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Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Oxytone — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:56:02 PDT

Oh Steven, you're so adoreable with your Luddite sensitbilities.

Reminds me of a Married To The Sea cartoon:

"Oh Internets, how you have offended my delicate sensibilities!"

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

moondawg9 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:24:39 PDT

"A movie happens in a way that has always been cathartic, the personal, human catharsis of an audience in holy communion with an experience up on the screen."

Finally, someone has put into words the feeling I had whilst viewing "Showgirls" for the first time!!!

moondawg9

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

nick_r — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:58:54 PDT

In Spielberg's defense, he probably does have iPhones and tablets and laptops shoved in his face all day, so he forgets that the average Joe actually has a choice about when to go on the internet and what sites to view.

nick_r

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Dimo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:49:22 PDT

I like that the picture of them is from their glory days, when they knew what they were doing. They still know what they are doing, and they know that they just made a stinker.

See you on the 22nd boys!

Dimo

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

gwendemarco — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:23:45 PDT

OK, Peter Pan. Time for a nap.

gwendemarco

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Baronzemo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:52:52 PDT

The more comments I read from these guys about this film, the more I'm eagerly awaiting "Iron Man"-starting with my lenticular Slurpee cups & the beautifully-rendered spoilers on them

Baronzemo

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

aspiringexpatriate — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:22:19 PDT

Aye, the only bad thing the internet provides already existed before the net, the pirated DVD pre-release. To which I have to say, anyone who wants to watch a film on a shaky DVD rather than a silver screen deserves to be disappointed.

aspiringexpatriate

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

LoveHandles — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:22:35 PDT

It's a series of tubes. And the kids are filling them up with garbage.

LoveHandles

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Oxycontinmoron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:47:27 PDT

@Benovite: Yes, but a rose by any other name is still just a series of tubes...

Oxycontinmoron

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Benovite — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:34:36 PDT

I'm all for renaming the internet "scintilla".

Benovite

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

DexterRiley — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:41 PDT

God, don't they sound old and grumpy and out of touch? They used to be the young guns who embraced all the new technology. The more I hear Spielberg talk, and with every new marginal release he scrounges up, I'm more and more convinced that he peaked with Duel. As for Lucas...

sorry, "the internets" is forcing me to abandon the rest of my thought here, and troll for spoilers and half-truths against my will.

DexterRiley

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

ClicheLaMoron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:08:59 PDT

Aw, damn my sloppy reading skills -- the Highlander can kill Steven I guess.

We gotta keep looking for a way to get rid of Lucas.

ClicheLaMoron

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

ClicheLaMoron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:06:24 PDT

"That's why I'm in the middle of this magic, and I always will be."

Am I crazy, or does this mean only a Highlander can kill George Lucas?

ClicheLaMoron

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Teabiscuit — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:02:03 PDT

Speilberg is an idiot. The catharsis he refers to entered the film school canon by way of Aristotle's poetics. Audiences then already knew that Oedipus had killed his father and married his mother; the "spoiler" is as old as drama itself but the power of a well structured drama is not undermined by it. OTHO, it is probably true that gimmicky special effects are much less effective the nth time you've seen them, so he is right to be worried.

Teabiscuit

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Oxycontinmoron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:57:19 PDT

Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses."

He hadn't seen anything yet.

Oxycontinmoron

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

nojo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:47:04 PDT

"The personal, human catharsis of an audience in holy communion with an experience up on the screen" doesn't begin to describe seeing a shaved Robin Williams on a waterslide.

nojo

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

EuroDad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:45:35 PDT

@Leviticus_71:

yup - i was just getting ready to say that i don't want to know, and i've managed to avoid the spoilers.

and i'm not that bright - just think what a smart person could do!

EuroDad

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Oxycontinmoron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:44:27 PDT

@Leviticus_71: Exactly. It's not like I turn on my interweb and the spoiler channel for Indy is tuned in.

Oh, and Barry Sonnenfeld is the exact opposite of a Luddite.

Oxycontinmoron

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

PaisleyPajamas — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:43:48 PDT

@Leviticus_71: Im in ur cristal scull, surfing ur brain waves.

PaisleyPajamas

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

PaisleyPajamas — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:42:58 PDT

Aaaaand we've come full circle: Democracy allows all of us to choose what we read on the 'net, just like it allows us to choose how we spend our money/time in the theater.

Saying, "the eroding of the moviegoing experience by keyboard-tapping chatterboxes" has to be the lamest excuse yet for movies with a blockbuster send up not delivering. The rough cuts must not be looking so good, eh?

PaisleyPajamas

Steven Spielberg Mulls Canceling The Internet To Preserve An Unspoiled Moviegoing Experience

Leviticus_71 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:38:04 PDT

It seems Spielberg is ignoring the fact that people still have free will. Those who don't wanna read spoilers and preserve the "magic" of a dark theater simply avoid spoiler sites and blogs. And like alannis morisette taught us, some hot shit can go on in a dark theater, who wants to ruin that?

Leviticus_71