Spielberg Intermission 2 (90s-00s Recap & 10s-20s Preview)

Eli (00:02.018)
Hello and welcome to the establishing shot a podcast where we do deep dives and two directors and their filmography's I am your host Eli price and we are here on episode 95 of the podcast We are Yeah, this is exciting time. We're kind of wrapping up the middle part of Spielberg's career Looking forward to the last little stretch of his career

And you may remember if you've been following along with the series that we did a little intermission in between the eighties and nineties and kind of did this same sort of thing. We looked back at some of the things about Spielberg's career in those first two decades. Looked forward to what was to come in the nineties and two thousands. And we're going to do a similar thing here. Another Spielberg intermission, if you will, with someone

with the long career of spillberry gets nice to take a little break and kind of, just get an establishing shot of where we are in his career, kind of going along with, the, name of the show. So that's what we're going to be doing today. We're going to be kind of doing, a look back of his career over the nineties and two thousands. And then we're going to look forward.

to what's to come in this last stretch of his career, the last 15 years of his career from the 2010s and then the two movies he's made in the 2020s. So I'm excited to jump into that. We're gonna do that. Then I'm gonna kind of share some favorite performances and favorite moments, favorite discoveries of these last two decades.

maybe give an update on my personal rankings of Spielberg's films. And then I'll kind of talk about what I'm most anticipating in these last, I think it's eight movies, eight or nine movies. yeah, I think it is nine now that I'm looking at it. So yeah, I'm ready to jump into that before I do that.

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And yeah, all of that out of the way, we can jump into the Spielberg intermission now. So 90s and 2000s, the last two decades that we've covered. You know, this all started with Hook, his first movie of the 90s. You have the big year of 93 with Jurassic Park and Ginger's List in the same year.

You know, uh his last movie of the 90s and saving private ryan and then kicking off the 2000s with ai artificial intelligence And then uh, yeah last movie that we covered Uh the kingdom of the crystal indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull, um comes out at the end of the 2000s in 2008 And yeah, so we have 12 or 13 movies rather

that he released during these two decades. So a lot of work that we covered, a lot of interesting things. Very, very busy guy, this Spielberg, during this time. In fact, you may recall, I think I shared this fact in the last Intermission episode, but 1992 was the only year between 1977 and 2013 with no movie directed or produced by Spielberg. So even in those years, you know,

where he's not directing movies, he's producing a bunch of movies. He launched Amblin during this time and Dreamworks in 94. He launched, which had its animation counterpart spun off in 2004. through Dreamworks, he produced 24 films before even the year 2000.

Eli (09:31.982)
It launched in 1994 by 2000. He had produced 24 films Through Dreamworks. He didn't necessarily have a credit on all those but they're all He has a hand in everything that was coming through Dreamworks at that time. So heavy workload for Spielberg during this time and Yeah, if you recall too at this transition point in his career

the 80s between the 80s and 90s. He's really considered by critics and fans and peers, not necessarily negatively, but just artistically marginal. You know, he has industry success, fans and critics like him for what he does, but he's not really considered like an artistic movie maker. So he, you know, he's coming off a rocky section of his career with always

And hook, know, obviously last crusade is in there the color the color purple had its controversy Around it Empire of the Sun wasn't like a big hit or anything. So he's kind of coming off this You know iffy section of his career And then 1993 Jurassic Park and Schindler's List he shows I can innovate the whole movie industry

with technology and make a fun, exciting blockbuster. But I can also, I'm also not artistically marginal. I can make a very artistic, serious drama film about the Holocaust and, and do it successfully. And so this is, this is probably the high point of him in this equilibrium between his roles as like director, producer, movie mogul.

