Sadly, that terrible movie is based on one of the greatest theatre experiences of my life. The National Theatre of Great Britain’s “War Horse.” Spielberg - a suburban child of California - had no idea how to present the horror of World War I. And he dared to complain that “real” horses were not as talented as “puppet” horses. DUH! The play has humans manipulating huge “puppet” horses with great emotion and beauty. The movie has very pretty horses who, naturally, don’t know how to act!
Personally, for me, Mr. Spielberg’s movie career ended with the brilliant “Jaws.”
Unfortunately as gripping as that movie was, it ended on a thoroughly fraudulent note. The Mythbusters proved conclusively that no tank of oxygen or whatever it was in that tank would be enough to blow up a huge shark. Or any shark.