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The Best Steven Spielberg Film

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1. Schindler's List
2. Close Encounters
3. Raiders
4. Duel
5. E.T.
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Ju Ju Park
8. Jaws
9. Temple of Doom
10. Last Crusade
11. AI
12. Catch Me If You Can
13. Minority Report
14. Hook

... can't make it to 15 as there are a number I haven't seen, but bad apples are:

War of the Worlds
Crystal Skull
 
I think Spielberg is at his best when he balances his schlock with his inner filmmaker.

I think that's why Hook succeeds and why most people like it.

It's a fun retelling of a familiar tale, it has some "don't take yourself too seriously" wisdom, and has a core of filial piety at the center of it.
 
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Munich
Schindler's List
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Empire of the Sun
ET
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park

Bottom Two:
The Terminal
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
 
These are my personal favorites. I'm no cinefile or wannabe critic, but if I was told I could only take a few Spielberg films with me, these are my choices:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
ET
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws

Films like Schindler's List and Munich are EXCELLENT thought provoking movies, but to me, they do not have much re-watch value.

These are just bad, and if I never see them again, I'm okay with it:

Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World
Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
 
god tier bolded, everything else is pretty much on par for me. come at me bros

1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
2. Schindler's List
3. Jurassic Park
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Minority Report
6. Catch Me If You Can
7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
8. Jaws
9. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
10. Saving Private Ryan
11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
12. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
13. Munich
14. War Horse
15. Hook

BAD:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Amistad
 
1. Munich
2. Schindler's List
3. Jurassic Park
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Minority Report
7. A.I.
8. The Temple of Doom
9. Empire of the Sun
10. Jaws

What an amazing director. Still things from him I haven't listed.
 
The Terminal is an incredibly underrated film. Nowhere near enough love for that one.
 
C4Lukins said:
Minority Report is great, but I hated the random Indiana Jones scene in it. The whole car assembly line thing. Very out of place in that movie.
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One of the Bergs biggest flaws as a filmmaker. He pulled the same shit in AI. Tonally, the movie is all over the place. Rouge City, Flesh Fair. An AI Chris Rock and a hologram of Robin Williams? Shameful. The first hour of AI feels like Kubrick, the rest feels like the worst of Spielberg
 
1. Close Encounters with the Third Kind
2. Shindler's list
3. A.I.
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. E.T.

I dont see the point in taking away points from the few bad films he's made, as no human being would put those movies at the top of a greatest Spielberg films list.
 
Only ranking the ones I've seen:

1. Jaws
2. Munich
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Jurassic Park
5. Hook
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Schindler's List
9. Catch Me if You Can
10. Minority Report
11. ET
12. Duel


Two bad:
Tin Tin
The Terminal
 
I'm only ranking the ones I actually care for:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Munich
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Minority Report
ET
Saving Private Ryan
Hook
AI
Close Encounters


Take Points away from:

Tin Tin.
Technically better than his other shitfest adventure movie (Indy 4), but a whole lot more boring and lacking in any degree of emotional resonance.

The Lost World
One of the worst sequels I've ever seen.
 
1. Jurassic Park
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark
5. Munich
6. Catch Me If You Can
7. Jaws
8. War of the Worlds
9. Minority Report
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
11. The Terminal
12. The Lost World

The Bad:
1. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
 
1- Schindler's List
2- Munich
3- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4- Raiders of the Lost Ark
5- ET
6- Catch Me If You Can
7- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8- Jurassic Park
9- Jaws
10- AI
11- Saving Private Ryan
12- Tin Tin
13- Minority Report
14- Empire of the Sun
15- The Color Purple



HATE:
The Terminal
The Lost World
 
  1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  2. Jaws
  3. Schindler's List
  4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  5. Saving Private Ryan
  6. Jurassic Park
  7. E.T.
  8. Minority Report
  9. Munich
  10. Empire of the Sun
  11. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  12. A.I
  13. Catch Me If You Can
  14. Hook
  15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 
1. Jurassic Park
2. Schindler's List
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Minority Report
5. Catch Me If You Can
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Munich
8. Duel
9. The Terminal
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
12. Empire of the Sun
13. E.T.
14. War of the Worlds
15. A.I.

