Director: Spielberg

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I scrolled past everyone's responses so as not to be affected.

1) Schindler's List
2) Jaws
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Close Encounters
5) Temple of Doom

But the prize for Spielberg-film-I-sat-through-twice-in-consecutive-screenings goes to AI. Damn, that film is such a terrible, fascinating mess. I chose to see it twice because I was in film school at the time and immediately felt the need to write a paper about the two conflicting visions trapped in the one film; I could see Kubrick's very Kubrickian skeleton and the basic potential for goodness. And I could see all of the unnecessary meat that Spielberg super-glued to the bones. So I spent the whole second screening outlining whose bits were whose, based on what I understand of their tastes and tendencies.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating.