Respuesta: Daniel Day Lewis es el LINCOLN de Spielberg
Opiniones en los comentarios del blog de Jeffrey Wells de asistentes al pase:
-"After coming from that nightmare of a screening (started over an hour late) I must say that I find it to be one of Spielberg's least entertaining works. As a huge kushner fan, I am most disappointed in the screenplay and found the first hour to be nearly painful, aside from the acting. TLJ and Sally Field have great moments, (complete with the necessary Oscar clip) and could be nominated. DDL was great, but actually expected more (again, faulting the writing). Plenty of below-the-line nominations but absolutely NO CHANCE FOR BEST PICTURE OR DIRECTOR nominations. Sorry, this year is just turning out way to competitive. Well-meaning, nicely shot film and will likely draw in masses only to bore them out of the theater"
-"Reactions are clearly going to be all over the place, but as someone who had lost faith in Spielberg ("War Horse" is an atrocity), I thought it was terrific. Completely un-Spielberg-y in every way. Unafraid to be extremely talky and overly political, resisting sentiment (including a shockingly muted John Williams score) and choosing to mine the political process and internal and external moral debates (and by and large downplaying emotions), the film took me completely by surprise. It will likely not be a crowd-pleaser - it will absolutely bore a certain segment of the audience who wants battle scenes or flashbacks to Lincoln's childhood or other such nonsense - but I can't see it not receiving a boatload of nominations. Kushner's screenplay really makes this something special and not the boring biopic/humanization I expected from the trailer."
-" I just came from the Lincoln screening a few hours ago and I thought the film was terrific. Granted, I am a Spielberg fan but, as Perez points out, the film is very different than War Horse. It's a procedural that seems less concerned about providing an audience with conventional entertainment and more about exploring Lincoln's character and nature and how difficult it was to actually get the 13th amendment passed. I really liked the intelligent and nuanced script by Tony Kutcher: the film is not sentimental or treacly (Spielberg avoids some of the mistakes he made with Amistad) and the score by John Williams is restrained and used sparingly by Spielberg. Actually, one of the most noticeable things about the film is how little music is used throughout the film and how many scenes there are with just dialogue between the actors.
The cast is very impressive and the acting, on the whole, is superb. Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones seem like absolute locks for acting nominations and I can also see Sally Field, who has two great "money scenes" in the film, and Gloria Reuben (lovely and luminous in a supporting role) both possibly scoring Best Supporting Actress nods."
-"Nice film, great performances (particularly from DDL and Tommy Lee Jones . . .also, Spader!). No Best Pic chances, other than a nod. Oh, and no way was this "unfinished." Spielberg doesn't strike me as the type to show picture unlocked. Everything looked nicely color graded, score sounded in place, and the sound mixing seemed polished."
-" From The Playlist on Williams score "Thankfully, John WIlliams' score easily the worst offender in Spielberg's War Horse, is like the picture, solemn, well-controlled and moving with a dignified air of grace"
