Steven Spielberg served as 2nd unit director on Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). He directed the famous “I have the high ground” scene the “Order 66” montage.
We already know Spielberg has said himself he loves Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Searchers (1956), Seven Samurai (1954), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Godfather (1972) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
This was a really interesting video, thanks for making it. You can really see which movies are the greatest of all time, when so many great film-makers list them among their personal favourites repeatedly.
Hitchcock may not have liked or respected Spielberg, but he was a fan of Truffaut's films. There was even a book by Truffaut based on 50 hours of interviews with Hitchcock, which reviewed his filmography from the beginning. It's too bad that he couldn't use that influence to bring the two together.
Spielberg also put the train crash from "The Greatest Show On Earth" in his remake of "War Of The Worlds" It's on the TV Justin Chatwin is watching while flipping through channels.
I'd have thought that George Pal's 1953 "War of the Worlds" would be in there. Not because of Spielberg's remake, but because several of the visuals in it - particularly shots of the martians themselves - inspired similarly-composed shots in "E.T. The Extra-terrestrial".
I can certainly agree with him on LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, 2001, FANTASIA, SEVEN SAMURAI and CITIZEN KANE (all five are in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time), and I will NEVER not love some of his own films like E.T. (in my Top Ten), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST (hell, I even liked Hook!) but I have mixed feelings about some of the others on the list, not to mention his limited perspective and failure to mention other films that he's a fan of. Clearly either he isn't fond of certain films that he calls cynical while actually being FAR more responsible, humane and meaningful than most of the crap that now comes out of Hollywood thanks to him and George Lucas (both cannot escape blame for ending the New Hollywood Renaissance with JAWS and STAR WARS, respectively, really sad given I love the original STAR WARS)... or his ego is so inflated that he can see his ass through the back of his teeth. To put down my Top 💯 Favorite Films here would take up too much time, but here's My Personal Top Fifteen (in no particular order) from my Top 💯 that people MUST watch if they REALLY want to be filmmakers (keep in mind, none of them were for kids and most polarized audiences when released, but the kids WILL love 'em and these will REALLY put the zap in their heads!): THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974, Tobe Hooper) - Spielberg is a huge fan of this one, which is why he got Hooper to direct POLTERGEIST! THE THIN RED LINE - (1998, Terrence Malick) - Take that, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN! THE DEVILS (1971, Ken Russell) - Find a bootleg online, you've simply GOT to see THIS masterpiece!!! THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo) - Kubrick LOVED this one and if you watch it you'll see why! ALIEN (1979, Ridley Scott) - STILL Scott's best film, rivaled only by BLADE RUNNER (also in my Top 💯 Favorite Films) and the best space-horror film ever! NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968, George A. Romero) - The entire DEAD saga from NIGHT to LAND is my Top Favorite Film Series of All Time and DAWN OF THE DEAD is my Top Pick of the series but this is the one that REALLY kicked off horror and independent cinema as it should be! THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976, Nicolas Roeg) - Pure sci-fi poetry with David Bowie as a STARMAN! DAS BOOT (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) - My favorite German film and still THE ultimate submarine film, proof how you can make a film that is both intimate and grand, claustrophobic and vast! BRAZIL (1985, Terry Gilliam) - Still the best dystopian sci-fi film AND film made by ANY Monty Python! And it came out the year I was born! BLUE VELVET (1986, David Lynch) - THIS is how you make a surreal art-house style film WITHOUT being too dull and pretentious! THE FLY (1986, David Cronenberg) - VIDEODROME came REALLY close (still in my Top 💯 Favorite Films) but this represents the peak of the Master of Body Horror, a subgenre VERY close to my heart! PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006, Guillermo Del Toro) - Surpasses the LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy as still the best fantasy film I've seen in years and arguably the best film of the 2000's, rivaled only by the likes of the Holy Trinity of 1980's Sword-and-Sorcery films: EXCALIBUR, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and HIGHLANDER (all those also in my Top 💯 Favorite Films)! THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961, Val Guest) THIS is how you do a disaster film on a low budget: surreal, intelligent, filled with haunting imagery, atmosphere and authentic use of locations, great performances & dialogue! GODZILLA (1954, Ishiro Honda) - Still THE quintessential Kaiju Eiga... nobody does them quite like Japan! Hail to the King, Baby! ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976, John Carpenter) - If there's going to be a Carpenter movie in here somewhere, this firmly established Carpenter before classics like HALLOWEEN and THE THING. My Top Pick of all his works!😊
Good video. The segway betwwen 2001 & Psycho implied that since he loved Kubrick, then he would obviously admire Hitchcock. I do like them both, Kubrick more than Hitchcock, but the simulaties are so little that it isn't a given that liking one means you'd like the other.
