What happened to the "Rules of FR"?
Where is Laz?
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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True, especially the detached, but still lit, ferris wheel.
Um, isn't it remembered for guns-to-walkie-talkies ridiculously stupid re-edit/re-release?
Not that it should rank high, either way...
And here are my rankings of the ones I’ve seen:
Duel
Jaws
Hook
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Twilight Zone
1941
Always
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
ET
Agreed. As I read the list I kept asking myself: “Who’s the day that put this list together?”
“Used Cars” (executive producer, Steven Spielberg) not included....and easily one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
“That’s just too F’n high!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHZWdFVyyQ
What happened to the "Rules of FR"?
Where is Laz?
My two cents, half-price:
Raiders of the Lost Ark: GREAT
Jaws: boring except for the final boat sequence, which was GREAT
Schindler’s List: GOOD
Catch Me If You Can: NEVER SAW IT BECAUSE IT LOOKED GAY
ET: GREAT WHEN I WAS 10, CRAP WHEN I WAS 20
Minority Report: GOOD
Empire of the Sun: PRETTY DARN GOOD
Lincoln: NEVER SAW IT
Duel: MEH
Amistad: GOOD
AI Artificial Intelligence: OK
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: GOOD
Sugarland Express: NEVER SAW IT
Adventures of Tintin: SURPRISINGLY GOOD
War Horse: GOOD
Jurassic Park: GOOD
Color Purple: NEVER SAW IT
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: GREAT (less so than Raiders though)
War of the Worlds: MEDIOCRE, FULL OF RIDICULOUSNESS
Saving Private Ryan: GREAT
Munich: SAW IT, NOT MEMORABLE BECAUSE I CAN’T REMEMBER IT
The Lost World: NEVER SAW IT
Hook: SAPPY BS
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: GREAT (less so than Raiders)
Always: VERY GOOD
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: SOULLESS CRAP - HE AND LUCAS RAPED INDY (/Southpark)
The Terminal: NEVER SAW IT
Twilight Zone: CRAP - HE OBVIOUSLY NEVER “GOT” THE ORIGINAL SHOW
1941: GOOFY
Is 1941 where John Belushi and the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?
agree 100%
“HORRYWOOD!!!!!!!”
Speilberg is a leftist dick who makes Thomas Kincaid movies and along with other Hollywood lefties who see America as a long pageant of social injustice unless we’re fighting Nazis and who ever election and GOP president work sharply with propaganda against us
Fuzzy freepers can have him
I can stand his WWII movies but even there he editorializes
Maybe if I were stupid like the average American moviegoer today
Thank You!
I really enjoyed 1941.
I can rank all Spielberg movies without even seeing teh titles. Just show me the year they were made and I will rank them. After, the movies just got worse year after year until present. Discounting Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, it was an almost endless slide of decay into mediocrity and then trash.
Here is my ranking because their’s is pure s#!^. I mean what lobotomized idiot would but Close Encounters #15 or Saving Private Ryan at #20, while putting dogs like Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report in the top 5.
Idiots. 22 year old idiots.
1981
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ - Spielberg’s ultimate masterpiece
1982
‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ - Contender for his masterpiece
1998
‘Saving Private Ryan’ - The best war film ever made
1977
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ - Changed other sci fi movies going forward
1975
‘Jaws’ - Beyond brilliant
1993
Schindler’s List’ - Gut wrenching, like watching a documentary
1989
‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ - Astoundingly good movie that redeemed the trilogy after Temple of Doom
1993
‘Jurassic Park’ - Raised the bar for family horror with its special effects, pacing and comedy. Like JAWS for dinosaurs.
1982
Poltergeist - see above for Jurassic Park
1989
‘Always’ - heartfelt and touching
1984
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ - a rare miss and misjudgment
1985
‘The Color Purple’ - Simply “works”
1971
‘Duel’ - Brilliant, surprisingly effective for the budget
1974
‘The Sugarland Express’ - Again, just way ahead of its budget
1987
‘Empire of the Sun’ - Draggy but watchable
1979
‘1941’ - mediocre but better than the trash that follows after he fell off a cliff.
‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’ (2001)
2002
‘Minority Report’ - Draggy, stupid, insulting and junk.
2002
Catch Me If You Can’ - A thoroughly vapid movie where the criminal is made to be a James Bondish hero. The real man was brilliant but I would have prefered a real movie on his life, not a damn cartoon.
2005
‘Munich’ - Watchable and realistic looking. I say “looking” BECAUSE NOTHING IN THE FILM ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE REAL EVENT OR AFTERMATH. Spielberg made the entire thing up, except for the fact Jewish hostages were taken by Palestinians. Complete tripe.
1997
‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ - It is obvious he just did it for the money.
2005
‘War of the Worlds’ - complete and unadulterated gargage whenever the alien spaceships were not in the scene. The scenes with the aliens were mostly wonderful and terrifying, ferry boats notwithstanding. Everything between those scenes was filler. Low-grade, mind-numbing, intelligence-insulting filler.
2004
‘The Terminal’ - a boring, laborious, unwatchable piece of trash that was torture to sit through. Any movie that can ruin a performance by Catherine Zeta Jones is despicable indeed.
2008
‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ - George Lucas is an idiot.
I haven’t seen Hook, Amistad, The War Horse, Tintin, or Lincoln, so I can’t speak to these. There is a reason I haven’t seen them. I refuse to watch a Steven Spieberg movie again without recommendations from at least 2 close and trusted friends or relatives.
Spielberg is dead to me. Until the Mighty Eight HBO mini series comes out. I don’t think he will screw that up, but he certainly COULD.
Oops. Damn spell check!
day = fag
As I said in my bio (since removed) I spent 3 months on the set of AI. Met Spielberg a couple of times. The craziest was election night when he was claiming that Gore was going to wipe up Bush in various states. Finally had to walk outside to calm down.
Fandango didn’t make the list.
He didn’t direct that.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I’ll go for Clint Eastwood’s work every day of the week!
AI made me tear up
The longing by a child to be loved
Earths strongest emotion
Speilberg sadly is every bit the stereotype Abbie Hoffman or Mark Rudd were
Or Lester Maddox or George Wallace
He’s smarmy and social justice is his creed
But he’s not open minded about the religion his wife was born with is he?
Like most leftists traditional America haters who speak tolerance and open mindedness
It ends at the end of their nose
Good thing for Nazis and Imperial Japan
He’d never have a foe to juxtapose us against in a good light
I’ve been to that cemetary in Normandy in SPR
anybody else notice the point of that shot
Simple Stephen pulling heartstrings like he does with propaganda and the masses drink it up
It’s his movie and the studios cash but it’s irritating that they can’t be honest
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