Steven Spielberg's Always Is A Remake Of A Much Better War Movie

When it comes to Hollywood cinema, the 1980s was Steven Spielberg's decade. He was just about everywhere, making critically and commercially successful crowd-pleasers that also notched up Academy Award nominations ("Raiders of the Lost Ark," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"), producing other box office hits like "Poltergeist," and founding Amblin Entertainment, a production company ( itself named after a short film Spielberg once made ) that churned out even more big moneymakers like "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future." Yet, for all his clout and undoubted artistic talent, there were still regular accusations of sentimentality. I tend to agree in some cases. I always preferred the more detached sense of wonder in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" than the tear-jerking of "E.T;" and, while