# Battle Squad (1961)
# Escape to Nowhere (1961)

# The Last Gun (1959)

Saving Private Ryan (1998) might be the best choice for the thread title so far.

I found the first hour of Independence Day to be excellent - a pretty realistic portrayal of how it would be if aliens all of a sudden just showed up. However, I found the second hour of it to be so stupid and cheese-filled (basically everything with Will Smith in it) as to negate the impact of the first hour.

Waking Life (although so much of it was just banal philosophical musings about nothing, my argument for that is that it would have made a good short film without the pseudo intellectual bs)
Natural Born Killers
Everything M. Night Shyamalan did after Unbreakable
Jesus de Montreal
Almost everything by David Cronenberg

AI
Being John Malchovich (yes, I don't know how to spell it and I think I'm the only person who hated this film)
Wonder Boys

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
AI. Seriously, Spielberg could have ended the movie with the kid in the ocean and it would have been fine. But somehow aliens come and grant him his wish to see his mom one last time. The same mom who left him in the woods. wtf. Not to mention that the film was an homage to stanley kubrick, who never has "happy" endings in his movies.

While I agree with you, and plan to show my two friends the movie soon and simply stop the DVD after that scene, I did read somewhere that the extended ending was not added by Spielberg and in fact was Kubricks idea.

-cale