+1
I think spielberg.
I didn't really get why E.T. was so widely loved, I don't blame the government from taking him, for all they knew he had space aids. Also, it tried to hard to pull at the heartstrings, but it didn't work for me.
Raiders was great, though the other two were kinda' mediocre.
Recently his visual style is latent with ultra bright scenery.
A.I. was pretty boring and most of the themes in it were already covered in other more interesting films.
Kevin Smith is really, I think, a better writer. His early movies were bogged down by wooden acting, mostly by secondary characters.