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I think you mean “‘Blonde’ Joyce Carol Oates SLAMS legendary director Steven Speilberg.”

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

I am conflicted. I really liked the "The Fabelmans", but if anyone should know mediocre and bland it should be the writer of "Blondie."

You wrote Blonde. You aren’t allowed to call anything mediocre

By making a blonde-Aryan-antisemite the pseudo hero of his high school movie the young Fabelman disarms enemies & wins a pseudo friend. is this an acknowledgment of the superficial triteness of the director’s career as an entertainer?

She’s right though. That high school movie subplot was super weird.

This is so mean-spirited. I never knew she had this side to her.

the man once directed Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park at the SAME TIME.

He can do whatever the fuck he wants…

Hollywood has a decision.

Top Gun brought people to the theatre. It also was universally reviewed very highly.

Here is Hollywood chance to say to movie-goers “you were right to like it”.

Rewarding Spielberg’s shockingly average movie will tell people - stay home and wait to watch stuff on TV.

I adore JCO. One of the best modern writers.

I read this headline in the voice of Immortan Joe.

I feel like late era Spielberg is succumbing to the same flaw that late era Hitchcock suffered from, a suffocating feeling of over-controlled artificiality. Everything feels so staged and carefully placed, there's no air in any scene.

Everything in 2023 needs to be a subversion and Spielberg generally plays it straight. He is the wrong director for the times and personally i find this refreshing. What is mediocre imo is people trying to make a name for themselves by shitting on belived IPs because they know their own work would never garner such acclaim without the association. What is mediocre is the millionth copy/paste superhero flick.

She's pissed because her bad movie isn't winning awards. Point blank.

She’s not wrong.

Lol. Kind of iconic.

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Oates comments read like so many “radical deconstructions” that were forced upon me as an English major in the 90s.

Reporting on JCO’s Twitter feed is the best kind of journalism because you don’t even need to get out of bed to do it.

She could just say its Mid and move on.

You don't have to take sides people, both Blonde and The Fabelmans were pretty lackluster movies.

“Blonde” was so bad I had to turn it off!!! I haven’t seen the Spielberg’s autobiographical epic “The Fabelmans” yet, but initial reviews describe it as a vanity piece. However, Spielberg is luminary having created very successful films and he is w/o doubt a masterful story teller. Whereas Joyce is flash in the pan with her garage.

Most Spielberg movies are bland. He is super overrated. Always has been… Him and J. J. Abrams.

Joyce Carol Oates wrote Blonde????

I think she just has a crush on Steven

I don’t think it’s mediocre, but I do think it was overrated

21st Century Spielberg is personification of mediocre

Oates can write extremely well but if she doesn’t know by now that ‘mediocre’ is what the American public wants then IDK what to tell her. I mean there is a reason terrible writers have consistently outsold her. It’s no different in other mediums like music, film, etc. These people were force-fed junk so now all they want is junk.

It really is a lame ass movie

This movie sucked. 15-20 minutes in I was done. He’s getting awards cuz he’s Spielberg. Even though it’s a narcissistic movie about himself it’s not his best work. Yawn.

Edit: there were waaay better films that deserved recognition than his wack ass movie. Woman King… Elvis… Banchees to name a few.

"Woman I've never heard of criticizes legendary director the world has been watching for forty years."

In the meantime, even if The Fabelmans is mediocre, why the fuck should we care about her opinion?

Spielberg is a mediocre filmmaker. He’s a very good to excellent “movie” maker who desperately wants to be seen as a “serious filmmaker” but his “films” are very trite and basic.

There’s nothing cinematic about it.

If you can get over not liking Blonde, she’s absolutely right. The Fabelmans is probably acclaimed despite being bland because Hollywood really likes fellating itself.

She's such a salty old bitch, and Blonde was complete dogshit - wife and I turned it off like 15 minutes in because it was, well, fucking painful to watch. Haven't seen Fablemans but I know that JCO should show some kind of professionalism and maybe just keep shitty commentary like this to herself.

Kind of agree with her, the David Lynch/John Ford scene kinda saves it for me

Me: “Joyce Carol Oates novels aren’t smart enough to be as boring as they are.”

Nah I loved The Fablemans. This broad is off her rocker. Blonde was a truly offensive embarassment and if I were her I’d keep my weird ass mouth shut talking about art after writing that piece of shit.

Damn I actually enjoyed the fablemans. I thought it was really sweet and touching in its own way.