Besides being that other eight-abbed wonder's birthday, today's also little-known director Steven Spielberg's geburtstag. Is that sentence implying that Spielberg has a body carved out of slick alabaster by the Gods under those frumpy clothes he wears? Only Kate Capshaw knows for sure! Huh? Ya know, if you google Spielberg's name this shows up:
WTF? He wrote The Color Purple did he? Alice Walker who? Take that, Oprah. What am I on about? It's really warm in my office and I feel funny. I ought to take off my cardigan - it's puke-green yet desirable as all get out - but I fear the part-timers would lust after My Bod. Christ those Body Spray commercials are back on TV and polluting my brain. Bod. My Bod. Hot Bod! I'm going to ram a pipe-cleaner through someone's pupil. So Spielberg. 62 years young. Directed like 26 movies. IMDb was all finicky with his TV work and other what-nots and I counted fast so don't crucify me if 26 is wrong, okay? What? I, unlike lots of haters, am a Spielberg lover. Lover, not Hater. See? Let's just get this over with before I start talking about how Golden Grahams is the Greatest Food In The Universe (but it is). Here's my Five Favorite Spielberg Movies - perhaps not his Great Important Gives-Critics-With- A-Stick-Up-Their- Asses-A-Megalodon-Sized-Boner works, but Favorite as in "I smile a lot during these movies, and desire popcorn when I don't even like popcorn" - in no specific order:
Jurassic Park (1993)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Jaws (1975)
A.I.: Artifical Intelligence (2001)I'd be tickled pink to hear what's y'all's faves in the comments! And to hear how wrong I am for liking Temple of Doom more than Raiders and for not jizzing myself over 1941 or other such ridiculousness.
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I'm a lover of his stuff (until about the late '90s) and while I still like most of his movies I just think he's lost a bit of self control. The last act of Munich ruined it, the last act of AI didn't help, the end of Minority Report was just dumb, The Terminal was lifeless and Catch Me If You Can (my favourite of this bunch) is just waaay too long. And don't even get me started on War of the Worlds.
But I'll gladly take Jurassic Park, Jaws, Duel, etc...
My Faves are Duel, E.T., Jurassic Park, Last Crusade and A.I. There's a bunch at Tier 2 and then there's Hook.
Can't argue against Temple of Doom though....I've spent way way too many quarters on the arcade game to speak ill of the film.
Jurassic Park-Easily the best popcorn movie I've ever seen.
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence-Up until the final act, the best science fiction epic ever made. There, I said it.
Minority Report-Up until the final 30 minutes, one of the best action movies ever made.
Schindler's List-Spielberg, all grown up.
Jaws-A magically wonderful horror movie.
Temple of Doom was the first movie I ever saw... I wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks and I still think it was a great intro to mainstream cinema ;)
So I'm certainly not going to diss anyone for having it on their Best of Spielberg list.
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