The River follows the story of wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole. Emmet set course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.
So basically each episode will have the main character looking for this lost person and then near the end of the episode *cliffhanger* a clue is discovered that gives hope that Emmet is not lost. Rinse, repeat and cliffhanger season finale where they find a video or recording from days before showing Emmet still alive but perilously close to death. Is he alive or isn't he? Stay tuned for season 2.
Why even watch something like this? I guess you could say the same for countless other movies and TV shows but something like this is so generic and so easy to figure out there's really no need to sit through 20 hours of shows. I lament the lack of creative, original programming but the unfortunate economics of current entertainment necessitate the greenlighting of mass appeal programming.
This got me to my second point. Is Steven Spielberg an Executive Producer of everything? I thought he was also the Executive Producer of the horrific Dino-Time Travelling trainwreck of a show on Fox, Terra Nova.
In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.W--T--F.
So then I started checking Steve Spielberg's IMDB page.
These are the films where he's listed as a Producer or Executive Producer.
2013 Robopocalypse (producer) (pre-production)
2013 Untitled Diablo Cody Project (producer) (pre-production)
2012 When Worlds Collide (producer) (pre-production)
???? The Talisman (TV mini-series) (executive producer) (pre-production)
2012 Lincoln (producer) (post-production)
2012 Men in Black III (executive producer) (post-production)
2012 The River (TV series) (executive producer - 1 episode) (post-production)
2012 Smash (TV series) (executive producer - 14 episodes)
2011 Terra Nova (TV series) (executive producer - 12 episodes)
2011 War Horse (producer)
2011 Transformers: The Ride - 3D (executive producer)
2011 The Adventures of Tintin (producer)
2011 Real Steel (executive producer)
2011 Falling Skies (TV series) (executive producer - 10 episodes)
2011 Cowboys & Aliens (executive producer)
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (executive producer)
2009-2011 United States of Tara (TV series) (executive producer - 36 episodes)
2011 Super 8 (producer)
2011 Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero (TV series documentary) (executive producer)
2011 Locke & Key (TV movie) (executive producer)
2010 True Grit (executive producer)
2010 Hereafter (executive producer)
2010 The Pacific (TV mini-series) (executive producer - 10 episodes)
2009 The Lovely Bones (executive producer)
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (executive producer)
2008 Eagle Eye (executive producer)
2007 On the Lot (TV series) (executive producer - 4 episodes)
2007 Dance with the Devil (short) (executive producer)
2007 Transformers (executive producer)
2007 The Big Bad Heist (short) (executive producer)
2006 Letters from Iwo Jima (producer)
2006 Flags of Our Fathers (producer)
2006 Spell Your Name (documentary) (executive producer)
2006 Monster House (executive producer)
2005 Munich (producer)
2005 Memoirs of a Geisha (producer)
2005 The Legend of Zorro (executive producer)
2005 Into the West (TV mini-series) (executive producer)
2005 Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman (TV movie) (executive producer)
2004 The Terminal (producer)
2004 Voices from the List (video documentary) (executive producer)
2003 Burma Bridge Busters (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2002 Catch Me If You Can (producer)
2002 Taken (TV mini-series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
2002 Men in Black II (executive producer)
2002 Price for Peace (documentary) (executive producer)
2002 Broken Silence (TV mini-series documentary) (executive producer)
2001 We Stand Alone Together (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2001 Band of Brothers (TV mini-series) (executive producer - 2 episodes)
2001 Jurassic Park III (executive producer)
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (producer)
2001 Evolution (executive producer - uncredited)
2001 Shrek (executive producer - uncredited)
2001 Semper Fi (TV movie) (executive producer)
2000 Shooting War (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2000 Eyes of the Holocaust (documentary) (executive producer)
1999 Wakko's Wish (video) (executive producer - uncredited)
1999 The Haunting (executive producer - uncredited)
1998-1999 Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (TV series) (executive producer - 9 episodes)
1995-1998 Pinky and the Brain (TV series) (executive producer - 70 episodes)
1993-1998 Animaniacs (TV series) (executive producer - 93 episodes)
1998 The Last Days (documentary) (executive producer)
1998 Saving Private Ryan (producer)
1998 The Mask of Zorro (executive producer)
1998 Deep Impact (executive producer)
1998 Toonsylvania (TV series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
1997 Amistad (producer)
1997 Men in Black (executive producer)
1997 Freakazoid! (TV series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
1997 The Lost Children of Berlin (documentary) (executive producer)
That's just going back 15 years. In all he's listed as a Producer or Executive Producer in 131 titles. What in the world. Does he just slap his name on anything now? I can't believe people haven't dismissed him as a credible creative mind.
I don't know why I got so upset about this. It's one of those trivial things in life that really bother me. It's like the post I had about the stupid Barcelona subway cars. The torment. Dinosaurs and time travel. Seriously?
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