JCC Top 10s

The space between Tin and tin makes me cringe.

 

1. Jaws
2-4 The Indiana Jones Trilogy in no particular order.
5 The first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
6. Catch me if you can

 

Oh crap, how the hell did I forget Jaws? That's one of my top 10 films of all time. Well it's late and I'm on pain medication.

I really want to see Tintin. The notion of Spielberg and Moffat and Wright and Jackson combining is astounding.

 

I actually saw Jaws in a theater during its original run, it was the first PG movie I ever saw. And I still feel a little uncomfortable when I go swimming.

 

I have yet to see Tintin, but seeing Empire of the Sun on sj's list reminded me that I should really put that instead of Munich. EotS is one of my all time favorite movies.

 

Definitely one of Spielberg's more underrated films, IMHO.

I got to see a 35mm print of Jaws in school a couple years ago, and according to a pre-screening survey, about half of people there had never seen it (!!!) Undergrads. But man that made for an awesome experience.

 

That kind of thing always surprises me too. I regularly meet people who have never seen Star Wars, or Indiana Jones--who don't know who Bob Dylan is, or--gasp--Paul mcCartney. I always thought all of that would last forever. I believe Orwell once wrote that even Shakespeare will be forgotten one day. Something to think about.

Anyway, I've always liked Duel a lot too. A simple, philosophical film.

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Schindler's List
The rest, from Minority Report to the other Indy films are a jumble of equality off buy just a tad from each other though I do not watch JP2 at all.

 

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.
Jaws
Minority Report
Schindler's List
A.I.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Hook

 

I liked A.I., it's concepts were great, I just disliked having Pinnoccio concpets shoved own my throat every other scene.

 

Oh yeah how could I leave off Hook as well? Definitely one of my favorites.

Part of the problem is that I just really, really like Spielberg. Hipsters be damned.

 

I'm surprised so many people like Hook. At the time it felt like a flop.

 

I will take the chase scene of Raiders, where it's in the back of the German truck, over Bullitt. Not to disrespect Bullitt! But I will never forget the thrill of the Raiders scene.

 

Spielberg considers Hook to be a film he thinks he failed on, I like it a lot but I do think it could have been better. For a start it should have been darker instead of a funny family movie, but that's just me.

To be fair it's really Stanley Kubrick's movie, Spielberg just put it together for him.

 

But as a fun, touching family movie, Hook is good. I think it's one of those films that you enjoy more if you were a kid when it came out. Because then you just loved how Rufio was the ****.

 

Hook is largely sentimental for me, I loved it as a kid. And it's highly quotable in appropriately random situations.

Amazing.

 

In no particular order

E.T.
Jurassic Park
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Schindler's List
Jaws
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
A.I.
Back to the Future

I had to include BttF because I haven't watched Saving Private Ryan and I didn't like Hook or the other movies that much. Guess I could have put another Indy movie instead.

 

Can you provide us with an example?

 

It's hard to dwell on the past now that I know about Robopocalypse.

 

Not on demand. Not random enough.

Amazing.

 

Hook is a terrible movie, and celebrates the fundamental awfulness of the Peter Pan character. Rufio gets killed in combat on a mission that had no other purpose than to "rescue" Peter's petulant, narcissistic son who was enjoying his time as a pirate. Not thirty seconds after seeing the guy impaled on Hook's sword, the boy declares himself bored, and ready to return home. What is his father's response, have led a bunch of ill-prepared, prepubescent children into the teeth of Hook's battle-hardened shock troopers? He picks up and is ready to abandon everyone in the middle of battle. He is so callous that he actually has to be convinced to stay by the opposing side and only then through threats that are made personally against his family. Not like those other kids' lives count for anything.

But on the other hand, hey, he was an investment banker, and those kids were part of the 47% who don't pay any income taxes, so Romney/Ryan 2012 I guess.

 

But when an appropriately random situation arises, could you...?