Everyone suck up now

Rating: 6/10 (24 August 1999)

Oh wow, it's a Spielberg film, we can't say anything bad about that. Oh wow, it's a movie about the Holocaust, we can't say anything about that.
Oh wow, isn't this rampant conformity just sickening? To me it is. First off, yes I have seen Schindler's List. I don't care if it did win Best Picture (I don't really give a damn about the Oscars in general), and I don't care if it did rank #9 on the AFI 100 list. For me, it's too recent to be rated number nine when there are many films better than it and more deserving to be placed higher than it, such as Raging Bull and Dr. Strangelove.
Schindler's List did not create any new styles in film making that I have seen, or have any real memorable moments in it the way other movies do. It was just Spielberg making something that he knew people wouldn't degrade because of fear. Fear of standing outside the crowd and speaking what is on their mind. Fear of being attacked for their beliefs, which is ironic considering what the movie is about.
I have had to hear about the Holocaust almost every year I was in school, watching the same documentaries and reading the same books. It gets very boring very fast when you have the same thing crammed down your throat year after year. How can you expect one to remain shocked and appalled when you desensitize them by showing it to them all the time?
Overrated to say the least. Contrary to what someone else said, it is not better than On the Waterfront and Casablanca. Those are classics.