Tag: Steven Spielberg

• Perfect Movies: Back to the Future

  

  Is this yet another Gen Y/early “Millenial” (ugh) article about the movies people of my age watched as children back in the 1980s? Of course it is. To clarify: I do not identify as a Millenial. I have previously written on this site about my dislike of how people of my generation have been conflated…

  Mike Gray

  March 8, 2018

  American culture, culture, film

  1980s, 1985, American culture, Back to the Future, BttF, comedy, Doc Brown, film theory, Gen Y, Marty McFly, nostalgia, Oregon Train Generation, Perfect Movies, Robert Zemeckis, sci-fi, Steven Spielberg

• Perfect Movies: Saving Private Ryan

  

  Many films have been made glorifying war: from Sands of Iwo Jima to American Sniper, American films in particular like to depict soldiers who fight the country’s battles across the globe in a heroic light. And, to be fair, there have been numerous anti-war films made–All Quiet on the Western Front, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and…

  Mike Gray

  May 26, 2017

  American culture, film

  1998, America, Captain Miller, culture, film, Memorial Day, perfect movie, Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks