Show me the way to go home ... I'm tired and I wanna go to bed.

Why not the right one?

I've never even seen Jaws or Close Encounters. Or many of the other movies on the list. I don't really like ET that much. Hook is neither really good nor really awful - and I want Hook's wardrobe. I like the third Indy better than the first, which I liked better than the second (although I didn't dislike the second).

'Cause Steve's right handed?


(I don't know if he is, but if he isn't the stabbing motion would be awkward)

No, it's common knowledge among Spielberg fans that he was right-ballin' when he directed Jaws, the original Close Encounters, Raiders, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

He used his left nut to gut Close Encounters, and burn some of the original negative, the two crappy Raiders sequels, the lame Juraissic Park adaptation and its sequel, Hook, Always, The Terminal, and the completion of Kubrick's A.I.



You have now been Spielbergianly educated.

I second this.

I never realized Hook was a sequel to Jurassic Park :)

I have spent much of my adult life waiting in dissappointment for Spielberg to make another "Speilberg movie". This is why I am so excited about the new Indy film. I have hope that perhaps it will be a much needed return to the old Spielbergian mastery of my childhood (and before).

My top 5:

1. Jaws
The first and best blockbuster.
2. Schindler's List
A heart wrenching masterpiece made by a Jew about a not-so-compassionate gentile who reaches out to help Jews to his own peril.
3.Empire of the Sun
Christian Bale's gorgeous boyhood singing voice has haunted me most all my life. It isn't a pefect film, but it did teach me lessons as a child on my own level.
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I was too young to see Raiders until many years later, thus the SPFX were lost on me. The 3rd one was the one I saw again and again.
5. E.T.
My life wouldn't not be what it is without that film. As an adult it impressed much less than it did when I was 3.

Amistad is close to the top of the list, too. It is not a fabulous film, but it is a touching, important, and even ironic story told from the point of view of a protagonist who never speaks english. Speilberg is, in some ways, a star-maker, and this movie highlighted the talents of its unknown protagonist - and that was the highlight of the film.

The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan were amazing. So much so that Ridley Scott paid homage to it soon after in Gladiator.

AI was.. I think LSPE put is best- the skeleton of one film, fleshed with another.

I never saw 1941.

I thought the Terminal was "cute", but not up to standards of my hero.

It's weird, seeing his body of work. Speilberg is my hero. His editor, Michael Kahn is my hero. He has employed some of my favorite talents in filmmaking, and he has created some of the most talented stars. Yet, so many of his films are not what I remembered them to be. So many of his more recent works are not up to par with his older work. Still, he is a master for the quick quip, tenderly human moment, and grand vision.

I tell you this with the utmost respect as a devout Bale fan.
Bale didnt sing.
I was under the impression for years that he did, but it is not my understanding that in fact the solist was James Rainbird, and equally talented young man.

Which is why even though I included Empire of the Sun on my list, I had to have the caveat.

:coffee: