“Blonde” author Joyce Carol Oates went nasty on Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.” This was unexpected, but I brought out the popcorn and am grateful 2023 has started off in such twisted fashion.
Oates started by praising the David Lynch as a John Ford scene in ‘Fabelmans’ as the best part of the film (which it was):
“This was the most imaginative scene in ‘The Fabelmans,’ which was on the whole a remarkably mediocre movie for all its attention & the recent award.”
Oates then got the itch to continue her rant, “I didn’t see the award ceremony but — did ‘Fabelmans’ really win over ‘Tar’ — ? ‘Banshees’? Amazing. “I thought [‘The Fabelmans’] was awful. The writing so heavy-handed and the whole thing so artificial. Bleh.”
“By making a blonde-Aryan-antisemite the pseudo hero of his high school movie the young Fabelman disarms enemies & wins a pseudo friend. Is this an acknowledgment of the superficial triteness of the director’s career as an entertainer?”
Coppola lost more than $100M on "Megalopolis," got hammered for it, and he knows the clock is running out for one more film. If "Glimpses of the Moon" is that film, someone needs to write the check soon.