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"Fear and Loathing" has like 33% on the Tomatometer and was received a scathing review of legendary proportions from Roger Ebert. It's virtually unwatchable if you aren't under the influence of drugs.

Gilliam should remember that his last highly-regarded film was "12 Monkeys" and that was 10 years ago. He seems to be in a much bigger rut than Spielberg could be accused of.

"The Terminal" and "Minority Report", were both released during the holiday season, and "Catch Me If You Can" was released in August.

Ratner just has worse luck in terms of the quality of material he works with. "Red Dragon" is probably the greatest popular crime novel of all time and he did it justice. Sure, it's not artistically admirable that he avoided the mistakes Michael Mann made and basically copied Jonathan Demme's...

Actually, "A.I." was based on the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss, but that's beside the point. "A.I." is brilliant and underrated and easily better than Ron Howard's best work. He's like Brett Ratner, he's a capable director with no real identity as an artist...

Well, you can thank Akiva "I Wrote 'Batman & Robin'!" Goldsman for that, I for one think Goldman's "serious" work is far more sentimental than anything Spielberg could be accused of.

With the obvious exception of his historical dramas, children have been guaranteed to survive and prevail in Spielberg's films ever since the death of Alex Kintner in "Jaws". This trend reached it's peak of ridiculousness in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" but I'm glad that Rachel survived...

Anybody who criticizes the fact that the hero is a man that is essentially a deadbeat dad should watch Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". In "Close Encounters" the character of Roy Neary clearly loathes his wife and children throughout the movie and he is ultimately rewarded by...