I really wasn't that impressed with it. Heath Ledger did a fun performance but I thought the movie was kind of silly - not bad, but overly long and a little boring. What do you think is great, besides Ledger's performance?
@@kumaranvij i would argue that its boring because every scene just flies by. The Dark Knight is my favourite film so if I will praise the film it will be biased but I think every thing from its direction to screenplay to great actors and everything in between but what I most love about the film is its feeling of urgency and helplessness and trying to find meaning in this grand apocalyptic world. My favourite thing is the cinematography that conveys the emotions of dread, despair, pain, sorrow. (I just realised this probably makes me a sociopath lol). Maybe give it another try today and see if it grows on you.
@@Hritik9000 I will thanks! Christian Bale really annoys me as Batman but I'm going to watch it again. I think one of the things that bothers me is that it has so many British/Australian/Irish actors playing Americans and they're always speaking with bad accents or slipping in their accents. When I was little I never noticed these things, but now I do. I'm not saying never hire British actors for American roles, but when it's all overseas people pretending to speak American, it can get pretty silly.
@@kumaranvij haha Christian bale batman voice can be annoying sometimes but his bruce wayne voice is think is pretty good. Also thanks for giving it another try.
regarding Freancois Trufaut. He did act in other films, though they were films that he directed. And he has staring roles in them. these films of his he acted in. THE WILD CHILD, DAY FOR NIGHT, and also THE GREEN ROOM. He did however, I don't think, ever acted in anyone elses film.
Weird that there are only two foreign films (and really well known ones at that). At least Scorsese acknowledges the debt to other filmmakers around the world
Scorsese famously said that a film is always about what's in the frame and what's not -- and Spielberg knows what he's talking about when he cites John Ford as a master of framing. Unfortunately, the "Searchers" clips you have here are in the wrong ratio, cut off at the top and bottom! The Academy expanded the number of Best Picture nominees in 2009 partly in response to the popular "The Dark Knight" not being nominated. (I think that picture is a mess -- as storytelling and as filmmaking, but that's just me.) Still, there has often been an unofficial "slot" acknowledging a high-profile commercial blockbusters among the BP nominees: "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Jaws" (1975), "Rocky" (1976), "Star Wars" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and "E.T." were all Best Picture contenders.
“ET” and “Close Encounters” evoked powerful emotional reactions. “Dune” is sterile and emotionless, without a single character whose fate mattered. The only times I felt moved during either part of ”Dune” was when Rebecca Ferguson’s face was on screen.
I agree with your take, it is a bit reductionist but great films really do evoke powerful emotions. I think David Lynch's crazy take on Dune was way better this this huge money modern monstrosity.
