I would've pretended HOOK didn't exist, too.

Ate a big edible and watched this, one of my great decisions this year. Love Spielberg and love that this was 160 minutes. Love repurposing the adventure theme from Catch Me If You Can as Spielberg’s cute little career etude. Love dripping wet compliments from critics, love learning what these weird little newspaper critics look like. Love that there was 10 minutes on Munich. Love the weird, obligated calculated placements of BFG footage. Love George Lucas talking minor shit on Amblin’. Love that the only footage of Hook was three seconds over someone saying “failure”. Odd that they spend 2 hours discussing how much divorce has shaped and devastated Spielberg’s life, but only twenty seconds on Spielberg’s own divorce, but in the end I loved that too because I was high and I thought that was funny they did that. Loved Richard Dreyfuss doing his tight-five Spielberg stories. Love the portrayal of Spielberg as a muddled sentimental nerd.

love all my dads of course but the only one who ever says anything remotely interesting or revealing is de palma, which is telegraphed early on here when the best spielberg moment in this is him literally doing an impression of de palma yelling at lucas about how his rough cut of Star Wars sucked and made no sense―mostly just made me wanna watch De Palma again. also the lack of A.I. in this is a war crime.

Good director.

Watching Scorsese fangurl over Spielberg is pretty much the most adorable thing ever.

The runtime isn't enough to address a career the length and importance of Stevie's, but there are more surprise inclusions than exclusions. He's one of a kind with everything that implies.

This documentary is magically uplifting because the man himself is a magician.

Happy birthday Steve 🥳

I read somewhere that they're changing the spelling of "God" to "Spielberg."

Endured a throughly sincere engagement throughout this. To be honest, I never really looked into the history of Spielberg. Somehow, this documentary had a profound impact on me as I now genuinely see the importance of Spielberg’s art and thoughtfulness in cinema. I admire his work a lot more carefully now and appreciated the complexity it went over about how he conquered people’s doubts of his ability to form a deep and realistic piece of film. 

Not to be cheesy or anything but it was really inspiring to see that the desire to produce a touching, impactful and entertaining work of cinema is totally possible.

His parents divorce being such a defining emotional event in his life is so hilariously benign when you compare it with something like the De Palma documentary. That little freak was setting up peeping tom stakeouts on his faithless father as a pre-teen. For all his technical excellence, Spielberg is simply not damaged or perverted enough to be a top shelf auteur.

Really, really good.

I wish this was a little deeper than "Spielberg sure has made some good movies".

Te amo Steven.

yes it's now one of my favorite documentaries

Un repaso lo suficientemente completo a la carrera de Spielberg. La enorme cantidad de invitados es lo que nutre más la información sobre cada película y cada testimonio del propio cineasta acaban siendo lecciones muy importantes.

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Rewatched last night and is fucking gold for any filmmaker.

A really fun doc about one of cinema’s most prolific.

Steven Spielberg kicks ass

This motherfucker released Schindler's List and Jurassic Park in the same year. Let that sink in.

This is too hagiographic for my liking, but there are parts on Spielberg's life, and why he explores certain themes, that are decently told. Some of the sections focusing on individual films weren't much more than the interviews you get from DVD extras.

I did like this! But I didn’t feel like I learned anything tbh. And it was kind of one note. I think it’s worth watching bc of his gigantic impact on the culture but. Not like a great documentary inherently.