favorite steven spielberg film and why?

[Mooka-One]

Jaws and Munich are two of my favourite films of all time.

Empire of the Sun will stay with me forever.

Cant help but wish Stanley Kubrick had taken control of AI himself and allowed Spielberg to produce instead of direct.

Schindlers List is another amazing piece of cinema and i guess for what it is Jurassic Park hits all the right buttons.

he is such a difficult director to figure out as he his so diverse yet always the same and as much as i enjoy his films i always have a guilty feeling or a feeling that somwhere along the lines ive been let down.

[swifty7]

for me Spielberg's best work is got to be Close Encounters followed closely by Indy Trilogy, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Empire of The Sun, Shindler's List and the first Alien attack from War of The Words(if only the rest of the movie was as good).

[jdc115]

Originally Posted by Mooka-One

Cant help but wish Stanley Kubrick had taken control of AI himself and allowed Spielberg to produce instead of direct.

Unless I am mistaken, Spielberg only took on the project after Kubrick died otherwise I believe it would have been Kubrick's next film after EWS which I guess would still not be ready for release then

But to be on topic, Jaws with out a doubt.

[Mooka-One]

Originally Posted by jdc115

Unless I am mistaken, Spielberg only took on the project after Kubrick died otherwise I believe it would have been Kubrick's next film after EWS which I guess would still not be ready for release then

But to be on topic, Jaws with out a doubt.

Sorry but you are mistaken, Kubrick handed it over to Spielberg to direct as he felt he had better knowledge of the genre and modern film-making techniques/technologies. Stanley decided it would be better for him to produce and for Steven to direct.

[swifty7]

A.I had such potential but unfortunately SS turned it into a futuristic Pinocchio. I would have loved seeing a Stanley Kubrick version.

[UltraMario9]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

A.I. Artificial Intelligence. It has his best traits (movie magic, emotion) along with a thematic depth and a certain haunting quality that my previous favorite (Jurassic Park) lacks.

My thoughts exactly.

Originally Posted by swifty7

A.I had such potential but unfortunately SS turned it into a futuristic Pinocchio. I would have loved seeing a Stanley Kubrick version.

That's what Kubrick was going for. Author Brian Aldiss said Kubrick was obsessed with Pinnochio in the conceptualization of the film. To be honest, the only thing that would've made A.I. even more Kubrickian is if Larry Smith had shot it.