skyjedi2005 said:

Anchorhead said:

Besides - the "Lucas has completely destroyed the future of cinema as we know it" threads are best left to a professional.....

Peter Biskind in Easy Riders, Raging bulls accuses Lucas and Spielberg of just that destroying the future of cinema by making it about the blockbuster and special effects and not cinema but really just crap kiddie fare.

I always wonder what those people saying "now it's all about SFX and kiddie fare" thought of the 1950's giant bug films, or the endless stream of B-westerns, sword-and-sandals movies, or Poverty Row adventure serials turned out in the Golden Age of cinema.

Other than being really really good, how is "Jaws" somehow fundamentally different from "Beast from 10000 Fathoms" that Spielberg somehow deserves 'blame'?

Was the crime making genre cinema good enough that lots of people wanted to see it?