Much as I admire the effort put into the two Dune films, I have yet to see the entire second film without falling asleep - a hideous commentary from me which up until now was reserved for the sorry Alien III
0:16 - The Searchers (1956) - not sure I've seen it and dislike john wayne 1:07 - The Shining (1980) - totally agree 1:54 - The Dark Knight (2008) - totally agree 2:43 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - totally agree 3:16 - Seven Samurai (1954) - totally agree 3:56 - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - partly agree 4:04 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - totally agree 5:25 - Psycho (1960) - totally agree 6:10 - Dune: Part Two (2024) - disagree. As much as I like Villeneuve, I prefer the former Dune. 6:52 - The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - haven't seen it. Look like I'm gonna have to. 7:29 - The Godfather (1972) - agree 8:06 - Fantasia (1940) - disagree 8:50 - Citizen Kane (1941) - totally agree 9:33 - The 400 Blows (1959) - totally agree 10:10 - It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - It's actually Siepldberg that made me realise how good this movie is.
I'm curious about this list: did Spielberg actually compile it? Or is it supposition based upon interviews? Cuz nobody picks the Shining out of all of Kubrick (even setting aside 2001, which did make the list). Or Psycho out of all of Hitchcock. The Dark Knight out of all Christopher Nolan? Will Dune 2 still look like a classic in 15 years? I'm not so sure. I enjoy every one of these movies. But a lot of these are very safe, very mid choices.
@ Partly because a friend lived it and partly to see if it would grow on me. Much my sister-in-law who hated The Searchers when I first met her, but six viewings later she loves it.
"One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl . . ."
I will always stand with the opinion that The Dark Knight is still a significantly better film overall than The Batman. It's just perfect, but it's perfect in an original way that doesn't depend too heavily on previous adaptations of Batman or any other films. The visuals, story, and overall themes come together seamlessly. The Batman is a very good film but only because of the established Batman films and comics before it. Without the beuatiful visuals of Gotham City and excellent acting, it would show you just how mediocre that story really is.
Remember The Searchers as a great film when I saw it as a kid in the 70's, watched it again recently and was astonisehed to learn that the Commanche women had beauty salons in their teepees.
Spielberg must have been in a very good mood that day or on quaaludes to heap such words on Dune 2, while it's a very good film it's nowhere close to deserving such hyperbole of praise.
A better way to present these would be to talk in a quieter voice: it sounds like this UA-camr is shouting. I couldn’t listen to the commentary, it was too jarring. I just skipped through the films. Interesting though.
"The Searchers" is very good but a bit overrated. "The Shining" is great. "The Dark Night" is a good comic book film but I think it's being overrated here. "Lawrence of Arabia" is amazing and a top-5 film for me. "Seven Samurai" is a quality flick. "Guardians of the Galaxy" is overrated from front to back. "2001" is great. "Psycho" is very good. "Dune: Pt 2" Good but overrated. "The Godfather" is a top-5 movie for me. "Fantasia" is very cool. "Citizen Kane" is interesting and a worthy watch but it's also overrated. "It's a Wonderful Life" is a good watch but that's it. I haven't seen "The Greatest Show on Earth" or "The 400 Blows"
I essentially agree, but that's the thing, somehow Spielberg's movies, the more fanfare ones, always come out as a sum greater than its parts. It might be too bubble gum for serious cinema, but somehow the guy is a genius of filmmaking. There aren't many perfect movies out there. I happen to think Jaws is a perfect movie. And talk about a blockbuster ...
@@sliceserve234 Jaws, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan saved the guy from being merely a blockbuster director, to me. Historically. Munich, The Color Purple and Catch me If you Can being worth mentioning. But let's admit it, his approach is that one I said before.
@@sliceserve234 and, yes. It is too bubblegum for serious cinema and yes, he's a master filmmaker. Just doesn't use it that much except for those masterpieces.
I think Its a Wonderful Life is a great Spiritual Movie, It is really about a guy who is about to Commit suicide having a Spiritual Exp;erience. I think that Back to the Future Part 2 Borrows or really plagiarizes a lot from the DArk World of Its a Wonderful LIfe if George Bailey was never born with its Dark World if Biff Tannen became all Powerful in the World of Back to the Future.
yes, shane is better movie than the searchers, but the searchers is more important movie in the sense how its cinematography changed movie making forever
Think Francis Ford Coppola passed his own raised Godfather bar with Apocalypse Now should have won The Best Picture Oscar along with The Cannes Film festival Best Picture it won!!!
