Post #169938 by Tiki-bot on Wed, Jul 6, 2005 11:22 AM

Spielberg rant:

Jeez, what is it with him and endings? It's odd because he almost seems to repect the audience's intelligence when building the story, then turns around at the end and spoon feeds them a bowl full of saccharine with a side of ham-fisted explantion.

E.T. Well, the alien ship made a stupid rainbow, but I guess it's more of a kids' movie, so no harm no foul.

Schindler's List: Weirdest ending ever. People asleep on the freezing ground? Russians ride in on horses - 'We're saved!" And that awful "I could have done more" speech? Ugh!

Saving Private Ryan: Very good movie with the worst, most unwatchable bookends ever. Thank god for chapters on DVDs.

Minority Report: The aforementioned Cruise explaining the whole story to the villian on a cellphone! Why not just put them in a room and call it "Clue"?

Don't even get me started on A.I. again! Though the dumbest scene in that was in the middle, the awful, Dukes of Hazzard-level motorcycle bandits. Some poor 3rd unit director phoned that in!

He really hasn't had a good ending since Jaws, and that was from a book. He couldn't leave well-enough alone on Close Encounters and later added the interior spaceship shots, which completely destroyed the mystery of the original ending. By not showing the interior, he created a sense of wonder and awe. What would it be like in that ship? Could human eyes even comprehend it? When we see that it's just a neon hotel lobby, it really takes away some of the magic.