Yep, another great example.Nutso wrote:You forced me to remember his War of The Worlds remake, where that crappy kid turns up alive at the end, in his mom's house, in a Boston neighborhood that somehow escaped mass destruction.Graham Kennedy wrote:He can do sentimental, sure, but he's lost an edge IMO.
Spielberg was the guy who had a giant shark eat a child in Jaws. Now he makes action movies in which he refuses to allow people to benefit from the carrying of guns, in which children are granted a permanent immunity from serious harm, etc. If he can't follow through on those sorts of movies he shouldn't be making them.
In Jurassic Park - TLW, he has a little girl on the beach run into dozens of little dinosaurs. They attack her, and a minute later her mother stumbles in, sees the scene... and screams in horror. Crash cut! Oh no, the girl is dead! But wait, a minute later somebody tells us she survived and will be fine.
These same dinos later shred and eat a fully grown man in about the same time. But he didn't have Little Girl Immunity to Dinosaur attacks.
I really don't have some sort of hard-on for the death of children. But if you're going to throw a scene of a kid being killed into your movie, kill the damn kid. Don't kill him and then suddenly say "Oh, wait, he's okay!"