I’m going to be the biggest normie possible here and im sure ill get destroyed for saying this but Spielberg, (then Kubrick tied with Scorcese, then Nolan)

Spielberg made blockbuster films for the masses, films that were at the very least highly entertaining. He did it consistently and in a variety of different genres. Like, fuck any sort materially critical lens, because nearly all these directors fail on that end upon close inspection.

Jurassic Park? This is the greatest children’s movie of all time. It captures perfectly the perverse ambitions of a capitalist pig, if we go there.

Indiana Jones: fun as fuck, Lawrence of Arabia for the new age, maybe twice as racist (especially against those of my own ethnicity) but there isn’t a movie more emblematic of Western ethnocentrism. At least it presents itself somewhat apologetically? Man, who gives a shit, it’s fun.

Minority Report: Really entertaining scifi movie with a stylistic edge that, for some reason, never gets replicate.

Catch me if you can: I remember it being entertaining to watch

Saving Ryan’s privates: incredible cinematography and the action sequences set the tone for every war movie ever made, just give it that ffs.

Munich: israeli propaganda but for it’s time it’s more even keeled than the pure zionist propaganda you’d expect or read about. There’s at least some instances where Palestinians are treated like people, which was pretty unheard of for time. And it was an entertaining watch idgaf

He has a far more compelling filmography than the vast majority of directors and slop creators and for one of capitalist film’s biggest engines, he’s not even that problematic.

Scorcese, at the end of the day, made the same gabacool hagiography over and over again