He's just at the height of his powers. He can he can do whatever he wants and so it's interesting to see coming off of that through the 90s and 2000s what he chooses to do with that and one of the things he chooses to do is to start taking breaks between films that he's directing so He he has five three-year breaks between films after Schindler's List so You know, it's three years until the lost world comes out

Eli (11:53.87)
And then you have Yeah, three years which before that comes out then you have You know that lost lost world Amistad saving private Ryan and then you have another three year break before AI and Then between catch me if you can and the terminal no way between Know the terminal and catch me if you can come out together But then there's a three year break between

that and no I'm getting this all wrong sorry guys

Eli (12:35.021)
Yeah, I mean, then you have AI Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can, and then you have a couple year break, and you got the Terminal and War of the Worlds. Then you have another break, or, and Munich also. Then you have another break before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And technically he started, he was shoot, he shot 10-10 in 2009, so.

he's really doing the heavy part of his work on that movie also in In the 2000s right there after Indiana Jones So but it doesn't come out for another couple years just the turnover with animation and stuff. So So yeah, you start to see him taking breaks Not feeling like he has to just like constantly pump out movies Every year or two so that's one of the things he also is kind of starting to

balance. He's finding this, it starts with the Jurassic Park Schindler's List success. He kind of figures out, okay, whenever I try to mix my fun blockbuster movie with a more serious subject, it hasn't seemed to go over well, and so he kind of splits his sensibilities in that way. He makes Jurassic Park Schindler's List, and so you start to see this kind of balance between serious and more

fun movies. I kind of counted up about six and a half more serious movies and six and a half more fun movies. It's like this perfect balance. I kind of catch me if you can as kind of like a half and half. It's serious at times, but it's also a really fun movie at the same time. So there's obviously a bit of overlap in all of the movies as far as that goes with even

more serious films being entertaining in a way. But yeah, so he's balancing his work to home life with his breaks and whatnot, but he's also balancing his sensibilities in his moviemaking. And I think that's very important for just the trajectory of his career and his success. Another thing I noticed is that he really kind of

Eli (14:59.533)
Over this period he really solidified the the look and the feel of his films And maybe this was due to his partnership with Janusz Kaminski, which started with Schindler's List but he he's really like honing in on His you know lighting and his composition, you know his scene composition his framing and even really his like actor directing as well

I think he's really like honing in his mastery of these things to this to the degree to that like by the end of the 90s and Really like especially by the end of the 2000s like you just have You know what a Spielberg movie is gonna be not in a bad way but just a Spielberg movie has a distinct look and feel Even if it's like serious

a more serious movie or a more fun movie, he really, he's really like honed in and mastered like what he does well. And so, you know, the way I was saying that just a second ago made it sound like a negative thing, but really it's, him honing in on what he is best at. And then just like, it's basically like making your strengths stronger. It's that sort of idea. and, and yeah,

I think of like in Munich I've always thought like ever since Raiders that Spielberg just has this incredible sense of action geography and and helping the audience know get all the information they need to follow what's going on in action sequence and I think like the culmination of that is a scene in Munich where they have a bomb and a phone going off and they're in the street and they're you know, built their

You see the window where the bomb is supposed to go off and it's just there's there's a ton of stuff going on in that moment But you're never lost you you you can see all of it. You know where everyone is You have a sense of what's going on. And I think that's just like The the peak of that thing that he does well that he's kind of honed in by the end of the 2000s and so yeah, I I really

Eli (17:22.541)
love seeing him come into just who he is. In the 80s there was kind of this, and even into Hook, you know, it was just this, he was uncomfortable. You could kind of feel it with his movies. He was trying new things, but he wasn't completely comfortable in his own directorial clothes, if you will.

But man by the end of the 2000s, I just think he knows who he is and he knows what he does best and he's gonna do it And the last thing I would say about this this period of time is that it's kind of a period of innovation for Spielberg You know, it it kicks off with the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park And you can maybe argue with the incredible set that hook has was was pretty like

I don't know that that's innovative though. That's just kind of like old Hollywood incredible set But you know the technology for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park huge innovation in film You know it Really like the beginning of the modern era of CGI Incredible and then to make a hit film about the Holocaust You know, that's that's huge kind of re

I don't know that he's redefining anything necessarily, but he definitely like it makes a wave in the in the movie industry of This is the type of film that can get us awards that can get people to come see it make it important That sort of thing he kind of Maybe you could say redefines how it's I think a better word maybe reinvigorates the war movie with Saving Private Ryan that that

intro scene is just You know like nothing you you'd really ever seen before in a war film So kind of reinvigorates that with that movie and now he's kind of this is the other thing that I had noted was The the sci-fi blockbuster now he's not creating the sci-fi blockbuster He's kind of riding the wave of the sci-fi blockbuster. You think of like Independence Day in the 90s and stuff

