Five Best Spielberg Movies

To answer the other thread...ranking all the Spielberg film's I've seen

1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Jurassic Park
(6). Saving Private Ryan
(7). E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(8). Schindlers List
(9). Amistad
(10). Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(11). War of the Worlds
(12). Munich
(13). Empire of the Sun
(14). Lincoln
(15) Minority Report
(16) The Color Purple
(17) Duel
(18) Bridge of Spies
(19) The Post
(20) Hook
(21) Temple of Doom
(22) Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(23) Adventures of Tin Tin
(24) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(25) Something Evil
(26) The Lost World
(27) The Terminal
(28) War Horse

1) Jaws
2) Catch Me If You Can
3) Duel
4) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5 & 6) The Post/E.T. -ish
7) The BFG
8) Saving Private Ryan -
9) Schindler's List +

Need to re-watch the Indiana Jones trilogy and Jurassic Park

I would say these are my favourites:

Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Duel

A tough question to ask. Let's see here:

1. Jurassic Park

2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3. Raiders of the Lost Ark

4. Schindler's List

5. Saving Private Ryan (almost gave this to Close Encounters)

Looking at pretty much everyone else's top five, I should mention I've never seen Jaws.

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I'm gonna do 10 because 5 leaves out too many of my favorites.

1- Jurassic Park
2- Raiders of the Lost Ark
3- A.I Artificial Intelligence
4- Jaws
5- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6- E.T The Extra Terrestrial
7- Bridge of Spies
8- Lincoln
9- Catch Me If You Can
10- Duel

There are a bunch I haven't seen, most notably Minority Report. Also I haven't seen Schindler's List either but I kinda can't watch that movie because I find it difficult-to-impossible to watch stuff about the holocaust, so I'm sure it's as good as people say it is, but I don't plan on seeing it any time soon. My top 4 pretty much shuffle in order all the time.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Catch Me If You Can
The Adventures of Tintin
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Jaws
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
5. Jurassic Park

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Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Jaws
E.T.
Raiders

All 5's.

These are the Spielberg films I've seen. The first five are my top 5 in order, the rest are in no particular order.

Saving Private Ryan
Jaws
Ready Player One
The Goonies
E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Hook
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Minority Report
The Terminal
War of the Worlds
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The BFG
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Schindler's List
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Is Spielberg's 1941 worth it? I'm shocked at how much hate it's getting online, including from Spielberg fans. The trailer makes it look like the Flash Gordon serial from the 1930s but with that annoying Spielbergian family-friendly silliness. I have a hard time imagining somebody loving E.T. and Indiana Jones but hating this, though.

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I like 1941, very funny. As a fan, about the worst thing I can say is it is probably a bit overlong, but it is stuffed with fantastic character actors and they all get some good business to do, leading to a few rather wonderful set pieces, my favorite being the USO dance that turns into a fight and then a riot. It is no lost masterpiece or anything, but I liked it when I was nine back when it premiered and have revisited it often as a teen and now as an adult. I don't think it is anywhere near as bad as its reputation, which was largely wrapped up in its budget (who cares) and the industry schadenfreude of watching Spielberg stumble after two impossibly profitable hits. Definitely worth a look, see what you think for yourself.

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Personally, I think his Top tier is this...

Schindler's List (1993)
Jaws (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Jurassic Park (1993)

In whatever order you see fit.

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Interesting note: Most of the lists shared here are movies before the 2000s. Me too:

Saving Private Ryan (1996)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Schindler's List (1993)
Jaws (1975)

Honorable Mentions, in date order:

Duel (1971)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Bridge of Spies (2015)

I don't propose that I'm giving "quality scores" here. Actually, there are few Spielbergs I don't like, so I'm just listing the ones that particularly appeal to me, mostly because of the time in life or the situation where I first encountered them.

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Oh, hey, I should read a little more closely before posting. Just noticed our lists vary only by order. Great minds. Think alike.

Ah, nevermind ... hallucinating. You have Jurassic Park, I have ET. "Almost alike."

My Top 5 favorite Spielberg films are:

E.T. Extra Terrestrial
Catch Me If You Can
Saving Private Ryan
Duel
Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Catch Me If You Can
ET: The Extra Terrestrial
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
The Sugarland Express