Wheat Loaf posted:

What are Spielberg's next projects after RPO? He's got Indiana Jones 5 in the pipeline but will that be it for him or does he have anything else lined up after that?

lelandjs posted:

So there were two movies that Spielberg could have made for his next (likely final) big sci-fi film.

The first was a script written by Jonathan Nolan for Spielberg. It explored scientific concepts further than any other film I can think of, specifically time travel, human nature, and humanity's place in the universe. It made some big, bold statements, ultimately deciding that humanity was found wanting and would only be able to survive by their own ingenuity. An excellent script, perhaps one of the best early drafts I've ever read.

The other was Ready Player One.

Spielberg chose... poorly.

(The Nolan script got it its second half severely rewritten and ended up being directed by his brother. If you haven't read the Spielberg draft of Interstellar, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I was so, so disappointed by the final film).

BonoMan posted:

Oh poo poo that's interesting. I loved Interstellar until about the last third.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

A remake of West Side Story

lelandjs posted:

From memory, here's how the original script differed (please note that this is cliff notes and works MUCH better when reading the actual script):

They land on the ice planet and find a strange alien being (describe as a "fractal goo") that is hostile. It kills at least one of the astronauts. The survivors (which I think is only Coop and TARS) take shelter in a cave and find some kind of transporter, which takes them to a Chinese spacecraft orbiting the black hole. China, it turns out, got there first, and their researchers had been studying the black hole to figure out if they could harness it. The researchers had long since passed due to time dilation but their robots/AI had been working diligently on the solution for the equivalent of hundreds of years, and built a craft that may be capable of FTL travel. The researchers also discovered that the frozen planet was once similar to earth, and the few fractal aliens that Coop encountered are all that is left of their "race".

Coop realizes that, while Earth is no longer viable for humanity to live on (it's now hundreds of years in the future on Earth, due to time dilation, and Coop assumes everyone is dead), it would be perfect for the fractal aliens. So he sends out an exploratory drone to see if the Chinese robot's solution works... and realizes that the drone he sent is the same one he discovered back on Earth, that got him into this mess in the first place. The FTL tech does work.

So he scoops up some of the fractal aliens, gets in the ship, and heads back to Earth. However, his assumption was wrong--since he left, humanity has finally banded together and created a vessel capable of sustaining a large percentage of Earth's population in a travel across space, thanks in part to the technology from the drone Coop had sent. Coop initially gets on the spaceship, but feels completely out of place (he's also seen as a huge hero, and flies off on the Chinese ship with TARS.

So yeah, no power of love, no fifth-dimensional beings, no dust rippling across time, no watch hand binary code, and an overall message that maybe if something is pulling the strings, humanity is not their first priority.

GrandpaPants posted:

Man the Iron Giant's entire arc was how he didn't want to be a goddamn weapon. And definitely not for these nerds. Although watching that trailer reminded me that The Congress exists and did a better "world is hosed, everyone goes into an escapist fantasy" story than RPO can.

Zzulu posted:

I thought Interstellar was pretty weak because like in all Nolan movies, all the characters are forgettable and dull (except the joker from TDK)

Zzulu posted:

I thought Interstellar was pretty weak because like in all Nolan movies, all the characters are forgettable and dull (except the joker from TDK)

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Nobody forgets Nolan's Bane, dude.

GrandpaPants posted:

Man the Iron Giant's entire arc was how he didn't want to be a goddamn weapon. And definitely not for these nerds. Although watching that trailer reminded me that The Congress exists and did a better "world is hosed, everyone goes into an escapist fantasy" story than RPO can.

AlternateAccount posted:

Even in the most generous terms, Bane is in no way a “character”

Pablo Nergigante posted:

He’s a big guy

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Nobody forgets Nolan's Bane, dude.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Hollismason posted:

I dunno Spielbergs never made a truly awful film so I'll probably see Ready Player One

The MSJ posted:

Ernest Cline is about to be outed as a molester any day now, isn’t he?

Hollismason posted:

I dunno Spielbergs never made a truly awful film so I'll probably see Ready Player One

Hollismason posted:

I dunno Spielbergs never made a truly awful film so I'll probably see Ready Player One

Hollismason posted:

Would you call it truly awful though? Like I am talking absolute garbage. He's never done it.

clown shoes posted:

The Big loving Giant was a box office bomb but was it any good?

MonsieurChoc posted:

The main character's dad dies failing to hold-up a convenience store, and instead of being the kind of guy you can expect with such a backstory, he's boring white nerd with no personality.