The Dark Knight on someone's best movie list nulls and voids their opinion on anything. No wonder Spielberg's gone down the shitter in the last 15 or so years if he really thinks that. Like every other former great director in fairness.
Lawrence of Arabia is really something
Steven Spielberg served as 2nd unit director on Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). He directed the famous “I have the high ground” scene the “Order 66” montage.
We already know Spielberg has said himself he loves Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Searchers (1956), Seven Samurai (1954), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Godfather (1972) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
Yes, an awesome list of films, no arguments there! I'd also add: Barry Lyndon, Star Wars TESB, The Godfather Part 2.
Spielberg also loves Star Wars (1977). He was the first of the friends of George Lucas to say it had potential be good and successful blockbuster.
This was a really interesting video, thanks for making it. You can really see which movies are the greatest of all time, when so many great film-makers list them among their personal favourites repeatedly.
how do you do a video citing "Steven Spielberg's favorite 15 films' and NOT show Spielberg talking about any of them??? THUMBS DOWN AND BLOCKED
From a French speaker: thank you for pronouncing properly Denis Villeneuve and not Villenouve
So it's "Nerv" not "Noov"?
@ let’s put it that way. Definitely not the «oo» sound
A refreshing change from the list of 50's and 60's European movies that we usually get from big name directors when listing their all time favorites.
Well, every recently, Godzilla Minus One (2023) must that list. Spielberg has already seen a few times and loves it.
Hitchcock may not have liked or respected Spielberg, but he was a fan of Truffaut's films. There was even a book by Truffaut based on 50 hours of interviews with Hitchcock, which reviewed his filmography from the beginning. It's too bad that he couldn't use that influence to bring the two together.
Spielberg also put the train crash from "The Greatest Show On Earth" in his remake of "War Of The Worlds" It's on the TV Justin Chatwin is watching while flipping through channels.
I'd have thought that George Pal's 1953 "War of the Worlds" would be in there.
Not because of Spielberg's remake, but because several of the visuals in it - particularly shots of the martians themselves - inspired similarly-composed shots in "E.T. The Extra-terrestrial".
I can certainly agree with him on LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, 2001, FANTASIA, SEVEN SAMURAI and CITIZEN KANE (all five are in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time), and I will NEVER not love some of his own films like E.T. (in my Top Ten), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST (hell, I even liked Hook!) but I have mixed feelings about some of the others on the list, not to mention his limited perspective and failure to mention other films that he's a fan of.
Clearly either he isn't fond of certain films that he calls cynical while actually being FAR more responsible, humane and meaningful than most of the crap that now comes out of Hollywood thanks to him and George Lucas (both cannot escape blame for ending the New Hollywood Renaissance with JAWS and STAR WARS, respectively, really sad given I love the original STAR WARS)... or his ego is so inflated that he can see his ass through the back of his teeth.
To put down my Top 💯 Favorite Films here would take up too much time, but here's My Personal Top Fifteen (in no particular order) from my Top 💯 that people MUST watch if they REALLY want to be filmmakers (keep in mind, none of them were for kids and most polarized audiences when released, but the kids WILL love 'em and these will REALLY put the zap in their heads!):
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974, Tobe Hooper) - Spielberg is a huge fan of this one, which is why he got Hooper to direct POLTERGEIST!
THE THIN RED LINE - (1998, Terrence Malick) - Take that, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!
THE DEVILS (1971, Ken Russell) - Find a bootleg online, you've simply GOT to see THIS masterpiece!!!
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo) - Kubrick LOVED this one and if you watch it you'll see why!
ALIEN (1979, Ridley Scott) - STILL Scott's best film, rivaled only by BLADE RUNNER (also in my Top 💯 Favorite Films) and the best space-horror film ever!
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968, George A. Romero) - The entire DEAD saga from NIGHT to LAND is my Top Favorite Film Series of All Time and DAWN OF THE DEAD is my Top Pick of the series but this is the one that REALLY kicked off horror and independent cinema as it should be!
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976, Nicolas Roeg) - Pure sci-fi poetry with David Bowie as a STARMAN!
DAS BOOT (1981, Wolfgang Petersen) - My favorite German film and still THE ultimate submarine film, proof how you can make a film that is both intimate and grand, claustrophobic and vast!
BRAZIL (1985, Terry Gilliam) - Still the best dystopian sci-fi film AND film made by ANY Monty Python! And it came out the year I was born!
BLUE VELVET (1986, David Lynch) - THIS is how you make a surreal art-house style film WITHOUT being too dull and pretentious!
THE FLY (1986, David Cronenberg) - VIDEODROME came REALLY close (still in my Top 💯 Favorite Films) but this represents the peak of the Master of Body Horror, a subgenre VERY close to my heart!
PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006, Guillermo Del Toro) - Surpasses the LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy as still the best fantasy film I've seen in years and arguably the best film of the 2000's, rivaled only by the likes of the Holy Trinity of 1980's Sword-and-Sorcery films: EXCALIBUR, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and HIGHLANDER (all those also in my Top 💯 Favorite Films)!
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961, Val Guest) THIS is how you do a disaster film on a low budget: surreal, intelligent, filled with haunting imagery, atmosphere and authentic use of locations, great performances & dialogue!
GODZILLA (1954, Ishiro Honda) - Still THE quintessential Kaiju Eiga... nobody does them quite like Japan! Hail to the King, Baby!
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976, John Carpenter) - If there's going to be a Carpenter movie in here somewhere, this firmly established Carpenter before classics like HALLOWEEN and THE THING. My Top Pick of all his works!😊
Well it's not your opinion we came to see, which I'm sure is also very good.
I thought Steven Spielberg would be narrating this.
Robots is cheaper
Good video. The segway betwwen 2001 & Psycho implied that since he loved Kubrick, then he would obviously admire Hitchcock. I do like them both, Kubrick more than Hitchcock, but the simulaties are so little that it isn't a given that liking one means you'd like the other.
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is an instant classic and will be remembered as one of the greatest films in the future.
I really wasn't that impressed with it. Heath Ledger did a fun performance but I thought the movie was kind of silly - not bad, but overly long and a little boring. What do you think is great, besides Ledger's performance?
@@kumaranvij i would argue that its boring because every scene just flies by. The Dark Knight is my favourite film so if I will praise the film it will be biased but I think every thing from its direction to screenplay to great actors and everything in between but what I most love about the film is its feeling of urgency and helplessness and trying to find meaning in this grand apocalyptic world. My favourite thing is the cinematography that conveys the emotions of dread, despair, pain, sorrow. (I just realised this probably makes me a sociopath lol). Maybe give it another try today and see if it grows on you.
@@Hritik9000 I will thanks! Christian Bale really annoys me as Batman but I'm going to watch it again.
I think one of the things that bothers me is that it has so many British/Australian/Irish actors playing Americans and they're always speaking with bad accents or slipping in their accents. When I was little I never noticed these things, but now I do. I'm not saying never hire British actors for American roles, but when it's all overseas people pretending to speak American, it can get pretty silly.
@@kumaranvij haha Christian bale batman voice can be annoying sometimes but his bruce wayne voice is think is pretty good. Also thanks for giving it another try.
regarding Freancois Trufaut. He did act in other films, though they were films that he directed. And he has staring roles in them. these films of his he acted in. THE WILD CHILD, DAY FOR NIGHT, and also THE GREEN ROOM. He did however, I don't think, ever acted in anyone elses film.
This is the guy who wrote The Goonies, so I'll hear him out.
Weird that there are only two foreign films (and really well known ones at that). At least Scorsese acknowledges the debt to other filmmakers around the world
TDN is legendary!
