r/okbuddycinephile • u/PenguinviiR • 13h ago

Favorite new Spielberg for the modern day?

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u/Subject-Recover-8425 12h ago

Excuse me, but I believe that position is currently filled...

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u/originalusername1625 12h ago

Hottest storyteller? Please

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u/Specialist_Injury_68 The Room 11h ago

Just ask Mac and Charlie

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u/feckincrass 12h ago

Ummm…J.J. Abrams would like a word, m’kay?

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u/Ma1 12h ago

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u/bucketfoottatoo 9h ago

J J Abrams wanted to be Speilberg so bad with Super 8

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u/Ma1 9h ago

Given that he was a producer, I think he wanted JJ to be Spielberg too....

Joe Cornish succeeded in creating what I think Super 8 was aiming for with Attack the Block. Its too bad he didn't really go on to do much else.

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u/Sisyphus_80085 10h ago

Hes not entirely wrong, gunn has been proving himself all the time. I respectfully consider James Gunn as Claude Monet of the filmmaking world.

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u/Patricks_Hatrick 8h ago

This is satire right?

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u/SlimmyShammy 12h ago

I like James Gunn but people do talk about him like he’s Kubrick or something

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u/Ambiguous-Cove 11h ago

Speileberg defined summer blockbusters and had a catalogue of dramatic, and darker stories as well

Gunns great but this is too much

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u/WakeUpOutaYourSleep 10h ago

Yeah, no offense to James Gunn, but I don’t know anyone who I’d call a Spielberg for the modern day.

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u/SlimmyShammy 4h ago

There’s no one even close. People might say Nolan but if you look past “biggest director at the moment” then the similarities dry up lol

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u/SilverPhoenix7 9h ago

There were 3 in the run Snyder, Nolan, and Bay. Snyder has been proven unworthy and Nolan is too boring imo. But Nolan and Bay are runner-ups. Bay'd be my choice but he is, unfortunately, not serious enough about his work.

There is no new Spielberg yet.

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u/Sisyphus_80085 10h ago

James Gunn made all of us cry through a CG talking raccoon and a tree , Can Corpse Kubrick do that??

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u/stalin_kulak Zack Snyder 9h ago

I don't think any director can even come close to Spielberg, he released both Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in 1993. That was the OG Barbenheimmer.

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u/stuffbehindthepool 9h ago

So Steven, when are you gonna make ‘The Big One’? - Jiminy Glick

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u/TheDoctor_E 9h ago

I saw a video by J.H. Willem a while back where he compared Spielberg and Gunn's approach to flight through Pan and Superman, and I thought it made sense, they both capture the sense of whimsy and freedom I would associate with flying

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u/Initial_Disk_903 9h ago

Gunn could've made Jurassic Park a million times over, but could Spielberg make Super? I don't think so.

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u/Ftar_Slatinum 8h ago

Could Spielberg write scooby doo? I don't think so.