[karnage]

"Spielberg's track record is the best in Hollywood."

Yep. An amazing talent for reaching massive audiences with brilliant cinematic storytelling technique. Lots of people in Hollywood claim to know what "works." But Spielberg is the only one to have proven it so consistently over time.

[Darkwolf377]

I think Spielberg's genius is that he can reach the mass audience as no one before him has. I think his talent can best be described as being wide but shallow. His imagery is easily graspable but never eloquent, and his characters are types. Without John Williams's music hyping the emotions, his movies would be seen as the empty toy boxes they are.

I am not a big fan of his, though I've enjoyed several of his movies. But pretending he is anything but the biggest boy on the block in Hollywood career-success-wise is just silly.