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Is Always (1989) Steven Spielberg’s most forgotten movie?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:11 pm
I’m aware of its existence because I like watching Spielberg’s lesser known filmography (some hidden gems in there) but are there that many people, in the general public (even those alive in 1989), who know of Always?
It literally never gets mentioned in any major documentary on Spielberg.
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Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:25 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I've always liked it a lot, and it did make the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes popular again for a bit.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:40 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Wasn’t that Audrey Hepburn’s last movie?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:44 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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It literally never gets mentioned in any major documentary on Spielberg.
Probably because it's sandwiched between 15 years of blockbusters before and after it.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:45 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 5/22/22 at 10:48 pm to Kafka
L.A. 2017
quote:The script, by celebrated scifi novelist Wylie (When Worlds Collide), is an environmentalist satire on 1970 America in the manner of Planet Of The Apes or The Omega Man. I expected it to be badly dated but it actually holds up quite well. There is a classic scene involving a hippie rock band.
"L.A. 2017" is a 1971 episode of the NBC television series The Name of the Game. Sometimes referred to as "Los Angeles: AD 2017" (the name of Philip Wylie's subsequent novel based on his script) or "Los Angeles 2017", this was a science fiction piece, shot for only $375,000, about a publisher, Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), who finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists. Its director, the 24-year-old Steven Spielberg, used imaginative camera angles to drive his first movie-length television episode across and remarked in later years that the show "opened a lot of doors for me".
Posted on 5/23/22 at 12:30 am to UndercoverBryologist
I've seen Always several times, and think it's great. But you're right, it's like people don't even know it exists.
It has a likeable cast, romance, fantasy and humor. It's a remake of the 1943 film A Guy Named Joe, so it has a old-fashioned feel-good vibe to the story. You'd think all those elements would give it broad appeal, but maybe they work against it.
Perhaps it's too twee and safe to care about compared to Spielberg's other work. Even the movie poster looks more Hallmark than Spielberg.
It has a likeable cast, romance, fantasy and humor. It's a remake of the 1943 film A Guy Named Joe, so it has a old-fashioned feel-good vibe to the story. You'd think all those elements would give it broad appeal, but maybe they work against it.
Perhaps it's too twee and safe to care about compared to Spielberg's other work. Even the movie poster looks more Hallmark than Spielberg.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 12:36 am to UndercoverBryologist
I think we've discussed it here a little bit before. If you really liked it, you should watch "A Guy Named Joe," 1943. There's a scene in A Guy Named Joe that you'll see a reference to in Empire of the Sun.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 7:12 am to UndercoverBryologist
I would venture to say Duel starring Dennis Weaver is more forgotten than Always.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 7:22 am to UndercoverBryologist
There's a throwaway joke in South Park when Spielberg is mentioned, and he's always described as the director of Always and 1941. Sensible chuckle every time
Posted on 5/23/22 at 9:38 am to UndercoverBryologist
Never heard of it and i`m in my 40`s
Posted on 5/23/22 at 9:57 am to GeauxTigerTM
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t did make the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes popular again for a bit.
That part of the movie choked me up at the end.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 10:01 am to UndercoverBryologist
Great movie
Posted on 5/23/22 at 10:12 am to AFBuckeye
Duel and 1941 are definitely up there from a general public standpoint as well. 1941 is a guilty pleasure for some, but by and large it was Spielberg's first flop and remembered as being his first misstep as a director.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 10:22 am to UndercoverBryologist
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Always (1989)
The pilot dude she ends up with, that actor died of Covid.
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