favorite steven spielberg film and why?

[erowe83]

Duel

The man is vastly vastly vastly overrated. He is nowhere near one of the best.

[mfanelli81]

Originally Posted by erowe83

Duel

The man is vastly vastly vastly overrated. He is nowhere near one of the best.

I'm trying to start anything but how can you say he's not one of the best?? His list of movies is insane....Everything he touches seems to turn to gold, and not just his newers stuff but even his early works....I'm not a huge Spielberg fan but I have to appreciate what he has done for the Industry...

Who do you consider to be one of the best?

[Moviemaniack1993]

Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all time. It holds a very special place in my heart. Truly one of the only theater going experiences I remember from my childhood. But other favorites from him include: E.T., Indy movies, Jaws, The Lost World and War of the Worlds. I am sure there are more as well.

[mgonzo2u]

War Of The Worlds, because IMO, its SS best work

The CGI was/is excellent

[Steelmaker]

In this order...


1.) Jaws-scared the crap out of me as a kid! Left an indellible impression! My love for scary films was spawned from this and Halloween.

2.) Raiders of the Lost Ark - Tapped into every childhood imagination I had! Only Star Wars captured my attention more as a child.

3.) Saving Private Ryan - I've never fought in a war but I imagine that the opening Normandy battle in this film is about as close as I am ever going to come to knowing what it must've been like to be there without actually being there!

4.) Jurassic Park - To this day, I think the CGI dinosaurs in this 15 year old film are more realistic than most of the CGI I'm seeing in current movies!

5.) The Goonies - What DIDN'T this movie have that appealed to the childhood imagination! I think we all fantasized about finding buried treasure in our local towns! I thought the pipe organ made entirely out of skeletal remains was the coolest thing I'd ever seen!!

6.) E.T. - Again, back in the 80's Spielberg had his hand on the pulse of kid's imaginations and in the case of this movie, their heartstrings!

Plus an honorable mention has to go to Poltergeist. Although he technically did not direct this, I still consider this a "Spielberg" film. He did produce it and his directoral "fingerprints" are all over it!

[GCW2216]

Originally Posted by Steelmaker

In this order...


1.) Jaws-scared the crap out of me as a kid! Left an indellible impression! My love for scary films was spawned from this and Halloween.

2.) Raiders of the Lost Ark - Tapped into every childhood imagination I had! Only Star Wars captured my attention more as a child.

3.) Saving Private Ryan - I've never fought in a war but I imagine that the opening Normandy battle in this film is about as close as I am ever going to come to knowing what it must've been like to be there without actually being there!

4.) Jurassic Park - To this day, I think the CGI dinosaurs in this 15 year old film are more realistic than most of the CGI I'm seeing in current movies!

5.) The Goonies - What DIDN'T this movie have that appealed to the childhood imagination! I think we all fantasized about finding buried treasure in our local towns! I thought the pipe organ made entirely out of skeletal remains was the coolest thing I'd ever seen!!

6.) E.T. - Again, back in the 80's Spielberg had his hand on the pulse of kid's imaginations and in the case of this movie, their heartstrings!

I love the list. I would move The Goonies to number 1. This movie will never EVER get old. My favorite movie of all time.

[CptGreedle]

Jurassic Park 1

It really got me and my friends into Computer Graphics and Animation.

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by erowe83

Duel

The man is vastly vastly vastly overrated. He is nowhere near one of the best.

Chunk disagrees with you.

[Skillz5]

JAWS is my favorite movie of all time. I am a big Spielberg Fan.

Jurassic Park 1 and 2
Indiana Jones - All Four
ET
The Terminal
Duel
War of the Worlds - not bad.

I enjoy what Speilberg can do. He can take an object and make you see it in a different perspective.

[owa]

It's hard to pick just one but I guess I'll go with Jurassic Park. Loved dinosaurs as a kid and never outgrew that. It was pretty amazing at the time.

Others:

• Close Encounters
• Saving Private Ryan (I was numb after seeing it for the first time, couldn't even figure out if I liked the movie or not).
• E.T. (one of the first movies I can remember that I went to see multiple times. It was also a movie that everyone was talking about and in general, there was a lot of excitement surrounding it. It was one of my favorites for quite a while)

It's kind of hard to leave off Poltergeist since horror is one of my favorite genres and The Color Purple as well. I really didn't want to see The Color Purple but was talked into it by the girl I was dating at the time. I ended up really liking it though.

