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Oh and I hate hate hate the washed out cinematography that Spielberg uses in this (and pretty much everything else he has done since Schindler). So wish he would change DP and style, it's an awful look.
Really? I actually really like the color-drained look of this and Minority Report (even if I found MR overall a pretty tonally imbalanced film). I'm not sure the cinematography did a whole lot for Minority Report apart from looking stylish and giving the film a kind of "not of our world/time" feel, but for WOTW, I think the look really enhanced the harrowing nature of everything going on.
If this had been an original look I'd have probably agreed with you, but unfortunately by he time he did WofW, the desaturated style had become default for Spielberg and his DP Janusz Kaminski and you had seen it all before in Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, AI and The Terminal.
Used in isolation, I absolutely think it could be an effective look but I hate it when it just becomes the standard tone for a director's visual pallet.
It's hard for me to be objective because I absolutely hate Kaminski's work as a DP.
I can see that. Saving Private Ryan had a similar look as well. Not sure if Kaminski worked on that film too. As you say, it was the aesthetic Spielberg had adopted at that point in his career. When I saw War of the Worlds, I wasn't thinking of the film in the context of his other recent works. I'm not sure if I had even seen Minority Report or A.I. before WOTW—maybe I had—so it all felt unique to the film experience.
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MINORITY REPORT used a highly stylized, washed out look that was ust plain awful, SS was trying his hand at being "avant-garde" and hip and it just didn't work. {The other flics mentioned (besides RYAN) were filmed in a convention color scheme!]
However, JW composed an exquisite score.
Go figger
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