The films everyone saw the same summer.
camp, Queen, and nothing else looks like it
Spielberg's most emotionally direct
a comedy at blockbuster scale
the most effective piece of pop propaganda of the decade
the most famous bomb of its decade, and better than its reputation
peak 90s disaster spectacle
indefensible as a film and permanent as an artifact
the disaster film as pure ride
the sci-fi comedy formula, invented
the scale of it is the point
critically savaged, culturally unavoidable
the disaster film at its most enjoyable
the most-imitated visual style of the decade
critically dismissed; the destruction set pieces are unmatched
dismissed as noise; the most sincere blockbuster of the decade
Spielberg making pop culture about pop culture
the water rendering alone
the film that proved theaters weren't dead
