Spielberg (2017) (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

But I don’t think there are any Spielberg films I dislike. Not a one. I even like Hook which is his weakest film. Love the score to that film.

I don't particularly like The Lost World but even that movie has the spectacular sequence with the T. Rex pushing the trailer off the cliff edge.

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

Here is a none obvious choice. One of my favorite films of his is Always (1989). I can't stress enough how much I love it. I love it as much as E.T. and I consider it a quintessential Spielberg movie. There is no other movie that has the same effect on me. It always gets me!

I was fortunate to watch this at the cinema in 1989. I went with a friend of mine, a real (lovable) goth at the time, and we were debating between this film and another (a horror movie I think, though I don't recall the name of it). This is the one we ended up seeing and we both absolutely loved it. I can see where the flaws are, but I have always found it enchanting.

 

[SamT]

Steven Spielberg Reminisces About His Career at Self-Titled Documentary Premiere

 

[SamT]

Wow, Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan?!

 

[TravisR]

Wow, Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan?!

So was Bryan Cranston, Dennis Farina, Nathan Fillion and Paul Giamatti.

 

[Carabimero]

Top 5
ET
Raiders
Jaws
CE3K
Catch Me If You Can

Munich is almost tied for 5th spot. As Travis said above, it's as good as anything he made, but it's just not as fun to watch, IMHO, as Catch Me.

 

[Tino]

Wow, Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan?!

Yeah. Ever see it? He only has a pretty good part.

 

[Richard V]

So was Bryan Cranston, Dennis Farina, Nathan Fillion and Paul Giamatti.

And Ted Danson

 

[Richard V]

Jaws
Raiders
Close Encounters
1941
ET

But I don’t think there are any Spielberg films I dislike. Not a one. I even like Hook which is his weakest film. Love the score to that film.

He is my favorite by far.

It's kinda a tie with me. Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

 

[Tino]

Plenty of Scorsese films I didn’t like but when he’s on he’s as good as Spielberg.

 

[Malcolm R]

But I don’t think there are any Spielberg films I dislike. Not a one.

The Terminal ?

 

[Tino]

The Terminal ?

I really like the Terminal

 

[Bob_S.]

I have never...ever...EVER...heard Raiders Of The Lost Ark described as slow.

Well, I guess that makes me kind of special, doesn't it?

 

[SamT]

Another one of my favorites is Empire of the Sun (1987) and I re-watched it tonight. It's a masterpiece.
He still has his magic here. You might be shocked to learn that Ben Stiller plays in it.

 

[Tino]

Another one of my favorites is Empire of the Sun (1987) and I re-watched it tonight. It's a masterpiece.
He still has his magic here. You might be shocked to learn that Ben Stiller plays in it.

It was Stillers second film after his debut in Hot Pursuit (also in 1987).

 

[SamT]

'Spielberg': Film Review | NYFF 2017

 

[Carabimero]

I thought it was a fairly superficial treatment of Spielberg. Had seen every clip. The writing wasn't particularly powerful, especially in terms of the organization, transitions and climax of the documentary. Overall it is not a bad historical record. If I had known nothing about him, I probably would have loved it. But based on having very little freshness, and not particularly well-crafted writing, I wonder how this was ever sold to HBO.

Must have been the subject matter.

 

[SamT]

I have not seen this yet, probably in a week. But I remember Spielberg on Spielberg where he is sitting in a theater and talks about his memories about his movies. I remember loving that.

 

[SamT]

Just finished it. It was a nice personal documentary but I wasn't completely satisfied.
It lacked a little magic and relied heavily on his personal life rather than his movies.

 

[Carabimero]

Just finished it. It was a nice personal documentary but I wasn't completely satisfied.
It lacked a little magic and relied heavily on his personal life rather than his movies.

In my opinion the filmmakers forgot that just because it's a documentary doesn't mean they can skip dramatic structure. If I took only what was in the documentary and added nothing else, I could rearrange the interviews and clips to where the story would not just have a beginning, middle and end, but a compelling beginning, a developed middle, and a dramatic ending--just by changing the order of the interviews and clips. Everything needed to make a great documentary was there, but the filmmakers were out of their depth, IMHO.