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Wed 1 Mar, 2006 11:37 am
Vote here for your favourite Steven Spielberg Directed Film. Feel free to post a comment about which film you chose and why.
1. schindlers list
2. saving private ryan
3.jaws
"Jaws" is still the film I can return to again and again. A great adventure tale with a good dose of horror thrown in. Although his more serious films are great films, once might be enough.
THE COLOR PURPLE WINS!!!!!
Closely folloed by Jaws, Jurassic park and Indiana Jones.
And the oscar goes (or should have gone) to:
The Color Purple
Schindler's list was also an impressive film.
It is hard to compare films in such different genres.
I'm rather surprised by the lack of attention that Empire of the Sun has received. I thought it easilly in the top 3 myself.
As a director: Jaws. As a writer: The Goonies!
Regardless of what Spielberg is the best, his body of work is extraordinary. He knows how to put a movie together, considering all the components, and each not one can be criticized for being mediocre filmmaking -- James Cameron is nearly his equal but he has yet to make a movie with a truly serious social theme.
Well, not all of films are good. At least two of them aren't even mediocre ... the're just plain bad.
You're not willing to say which two?
"1984" and "Hook" would be the two I would pick as his least successful but they are still watchable films and judged as filmmaking efforts objectively, they are not mediocre nor bad films. Just can't please everyone, and I would not make it a point to see them again. There are too many really mediocre and bad films out there to count\ -- much, much worse than those two.
AI and War of the Worlds, for instance.
"AI" and "War of the Worlds" are somewhere inbetween. "AI" went along fine until the maudlin, sentimental ending. "War of the Worlds" really didn't need the family story but it wasn't that intrusive. It was a sci-fi spectacular and it succeeded merely as that, certainly much better than the average sci-fi flick but not great.
You forgot E.T. with little Drew Barrymore as the 3-4 year-old cutie.
He was the writer on "Poltergeist" and one of the producers. Tobe Hooper directed.
How was Speilberg involved with "1984"?
Ah, excuse me, a Freudian slip -- the movie was "1941."
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