Narration sounds AI on this video.
They all do these days.
Scorsese famously said that a film is always about what's in the frame and what's not -- and Spielberg knows what he's talking about when he cites John Ford as a master of framing. Unfortunately, the "Searchers" clips you have here are in the wrong ratio, cut off at the top and bottom! The Academy expanded the number of Best Picture nominees in 2009 partly in response to the popular "The Dark Knight" not being nominated. (I think that picture is a mess -- as storytelling and as filmmaking, but that's just me.) Still, there has often been an unofficial "slot" acknowledging a high-profile commercial blockbusters among the BP nominees: "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Jaws" (1975), "Rocky" (1976), "Star Wars" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and "E.T." were all Best Picture contenders.
No CASABLANCA?
“ET” and “Close Encounters” evoked powerful emotional reactions. “Dune” is sterile and emotionless, without a single character whose fate mattered. The only times I felt moved during either part of ”Dune” was when Rebecca Ferguson’s face was on screen.
I agree with your take, it is a bit reductionist but great films really do evoke powerful emotions. I think David Lynch's crazy take on Dune was way better this this huge money modern monstrosity.
Much as I admire the effort put into the two Dune films, I have yet to see the entire second film without falling asleep - a hideous commentary from me which up until now was reserved for the sorry Alien III
Big surprise to see none of the films in Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, an accomplishment that may never be equalled. Still, Dune 2, eh?
Actually Truffaut did also act in his film, “Day for Night”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_Night_(film)
0:16 - The Searchers (1956) - not sure I've seen it and dislike john wayne
1:07 - The Shining (1980) - totally agree
1:54 - The Dark Knight (2008) - totally agree
2:43 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - totally agree
3:16 - Seven Samurai (1954) - totally agree
3:56 - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - partly agree
4:04 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - totally agree
5:25 - Psycho (1960) - totally agree
6:10 - Dune: Part Two (2024) - disagree. As much as I like Villeneuve, I prefer the former Dune.
6:52 - The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - haven't seen it. Look like I'm gonna have to.
7:29 - The Godfather (1972) - agree
8:06 - Fantasia (1940) - disagree
8:50 - Citizen Kane (1941) - totally agree
9:33 - The 400 Blows (1959) - totally agree
10:10 - It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - It's actually Siepldberg that made me realise how good this movie is.
A great movie selection.
The guy who walked up to the screen during 2001 was most likely high on acid😵💫
I'm curious about this list: did Spielberg actually compile it? Or is it supposition based upon interviews? Cuz nobody picks the Shining out of all of Kubrick (even setting aside 2001, which did make the list). Or Psycho out of all of Hitchcock. The Dark Knight out of all Christopher Nolan? Will Dune 2 still look like a classic in 15 years? I'm not so sure. I enjoy every one of these movies. But a lot of these are very safe, very mid choices.
Fellini’s 8 1/2
Everyone has to slip CK in there. God forbid it should ever be missing.
I’ve watched that at least ten times in my 73 years, don’t like it, don’t get it.
@@BRLauewhy did you watch it that many times?
@ Partly because a friend lived it and partly to see if it would grow on me. Much my sister-in-law who hated The Searchers when I first met her, but six viewings later she loves it.
@@BRLaue interesting .can you recommend some great films to watch and some which are your favourite. Thank you.
"One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl . . ."
I will always stand with the opinion that The Dark Knight is still a significantly better film overall than The Batman. It's just perfect, but it's perfect in an original way that doesn't depend too heavily on previous adaptations of Batman or any other films. The visuals, story, and overall themes come together seamlessly.
The Batman is a very good film but only because of the established Batman films and comics before it. Without the beuatiful visuals of Gotham City and excellent acting, it would show you just how mediocre that story really is.
Remember The Searchers as a great film when I saw it as a kid in the 70's, watched it again recently and was astonisehed to learn that the Commanche women had beauty salons in their teepees.
