what is Steven Spielberg's best film?

[HipHopStan]

Schindler’s List, The Color Purple, and Saving Private Ryan are probably his best films, and while I own all three, I’ve only revisited Schindler’s List and TCP once and SPR twice. I’m not taking away from their greatness however they’re just films that you don’t go back to very often due to the powerful content.

For me? JAWS all of the way. I watch this movie at least 6 or 7 times a year easily. Great performances, the film is actually better than the book, and it’s a god given miracle that the film came out as a perfect film given the challenges while filming it.

1.) JAWS
2.) Jurassic Park
3.) Catch Me If You Can
4.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
5.) E.T.

The Lost World and The Last Crusade just missed the cut. I’ve found myself revisiting Hook, Tintin, and The Post quite a lot too in recent years.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I recognize that while my favorite is A.I. and I even named my son Elliott after E.T. it ain't either of these. For impact, its JAWS or Jurassic Park.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

It's still Jaws. Dude made a shark movie in the mid 70s that still holds up. No cgi. No bs subplots or gay scenes. A perfect movie.

 

[daemonova]

Question for y’all brehs…does Spielberg have signature directorial idiosyncrasies? Shyt like Tarantino and the “out the trunk” shot or Spike and the dolly shot…

Lens flares, which J.j. Abrams stole from him and made way more obvious.

Michael Bay put lens flares in the first transformer movie to pay homage to Spielberg who was executive producer.

Spielberg brought lens flare back in the Fablemans.

@Poetical Poltergeist that's a subplot Spielberg blocked.

 

[Fresh]

too much puff

I noticed scrolling down I didn't see War of the Worlds

 

[HipHopStan]

It's still Jaws. Dude made a shark movie in the mid 70s that still holds up. No cgi. No bs subplots or gay scenes. A perfect movie.

It's really a God given miracle that JAWS came out as perfect as it did with all of the chaos behind the scenes.

- The shark didn't work.
- No actor or actress wanted to work on the film, so Spielberg had to go to his third or fourth picks.
- Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss hated each other for a time. Shaw spent a lot of the off time getting drunk off vodka & gin and Dreyfuss spent a lot of his off time whining and fukking groupies & film extras.
- Universal was a nervous wreck about the whole film and gave Spielberg less than year to shoot and release the film (June 20, 1975.) It was only supposed to shoot for 59 days (the end of June 1974) but instead shot for 159 days (the beginning of October 1974.)
- The islanders at Martha's Vinyard were less than cooperative and the film crew had a time limit of which they could shoot the movie each day so the residents could enjoy their time there.
- Rough storms and other issues with the weather occurred all during filming.
- The script changed every day and Spielberg had to have Peter Benchley kicked off the set because he disagreed with how the shark was going to be defeated.

The 70s were a challenging time for many film productions as well. Directors like Spielberg's friends George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola had their share of difficulties while filming their iconic movies, "Star Wars" and "Apocalypse Now" later in the decade. Similarly, filmmakers such as William Friedkin ("The Exorcist"), Ridley Scott ("Alien"), Michael Cimino ("Heaven's Gate"), and Milos Forman ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") faced their own challenges. Surprisingly, except for "Heaven's Gate," all of these films are now considered classics.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

too much puff

I noticed scrolling down I didn't see War of the Worlds

That's because it was mid af

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

@Poetical Poltergeist that's a subplot Spielberg blocked.

Exactly. It wasn't needed and the movie worked just fine. Focused on the main idea, a shark is terrorizing the waters and must be killed. Keep all the other shyt at home.

 

[HipHopStan]

It’s rumored that when he read the book for JAWS, Spielberg said he found most of the characters in it to be extremely unlikeable, and he was actually rooting for the shark to win.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

It’s rumored that when he read the book for JAWS, Spielberg said he found most of the characters in it to be extremely unlikeable, and he was actually rooting for the shark to win.

So was I lmao. But Chief Brody was a likeable dude in the movie and the end is so satisfying.

Just crazy tho the movie is going to be 50 years old and it's still the best shark movie, probably best death scene ever (Quints)and maybe the best creature film of all time.
How sway?

 

[feelosofer]

Jurassic Park imo.

But Minority Report is right up there.

 

[Fresh]

That's because it was mid af

War of the Worlds was piff, agree to disagree breh

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

War of the Worlds was piff, agree to disagree breh

It's not even top 10 spielberg.

 

[daemonova]

It's not even top 10 spielberg.

10 Spielberg film in a y order

Minority Report
Munich
Saving Private Ryan
Color Purple
Jaws
Fablemans
Jurassic Park
Lost World
Amistad
Ready Player One

Checks out

 

[Lootpack]

Jurassic Park imo.

But Minority Report is right up there.

This is mine. Feels even more relevant today, but that's Philip K. dikk for you.