Steven Spielberg makes a children's film based on a story by Roald Dahl featuring a magic giant: shouldn't this be great?
Spielberg has grown to become a legend in cinema with massive cultural and critical hits such as Jaws, Indiana Jones, E.T., Jurassic Park, need I go on? I mean he made Schindler's List. What happened?
The movie is about Sophie who is abducted by a dream-creating friendly giant. The start was good, it was light, charming, funny, you really like the characters of Sophie and the BFG but that was not the problem, and there is a problem. The acting was really fine, Rylance was good as the giant and Barnhill was very likable. Once again the half of the movie I enjoyed and was very optimistic but then it kind of all went down the s*hole.
I mean when you have a great cast, a great director who still can make incredible cinema why this?? The scene in Dreamland, with the tree and the dreams was really good, really magical. But it's like he gave up halfway there. The story suddenly doesn't make any sense. They go find the queen to help them (or something, I don't care) and then you get the most despicable scene I have seen in a long time, in the queen's palace. It was just foul. Cheap humour like that is so beneath the potential that this film had, let alone Spielberg. How can a man like him, a visionary, make something that honestly made me think of Garfield 2. Just so very disappointing. The ending did not make any sense, it was so painfully stupid.
The CGI is partly very beautiful, partly creepy and ugly to look at.
In the end it's really not a terrible movie or anything, it had some really strong scenes and performances but no. If you pull s*** like this p!ss off. He gave up halfway on a movie with great potential. Is the same year that Shyamalan made a strong comeback, this Spielberg was disappointing.
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Spielberg has grown to become a legend in cinema with massive cultural and critical hits such as Jaws, Indiana Jones, E.T., Jurassic Park, need I go on? I mean he made Schindler's List. What happened?
The movie is about Sophie who is abducted by a dream-creating friendly giant. The start was good, it was light, charming, funny, you really like the characters of Sophie and the BFG but that was not the problem, and there is a problem. The acting was really fine, Rylance was good as the giant and Barnhill was very likable. Once again the half of the movie I enjoyed and was very optimistic but then it kind of all went down the s*hole.
I mean when you have a great cast, a great director who still can make incredible cinema why this?? The scene in Dreamland, with the tree and the dreams was really good, really magical. But it's like he gave up halfway there. The story suddenly doesn't make any sense. They go find the queen to help them (or something, I don't care) and then you get the most despicable scene I have seen in a long time, in the queen's palace. It was just foul. Cheap humour like that is so beneath the potential that this film had, let alone Spielberg. How can a man like him, a visionary, make something that honestly made me think of Garfield 2. Just so very disappointing. The ending did not make any sense, it was so painfully stupid.
The CGI is partly very beautiful, partly creepy and ugly to look at.
In the end it's really not a terrible movie or anything, it had some really strong scenes and performances but no. If you pull s*** like this p!ss off. He gave up halfway on a movie with great potential. Is the same year that Shyamalan made a strong comeback, this Spielberg was disappointing.
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