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TaoMan1121 (profile) wrote,
on 6-16-2006 at 2:52pm
Music: Poe - Wild
Subject: ListMania!
So out of Steven Spielberg's 23 feature-length films (that number is arguable), I've seen 18. I pinch I rank (by enjoyment level, not necessarily which are the "best" made):

1) Munich
2) Jurassic Park
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Minority Report
5) Saving Private Ryan
6) E.T.
7) Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
8) Schindler's List
9) War of the Worlds
10) Hook
11) A.I.
12) The Lost World
13) Catch Me If You Can
14) The Terminal
15) Jaws
16) Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom
17) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
18) Amistad

Which leads me to this one. I realize it's kind of a clusterfuck of new and old, but I don't really know that I could make a decent "classic director" list, and besides, I don't really feel like doing two.

Top 15 Directors
1) Steven Spielberg
2) Stanley Kubrick
3) Paul Thomas Anderson
4) Wes Anderson
5) Quentin Tarantino
6) Alfred Hitchcock
7) David Fincher
8) Michael Mann
9) Sam Mendes
10) Jonathan Demme
11) Ron Howard
12) Spike Lee
13) Tim Burton
14) M. Night Shyamalan
15) (tie) Alexander Payne & Christopher Nolan

(Normally, I abhor ties in my lists... all it signifies is indecision, but in this case, these are two directors whose movies I really enjoy, but haven't really been around long enough to establish themselves. We'll see in time who sticks around.)

I'll share my reasons for posting this last later soon, but until then, enjoy it in all its E-goodness:

Top 10 Eels Songs
1) Your Lucky Day In Hell
2) Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
3) Dirty Girl
4) Saturday Morning
5) Souljacker, pt. 1
6) Love of the Loveless
7) I Like Birds
8) Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
9) Novocaine for the Soul
10) I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart
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TaoMan1121

06-16-06 3:00pm

Honorable Mention for the Director list:

Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner.

Not.

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Leeder5421

06-16-06 8:07pm

My Spielberg list:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Schindler's List
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Munich
E.T.
Saving Private Ryan
A.I.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Minority Report
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
The Color Purple
Catch Me If You Can
Amistad
The Sugarland Express
Empire of the Sun
War of the Worlds
The Terminal
Hook
The Lost World

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TaoMan1121

Re:, 06-17-06 12:01am

Hmm... it's interesting. You like a lot of his super-popular mainstream stuff (Jaws, Close Encounters, Schinder's List) that I think is well done, I just can't connect with. Kinda surprised you ranked Jurassic Park halfway down the list however.

Fuck you though, Minority Report is soooo much better than A.I.

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Leeder5421

Re: Re:, 06-17-06 7:01pm

I don't necessarily think that that is his most "mainstream" stuff.....while those movies are obviously very popular, I think his most "mainstream" (which I would define as by-the-numbers, typical, etc.) are the last four on my list. It may seem uninspired to you that many of my favorites are ones that everyone else lists as favorites, but whatever, I don't think I need to pick less-than-obvious choices to impress you, I already still know way more :).

I can see why you'd like Minority Report more than A.I., but "sooo much better" has got to be a gross exaggeration. There seems to have been a general consensus the last few years that A.I. is a huge failure, and I'm not sure why. It got pretty good reviews when it came out and did well at the box office, so what the hell? Everyone keeps pointing to the last 20 minutes to the reason why the movie is crap. I admit that the last 20 minutes aren't that great, but Jesus Christ, did it really ruin the ENTIRE movie that came before it? Slash off the last 20 minutes and this could be a top five movie, I swear to God. I think people are just taking the end waaay too seriously, and allowing that to ruin their enjoyment. And for the record, the way the movie ended is the exact way that Stanley Kubrick had intended to end it, so what if Spielberg had changed it? Many snobs would have bitched that he wasn't staying true to Kubrick's vision.

Ah, ranting is relieving.



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TaoMan1121

Re: Re: Re:, 06-18-06 7:20pm

Wow... that was impressive, in a grating sort of way.

I dunno, maybe I need to see A.I. again. I didn't dislike it by any stretch of the imagination, but I think I expected quite a bit more considering it was a proverbial "meeting of the minds" with my two favorite directors. It was actually playing at that museum in Queens today, but I watched Paths of Glory instead (they're in the midst of a Kubrick retrospective right now... happy happy joy joy!)

"Mainstream" was the wrong word. I think "blockbuster" is the term I was going for, with the exception of Jurassic Park.

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jedibumblebee

06-18-06 12:17pm

What about "Monster-Trucker"?????

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TaoMan1121

Re:, 06-18-06 7:11pm

"Og-damn, it's a beautiful day."

Rememeber that Moby song I chose for you to play that was like 7 minutes of pure repitition? Hehe, my bad.

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TaoMan1121

Re: Re:, 06-18-06 7:19pm

*"Og-damn right, it's a beautiful day."

Faaaaaauck.

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