Aug 1, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 14 segments
Welcome to the very first episode of our new director deep-dive series (title still very much TBD). In this episode, we're diving into the career of one of the most influential filmmakers of all time…
guys we're jumping into steven spielberg yeah okay now i'm gonna bring up something that was very unusual i was talking to someone of the younger generation and i said oh we're going to talk about steven spielberg today on the podcast and they said who oh
no and i thought was it your daughter oh
no Oh, no.
Maybe because we're so past superhero movies and the movies that Steven Spielberg has done in the last 20 years haven't been the Jurassic Parks.
They've been more like the Lincolns.
Maybe he's no longer in the same conversation as George Lucas and Marvel Cinematic Universe.
So that's an interesting thought.
So maybe he is becoming snobbier due to his age.
Because he's a
classic.
But, you know, the one that's coming out right now is kind of a throwback movie.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
And it's definitely his bent, which is kind of fun.
The nice thing about the history of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, despite the snobby connotation, which they have, which unfortunately is that they killed cinema.
Yeah.
Which is unfair.
I will just say that is an unfair, but it is a lot of the snobbiness say they are the reason why cinema has gone the way it has gone because they brought back from the 60s and 70s like canon cultural to like blockbusters fair for the whole family and superhero movies and space dramas.
And so the argument, folks, which we do not agree with, Is that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are the reason why cinema has gotten worse and worse and
worse? Because they've presented the formula that's made them obsolete or generic.
I think the formula is exactly right.
Because it's no longer like a person with picking their favorite movies as the studio head.
It's just a corporation trying to make the most money.
What they did well, they've made into a formula and kind of applied to many other films after them.
So some would say, even though what they were doing was just trying to tell their own stories, it's become this formulaic thing that has in turn ruined movies that we have today.
guys we're jumping into steven spielberg yeah okay now i'm gonna bring up something that was very unusual i was talking to someone of the younger generation and i said oh we're going to talk about steven spielberg today on the podcast and they said who oh
no and i thought was it your daughter oh
no Oh, no.
Maybe because we're so past superhero movies and the movies that Steven Spielberg has done in the last 20 years haven't been the Jurassic Parks.
They've been more like the Lincolns.
Maybe he's no longer in the same conversation as George Lucas and Marvel Cinematic Universe.
So that's an interesting thought.
So maybe he is becoming snobbier due to his age.
Because he's a
classic.
But, you know, the one that's coming out right now is kind of a throwback movie.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
And it's definitely his bent, which is kind of fun.
The nice thing about the history of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, despite the snobby connotation, which they have, which unfortunately is that they killed cinema.
Yeah.
Which is unfair.
I will just say that is an unfair, but it is a lot of the snobbiness say they are the reason why cinema has gone the way it has gone because they brought back from the 60s and 70s like canon cultural to like blockbusters fair for the whole family and superhero movies and space dramas.
And so the argument, folks, which we do not agree with, Is that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are the reason why cinema has gotten worse and worse and
worse? Because they've presented the formula that's made them obsolete or generic.
I think the formula is exactly right.
Because it's no longer like a person with picking their favorite movies as the studio head.
It's just a corporation trying to make the most money.
What they did well, they've made into a formula and kind of applied to many other films after them.
So some would say, even though what they were doing was just trying to tell their own stories, it's become this formulaic thing that has in turn ruined movies that we have today.
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