Speilberg Movie Rating Thread !!!

It seems that a lot of you MoFo's around here can't stand the main money maker in Hollywood. So here's a list of all his movie's. I didn't list his TV movies, TV show episodes, or shorts. Just theatrical feature length movies. Let's see how the ratings shape up. BTW, let's use the 1 to 4 stars rating scale.

War of the Worlds, The (2004) (coming soon)
Catch Me If You Can (2002) (coming soon)

Minority Report (2002) ***1/2
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) ***
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ****
Amistad (1997) ***1/2
Lost World (1997) ***
Schindler's List (1993) ****
Jurassic Park (1993) ***1/2
Hook (1991) **1/2
Always (1989) **1/2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ***
Empire of the Sun (1987) ***1/2
Color Purple, The (1985) ****
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ***
Poltergeist (1982) (uncredited) ***1/2
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ***
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ****
1941 (1979) ***
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ****
Jaws (1975) ****
Sugarland Express, The (1974) ***

__________________
"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Minority Report: *1/2
AI: *1/2
Saving Private Ryan: **
Amistad: ***
The Lost World: *
Schindlers List: ****
Jurassic Park: *1/2
Hook: *1/2
Always: ***
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: ***
Empire Of The Sun: **1/2
The Color Purple: ***
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: ***
Polteirgeist: **1/2
ET: ***1/2
Raiders of the Lost Ark: ****
1941: **
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: ****
Jaws: ****
Sugarland Express: *1/2

__________________
...The whole world is on fire...

Minority Report (2002) **1/2
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) **1/2
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ****
Lost World (1997) ***
Jurassic Park (1993) ***1/2
Hook (1991) **1/2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ****
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ***
Poltergeist (1982) (uncredited) **1/2
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ****
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ****
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) **
Jaws (1975) ***

AI ***1/2
SPR **1/2
LW ***
JP ****
Hook **1/2
IJ & the LC ***
IJ & the T of D **1/2
Poltergiest ****
E.T. ****
R of the LA ****
CETK ****
Jaws ****
Color Purple ****
Sugarland Express ***
Schindler's List ****
Always ***
Amistad ****

__________________
I have been formatted to fit this screen.

r66-The member who always asks WHY?

I don't like stars, you can't make me use 'em. So there.


1. Jaws, A+
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark, A-
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A-
4. The Sugarland Express, A-
5. Empire of the Sun, B+
6. Schindler's List, B
7. 1941, B
8. Minority Report, B
9. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, B-
10. Always, B-
11. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, C+
12. Poltergeist*, C+
13. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, C+
14. Saving Private Ryan, C+
15. "Duel", C
16. The Color Purple, C
17. Amistad, C
18. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence, C-
19. Jurassic Park, C-
20. The Lost World: Jurassic Park, D
21. Hook, D


There is a quite a big older thread discussing the virtues/flaws of Stevie Spielberg. You can find it HERE.

__________________
"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Minority Report (2002) **½
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) **
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ***
Amistad (1997) ***
Lost World (1997) **
Schindler's List (1993) **½
Jurassic Park (1993) ***½
Hook (1991) **½
Always (1989) **½
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ***
Empire of the Sun (1987) ***
Color Purple, The (1985) **½
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) **½
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ***
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ***½
1941 (1979) **½
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ***
Jaws (1975) ****
Sugarland Express, The (1974) **½

__________________
One of the biggest myths told is that being intelligent is the absence of the ability to do stupid things.

Minority Report (2002) **1/2
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) 1/2
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ****
Amistad (1997) ***1/2
Lost World (1997) **
Schindler's List (1993) ****
Jurassic Park (1993) **1/2
Hook (1991) 1/2
Always (1989) **1/2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ***
Empire of the Sun (1987) **1/2
Color Purple, The (1985) ***
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ***
Poltergeist (1982) (uncredited) **1/2
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) *
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ****
1941 (1979) ***
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ***
Jaws (1975) **
Sugarland Express, The (1974) ***

There ya go

__________________
Bluray/DVD Catlog Social Site - Beta Registration soon!
Blog

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) *½
Saving Private Ryan (1998) **½
Schindler's List (1993) **½
Jurassic Park (1993) **
Hook (1991) *
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) **
Empire of the Sun (1987) **
Color Purple, The (1985) ***
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) **
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) **
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) ****
1941 (1979) *½
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ***
Jaws (1975) ***½


Those I left out I haven't seen or I don't remember them well enough to grade them.... By the way, what's wrong with a 5 graded scale???

__________________
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

--------

They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

I cant count that high