I revere Spielberg
Spielberg must have been in a very good mood that day or on quaaludes to heap such words on Dune 2, while it's a very good film it's nowhere close to deserving such hyperbole of praise.
Not one Michael Powell/ Emeric Pressburger film. 😑
What a predictable selection
Searchers is john waynes best acting not his best film but his best acting
A better way to present these would be to talk in a quieter voice: it sounds like this UA-camr is shouting. I couldn’t listen to the commentary, it was too jarring. I just skipped through the films. Interesting though.
"The Searchers" is very good but a bit overrated.
"The Shining" is great.
"The Dark Night" is a good comic book film but I think it's being overrated here.
"Lawrence of Arabia" is amazing and a top-5 film for me.
"Seven Samurai" is a quality flick.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" is overrated from front to back.
"2001" is great.
"Psycho" is very good.
"Dune: Pt 2" Good but overrated.
"The Godfather" is a top-5 movie for me.
"Fantasia" is very cool.
"Citizen Kane" is interesting and a worthy watch but it's also overrated.
"It's a Wonderful Life" is a good watch but that's it.
I haven't seen "The Greatest Show on Earth" or "The 400 Blows"
I clicked on this expecting to hear from Spielberg - not you! 👎🏽
I roll my eyes every time Citizen Kane is put into these lists. I fell asleep every time I tried to watch. Same with 2001.
Sorry... I dozed off in the middle of your rant.
Well, that's your problem, not Spielberg's.
Nothing like the deep film criticism of “I was bored.”
That's truly embarrassing. I wouldn't TELL people that.
@@chrisl4953 This is UA-cam, not a university essay.
Dude kept mentioning "E.T" as a milestone in Spielberg's career. It's literally his emptiest, dumbest film. A kid movie, FCS.
I essentially agree, but that's the thing, somehow Spielberg's movies, the more fanfare ones, always come out as a sum greater than its parts. It might be too bubble gum for serious cinema, but somehow the guy is a genius of filmmaking. There aren't many perfect movies out there. I happen to think Jaws is a perfect movie. And talk about a blockbuster ...
@@sliceserve234 Jaws, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan saved the guy from being merely a blockbuster director, to me. Historically. Munich, The Color Purple and Catch me If you Can being worth mentioning. But let's admit it, his approach is that one I said before.
@@sliceserve234 and, yes. It is too bubblegum for serious cinema and yes, he's a master filmmaker. Just doesn't use it that much except for those masterpieces.
I don't believe it.
I think Its a Wonderful Life is a great Spiritual Movie, It is really about a guy who is about to Commit suicide having a Spiritual Exp;erience.
I think that Back to the Future Part 2 Borrows or really plagiarizes a lot from the DArk World of Its a Wonderful LIfe if George Bailey was never born with its Dark World if Biff Tannen became all Powerful in the World of Back to the Future.
Shane (1953) over the Searchers
I prefer Shane to The Searchers
yes, shane is better movie than the searchers, but the searchers is more important movie in the sense how its cinematography changed movie making forever
SHANE ! EASILY, COULD TAKE "BEST FILM" ANY YEAR ! ALAN LADD WAS SUPERB ! SHANE📢 SHANE COME BACK 📢
I hate these paint by numbers, sausage machine "productions".
Generic bullshit!
C-
New age plagiarism.
Stop it
The dark night is too long, shorter it could be the greatest movie ever but as released, not so much.
It's one of the worst movies ever. Nolan sucks dogs.
Think Francis Ford Coppola passed his own raised Godfather bar with Apocalypse Now should have won The Best Picture Oscar along with The Cannes Film festival Best Picture it won!!!
The Dark Knight on someone's best movie list nulls and voids their opinion on anything. No wonder Spielberg's gone down the shitter in the last 15 or so years if he really thinks that. Like every other former great director in fairness.
Pretty obvious list. But Fantasia!! 400 Blows!! Lordy. And what about the huge plot hole in C. Kane? Not much European cinema there I see.