Two Craps:
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. 1941
 
1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. AI
4. Empire of the Sun
5. Munich
6. Minority Report
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. Jurassic Park
10. War of the Worlds
11. Catch Me if You Can
12. Schindler's List
13. Temple of Doom
14. ET
15. Tintin
 
1. Schindler's List
2. Minority Report
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Munich
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Amistad
7. AI
8. War Horse
9. The Color Purple
10. The Terminal
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. Jaws
13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
14. War of the Worlds
15. Jurassic Park

BAD

1. ET
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom / Last Crusade / Crystal Skull
 
1. Jaws
2. Schindler's List
3. Munich
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. Jurassic Park
7. AI
8. Tin Tin
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10. E.T.
11. Catch Me If You Can
12. Saving Private Ryan
13. The Sugarland Express
14. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
15. Minority Report

BAD:
The Terminal
The Color Purple

I haven't seen Always, 1941 and Empire of the Sun.
 
1)Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2)Raiders of the Lost Ark
3)Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
4)Schindler's List
5)Catch Me If You Can

I love me some Indiana Jones.
 
1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. E.T.
4. Schindler's List
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Munich
8. Jurassic Park
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. The Adventures of TinTin
11. Minority Report
12. A.I.
13. Empire of the Sun
14. Catch me if You Can
15. Hook

bad:
Crystal Skull
The Color Purple
 
Hard to say since none of his movies are great great. But very good.

1. Close Encounters
2. Schindler's List
3. Jurassic Park
4. The Last Crusade
5. Jaws
 
1. Schindler's List
2. Munich
3. Catch me if you can
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. A.I.
6. Jaws
7. Jurassic Park
8. Close Encounters
9. Minority Report

Bad:

Hook
Amistad
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
 
1. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (sentimental choice; any of these top 3 could really be here)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Jaws
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Jurassic Park
6. Minority Report
7. Schindler's List
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
12. The Adventures of Tintin
13. Duel
14. Empire of the Sun
15. The Sugarland Express

Also: The Lost World and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are two of my most disappointing movie going experiences ever.
 
1. Schindler's List
2. The Terminal
3. Empire of the Sun (not usually high on his list of movies but I really enjoyed it)
4. Munich
5. Saving Private Ryan
 
  1. Minority Report
  2. Munich
  3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  4. Jaws
  5. Jurassic Park
  6. Saving Private Ryan
  7. ET
  8. Catch Me If You Can
  9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  10. War of the Worlds
  11. AI
  12. Schindler's List
  13. Hook
  14. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  15. Empire of the Sun
  16. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Haven't seen (or don't remember well enough)
War Horse
The Sugarland Express
1941
Always
The Color Purple
Amistad
The Terminal
Tin Tin
 
evilromero said:
Hard to say since none of his movies are great great. But very good.
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That's what I realized when reading this thread. He's made a lot of good movies, but nothing that touches on great great. Personally, I believe A.I. being one of his most ambitious films in terms of scope.
 
Solo said:
1. Halloween
2. The Thing
3. Prince Of Darkness
4. In The Mouth Of Madness
5. Big Trouble In Little China
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No Assault on Precinct 13 or Escape from NY? I thought you were cool, Solo

Anyway, my list would be....

1. Jaws - Pretty much fuckin' perfect.
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. E.T.
4. Schindler's List
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(Raiders is the best, but LC may be my favorite)
7. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Minority Report
10. Munich
12. Empire of the Sun
12. Jurassic Park
13. Saving Private Ryan(Don't like this one as much anymore)
14. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
15. War of the Worlds

Two Bad
1. Hook(absolutely dreadful, the king of schmaltzy sentimental stupid piece of shit that Spielberg's critics have been riding him about forever)
2. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull(Fuck this movie)

Just look at that opening quartet. Does any living director even come close?
 
JB1981 said:
One of the Bergs biggest flaws as a filmmaker. He pulled the same shit in AI. Tonally, the movie is all over the place. Rouge City, Flesh Fair. An AI Chris Rock and a hologram of Robin Williams? Shameful. The first hour of AI feels like Kubrick, the rest feels like the worst of Spielberg
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how dare he add somethin interestin...And most people would say the worst of Spielberg was the overly emotional stuff and the sappy end rather than the flesh fair
 
Tough one. I love his work. Definitely a tie between Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and the first and third Indiana Jones.
 
I've never seen Munich, ET or Close Encounters.

1. Raiders
2. Last Crusade
3. Jaws
4. SPR
5. Minority Report

1. War of the Worlds
2. War Horse
 
1- Jurassic Park
2- JAWS
3- War of the Worlds
4- Indies (except for that Cryst.....uurrrghh..)
5- Saving Private Ryan

You know I realize, while he's a good director. Most of Spielberg movies are mediocre.
 
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