Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
Damn, that short list makes me wonder if Spielberg isn't my favorite director. None of my top 10 favorite movies are there, but I doubt I could name any other director with as many movies I enjoyed so much.

War of the Worlds was pretty disappointing, but not horrible. I liked it about as much as Minority Report.
FWIW, A.I. and Amistad rank much higher in my world. Especially Amistad. I hated the 3 hour long ending to AI. But Amistad, what a great movie. Can't belive you ranked Minority Report and The Color Purple higher than Jurassic Park...What's wrong with you?
There's no freakin' purple color rides at Universal's Islands of Adventure

I think I'm the only person on the Continent who has yet to see Jaws or Schindler's List.

I've seen the Jaws sequels...zzzzzzzz...just never got around to seeing Jaws. Maybe I'll buy that today. Schindler's List, well, I have a weak stomach for non-fictional acts of cruelty, and for whatever reason everything about the Holocaust just scares the heck out of me. Maybe someday I'll gather the nerve to watch it, I've only ever heard it was exceptional.
The Jaws sequels were lousy especially 3 and 4. So do try and see the original Jaws.

Jurassic park has some of the dumbest dialog in film that I have seen in many years and nobody was developed. The human characters in a monster movie NEED to be as intersting as the monsters. In JP that is not the case -- and as kam noted with the effects -- once the effects look dated the film will be a footnote in history.

I screwed up the above because it should be Close Encounters A- and Minority Report B+. Minority Report was a pretyt smart futuristic sci-fi film. AI to me was incredibly preachy and had an overlong ending with what seemed to me to be a tacked on final alien sequence. Amistad for me was stilted and stagey.

I saw Schindler's List in theaters 7 times - it is a difficult subject matter but the storyline is about the power that lone individuals can and do possess. SO it's not just a depressing film about slaughter. There was hope and Spielberg chose a great story to bring the subject to the screen.

I think it's his best film with Ralph Fiennes's best performance and IMO the best supporting performance of the decade. It won 7 academy Awards and IMO it should have won 12 including best supporting actress for Embeth Davidz (she didn't get a nomination )

It was the film that made me choose History as my minor.