the career of:Steven Spielberg

[jellydonut25]

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[Giganfan]

Spielberg's best movie are Schindler's List...and that's it lol! No, I'm just kidding. The best of Steven Spielberg's body of work are as follows...

Schindler's List
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark

And then you have the "okay" stuff...

Catch Me If You Can
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Munich
Jurassic Park
The Terminal
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Minority Report

I've always thought A.I. Artificial Intelligence was a pretty great film, but wouldn't dare call it one of his best. I've also enjoyed Hook purely for sentimental reasons. And as for the last "Inidana Jones" flick, it's rather amusing how Spielberg is routinely blasted for the sins of his best-buddy, George Lucas. HE was the one that wanted "inter-dimentional which-a-ma-jiggers" and HE is the one that's always re-touching up his movies with added computer work and saying "this is the definitive version, and you can't EVER see the originals!" What a petulant, little b*tch. Atleast when Spielberg re-tooled "E.T." he gave us the option of choosing between each version.

Let me be clear, I am not a hater. Steven Spielberg is a great filmmaker. He's obviously the most popular and successful director in history, and I would venture to say that, along with Scorsese, he is probably the best to come out of the last four decades. But in the grand scope of things, I wouldn't even rank him in the top ten of all-time great directors. There is Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Ford, Welles, Hawks, Huston, Curtiz, Capra, Wilder.........................................and then there is Spielberg all the way back here. Sorry, but that's just how I feel.

[jellydonut25]

[Giganfan]

I can't wrap my brain around the idea that it's any better.

[Giganfan]

I'll give you this. It is, without question, head-and-shoulders superior to all of the big-budget, computer-animated, "style-without-substance" summer blockbusters that arose in it's wake. And it possesses a true sense of wonder that only a director of Spielberg's caliber could deliver (Can you imagine if a true cynic with such a "dark" perspective on life had made this movie? My god, some of you guys wouldn't be able to handle the erection you had for it!) My problem with Jurassic Park has always been that, as a "self-conscious entertainment piece", its weighed down by all of the "plausible science" in it's story that would suggest that Spielberg really wanted the audience to take it seriously.

To be honest, I don't really know if I can defend my criticisms of Jurassic Park with any sense of conviction. All I know is that when I first saw it in the theatre back in '93, the experience was so forgettable, and afterwards I had totally forgotten that this film even existed until it started showing up on tv a year later. It simply has never overwhelmed me the way it probably should have. Taking "artistic license" in a simple action movie is sloppy and insulting to the audience. Spielberg is better than that.

[jellydonut25]

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[Giganfan]

It was totally un-called for, and I regret making it. I've been a part of this message board community for quite a long time, and I scarcely remember having such a flagrant lapse in judgement as this. I'd much prefer to arrive at a difference of opinion regarding certain aspects of this genre that we collectively know and love, than engage in a pointless civil war predicated on foolish personal attacks against people that I don't even know.

As they say in The Maltese Falcon, "Here's to plain speaking, and clear understanding".

[jellydonut25]

no worries man, it's not that big a deal. we've all said more than one or two dumb things over the years.

especially me.

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[daikaijusaurus]

I cannot even imagine anyone even thinking about remaking Jaws. If anyone, including Spielberg himself, green lights a remake I will never watch another movie from Hollywood again! Ever!!

[XvGojira]

The thing is with a Jaws movie, other than the iconic music, how is it any different than most any man eating shark movie?

I could maybe see some one trying to do a more faithful adaptation to the book, but in all honestly Spielberg's movie is probably already better than the book.

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Shia LaBeouf takes a jab at the Hollywood legend and his Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull director, Steven Spielberg.

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Spielberg Goes Global: Why Amblin's Pact With China's Alibaba Is a B.F.D.

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[jellydonut25]

Spielberg is bad now. It's sad but true. The guy has basically ADMITTED he's a different, safer, less exacting filmmaker these days.

[lhb412]

It's all been downhill since he did the first episode of Columbo.

[Gojira-2000]

I really liked Something Evil, but that might just be me liking supernatural shows/films featuring Darren McGavin.