The third and final doc is new to the 'Ultimate Edition.' Running 22 minutes, "Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of 'Close Encounters'" is simply a one-on-one chat with the director. Unfortunately, there really isn't much new here -- he covers just about all of topics discussed in previous docs, and doesn't really shed any new insight. Still, it's nice to have a new greatest hits version of the full-length doc, so if you don't have the time or inclination to wade through the other material on this disc, you could just watch this one and be done with it. (Note that as the older docs were all produced in standard-def, they are presented in 4:3 full screen 480i/MPEG-2 video only, while '30 Years of Close Encounters' is presented in full 1080i/MPEG-2 video.)
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Critics of Spielberg have argued that his films are commonly sentimental and moralistic.[445][446][443] In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind wrote that Spielberg is "infantilizing the audience, reconstituting the spectator as child, then overwhelming him and her with sound and spectacle, obliterating irony, aesthetic self-consciousness, and critical reflection."[447] Critic Ray Carney and actor Crispin Glover opined that Spielberg's works lack depth and do not take risks.[448][449] Critic Pauline Kael, who enjoyed Spielberg's films in the 1970s, expressed disappointment in his later work, stating that "he's become, I think, a very bad director.... And I'm a little ashamed for him, because I loved his early work.... [H]e turned to virtuous movies. And he's become so uninteresting now.... I think that he had it in him to become more of a fluid, far-out director. But, instead, he's become a melodramatist."[450] Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard opined that Spielberg was partly responsible for the lack of artistic merit in mainstream cinema, and accused Spielberg of using Schindler's List to profit from a tragedy.[451] In defense of Spielberg, critic Roger Ebert said "Has Godard or any other director living or dead done more than Spielberg, with his Holocaust Project, to honor and preserve the memories of the survivors?"[452]
So, in honor of the 10-year-period that made science-fiction filmmaking what it is today, we are counting down the 50 best sci-fi movies of the 1970s. Some of them belong in the greatest-of-all-time canon; others, we will fully admit, are the cinematic equivalent of a ripe Camembert. But each of these helped the decade redefine where science fiction could go on the big screen, whether it was in a grungy grindhouse or a state-of-the-art multiplex. This is where the genre genuinely started to boldly go where it had never gone before.
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When I watched Thor: Ragnarok on Netflix, the movie took 11 seconds to start and 41 seconds to reach 1080p on the second-gen Chromecast, while the same film took 9 seconds to start and 41 seconds to reach 1080p on the third-gen device. That's a 20 percent difference in start time but only a 3 percent difference in optimization time.
Overall, as this Google Chromecast review has shown, the latest edition feels behind the times, and it's lost one good feature along the way. But for $35/30, it's still a very capable 1080p streaming gadget. Pick it up if you like the interface and have a full-HD TV that needs some love. Otherwise, your money is better spent on a 4K HDR device like the $40 Roku Premiere, which will provide better picture quality for a longer period. 2ff7e9595c
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