[Nick Zwar]

I think no doubt Steven Spielberg is one of the all time great filmmakers, he was born to direct movies. There is not really a “bad” Steven Spielberg movie in the sense that they are in any way less than professionally produced and well crafted. That does not mean I like all of his movies, but I can see that they are well made. Among my favorite Spielberg movies are Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and my least favorite may well be Ready Player One, which — while it had some interesting sequences — I found to be highly contrived, muddy in its storytelling and downright hypocritical in its underlying ideas and concepts. So no points from me for that one. But Schindler’s List? An absolute masterpiece.

Of Spielberg’s later movies I very much love The War of the Worlds, and I liked Minority Report. Cath Me if You Can was wonderful.

Spielberg has a tendency to blow over the darker implications of the story in some of his movies, and strives to have every movie end as “happily” as can be, which leads to some really out of place endings that feel fake (like the “everybody lives happy ever after” ending of Minority Report, which is otherwise a strong genre-mix of Hitchcockian crime drama and science-ficton).
I hope Disclosure Day will be a triumph, but admit the trailer left me underwhelmed after all the build-up, so I keep my expectations levelled. But I’ll definitely get the soundtrack, no matter what.