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Hook eh? I was about 6 when this came out and I loved it! A shame it supposedly flopped? I call it underrated. As far as his best movie. I'll have to go with Jaws, Jurassic Park and Raiders. 3 of my favorites. Saving Private Ryan is also high up there.

Heh, didn't do too poorly. I'm sure most would love to have a $300 million flop.

From wiki:

Despite these mixed reviews, the film was very financially successful and managed to gross $119,654,900 in the U.S.A. alone. (subtotal)[4] Worldwide its figure stood at $300,854,823. At the end of the year, the film stood as the 4th highest grossing movie of 1991.

[Bond007]

E.T.

[erowe83]

Originally Posted by mfanelli81

I'm trying to start anything but how can you say he's not one of the best?? His list of movies is insane....Everything he touches seems to turn to gold, and not just his newers stuff but even his early works....I'm not a huge Spielberg fan but I have to appreciate what he has done for the Industry...

Who do you consider to be one of the best?

I am not trying to start anything either, cause I am sure almost everyone on this forumn disagrees but His movies just arent very good. I like Indiana Jones and thats about it. Just cause his movies make a ton of money doesnt mean shit to me.

Who I would consider the best filmmakers
Shuji Terayama
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Yasujiro Ozu
John Carpenter
Peter Watkins
Phillipe Garrel
Samuel Fuller
Seijun Suzuki
Werner Herzog
Terrence Malick
Billy Wilder
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Luis Bunuel
Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Luchino Visconti
Kar Wai Wong

among others.....

[Pseudoblu]

Saving Private Ryan without thinking 2wice about it... Tom Hanks is amazing and the movie is just an amazing tale... High Admiration for all Vets.

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by erowe83

I am not trying to start anything either, cause I am sure almost everyone on this forumn disagrees but His movies just arent very good. I like Indiana Jones and thats about it. Just cause his movies make a ton of money doesnt mean shit to me.

Who I would consider the best filmmakers
Shuji Terayama
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Yasujiro Ozu
John Carpenter
Peter Watkins
Phillipe Garrel
Samuel Fuller
Seijun Suzuki
Werner Herzog
Terrence Malick
Billy Wilder
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Luis Bunuel
Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Luchino Visconti
Kar Wai Wong

among others.....

The only one I recognize from your list is John Carpenter and his name holds a negative connotation for me as I saw his work in Vampires. Though don't get me wrong I enjoyed a few of his movies, but that one was just a huge stain over his career IMO.

[The Big Blue]

E.T. - More like a dream than a film.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

I come from a strong military background so Saving Private Ryan is my favorite Spielberg film. I don't have a favorite film of all time because I'll grow tired of anything if I have too much of it.

[Wing Nut Jay]

Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Those are the top three of SS films for me.

I love The Goonies, but must point out that Spielberg did not direct that movie - he's the producer. Dick Donner directed The Goonies. (If we're counting movies that Spielberg produced, we might as well throw Transformers on the list.)

[rebfandan]

Originally Posted by Wing Nut Jay

Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Those are the top three of SS films for me.

I love The Goonies, but must point out that Spielberg did not direct that movie - he's the producer. Dick Donner directed The Goonies. (If we're counting movies that Spielberg produced, we might as well throw Transformers on the list.)

Thanks, been waiting for someone to point that out. I believe someone mentioned Back to the Future earlier...that's another Richard Donner, not Spielberg...he produced.

[swindler]

Originally Posted by erowe83

I am not trying to start anything either, cause I am sure almost everyone on this forumn disagrees but His movies just arent very good. I like Indiana Jones and thats about it. Just cause his movies make a ton of money doesnt mean shit to me.

Who I would consider the best filmmakers
Shuji Terayama
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Yasujiro Ozu
John Carpenter
Peter Watkins
Phillipe Garrel
Samuel Fuller
Seijun Suzuki
Werner Herzog
Terrence Malick
Billy Wilder
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Luis Bunuel
Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Luchino Visconti
Kar Wai Wong

among others.....

I must admit that that is an interesting list. I'm aware of quite a few of these guys, and I'm sure you realize that most of these directors did not distribute films in the U.S., and so their work in not well known.

But when you make a list this big, it draws attention to the guys you didn't mention. It is interesting that your small list of Americans doesn't include notables such as Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Ford, Coppola, Welles, etc, and omitted some international notables like Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, Eisenstein, Renoir...

But, to each his own.

[Lucy Diamond]

Jaws is great.

Absolutely love that movie.

Any of the Indy flicks...a few others.

Jurrasic park I.

I like his work.

Some of it is give and take though.