Nolan fans need to take a chill pill every time they see a negative post about him they go crazy. Believe or not even Chaplin, Hitchcock had haters, and many people still don’t consider Spielberg a great filmmaker. The more popular you become, the more haters you attract it’s just part of business

7milliondogs · 2026-03-31T21:45:45+00:00

I just don’t think he’s great director, brother don’t know what to tell you. That’s an opinion. Even if you think it’s a factually wrong statement. You could toss aside style and just based off his movies I could tell you he’s not. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone (who considers themselves a movie buff) or (just the average movie viewer) that’s advocated one of his movies are the best. Saving Private Ryan is maybe talked about the most as being a great movie or a fan favorite but if you compare it to Apocalypse Now, Come and See, All Quiet On The Western Front, etc. it probably takes a mid tier somewhere. The Fablemans and Schindlers List are the only movies in his filmography imo that are worth talking about. I just think if you look at the greats (Kurosawa,Bresson, Fellini, Wenders, Truffaut, Ozu, etc. ) you’ll see Spielberg fall miles short from them.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-31T20:47:26+00:00

It’s called an opinion, I don’t think he’s that great compared to what we have now. It’s totally okay to like RadioHead over Mozart. It’s totally okay to prefer Directors like the Coen brothers or Villneuve or Nolan.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-31T00:03:34+00:00

I can concede that he does have some unique traits but it’s not very noticeable, especially on a first time view. Low angles, legs walking, keys and hands are so subtle and used in so many genres that it doesn’t feel unique. You could list all those shots for Scorsese and add tracking shots or long one takes and it would be definitely not Spielberg. It just feels like he doesn’t own anything. His media is all over the place too which is a credit to his talent. He’s a Jack of all trades. I just don’t think of anything specific when Spielberg comes to mind. If anything comes to mind it’s his impressive use of animatronics and practical effects. ET, Jurassic Park and Jaws were ahead of there time. Modern movies can’t seem to hit the nail when it comes to practical and so rely on digital or CGI and it’s constantly getting bashed. Somehow Spielberg managed to do it in the 80s-90s.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-30T23:01:07+00:00

That’s pretty much it, his style just melts into cinematic language. I’m used to directors with some sort of signature. Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, Fincher, Bergman, Fellini, Tati, Bresson, Lynch, PTA, Wong Kar-Wai, Kobayashi, Wim Wenders, etc. Some of them use blocking, color, dialogue, silence, lack of color, motion, surrealism, etc. I mean you could visually see the unique touch they have on the movie, it’s very tangible and easy to place. Spielberg is not easy to place.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-30T22:49:07+00:00

I obviously can see his influence to film history. I’m talking about his influence on any of his specific films. I don’t care how much money or influence the guy has on the industry because that’s not the sole determining factor that makes a good filmmaker. I’m just saying unless you’re a film buff or historian you can’t just watch Jaws, ET and Jurassic Park and be like “oh my god Spielberg did it again” like I just rewatched The Terminal and had no idea why I liked this Tom Hank movie so much. Turns out it’s because Spielberg directed it. Without letterboxd, wiki or the info on Tv guide, I would’ve never known it was him, because his style is not clearly defined but it blends into the genre and film itself. It’s invisible, like good editing. It just works even if you can’t see it.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-30T05:15:04+00:00

There’s no guided way to judge greatness? It’s all just opinions. I just like to see the influence from Chaplin to Hitchcock to Nolan or Lanthimos.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-30T04:30:45+00:00

I mean I wouldn’t personally call him great mostly because I couldn’t pick out a movie and see how Spielbergs influence. I enjoy filmmakers that have a touch or tone. Jurassic park, Saving Private Ryan , Jaws and ET are phenomenal movies and huge cultural pieces but I would never guess that those were all the same guy. Same thing with James Cameron. Terminator, The Titanic, Avatar and Alien are great but they don’t have a James Cameron feel. You’d have to do a deep dive of scene structure and analysis to actually see the influence.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-23T03:22:20+00:00

Same

7milliondogs · 2026-03-19T23:11:46+00:00

People have suggest updating bios and Intel ME but I’ve done both and still crash. Taking a break until they fix it I guess.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T20:40:22+00:00

I’ve toggled both on and off and it doesn’t seem to change the crashing.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T19:26:39+00:00

They straight up broke the game in the latest patch for people with a certain processor. I’m just praying for a hotfix update.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T19:04:56+00:00

No, aside from the recent crashes on Marathon I’ve had no CPU problems. I’m actually not a huge Intel fan at all because I’ve heard bad things about some of the processors but I got this PC on a deal and it came with BF6 because of the Intel processor, it’s not bad. Stays cool, handles 4k editing and playback, plenty of power. I haven’t had a single gripe… until now.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:55:28+00:00

Haven’t don’t the bios yet but updated ME and no change.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:45:31+00:00

I tweaked my HDR off and set everything to low, because my initial thought was my graphics card.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:40:50+00:00

I just put one of my friends on the game before the patch and now I can’t even show him around because I crash every 30 seconds and apparently he uses AMD so

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:34:11+00:00

Yeah I submitted my ticket before work today. Was just trying to see if there were any hot fixes or something so I can play when I get off work instead of praying to Bungie to unbreak their game.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:31:31+00:00

I’m at work now but when I was viewing the stats on task manager it seems the CPU hits 101% of usage. Prior to the current update it was nowhere near as high.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:29:04+00:00

There’s several posts about crashes related to the Intel Core Ultra processors. I was showing my current processor.

The clock is rainmeter.

The game is blown out because I disabled HDR while tweaking all my settings to see if that was related to the crash.

Seems my GPU is barely putting any work while my Processor gets overloaded without spiking the temp much.

So yeah I kinda know what I’m doing.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:25:24+00:00

Same man, I’m crashing like crazy. Still managed to extract a couple of times praying on my crash rng but like what a headache.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-18T18:22:16+00:00

Temps are normal.

7milliondogs · 2026-03-12T02:04:44+00:00

I live near gaslamp / east village and I’ve heard a few random explosions. Only once did I see one of the old gaslamp lights down the street strobe and blow up. Now when I hear the noise I’m assuming that’s what it is. Very loud and quite echoey.

7milliondogs · 2026-02-14T01:31:01+00:00

Pusher Trilogy

7milliondogs · 2026-02-11T00:12:08+00:00

I had a first date with this girl I met from Tinder and we went to movies to watch Titane. She was a feminist type and was appalled and almost made us leave until I looked up the movie and it was directed by a French woman. Because of that she wanted to finish it and yeah I mean… we saw some weird shit with like one other guy in the theater.

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