Spielberg: films are looking like games
Calls them "digital introductory teasers".
Iconic Hollywood film maker Steven Spielberg believes movies are starting to take a leaf out of the videogame book.
Talking to Yahoo, he recalled his first time playing Pong, and the leaps and bounds our industry has taken since then.
"I think film-makers are learning things from videogames," said Spielberg. "Movies are starting to look more and more like videogames, like the digital introductory teasers videogames give you before they turn control over to the player.
"A lot of movies, like this movie with Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy called Wanted. It had a lot of videogame savvy. The Bourne Ultimatum had a lot of videogame savvy in the quick cuts and the audacity of camera angle."
Spielberg helped create the acclaimed Boom Blox for EA, and is currently working on project "LMNO" for the publisher. This, said Spielberg, will be an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game focused on "movie-type story", although gameplay details are so far scarce.
As for the director himself, Spielberg admitted a fondness for Rock Band, in which he assumes the roll of drummer.
"One thing I can do is hit a drum. So that's what I do," he said, honestly.
There's no release date for LMNO, but the prevalence of chatter suggests we may hear more soon.
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Lots of intros are stunning pieces of action and if movies are going to start apeing them for ideas and inspiration then it can only be a good thing.
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thing is all his recent films have been shit. saying that boom blox is awesome fun!
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Spielberg is responsible for some of the best films ever (Transformers was pretty good IMO)
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are haters blind or they didn't watch munich?
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I think people here "hating" (as you all put it) are probably to young (& stupid) to know any better!
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In other words: I think there are some reasonable criticisms being made in this thread, and "reasonable criticism" is radically different to "hating".
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(And George Lucas should never be allowed near films - he's a good ideas guy, but dangerous in charge of a script and even worse when he's directing.)
Sadly, I'm both too old and over-qualified to be classed as young and (completely) stupid!
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Really, do we need this man to say yet again that film and games are almost alike? Do we?
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Haven forbid though if flms were to inspire their narrative and story ideas from games. Of all the media capable of telling a story videogame business still lurks at the very bottom for some reason.
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Also, Spielberg is a cinematic God. I don't get why people think his recent films have been less than great. Granted, there's debate about the quality of Crystal Skull (personally I loved it) but stuff like Munich, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, and to a lesser extent War of the Worlds are all pretty damn spiffing.
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PQRS (aka Boom Blox)?
I think the Spielberg games should have used QWERTY code names like "ASDF" and "JKL semi-colon"
/gets back to work
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(Also I thought videogames got their inspiration from films? Which is what cutscenes are, essentially.. so...
Films -> Videogame Cutscenes.
But now we have Videogame Cutscenes -> Films? Isn't that just.. returning to square 1? *confused*
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Are they, i mean, lets be real here. They're good shows, but are they generational movies?
Speilberg once created shows that 20 years on, were still loved. E.T., the goonies, Jaws, Raiders of the lost ark, schindlers List, saving private ryan, shit even jurassic park 1, were all movies that had unbelievable impact.
Do you really beleive that 20 years from now, kids are going to look back at Catch me if you can, or Minority report in the same way as we do with the first indy film? or E.T.
I'm not saying he isnt good, christ the man IS the movie industry really,but his current work is eclipsed by his past work
edit, two letters for you AI
The mans crowning failure.
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Any don't even mention the walkie-talkies.
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Catch Me, probably not, it's fun but flawed. Munich, deffo: it's a minor sci-fi masterpiece. OBVIOUSLY not in the same league as ET, CE3K, etc, but certainly the sorta film where everytime it's on telly you'll be thinking "oh, excellent, Minority Report!". And Munich is the best film he's made since Schindler's List.
He had an extraordinary run of greatness with Jaws, CE3K, Indy and ET (only spoiled by 1941) and since then has made a fair few all-time classics as well as some films that were "only" very entertaining. Oh, and Hook. He did make Hook. However as pretty much no one here seems to like AI then I might as well give up and go home
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He stands up with the best of them though overall, for sure he's still one of the three directors whose films I'd want with me on a desert island (with a TV too of course!) ...
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But he's talking out of his crapper.....
Quick cuts in Bourne were not the appeal. Good writing, direction and good actor performances were the key. Wanted?? Please Mr "I ruined War Of The Worlds"
IMO movies are starting to loose ground to the videogame, not taking a leaf out of it's book (coming from a LONG time movie fanatic, known as "the book" by some old work colleagues for his movie love/knowledge).
Hell, they 99.9% of the time screw up great stories handed on a plate BY videogames!
/ glares at Resident Evil
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"It's funny, the accepted critical line when it comes to Spielberg seems to be that his early movies (Star Wars, ET, etc)"
If you confused Star Wars for a Spielberg movie, then we can safely ignore everything else you said.
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I can't think of any videogames that come close in terms of creating believable characters - maybe Half Life 2, even ICO in it's own way - certainly not Fahrenheit though for all of David Cage's wannabe auteur crapola.
Anyway I hope he gets more involved in the game industry, it can only be a good thing.
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Fixed.
Good films look nothing like videogames. Mr S's own early back catalogue demonstrates this perfectly. Though a vid game based on Duel would be pretty suave. Films that look like videogames are almost always 100% suck. Mr S's recent Indy travesty (yes, CGI monkeys and Shia LeTarzan I'm looking at you) demonstrates that nicely too.
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don't forget the aliens - what were he and George smoking when they approved the script"
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How did he ruin WOTW?
The first two acts had my jaw on the floor and I still think they're superb after repeated viewings - the third act is pretty weak but I haven't seen a good third act in a film for at least the past 5 years ...
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The first two acts had my jaw on the floor and I still think they're superb after repeated viewings - the third act is pretty weak but I haven't seen a good third act in a film for at least the past 5 years ... "
Well true, it wasn't a bad movie as such and in terms of FX it's awesome, but concentrating a single families experience compared to what could of been, yes he ruined it IMO. Even the 50's movie was a more convincing alien invasion IMO.
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Then eventually the skull got put under some serious scrutiny, found that it was not actually one lump of complete and unsculptuered crystal but two man made halves put together. The duo who discovered it still maintain its intergrity though.
Thats where the entire plot comes from, which I guess is a parallel to the mystical indian rocks from Temple Of Doom.
Was WOTW ok?
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Don't know how much input he had as a producer on the excellent Band of Brothers but I'll add that to his list of greats.
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I can accept mystical rocks, a radio for speaking to God, and a cup that holds everlasting life, because they're mythical - they're engrained in our consciousness as a "just might be something to it" phenomenon. But hiding in a lead lined fridge to withstand a nuclear blast? Then getting out of said fridge after it's ridden the blast wave of a nuclear detonation somehow? Well that just fails because we know it cannot happen, no matter how much we want to believe in the supernatural or things beyond our understanding.
Of course it made a boat load of money for the 3 of them, so expect Indy 5 somewhere in our collective futures...