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Doubt it.  No one's actually having a pop I don't think.  We can't all like the same things. Otherwise we'd have pretty dull discussions!

Well, if things do go badly I'm gonna' do a quick subject change to how good Dredd was.

ET, jeez, I was searching for the barf bag during that one.

Just remembering how he completely gutted Minority Report, making a smart Sci-Fi story into a crappy human interest film. It has the opposite bloody ending FFS!!!!

and Hook, jesus no, Robin Williams prancing around in tights

I'm going to shut up now  , I've got a feeling I'm going to be ripped to pieces soon 

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Spielberg doesn't have to be a Christian himself to fill his movies with saints and goody two-shoes'

And Bob, one film you commented on, how about the others? Some quality movies mentioned there and you appear to have skated over 'em.

Hate them all except the Indianna Jones movies which I like well enough, but in my head have decided they have more to do with George Lucas than Spielberg

Where the others are concerned, like I said, either Saccharine, over sentimental rubbish with bland everyman characters who "love their family", and are trying to always do the right, "christian" thing, white picket fences, stories by the fire etc etc.

Or

1/1 rip offs of Hitchcock movies.

I know its an unpopular opinion, but its how I feel about it.

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Also, unrelated, while I'm here the Shawshank Redemption is just the commercialised, pussy version of Midnight Express. Might as well put both my most criticised film opinions down while I'm at it

Back to the Future was made by Robert Zemekis (who I like a lot)

Yet another movie Spielberg steals the credit for. 

I've seen tons of Spielberg movies

I absolutely hate Spielberg as a filmmaker,

Which rather begs an obvious question...

I have a book of 1000 best movies, I watch each film and then tick it.

I count all of that as pisstakes of Spielberg tbh.

Always thought of them as light-hearted jabs from Dante at his Producer.

Here's a challenge just for you, Silent_Bomber. It's an easy challenge, so don't worry about it too much.
Pick a film. Pick any film you can think of. Now make a mental note of the plot.
You've got what- 4, 5 sentences in your head now?

By all means, Burton would have given them character designs and the plot.  But the person behind the screenplay is what fleshed that rough, small plot out.

Maybe with other films you would have more of an argument, but in the Nightmare Before Christmas, the plot is considerably better than the dialogue.

The songs (lyrics written by Danny Elfman) are also better than the screenplay IMO.

To the best of my knowledge, Steve Spielberg didn't write one word or frame a single shot of Band of Brothers, Gremlins, or Young Sherlock Holmes, but you can't deny that his influence on them (in the role of producer) is palpable.

I've seen tons of Spielberg movies and I see absolutely nothing of him in Gremlins at all, I absolutely hate Spielberg as a filmmaker, he is a creator of saccharine, over-sentimental crap as far as I'm concerned. I like none of his movies. Gremlins on the other hand I thought was a lot of fun, very tongue in cheek.

Spielberg has always been the poor man's Alfred Hitchcock.

Saw this a few weeks ago.

Really rubbish Zombie movie which did nothing that hasn't been done before (and better), bland characters spout bland dialogue, there's an extremely stupid plot, and weird, dodgy pacing (it feels very much like the last quarter of the film was just dumped on the end from a separate source).

Zombies start off pretty aggressive and fearsome but by the end they're just bad jokes.

I like Nightmare before Christmas too but Burton had little to do with it other than character designs and plaster his name all over it.

and the fact that he wrote the entire plot.

The Angel Gang are coming!

..and are apparently cannibals in IDW Dredd.

I wonder if the writers of IDW Dredd feel as though they have to try to appeal to fans of the Stallone film as well as the original comic. I guess it makes sense, being that there must be a sizeable amount of Americans buying it who are fans of the old movie.

a much more fun character than Nemesis, who takes the number 6 spot, but Mills making an alien who looks like Satan the hero and his human adversary the villain is a great idea.

Looks more like this fish to me, though I guess the hooves can't be ignored 

I'm guessing they reprinted the Walter strips in the free issue because most readers wouldn't like paying for the Walter strips.

Probably, also one of the Walter strips was a 1-page story so that at least can be understood as a way to fill out the page quota.

I think IDW were originally planning to colourise their Brian Bolland book (not sure if that's still happening now), so its likely these were left overs from that.

Seems like the Free Comic Book issue is just going to be "Judge Death" & "Walter's Brother"

Realistically I could've just checked the page counts of the first two Death stories, that alone pretty much would've disproved the sites mentioning both 

If that's the case then I don't think I'll bother picking it up to be honest. Hopefully IDW will colour "Judge Death Lives" at a later date.

Does this take into account whether "low-income" in the 1980s was significantly more (or less) money than in the 70s?

It seems to me (sorry if I'm talking nonsense) that if the Median income skyrocketed in the 80s these graphs could be a bit misleading.

Are there any places which have graphs which simply lay out all of the different earning demographics (altered to take into account inflation) and then state how many people were in each demographic in the UK from the 70s to the present day?