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Subject: spielberg-produced films
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 17:35:22 EDT
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From: Don Rose <drose@uci-icse>


People have been mentioning how Spielberg-produced films seem to be going
downhill as of late, and others said that "Back to the Future" is a welcome
step back to Steven's normally high quality (the latter being his latest
produced-but-not-directed film).

I agree with both opinions. However, I think people should not forget the
DIRECTORS of these boy-wonder-produced films. Case in point: Bob Zemeckis,
director of "B-t-t-Future", is a wonderful director who has made only hip,
witty, winning films since I can remember (e.g. Romancing the Stone).
In addition, Zemeckis co-wrote the script, and I have an informal heuristic
in my head which says that films having the same director and writer usually
are carefully made, and are successful (and are, most importantly, good films).
--Donald Rose
 (ICS Dept., U.C. Irvine, Irvine CA 92715)
P.S. Spielberg is the cover story for this week's TIME magazine; excellent
pieces about his life (in his words), and touches on Goonies and B-t-t-future.