Argumentative Penguin recommended you. You're too kind to Spielberg ;) My take as I posted to a friend in FB. You'll see we think alike in some ways!

Artists try to express a truth in their time and place. Or even if they're not artists, but just professional entertainers--it's their truth, their choices. And as an audience, it's our time and place too. There are some stories, like "A Star Is Born" that can be remade. I don't see it here. Unless one characters in the new WSS is a hard Republican and the other a Socialist can it really be current? It's one of Spielberg's flaws, to me, that he is so good a manipulating emotions that he loses the sight of humaneness. He lost me for good in the "Munich" film where he concocts a scene where they shoot and kill the female spy as she nakedly stumbled towards them as her pajamas fall off. The scene is beyond sick and gratuitous. Why women didn't protest the movie is beyond me. Anyway, I'm sure the new WSS is very well made. But it's my memory. And I no longer want to have memories with Spielberg because I always feel manipulated and shameful afterwards.