Eli (19:44.834)
But he's riding that wave, but what he's doing is kind of reimagining it he's taking what people like about that and infusing it with like more seriousness and You know you think of the melancholy of AI and minority of part two really that there's a seriousness that he infuses those movies with I would even say war of the world's you know, he kind of infuses with a with a serious overtone And so I thought that was interesting

And then technically too, he's the motion capture work for Tintin was started. Like I said, that was all shot in 2009. So even by the end of the 2000s, he's like, okay, let's try this motion capture thing. And so yeah, with Peter Jackson and his company. So yeah, it's all very interesting. These past two decades of his career.

You know, not all of them were critically well received, but most of them were and really like in that whole run The only movie that you could say was a financial misfire was Amistad He he doesn't really miss as far as like financial success during this period even Even his like lesser critically Received movies like the terminal Or

I don't know War of the Worlds is tough. War of the Worlds made a lot of money. And yeah, he just he doesn't really miss. Even the Terminal makes a decent amount of money. Almistad is really the only one that doesn't and you know, I think personally it wasn't a great movie. So it kind of makes sense. But yeah, Almistad is really the only financial mystifier.

He's basically a sure thing for the studios. So that's a good probably transition to looking forward to the 2010s and 2020s. So the last 15 years of his career, that financial surety kind of carries over into the next decade. Now, maybe not to the same degree. That's the caveat. All of his movies are mildly successful. Not really many of them blow up.

Eli (22:13.709)
His only really big huge hit is Ready Player One And that's that's not it's not like a big critical success. It's kind of People are very mixed on Ready Player One for the for the most part But it does make a ton of money. I think it made over 600,000 Which is which is really big for a movie like that so the rest of his movies are basically like

just kind of, all of the 2010s movies are mild successes. It's like, okay, like we made money, but maybe not as much as we had hoped for. They're all that kind of thing. It's like, okay, you know, we can justify that this was a good decision to make this movie as far as like, this is like studio speak, you know, but you know, maybe this didn't make us as much as we wanted.

But yeah, so that financial security carries over into the next decade, but to a lesser degree I would say He also carries over this balance of serious and fun movies I would put this at three and a half fun to five and a half serious movies West Side Story, I would say is kind of half and half maybe more on the fun side so you could say five to four five series to four fun, but

I know Spielberg's having a lot of fun making it. But carrying over that balance as well, as well as the kind of breaks that he's taking in between kind of two to three film runs. But the thing about this is the 2010s is largely considered his weakest decade. And so what's going to be interesting to me is going through this decade and kind of figuring out why that is. Is it because

All these movies are kind of like only mild successes, both critically and financially. like, you know, is it because he only has one big, huge blockbuster hit? is it because, the types of movies he's making are kind of just, more apt to have mixed reviews, from both audiences and critics alike.

Eli (24:38.389)
It does seem like he's kind of choosing choosing films that are interesting to him more starting in the 2010s And so, you know instead of catering more to the audience Is it is it because he's catering more to his own? preferences and what he wants to make more than worrying about what the audience wants to have and and see and so I you know, that is a question I would say

That started in the 2000s with with all of his sci-fi movies and making something like the terminal Making something like Munich. I would say he's starting to less worry about what audiences want and more about what he wants to make but definitely maybe the 2010s is where we see the The result of that kind of in the reception maybe I don't know. These are all interesting questions that I think we'll be able to parse out

Over the course of the last stretch of the series I would say too there's really only one big standout film that like got a lot of good reception People were talking about and that's Lincoln You know with Daniel Day Lewis's performance and Yeah, just like the the kind of honed in focused on one small period of a life biopic sort of thing

So I'm interested to explore that as well. And then the 2020s. So this will be interesting because this is post pandemic movies with West Side Story coming out in 2021 and the fabled men's in 2022, I believe. Yes. And these are, these are financially huge flops.

I mean West Side Story I think cost like a hundred million dollars and only made like 40-ish and the Fablemen's cost It was about the same it cost about 40 million dollars and made about 40 million dollars so lost a lot of money on West Side Story and then kind of came out even kind of on the Fablemen's But those are two big passion projects

Eli (27:02.477)
West Side Story he had wanted to make for so long And we'll talk about that when we get to it But you know, he he did he wanted to make that movie for forever but wanted to wait until he was ready to make it and You know, unfortunately it released in this post-pandemic era where people just weren't going to see movies in theaters I was able to go see it

These last two movies in theaters and i'm so grateful for it. because I think they're they're just phenomenal movies But yeah, it's it's interesting. It's like it it's like he's really just choosing things he wants to do and his passion projects. but yeah, I I don't think that's the reason for them because the the critical reception of the movies is really really great and

really audience as far as I can tell too people really liked these movies but just the era that they came out in this post pandemic era people just weren't going to theaters that's starting to turn around in the past couple years but in 21 and 22 it still wasn't so it'll be interesting to see you know there's this new movie that's supposed to be like a ufo movie potentially

The the title that's out there is the dish You have Josh O'Connor Emily blunt Coleman Domingo attached to the project That's supposed to potentially come out next year in 2026 So it'll be interesting to see now that things have kind of turned around with people going to movies theaters again Are people gonna show up for a Spielberg movie? So that'll be interesting to see and Now I'm excited for that

But yeah, that's kind of the the look back and the look forward Let's go through I'm gonna Go back we're gonna kind of go back to the 90s and 2000s at this point and just kind of talk about some of my favorite things About those two decades of his films So the first thing I'll do is go through my favorite performances in Jurassic Park

Eli (29:25.069)
My two favorite performances were Laura Dern as Ellie and Jeff Goldblum as Malcolm. For one, it's just really funny to me that they have great chemistry. They're the ones that have the great chemistry instead of Laura Dern and Sam Neill. It's just kind of funny to me, guess. But yeah, think they give... Jeff Goldblum is just like steals scenes with his charisma.

Lara Dern is just doing classic Lara Dern just like she just exudes emotions and You just feel it through the screen Incredible Schindler's list obviously that it's the two obvious ones. Liam Neeson is oscar schindler. I think he's just phenomenal in that role and ray finds as a man goat You know both just two iconic

phenomenal performances don't really need to you know Expand on that at all, but I'm a stud Didn't love the movie. What I did love was John on hunso hunso as sink a My gosh this dude it I mean it's his first performance really ever in a in a movie in a feature film for sure and the dude just like is incredible I Don't think I'm a start is a good

Good movie, but I would say go watch the movie just to watch this dude because he is incredible in it Yeah, I loved him in it And it's incredible that it was his first ever real role in a movie Loved loved Hounsou and I don't know how to say his last name honestly Hounsou or Hounsou or Hounsou, I don't know AI artificial intelligence

Love Haley Joel Osmond as David and one of the great child performances, I think He just like the eyes the way he I don't know. He's just great and then juju juju lawless jacob joe is just great a lot of fun You know not it's it's a it's a performance with a capital p We'll just say that catch me if you can

Eli (31:49.42)
Love leo decaprio as Frank abingnail jr Obviously, but I really love too christopher walken as his dad. I think that He really like He plays the kind of like He just plays that part exactly how it needs to be played the kind of Weaseliness of him. the the kind of strange charisma he has

the the way that he it feels like he cares but then like The way he I don't know the way he comes off is like you're not sure anymore I don't know. There's just a lot about the way he He kind of carries himself and just the Christopher Walken-ness of him all that fits so well with that role And I really loved Amy Adams as Brenda Strong to really funny performance

You know, she's doing, it she's doing a whole lot for the, and this is like her, this is her breakout role really, I would say. maybe not like as the lead, but kind of her breakout supporting role that maybe gets her the breakout lead roles in the future. But, yeah, I really enjoyed her too. and war of the worlds, my big performance was Dakota Fanning as a Rachel Farrier. yeah, she just.

