Joanna Robinson
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But to your point, are they doing... Is he doing himself and are they doing themselves a disservice by invoking Close Encounters, invoking E.T.?
Emily Blunt is actually delivering what I wanted from Spielberg, which is, like, I actually didn't know Emily Blunt still had that in her.
Can I just say one more thing, which is like my question, I was looking at his filmography, and I was looking at like where I think it shifted.
And I have said this for years, that I always say that, like, Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report, which came out in the same year, are, like, the two last, like, for me, great Spielberg movies.
I fucking love those movies, right?
And then everything after that, you know, there's things that I can admire, Lincoln or Munich or whatever, but, like, there's, like, 9-11 happens, and that's what War of the Worlds is a reaction to, is 9-11.
And so I was wondering, I'm like,
Did something fundamentally change for Spielberg after 9-11 that, like, changed the kinds of stories he wanted to make or X, Y, Z?
Or did we fundamentally change as, you know, to make it American-centric as a country?
And I'm like, are we too cynical now?
Like, the ending of this movie is so...