Posted on 07/09/2016 1:43:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
There's a reason why Steven Spielberg is still the undisputed King of Hollywood. Over the course of a nearly five-decade-long career, he has perfected and/or inaugurated any number of cinematic movements and innovations. Coming of age as one of the "movie brats" – the generation of filmmakers who transformed American cinema in the Sixties and Seventies – Spielberg also helped kick off Hollywood's blockbuster culture with Jaws in 1975 (and then sent that culture into overdrive with the one-two punch of Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial in 1981 and 1982).
The success of such movies and their imitators has been identified by many as one of the reasons why American film culture took a nosedive in the 1980s, but his career has always alternated between blockbusters and more serious fare. He has tackled tough subjects – the Holocaust in Schindler's List, WWII in Saving Private Ryan, terrorism in Munich, the Civil War and slavery in Lincoln – while somehow always managing to make films that also work as popular entertainments along the way.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Falk#ColumboLet's face it, we had some good fortune at the beginning. Our debut episode, in 1971, was directed by this young kid named Steven Spielberg. I told the producers, Link and Levinson: "This guy is too good for Columbo"... Steven was shooting me with a long lens from across the street. That wasn't common twenty years ago. The comfort level it gave me as an actor, besides its great look artistically — well, it told you that this wasn't any ordinary director."
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Kind of liked “Duel”.
More like Steven Spielberg’s Movies, Ranked in no particular order
The only Spielberg movie I really liked was “Young Sherlock Holmes”.
Darned if it turns out that he did not direct it.
Like a lot of his work and love some of it. “Super 8” stank on ice.
It was downhill after that.
That would be a good remake.
Band of Brothers. Best film -period
Jaws. Great. Classic boy fairy tale
I think Jaws was the best. Of course, it is my favorite. And he made Sugarland Express which is an excellent movie. He went downhill with extreme wealth and success. Although Schindlar’s List is good as well.
This reviewer is crazy. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade was TERRIFIC!
Hook was the biggest waste of money I’ve ever spent on a Spielberg movie.
War Horse was tedious.
And Amistad would’ve been better if he cut about 30 minutes from it.
They rate ET high when it is a crap forgotten movie. They rated Terminal low when it was a nice quirky movie. That’s usually how it works when “critics” rank movies or music
Super 8 was awful.
I loved minority report. I think I’ll watch it tonight.
“Munich” was a blatant ripoff of “Sword of Gideon”.
“1941” was an overblown mess, but a fun mess. Spielberg has avoided a straight comedy ever since.
AI was terrible, doesn’t belong in top 20.
I loved that movie.
Here is the list:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Schindler’s List
Catch Me If You Can
ET
Minority Report
Empire of the Sun
Lincoln
Duel
Amistad
AI Artificial Intelligence
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Sugarland Express
Adventures of Tintin
War Horse
Jurassic Park
Color Purple
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
War of the Worlds
Saving Private Ryan
Munich
The Lost World
Hook
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Always
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Terminal
Twilight Zone
1941
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