Another phenomenal child acting. that's maybe one thing I didn't mention in my look back is you know, got some more good child acting, done in that decade in those couple decades so munich man, there's a There's a lot. It's a big ensemble in a way of not big names. That's the funny thing It's an it's like an ensemble cast of like that guys. eric mana as abner though is

Phenomenal I think he just carries I Don't know he kind of carries a lot of weight and emotion through the movie in his performance Michael Lonsdale when he pops up as Papa It's just great. You know, he he just draws you in Charismatic and then I really enjoyed Matthew out Amalric as Louie. I thought he kind of was a great like sort of

Eli (34:11.925)
Necessary evil sort of guy in the movie just kind of carried that That sketchiness and that I don't know Evil kind of guy sort of performance very well Those are my favorite performances. I mean obviously you Obviously you love Harrison Ford as Indy anytime. He's in the movie Karen Allen and him still had great

Chemistry, so she was great in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I guess I should mention I did like like Kate Blanchett's kind of like campy villain as well, Favorite shots or moments in these in the 90s and 2000s For hook I just kind of have cool sets now one of I did love the shot of

When hook and pan are sword fighting and you see the shadows Of them sword fighting. I think that's incredible. You know just movie making shot. but yeah other than that just cool sets in that jurassic park, moments, Obviously the t-rex reveal, is just an incredible sequence. some of these are just going to be

Duh kind of things that I that I have noted, but I'm gonna say them nonetheless But the other thing I really love in Jurassic Park is it has these moments where it slows down and builds character a little bit before you jump back into the action and one of my favorite ones of those is is when Sam Neal's Grant is in the tree with the two kids and kind of connects and it's kind of like a

Character growth a moment with him and kids sort of thing. Love that Schindler's list there's lots of Incredible incredible ones Maybe one that doesn't get talked about a whole lot that has stuck in my mind for some reason That I noted here is there's this moment where there's It's been a while since I've seen it and so it's hard for me to remember what the who the characters are or anything like that but there's a couple of women who

Eli (36:36.481)
for some reason end up outside of the train When they're about to be shipped off for a moment and you know, obviously at this point the women and men have kind of been separated and so there's these I don't know if it's two women. I can't My my memory is a bit fuzzy. It's either two women or a mother and a daughter that are kind of under the train for some reason or another and they get this moment of just kind of hope and grace where they get to see

their husband and son across the way behind a fence They get to show each other that they're okay It's just this moment of like it really like struck me as this hopeful and moment in the midst of such evil and and dread This moment that these women were in men

I guess and their sons were given to just have hope to have a moment of grace of mercy So loved that The Lost World Jurassic Park love the sequence with the Raptors in the grass the way, know You see them coming from the grass falling love that the Really just some good tension building moments in that movie, even if I didn't love the movie

Didn't even really like it a whole lot other than some of the like I said these tension building the there's this moment where the trailers hanging and the Can't remember who it is. That's down there where the glass is cracking But the the way he uses the graph the glass cracking To build the tension is great Amistad anything with Senkei That's that's it Saving private Ravi and Ryan obviously

The D-Day sequence on Omaha Beach. I mean that's the really the standout for me from Saving Private Ryan I guess there's this moment where the medic is kind of given this monologue about Faking sleeping when his mom would come check on him after her like night shifts or whatever And that was really compelling to me. I remember so that that's probably another standout one from Saving Private Ryan

Eli (38:58.733)
and AI it's it's really like There's just a ton of like shots or images that stick in your mind like the image of the eye if you're Watching I have AI back there the blu-ray behind me with the eyes. There is the blue eyes of David I kind of have if you're watching I kind of have my still favorite Spielberg movie and Jaws and then some of my favorites

new watches that I'd never seen before. Back behind me, the blue race. But sorry, just got distracted by that. yeah, so AI is a bunch of images. One of them, one of the big ones is following David saying, I'm sorry, I'm not real to the mom, devastating. And then David, you know, seeing him in the rear view mirror of the car. man.

