Yeah, he was often very hands on creatively in films in which he was the EP.  

I think that “story by” list is limited to Poltergeist and Goonies. Spielberg has very few proper writing credits. In terms of actual screenplay credit, it’s basically Close Encounters, AI and Fablemans.

...the success of the National Theatre production...

Seems like they’re repeating the Encanto playbook. Dump an animated film into theatres with no fanfare over Thanksgiving, and have a major Disney+ push during Christmas. Not the greatest thing in the world, but it worked for Encanto and at least it didn’t get the Turning Red treatment.

I hated White Noise, but then I surprised myself by really liking Libra. I’ll probably give the film a go, I don’t know if I’d still hate the novel, but the film will be its own thing.

Oh, they’re never a letdown, definitely not, just shorter as you say. A Little Night Music’s second act is indeed perfection, but the first act is stuffed with bliss from start to finish. And I listen to “God, That’s Good” as much as any of the gems in Sweeney’s first act.

At last we get to the good stuff...

Squid and the Whale is an absolute classic film imo. It’s even better knowing the backstory and how true to his own life experiences it is. 

Not as bad as these posts say.

Of his many fuckups — and he fucked up at every level on every facet of the Disney business — he absolutely fucked up the parks.

Because you want to see three-dimensional, fully fleshed-out gay characters that don’t need to be justified since human beings shouldn’t have to justify their existence, right?

Would flip WOTW with Minority Report. At least with Minority Report’s happy ending, you can squint and theorize that it’s a dream Cruise’s character is having in his eternal sleep.

“I don’t care if they raise the price of Disney+ a couple bucks or whatever, but when i pay several thousand dollars to go and stay at Disneyworld, then get nickle and dimed to death inside and have to pay a bunch of extraneous surcharges, that really drains most of the “magic” from the trip.”

YES, Jack! Got that mixed up. In any case, I went back to the transcript and it’s very open-ended (and I’m certainly sensitive to portraying gay people as predatory). Jack says that Palermo is “all right, if you don’t mind a bunch of gays grabbing your arse and copping a feel.” Portia asks if he minds and he says, “No,…

I do think it’s worth noting that Giuseppe still plays music in a very high-end hotel where he is visible to the guests. It’s in the White Lotus’ interests to hire someone at least mildly attractive.

What would be far more interesting to me is a listing of all the movies Spielberg executive produced.  I’m sure it’s in the 100s, but it’d be fascinating and there are tons of movies he was involved with that people don’t even realize he was (like Galaxy Quest.)

It was frankly an inspiring tournament of champions. Everyone was at there best and it was very easy to root for all three finalists. That professor guy? An absolute joy, wish I had a professor that cool. But I’m glad Amy won, she was the most entertaining contestant all year and I was genuinely sad when she lost.…

I’ve been going down movie memory lane with two Gen Z’ers...not my own kids, but my wife’s younger siblings. Back to the Future fell utterly flat, which was a shame. But a TON of Spielberg holds up, it’s pretty crazy.

Maybe not rich, or as rich as the other rich characters, but certainly not poor. She’s got a job, sure, but a sort of job you probably need connections for - I don’t think Tanya would have posted that job on Craigslist and hired someone from the street. Portia also knows a lot of gossip about Tanya, seems like her…

West Side Story was gorgeous, but we already had a near-perfect version of that movie already. And Ansel Elgort is an OK singer until the point when literally anyone else is singing with him and blowing him out of the water. Rachel Zegler was radiant, but I kept watching the movie wondering why it existed.