Such a great image the image of him underwater staring at the the fairy With Teddy and the and the little car with him or whatever they're in I can't submarine or whatever Great just so many great phenomenal imagery in that movie. The ending is Devastating. I think people misread it at the time as like Overly sentimental or corny or something. I don't know

But yeah, AI a lot of great stuff there. Minority report. My one of my favorite things about that movie was the pre-visions. I thought those things were incredibly well put together. Very, very effective. Yeah, there's the eye replacement sequence from like when he's getting his eyes replaced all the way through the like the little spider bot things coming.

The kind of overhead views of the apartment seeing them spread out Just great great great filmmaking there Emotionally when Agatha is telling the cruise character and and his Wife or ex-wife hard for me to remember. I've only seen it the once telling them about the life they never had Just emotionally devastating moment

Eli (41:18.497)
Yeah, there's a lot of great stuff in Minority Report Catch me if you can all the phone calls. Those are some of my favorite parts when whenever Frank calls up Hanratty love those moments and then emotionally the the scene where It's the last meeting he has with his dad in the kind of and the bar. I think it is and you know, he has the line where he's asking them if he

I don't know something about being his father and he says then tell me to stop, you Love that scene The terminal just the set I guess I the sets really really incredible and that's the main thing I liked about the movie But we'll move on from that war of the worlds the intro to the the aliens with you know people running and evaporating in the streets is an

Incredible incredible action sequence tension building in both the van ambush scene Which is really great and culminating, know and him in the little diner with the kids great great great sequence The basement where the tentacle comes down, you know searching because it hears a noise That's a great sequence of tension. So good stuff in war of the worlds

I could go on and on about Munich because I loved that movie but the phone bomb sequence that I mentioned earlier is an incredible work of like action geography tension building Really really great. There's the safe house convo between Avner and I think it's Ali I can't remember exactly but that conversation is very compelling A moment that made me tear up was when he

He hears his daughter say da-da over the phone and breaks down Really got to me There's Image image wise there's a lot but one of the ones that I'll remember is the silhouette of Avner Steve and Hans dead on the bench With you know with the bridge and kind of blue Kind of coloring colorization or whatever

Eli (43:41.014)
Yeah, great and silhouette there. that ending conversation is super compelling. yeah, a lot of great stuff in Munich. Crystal Skull, I would say the opening sequence, with the, with the cars and the vehicles all the way to the reveal of Indy, and his interaction with the Cate Blanchett character. that's just like top notch Spielberg, to me.

And yeah, I think I remember in that episode me and I guess Jacob talking about this scene where he's like in He's like silhouetted against this sheer seat where you? Sheer sheet where you can see Indy through the sheet, but also like his silhouette is there on the sheet as well Yeah, I don't know just doing a great image for that moment in the movie there's a few other things I really like about that too, but

Yeah, those are some of my my standout like shots and moments From the 90s and 2000s. There's a ton more obviously But those are some that I wanted to know Rankings how would I rank? The 90s and 2000s, so we'll leave the 70s and 80s out of it. Jaws is still my favorite. I think at this point But not far below them would be Schindler's List in Jurassic Park

I think Schindler's List is like a five-star movie. So it You know, I would probably rather watch Jurassic Park But maybe Schindler's List is probably I would say would like eke out as like the top movie I guess the best quote-unquote Jurassic Park, guess right under it Maybe put them tied. I don't know but Munich would be after that and Munich was like

One of my favorite I'll I'll note which ones were my favorite like discoveries ones that had never seen before Munich it out spoiler alert the next four are those And the next three are you know, just loved Munich was the first of those love the movie still relevant today Just really great AI artificial intelligence would be next I thought that was an

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movie as well as Minority Report. Two just really, really, really solid great sci-fi movies to me. Never saw any of those three before and just loved them. All three of those. So Saving Private Ryan 2, think it's one that I didn't like love, if that makes sense, but think it's really incredibly made. yeah, and I would have it

I had never seen it before and so I have it kind of in a tier right under that Munich AI minority report and so and if you want to like compare to where I have it so Schindler's List and Jurassic Park are kind of up in that tier with like Jaws and ET for me and then I have like Munich and Last Crusade as kind of 9 out of 10 four and a half stars right under that

And then yeah AI and Minority Report are kind of in a same similar tier as Close Encounters and Raiders Saving Private Ryan is in a similar tier to like Empire of the Sun and I can't really look for it, but there's a few others in that tier that we haven't covered yet And then I have Catch Me If You Can next. It's a movie that I like but don't love

It's probably in a similar tune to Crystal Skull to me the movies. I really like but don't love And then you get down to like his really middling films in like war of the worlds to me Is a really middling film of his it's got things to like about it, but isn't that great? Has it enough problems and then the movies that I didn't really care for a whole lot would be Alma style the lost world Jurassic Park and hook they're kind of in a in a tier of their own

towards the bottom of Spielberg's movies. And then I just really didn't like the terminal. I have it down there with like always as movies that just didn't work for me at all. There just wasn't much redeemable to me about those movies. Yeah. So that's kind of where, where my Spielberg rankings set. I know y'all are like the listener. You are just so excited that you got to hear my Spielberg rankings. But alas, this is

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My podcast and I like to make lists and rankings and so here we are. But yeah, we have 15 years left to go through of Spielberg's career, nine movies. I have seen all of these at this point except for one maybe. Yeah.

I only have one that I haven't seen. Technically there was two that I hadn't seen, but I've already seen one of them and recorded the episode for 1010. I had not seen that before, now I have. I was excited to visit that and fill in that blind spot, but now I have. But you'll have to wait till that episode to hear my thoughts about it. So yeah, the only other one I haven't seen is Warhorse.

I wouldn't say like that's like, I'm excited to fill in that blind spot, but I I am interested to see how it is I've started reading the audiobook for that But yeah, I'm excited to rediscover a few movies. I'm the three that I'm most excited to rediscover And see again are Lincoln probably at the top and then Bridgespies and The Post Also, I'm excited to to watch those movies again I just it's been a long time since I've seen them and

I'm just excited to see them again and maybe I might love them even more than I remember loving them before. So that's my hope, obviously. And then I'm really interested to reassess Ready Player One. I didn't really go for it. I saw it in theaters with my family back in, what was that, 2018? Yeah. And didn't love it. Had a lot of issues.

for me if I remember right and yeah, so I'm excited to reassess that and maybe come around on it as being one of the last films in this long series. yeah, I'm excited about this next stretch in Spielberg's career. I hope you have enjoyed this journey with me so far and I hope you stick with me to the end. It's been a long series, but it's been really rewarding and really fun.

Eli (50:52.063)
and so, yeah, we'll be going through this through a lot of the rest of the year. So, buckle up. We're going to hit the 2010s and 2020s of Spielberg's career. and hopefully it'll be, it'll be exciting. yeah, just, you know, before we go, just again, please leave a rating and review of the show, especially on Apple and Spotify. but wherever you listen is, it would be greatly appreciated.

go check out on establishing shop pod.com. You can see where to follow the show on all the socials. You can leave a voicemail if you want and you can support the show financially, which really helps me keep doing the show. So yeah, I would love for you to do all that. are, so with this little break between the...

the 2000s and the 2010s, we're also taking a Spielberg break and filling in a movie that we haven't covered from a past director, which if you've been a long-time listener, then you know that we have not covered Oppenheimer from Christopher Nolan. We did that series and wrapped it up with Tenet. And so, yeah, I'm finally getting around to Oppenheimer. I already recorded that episode and it was really great.

And so a fun episode the tons to talk about with that movie. So I hope you look forward to that That's going to come out next week And so and I'll run an old movie draft the week after that probably before we jump into the adventures of 1010 so in a few weeks we have the adventures of 1010 after we do the op and hyper episode next week and then Yeah, we're coming up on episode 102. Not exactly sure

What i'll probably definitely do like a best of the year so far episode along with episode 100 but i've got to figure out a way to kind of celebrate being 100 episodes in so be it stay tuned for that. But yeah, that's really all I have for this week. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope you stick through the rest of spillwork with me. but that's it i've been elai price and you've been listening to

Eli (53:14.571)
the establishing shot. We will see you next time.